Pledge: continue with my Battletech, trying out my new AK paint pens!

Question: homey didn’t play the terrain game.

Music:

That reminds me that I kind of want the Kelly’s Heroes from Warlord too at some point in time.
Maybe next year ?

Pledge ?
Continue to open both Mantic advent calendars one day at a time 😀

Seeing the quality of certain folk participating that’s kind of depressingly good I feel like I’d be in over my head to try and compete. I know it’s not about winning, but I feel outgunned.

I’ve got a few ideas and got parts to start both of them too, but not sure if I can get myself focused enough to finish either of them at the moment.

As such I can only promise to do more hobby next year (more than almost zero if I ignore my war room project is easy 😉 ).
Which reminds me that I got things to do for that as well. At this rate I might use it for next years’ spring cleaning challenge 😀
That’s not to say that I haven’t had any progress. It’s more that I need to finish other things within my house before I can afford to spend more time tinkering with that one room.

On a related note : it is annoying how much time there is between ordering stuff and getting it delivered.
I can understand why that blue&yellow store has soo many customers, because walking into that building and walking out of it with the furniture in hand is something that just doesn’t happen in ‘regular’ shops.

Adam Savage is always interesting to watch:

The video related to his build is equally amazing :

Birds/animals are smarter than we often realize.

Music :

This week’s pledge is to continue working on my Ultramarines. I’m about half way through, but I need to do all the details now and my brush needs replacing.

• Terrain Terror Fest – how far into it are you? I’m all done. I deliberately chose a nice contained project that wouldn’t take too long.

That was a mere weather balloon … (it’s still spectacular to see man made objects get that high)

Meanwhile LEGO went with actual astronauts in space :

Life on Mars alien that flew to space!
byu/BLBrick inlego

And Google tells me that there’s a set of LEGO minis aboard the Juno probe sent to Jupiter
https://kids.lego.com/en-in/articles/life/enllwill-it-launcharticlejun19-1559a93656f84c3ba2a68d4c5f81feff
That’s definitely space … but technically not actual LEGO as they were specially designed and cast.

It’s Day 9 of advent … time to see if any spectacular things are hiding behind door #9 …

Aren’t astronauts in the Navy ? so technically a ‘marine’ could have been in space already. Making him (or her) the original space marine 😀

I’ve got a load of youtube channels that have gone dark or stopped updating without making a fuss.
As such I’d say it is the fate of anyone realizing what a grind a career as a ‘content creator’ really is.

Heck … there’s a reason tv-shows rarely last ‘forever’. At some point you’ve done all of the things and there isn’t anything ‘new’ left. You see this in magazines as well where they start to recycle the same ol’ subjects every few seasons.

All things have a life span and we shouldn’t be afraid of that. Reboots can work, but even those may end in scraping the bottom of the barrel. At which point the thing should be put out of its misery instead of revived.

/rant

(sjeesz … that was a bit dark, wasn’t it ?)

Speaking of ending things :  Legion … Fire sale .. when ? 😉

day 11 of advent is upon us mortals.
Time to see if anything exciting is behind those little doors.

“Pimp hand is strong in that one” , i think that is a quote from Yoda

Close the door? You’ll get the roof and that’s it.