Pledge: don’t get massively inspired by all the awesome Samurai goodness and fall into the darkest pit of hobby insanity! Case in point, this 1:300 Castle Osaka model photo I took today… how does one NOT get fired up by this?!?

My answer:

For me, the old GW Canada HQ people are the ones I have lost contact with, and would really like to know what they’re up to. It’s been forever since GW regressed into the Memphis HQ. So many good people were cast aside when they did it… I’ll randomly run into one every now and then. Which is cool. I don’t go to social media, so it’s kind of like 1950s random encounters …

Otherwise, there’s definitely a pall overall with some of the names and companies either passing on, or retiring – with no continuity… too many to list.

Anyway, off to see Kyoto at night. 🇯🇵

Although I have been into wargaming and RPG’s for over 40 years… I’ve not been seeking advice on hobby via the likes of youtube until the last few years really… I just muddled through in my own way (and muddled is a good way to describe it)…

So I’m not familiar with any of the names mentioned above and don’t know any that have gone (for whatever reason).

I have a pledge this week… but it’s going to be long term pledge as I need to deal with some of the following…

Whether that means painting, or getting rid of… not sure yet.

There’s more stuff that needs dealing with… but I’m too lazy to get everything out and I think it would depress me to see the full extent of my pile of (shame/opportunity… delete as appropriate).

“Saturday evening. Way to tired to setup the painting rack. Anything good on the telly?”

If your TV anything like UK saturday nights… probably not.

UK Saturday is mostly reality shows, celebrity shows and quiz shows. The assumption being that people are out getting drunk and so they might as well put crap on the TV.

My average day I watch less than an hour of TV… that includes streaming channels…

And it’s absolutely lashing it down here. Thunder and lightning earlier.

to be honest beasts of War was the youtube channel that got me into this hobby.  Flames of War for the win series of videos were great entertainment.

The various vlogs showcasing table builds are great too.

@pagan8th looking at a big stack of things to do is always kind of depressing, because it is hard to see any progress.

Find a way to break it down into small tasks that can be completed in a week or month may be the better solution.

Heck … it’s something I need to do myself, because I keep getting distracted by new ideas.

It probably is why I haven’t finished moving into my house either. Even though I only have one big task left (paint the walls of the living room) I can’t get myself motivated enough to start for real.  Somehow there is always something that delays progress 😒

Streaming has it’s problems. The sheer amount of stuff available makes it tricky to find anything and 99% of it is garbage.

I used to have the basic netflix package, but they removed that option and gave me a choice of £10.99 a month to watch without adverts or £4.99 with some ads. Given I watch it every few days unless something amazing shows up… and that’s rare… it would be a waste to spend the extra £6 a month.

Too many platforms. No way I’m paying for more than one. Paramount is really limited in choice. Prime is likewise. Disney series for Marvel and Star Wars have been utter crap in recent times. I switch to a different streamer at some point, or cancel it completely and spend the money on something else.

I only have Disney+ (Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad) and Prime (Doctor Who).
Prime is annoying in the way it tries to tempt you into watching any of the content that isn’t even included in the subscription so every time I want to watch something I need to be careful I’m not accidentally renting stuff.

I also have Audible as listening to audio books is a lot of fun when the narration is done well.

Such a shame that we can’t have one streaming service do all the shows/series/movies. It is too expensive to watch everything I want, so I don’t.

otoh … this gives me more potential hobby time as I can’t watch tv and do hobby at the same time anyway.

I need to re-review my cable subscription, because I really haven’t been watching any linear tv for years. Only downside is that it is linked to my internet-subscription so I’m not sure I’d be saving any money by cancelling that part. otoh I did downgrade the tv subscription a while ago.

This week’s pledge is to finish the Alice in Wonderland diorama – making good progress so far.

• Hobby heroes that have gone dark. Every one of us who has been into this hobby for more than 10 years has one or more hobby hero who has either stopped doing anything at all for any kind of reason, have died or (in some cases) gone in a completely different direction and are no longer doing stuff you enjoy watching. I’d like to hear some names of your hobby heroes. – None really spring to mind. I only started paying attention to who people are in the industry in the past couple of years, so no big changes in that time pop to mind.