@blinky465 Your story reminds me of a scene in one of the later Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy books where Arthur buys some tea and a packet of biscuits and sits at a table while waiting for a train. A man sits down and takes Arthur’s biscuit, opens the packet and eats one. Arthur is so in shock he just watches but says nothing. Then between them both they take turns until the packet is finished. Only when Arthur gets up he notices his packet of biscuit was hidden under a newspaper the whole time.

Strange things happen at tables.

@sundancer That’s a great idea. I remember the OTT dice mat they used in lets plays from before the event and wondering if they were available to buy.

Ok my pledge is to paint two trolls, the Grendel model by Otherworld Miniatures and Boulder The Troll from Moonstone. Once both of the these are painted I’ll be able to start playing the next three scenarios in my Rangers of Shadow Deep game.

I’m also waiting on an order of 1000 card sleeves coming tomorrow. Once they arrive I’ll be sleeving my Lord of the Rings cards.

Looking back on 2021: did you achieve anything you thought you would have by this point?

Kind of. I planned on getting and painting all of the North Star Frostgrave Barbarians which I did. But then I thought I’d have painted more of my Chaos Space Marines and so far this year I haven’t painted any.

What are your plans for the second half of the year?

I have a whole host of miniatures I been collecting for an entire Rangers of Shadow Deep campaign, The Dying Light, which I haven’t even assembled, which I’ll want finished. I want to have all of the Moonstone miniatures which I currently have painted and I want to properly start getting everything together for Stargrave which I’ve mostly sidelined up to now.

Why is there no OTT merchandise?

So we can easily tell who is staff and who is everyone else? Not sure buts it’s a good idea.

Happy weekend everyone! My pledge is paint something just for me. I think it might be Dead Man’s Hand models but I need to just switch off all the digital stuff for a few hours over the weekend at some point.

Questions:

• Looking back on 2021: did you achieve anything you thought you would have by this point? Not quite but not far off it. IRL beginning to get over the anxiety brought on the last year has been slow but continuous progress. Still spiked a bit with the level 0 announcement this week but one day at a time. Hobby wise, almost. I wanted to finish my 2020 project and if not for the recent Ginger Dwarf Raffle, I would have done. Now it’ll be done by the end of July and that is better than good enough.
• What are your plans for the second half of the year? To actually start a couple of things I have been debating for over a year. Need to remind myself that perfection shouldn’t get in the way of done!
• Why is there no OTT merchandise? I suspect because merch is expensive both in time and money and rarely worth it for most creators.

@blinky465 “It’s too people-y out there” perfectly sums up why I try and yet fail to get out more. Hope The Wife is doing well after her hospital trip.

I’ve got a recipe for the Egyptians that works: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1660768/

What do you guys think?

Kudos for persevering with the gold leaf. I think I’d have given up long ago! It’s a classic colour scheme, turquoise and gold, and looks really “classic” on your minis. I’m guessing these look really special IRL (cameras never do minis justice, but even in the photo the gold looks very gold). Would be interesting to see a full, final paint – I’d be tempted to paint the wings a bit darker to “push them back a bit” so they’re not competing with the gold for your eye’s attention. Nice work!

So my hobby plans have changed. My local store was doing a sort of mini jumble sale where people could bring minis to sell that they weren’t using and I managed to snag 5 Assault Intercessors for $15, which is a steal, I think, best of all they are already primed, so it bypasses that problem I had! They are primed white and I usually prefer darker colours, but it’s workable and the cost was amazing. So that’s what I’ll be slowly working on. Even managed to bump up my 2nd jab to Monday so I might be feeling a little under the weather in the early week, but it’s worth it to get that 2nd dose.