Pledge is to get on with my battle board now that I salvaged the gaming files from my laptop.

My wish is for a big pile of money… I’ll use it to buy a bigger house…. build a huge gaming room… and dedicated painting area…

And because I have a big pile of money I can pack in work and get on with the painting, crafting and gaming.

I’m accepting donations if anyone has a spare million quid lying around…

@templar007: To enjoy my hobby more and not stress on any deadlines

Wise words. That’s also my main wish and goal for my personal hobby. I’ve few things going to make that happen:

1. Keep projects tiny (like one unit at a time) but connected as needed. Write down the paints used in the Projects system, keep a separate storage boxes for the basing material used etc. so that you can later paint another unit to match.
2. Connected to the above: work on what excites me and not force it.
3. Hobby space organisation. For years I haven’t had a place to display my completed miniatures and terrain. Everything just went to boxes only to come out when playing a game. I recently added a cabinet with glass doors and I have another one to be built. Man it drives the motivation to see your work there!

@sundancer Hamburg Tactica is an event I have long been wanting to go. I’ve several friends who’ve made the trip and always speak so highly of it. Maybe this is the year for myself too!

Finish up this Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales campaign!

Paint the Wildspire Monsters set miniatures I’m using as proxies for it!

Wildspire: https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln

WIP of some kitteh and gobbos. Some of these were completed since taking this pic. :

Hey, it’s Tuesday already! Where are the weeks going? A few more days and we’ll already be crashing into mid-January.
This week I have mostly been printing texture rollers. And loving it!
One thing that drives me crazy with resin-printed terrain is that either you have to go thick-and-chunky for floor tiles (like the open-lock style blocks) which uses a crap-ton of resin – or get nicely printed floor tiles that curl and warp as the resin cures.

I have tried, in the past, sticking the resin-printed tiles onto some Dibond and then creating silicon moulds from them. But that’s a whole heap of heartache and hassle. So when I got some Fimo after Xmas (ok, I was told to do something interesting with my sister’s kids and raided their toy box) I thought I’d give texture rolling a go.

Fimo is awesome for floor tiles! It’s pretty robust, dimensionally stable (it shrinks a tiny, tiny amount during baking but it’s hardly noticeable) and pretty easy to work with.

The kids got bored with it pretty quickly, so I put the telly on for them and let them play video games, while I cranked out a few different types of floor tiles. I think I prefer the individual tile approach, rather than making a larger, rolled area.

Castle Blacktooth for my Dungeonalia project is coming along nicely! (the white gunk everywhere? That’s baby powder. Super-important to stop the clay sticking to – and ruining – the texture rollers)

Oh yeah, the question.
What am I looking for in 2024?
I quite fancy attending a few gatherings. Like UKGE or, towards the end of the year, maybe Dragonmeet. Maybe over the summer, if there are any events on (somewhat) locally.

Getting out and meeting people and sharing hobby is what I’m aiming for, for 2024.
Since the-event-stay-indoors I’ve kind of got used to staying indoors (for gaming/hobby, obvs. not for playing music). I used to go to board gaming meetups and all kinds of things and just got out of the habit.

So – 2024 – get out more!

Here’s your music. Earache Records are supporting quite a few bands with an old-school sound.
More of the kind of the stuff I already like? I like that a lot.