It’s the XLBS Show…………….Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!

I’m a big fan of the Speedpaints. They work really well, mix well and don’t tear the way the Contrast paints can.

I think Ben needs to keep that colour scheme because it takes.him out of his comfort zone of grim dark. I think it’s a good thing to step out if your comfort zone every now and again. It’s a good way to improve your painting skills as well.

Thoroughly enjoyable show this morning, it’s inspired me for my day!

I don’t particularly have an adjacent hobby, I tend to need a few different projects in the hobby to rotate around, but it has challenged me to think about whether I could explore other things. I binge the odd video game occasionally as an alternative to hobby, but that’s not really adjacent manual skills…but it does inspire the hobby in terms of how to bring the video games to the table.

I need to go find some woods to walk in and have a ponder!

I used to paint pictures but I don’t have the time or insensitive these days. I like to break up the hobby by just adding variety. If I have 30 rank and file prussians I’ll paint ten then paint a couple of slaine or stargrave minis. I’ll then paint another ten but if I want a change I do scenery which can be very different to the minis

I have one secondary hobby next to wargaming, and that’s simulators on the PC.

Mostly it’s flight simulation, with DCS (Digital Combat Simulator), which is insanely in-depth. Every switch, button, handle, and knob in the cockpit is simulated to be as close to the real deal as possible. Very difficult and challenging, but also very rewarding when it finally clicks in your head.

Also sometimes I like it a bit more relaxing and drive trains. Train Simulator, or the newer version Train Sim World, is not as detailed, but definitely will give you a challenge.

Hi XLBSers an the crew.

Yay peat monster’s.

Happy Someday…. 8) 00:05 So @brennon would you mind to elaborate on that a) what that means and b) how do you know about that XD 00:23 Sappy Hunday 01:05 What’s a PT? 01:35 “Gym”? oO 04:30 Guuuuys….. is this still all hobby related? XD 06:40 21 years? oO 10:45 BATTLEREPORT! 11:11 Earth, wind and fire! MANOWAR! 15:15 @warzan unless you had Chilli you’re no flame elemental! 30:00 English pirates? Thieves! 8) 31:00 @avernos is painting British, French and Jack Sparrow 34:00 what is it with minis coming with separate fingers lately? oO 39:30 Just get any paint you can… Read more »

What about painting the metals in coppery colours Ben.

Happy Sunday.
Three more golden button winners which I’m going to follow, amazing work.

Brilliant work on the Gundam John.

Aww shucks, Cheers guys for the kind words.

As far as other hobbies go, I play computer games and have about 30 hobbies within our hobby.

Building
Collecting
Painting
different kinds of the above.
3d sculpting / drawing
3d printing
CAD in general
laser cutting
scenery making
narrative building
photography
savaging basing supplies (outdoor walks)
project management
reading
list building
You could go on and on and on and… all that’s without changing the genre which means you change up fully what’s you’re doing.

There are infinite hobby adjacent things to move onto.

So Gerry is the Ice age squirrel?.
A Great show guy’s.

I often burn out, really often. Partly it’s time and energy, partly it is that this hobby can be a grind. In the early stage of burnout I’ll do terrain, as it’s a bit more forgiving on my sloppy brush work. Later I’ll then daydream new armies or projects – and I’m getting better at leaving them in the shops. There’s watching football and cricket but that’s very unrelated to the hobby unless I see some beautifully weathered surface somewhere. Currently I’m back on a bit of a roll. I’ve stalled the Silver Bayonet (Napoleonics are hard, who knew?) and… Read more »

Happy Sunday
Hope all are having a good one. I know my sunday is looking up. going to watch the Greatest Movie ever Made.

Incredible show, hearing about the side hobbies actually had my mind wandering as I did a little bit of this over the last 2 yeard without even realising its why I did it.. Until today
I also explored RC and love it (reminds me I need to finish my second buggy)
Gunpla is something ive been curious about for a while but never done, I do have a Neon Genesis kit I brought around 12 months ago but I havent opened it…. yet.

HAPPY SUNDAY, brill show lads, love the last topic of using skill learnt outside of the hobby, having grand kids i find myself building stuff with for there toy trucks, dino toys to play on and well the old skills take over and nothing better then your grand kids saying “wow granddad that’s great”, and then watch them proceed to wreck it during in play the little B……, lol

Awww thanks for the Golden Button!

The bases were based on the final level from Golden Axe II on the mega drive ?

Its Tuesday night and just turning 22:45, and ive just finished watching Sundays XLBS. Great show as always guys. So far this year i have had four hobby burnouts, i start out with lots of get up and go that with in days turns into i can not be arsed. I then spend anywhere from a few weeks to sometimes months looking for a reason to get back into the hobby, then out of the blue im picking up a mini and either finish making it or painting it (i so hate painting these days). So lately i have been… Read more »

@warzan my experience of Speed Paints vs contrast is that I prefer the speed paints. That’s not because contrast paints are bad – they’re not and they do have some advantages over speed paints. But I switched to army painter speed paints because I was frustrated that, at the time, by the low pigmentation in certain colours meaning I couldn’t get nice, intense coverage of some shades and speed paints allowed me to do that. I am lead to believe the extended range of contrast paints fixes that but I can’t justify spending money on a load of contrast paints… Read more »