The weekend and the house is silent, free from the noise of housemate, his recent lust-interest or the nieces/nephew that visit. This is bliss for a time of recharge.

@templar007 Ship rigging? That just means binding your fingers with mini ropes/glue. Does that mean its micro bondage of your fingers? Good to hear you’ll have your hands full for hobbying (lol). The detail really will be an accomplishment. Good luck.

@danlee I see that those minis are quite detailed from those shots. As beautiful as they were shown in the concept art and definitely showpiece level of requirement on paint. I think that The Event really screwed up tooling/manufacture and the present wave of lockdown protests in Manufacturing Land doesn’t make future KS projects very appealing. Will you keep the figures as a marbled effect as statuary or paint them up to the card art?

@sundancer Not keeping track of a week of work, normal, not remembering the amount of time as we tick days down to Giftmas, irresponsible. For shame, its just like in the anime series Sword Art Online that we wait for a red suit clad winter warrior to make his way into the world and fight all comers to the death for the opportunity to claim a single heartfelt wish. Its really an interesting series that I recommend wholeheartedly which you might be able to watch with your daughter now or in future. I hope you and your family feel better.

@blinky465 So much hobby is good to get the brain countering the seasonal blues. Good for you and mental health as you work steadily toward the new year. Good to let your wife have some space to feed your hobby too. We’re a pretty niche interest group and I hear it makes things hard for those who love/admire/care about us to buy things for us. Amazon is good for a wishlist thing but I have to say Warlord has been chomping at me with their wishlist site function and companies having that as a feature on their websites might be handy. Do you think that she might be able to gift you paints or is that as hit or miss as the rest of what we do?

Thinking of Giftmas and purchases, if I can make three armies of Spartans for Saga with the starter set from Warlord, even if I ran The Horde list for Age of Magic, do I really need to buy it? Learning the balance of intent with later required effort seems to be my present, and continued, lesson for hobby. I won’t be buying the Spartans but it is a question that I puzzled over; how many minis do I need as opposed to want because thet look cool?

If we have games we frequently play, it is good to have as many as we want to field our options where detail is lost in the mass battle. If we have display pieces its good to have as little as we can to avoid overwhelming ourselves with work in focusing on detail. Do you look for detail/customization in your figures for games or could you play armies of rocks with googly eyes and mark our units with a lead color rock? ( @avernos note for your future Forces of Nature List for Kings of War on their footprint bases. Bigger rocks or fancy minerals as monsters and leaders… good for teaching kids geology/mineralogy.)

As a separate side thought the mention of that reminds me of when my dad was in the military and sent out to paint rocks around the unit building as a punishment.