Pledge::  Sailing forward on my 1/700 WWII fleets.  More Carriers and Cruisers.  I did procure a UBoot and Gato in 1/700.  I still need to find my bookmarked location of an IJN submarine model and see if I can find a model of a British submarine.  I’ve not done much research on what the Brits were sailing under the oceans at that time.

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Questions of the Week::

1) Having finished a big project (army, terrain or table): How do you feel?

Answer:: Really SMUG!

2)The final stretch: towards the end of a project does it get easier or more annoying?

Answer::  I get edgy, nervous, and judgemental.   Did I do enough, Did I make the right choices, Was the right amount of research done before starting?  Should I have started it differently?  In the end, I’m generally pleased with myself.  I don’t do projects to please others although I do like to take on a project sometimes that others are doing as well.  It’s good to be in a group thing sometimes.  But it’s usually a project that I’ve been thinking of doing anyway.  My end results are just for me.

The short answer would be “I start criticizing my work”.  (probably why I’ve not published any video projects yet as well)

3) How to store that 42 cm x 62 cm piece of a chunker? Seriously, how can I put that away safely?

Answer::  I take a trip to the local Hobby Lobby, Dollar Store, or Sporting Goods shop in search of a cheap plastic box that has adjustable dividers in it to hold the “chunker” and any other pieces that will go with it.  Sometimes I’ll make a wooden box and stain, varnish, or wax it to look nice if it’s a relatively important piece.  I have put some beneath glass bells that are set on wooden bases as display pieces.  It just depends.

For my 1/700 Napoleonic-era ships {standing and running rigging}, I started with wooden display boxes that the front glass swings open.  But those cost $40 a piece when on sale and I have to store the entire British Fleet from Trafalgar and the Franco-Spanish Fleet as well.  So I’ve had to rethink that one.  I believe I have a workable plan but only time will tell.

1. Typically: ”how about I add something more…”. But also great happiness of the accomplishment.

2. I’m pretty good at closing out the project when it is close enough to the end, as long as I don’t go an extend it as mentioned in question 1 answer…

3. Mel the Terrain Tutor’s tip: start with the storage box and build your terrain pieces to fit it.

* Never feel a sense of accomplishment. Always more work to be done. ):

* Nowadays, I’m painting miniatures to play a game (Ganesha Game’s “Sellswords and Spellslingers”), and, irksomely, prefer to use only one company’s miniatures for the either side. I’ll paint to some tabletop level the miniatures I’ll use for the next scenario, and leave room for more painting later if I do more gaming with the miniature.  Usually towards the “end” of painting a miniature, I’ll be annoyed that the thing isn’t done painted yet — there’s always something to do that I missed, so it feels like what I *want* to do can’t be completed. Frex, I want to wash these miniatures, but keep finding a mold line that needs to be taken care of. Painting miniatures when I need them for a game keeps me from being concerned about how many miniatures I have unpainted, while still chiseling against that mountain of grey plastic, and using the miniatures as soon as they’re painted.

* Good luck with the plastic boxes! I also use tea boxes as containers to keep the mini’s from shaking about, then put them into a plastic box for storage.

Would you invite this guy to your kid’s birthday party? https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1794968/

I just watched the current XLBS……..

Congratulations on your GOLDEN BUTTON Mr. Sundancer!  Well DONE sir. ??

Easy to forget and lose track of time.

Bought Baldur’s Gate 3 a week ago and seem to have played it for over 50 hours somehow…

I’m running BG3 on PS5.

One of the requirements for PC version on Steam is SSD to run it.

Full Specs…

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

Processor: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM)

DirectX: Version 11

Storage: 150 GB available space

Additional Notes: SSD required