Well, another weekend over, another week begins, another broken pledge. So let’s start with the questions….
- When is too much hobby too much? I don’t understand the question. Thanks to lockdown, I’ve done more hobby in the last six months than I’ve done in the last ten years. And loving it! Too much hobby? Does not compute. If I could take retirement tomorrow and spend the next forty years doing nothing but hobby, I’d be a very happy little nerd.
- Did you every experience a “oh I totally forgot how much fun this is” moment with a game/system you’ve abandoned long ago? Space Crusade is still a great game, especially with multiple squads all vying for victory points.
- Where have all the flowers gone? It’s nearly October, man. You know how seasons work, right? 😉 That said, we’re still quite summery here on the UK south coast – it’s noticably more autumnal as you travel northwards up the country.
Pledge: well, I started yet another project. A bit like @warzan with his HeroQuest board, I told myself it’d just a one-day thing and move on, but I kind of got drawn into it, so might just add another project to the BoW/OTT system. So this weeks’ pledge isn’t to finish anything – but to promise to not start anything new until I’ve completed at least one outstanding project!
Music? Get some 90s indie in your lugholes
And here’s where it all started. I made this.
And really liked it. A cartoon wood effect to go with my cartoon-looking minis (I’m not especially a fan of cartoon-looking, it’s just that’s the way the paint comes off the end of my brush so I’m trying to learn to embrace it). I thought I’d make some cool planks for something (dunno what yet) but cutting styrofoam with a knife is a nightmare!
So I got some scraps of MDF and some left-over vape-coil wire (from the mini smoke machine project from a few months ago – https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1420340/) and made a hotwire. I should have stopped there, but went crazy and added a power controller and LCD
I think I’ll build a table and mount it with a rail/fence tonight and then write the whole thing up as a project…
