Hails all,

Finally getting on here to post after a brutal start to 2021. Had to have one of my cats put to sleep on New Year’s Eve after a shockingly sudden illness left her barely able to breath and unable to move. Then to add further difficulty my housemate tested positive for Covid two days later putting us into 14 day isolation. I know I should be used to lockdowns by now but, being honest, this one has got under my skin. A bad bout of insomnia to top things off has left me genuinely fraying at the edges.

I’m trying not to be too wasteful of my time off though. I’ve been working on my Reikland Reavers and getting more basecoats down. Slow progress but pretty happy so far,  I even managed to get the Ulthuan Grey looking clean after a mere six coats…

I still have a half-finished Admech army glaring at me from my work table but I want to put a lot of effort into Blood Bowl this year. I have ten teams, multiple Star players and Big Guys to do, but I’m hoping to play a league with my RPG group next year so having them done by then is the target.

Questions:

1. The surprise 14 day isolation left us pretty short on supplies but we had a stream of offers from friends to go shopping for us and we now have enough food to last months. The online form I needed to fill out for Illness benefit was bugged but the paper forms were collected from the wellfare office and then dropped back for me. People have been awesome and my mother even posted a package stuffed to the brim with bars and sweets to help lift the mood.

2. Tackling my Blood Bowl collection like I mentioned above but I also need to paint more regularly. I’m a reluctant painter but I love the buzz of finished minis and I want to get playing more games with the stuff stuck in boxes and on sprues.

3. Not yet, I’ve been working my way through Brooklyn Nine Nine as I’d never watched a single episode before and right now it’s exactly the kind of easy watch fun my brain needs.

@sundancer

Nice to see the CoB tracks, Alexi was a real loss. Also, Bioshock did get a boardgame based on the third game. ‘Siege of Columbia’ by Plaid Hat Games.

@horati0nosebl0wer

What Korean horror films have you been watching? I went through a phase a few years back of watching heaps of Asian Film. ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’ was a favourite.

@crazyredcoat

Looking forward to seeing how Cypher turns out. I have the older version and loved the mini but I want to pick up the new one too. He’s one of my favourite characters in 40k lore although his role in The Gathering Storm at the end of 7th edition was a bit weird. The Collector’s Edition Dark Angels codex for 7th came with a secret compartment in the bottom of the box that had background, history and a series of missions you could play all focused on him.

We’ll finish with some music. Really getting into a lot of Norse sounding stuff lately.