I need to build more terrain, but only if I make it modular and easily stored. Doubt I’ll Terrainfest though.

No interest in orcs or orktober.

Timed events not my thing. “Time is an illusion… lunchtimes doubly so!”

It’s been a while since I took part in one of these. No hobby time this weekend for me but I’ll make a pledge for the week; clean all the feegles and paint the vampires I have on the paint table. I also need to reread the Armada rules and build a list for next weekend.

Questions 1 and 2 roll into each other for me. I picked me Orktober project back in July and have been planning it since. It happens to be a terrain based project so I guess I’m now taking part in both.

Question 3 is an interesting one. In terms of community based timed events, not really. I try but I’m very prone to losing interest when something else catches my eye. Having said that, I set myself timed goals fairly often as a way to focus my brain goblins when I have too many projects started and find myself stalling on progress. The reason my Orktober project was put off by a few months was so it could have breathing room from the other projects surrounding me.

For music, my ticket to see Battle Beast came through the door this week. As I found them through a Weekender thread, it seems fitting to celebrate them here now

I’m in a bit of a funny mood too, @sundancer – I decided it’s time to reconnect with the hobby (had a few things going on of late and not really much hobby-time to myself) and have been super-excited; I printed some space marine proxies, tried out four or five different styles of painting and generally just had a lovely time trying out some different ideas in a relaxed, stress-free doesn’t-matter-if-it-doesn’t-work kind of way.

Some things worked, some things didn’t. Most of them will get thrown in the bin. That’s fine. In fact, maybe I need to do this more often – throw away minis that haven’t worked and keep the ones I like, instead of having a shelf of mixed-quality models in various states of completion. At least I know a project is “properly finished” when it goes in the bin!

My printer is going BRRRRR again – and it’s brilliant.
Honestly, it’s completely changed my approach to painting minis. Now, even as I take them off the build plate, I might be thinking “some of you are not going to make it”. And it’s great!

I usually print 6-8 minis at a time. I used to try to “make them all count”. I’d pick my favourite six or eight characters, drop them on the build plate, print them out – and then each one mattered; I didn’t want to mess them up (after the discussion this week about preparing miniatures for printing, some of you might understand that spending an hour or more preparing files for printing means I’d either have to reprint an entire plate if anything went wrong, or just not mess anything up in the first place!)

But this time, I just printed eight very similar-looking Space Marine proxies.
They all looked pretty good – I didn’t care if any of them got messed up because the plan was always to print another set of marines and paint and keep just five of them.

That gave me eight to try stuff out on, then another eight to actually paint in the style I decided to use, and even then – like the proverbial baker’s dozen – I had spares in case anything went wrong.

It’s been totally liberating to treat my minis as “disposable”.
But it’s exactly what happens in just about any other art form.
My wife loves pottery. But not every lump of clay is going to make it into a plate or a bowl or a mug. And she’s fine with that.
Not every canvas she paints is going to end up on the wall. Some get painted over – some get thrown out.
And she doesn’t give it a second thought.

I started doing the same with my minis. And now, neither do I.
It’s sooooo cathartic to take an unfinished mini, and drop it in the bin, with the thought “well you didn’t work out, but now you’re no longer cluttering up the place”.

How did it get to Thursday again before I remembered to join this weekly thread?

Anyway – just finished another model: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1794968/

• Are you planing to get into TerrainFest2023? If yes, what’s your plan? – Not really. I have enough going on and since I don’t play these days terrain would just take up space.
• Or are you more inclined to trying your hand on OrkTober? – Maybe if I see an Ork model I like.
• Do you even care for such “timed events”? – Sometimes, but I tend to have year long projects on the go which keep me busy.