So basically it’s Command and Conquer Red Alert?

Lost interest in that style of game years ago. Always felt like the game could get along without me if I left it alone.

Happy Friday.

My pledge is to paint more Core Space miniatures.

I’ve just finished painting the last six from the main box after getting painters block with some different sci+fi miniature. I also went out and got my first ten contrast paints. I’ve never used these until this week. My initial feeling is that it will help me block in colours faster and allow me to get onto the more fun (for me) highlights and final rendering.

When not doing any tiny fighting men related hobby what are you doing in your spare time?

I watch a fair bit of YouTube, play video games and read.

How do you feel when a different hobby “takes away” time from the miniature hobby?

Short term, I think it’s good to do something different for a change, if I go too long I start getting hobby guilt.

Hobbies to intersect to a degree with each other (example 3D printing and miniatures) but are considered hobbies of their own. Do you have any active hobbies that do not intersect with the main topic at hand?

I love to go for hikes in the countryside. Even then it reminds me of all the characters from fantasy novels that have gone on quests.

A little late in the posting the announcement for the completion of last week’s pledge I’m dropping it here.

Pledge: Paint more minis and show them off/ annoy Gerry with more private project work

Most of my spare time is devoted to sleeping and recovery from work which, good news, I’ll be doing again soon. The de facto vacation from beating metal has been sorely needed.

I don’t mind doing my part time collecting of books but my collection has started to include minis related books. I guess there’s crossover there. Minis are by far less heavy to move when I take them from place to place.

Book collecting and language study are my non-hobby related hobbies. I took up the occasional pistol shooting from when I did security work.

Battletech game for pc is worth the time you sink into it and is definitely not as granular as the tabletop.

@templar007 I agree about the building bug. It has an element of ADD but isn’t it just more of looking for a dopamine fix here and there with getting distracted with the next “great idea?”

@demonsub Speedpaints will definitely help with blocking in colors. There is an issue with reactivation that Juan Hidalgo addresses.

• When not doing any tiny fighting men related hobby what are you doing in your spare time?
• How do you feel when a different hobby “takes away” time from the miniature hobby?
• Hobbies to intersect to a degree with each other (example 3D printing and miniatures) but are considered hobbies of their own. Do you have any active hobbies that do not intersect with the main topic at hand?

1. Building and scratch-building replicas of movie models (Star Wars). Playing P&P RPGs as well as preparing and gamemastering P&P RPGs (mostly story-driven narrative systems like FATE Core and always our own stories tailored to our characters). Occasionally designing something new for an existing game – like Jabba’s Palace for Legion currently. Watching movies and a few shows, or listening to music (many, many genres). Reading everything about visual design and visual effects in movies – something which is fascinating me since my childhood (it’s also bad since you always recognize the seams, no matter how well done it is).

2. Great – because the hobby I’m currently doing is always the one which excites me the most at this time.

3. Everything intersects with each other – and be it only in terms of inspiration.

I don’t play video games – like at all!

Perhaps you should @fourtytwo no painting or terrain building plus it’s fun.

@zorg I have – very intensely. Total War Medieval (the first one), then Rome Total War (the first one), and then I dove head-first into the Mod Scene and joined the The Fourth Age mod team and created a whole campaign map for Middle Earth from scratch, unlocked how to precisely modify the battlemap-mode appearances of the different climate and ground types which opened up whole new possibilities for all mods based on that engine. This enabled me to create a visually accurate Mordor in battlemap mode. I also modelled completely new vegetation, created all ground textures from scratch, modelled new units, created textures for these units, created specific and iconic locations for the battlemap mode utilizing everything I’ve done before, implemented new climates for Mordor and Lothlorien etc. pp…

And then I was done with video games. 😀