Has the result of the Spring Clean Challenge 2023 brought you any ideas?
Absolutely! There were some stunning projects in the spring clean challenge – and many of them were really inspiring. The quality of the paint-jobs was top-notch and I loved the battle-report-as-a-comic idea. Made me want to paint some minis again – so in that respect, they guys can say “mission accomplished”?
Would you have chosen any other project?
I find the OTT website frustratingly cumbersome to use, so don’t spend much time in the project system, so don’t really know what other projects were up for selection. It’s a shame because I used to love browsing the projects for inspiration. I also (many years ago) used to run a project blog and when I wanted to start one up again after lockdown, I thought I’d use the OTT project system as a blog/brain dump. But it’s just not up to it. So I couldn’t say which other projects I might have picked (I guess it’s different for you @sundancer, as you review lots of projects every Tuesday!)
Are you keeping yourself hydrated? It’s more important then ever right now.
My kettle has never been busier!
In other news…. what’s all this about Hornby buying up Warlord? (with an option for complete takeover in future?)
I don’t know enough about this story to know if it’s a good thing or not. But having worked with Hasbro and Mattel on bringing products to market (in some cases, not bringing them to market) and Horby themselves (in the 90s when they partnered with Dapol when I lived and worked in Llangollen) I’m instinctively suspicious of how this might turn out (expect lots of re-skinned old games with licenced IP characters). Fingers crossed it doesn’t go down that route….
But Hornby’s already riddled with debt and rising – this looks more like they’re after a slice of the “lucrative but niche” tabletop gaming market in a quick cash-grab. For a company that said in April its prospects were “uncertain” this really doesn’t look like a traditional “investment” (as we might understand it) in the hobby marketplace.
