Weekender XLBS: What Inspires Your Hobby?
January 20, 2019 by lloyd
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First. Happy Sunday all. Looking forward to this. Inspiration is such an important element of our hobby. It is what gets us started on a project. When it runs out we can be utterly stuck but if it strikes again we can be totally focused.
There is a lovely article by @johnlyons in the new Dave Taylor book Armies & Legions & Hordes on this topic. Highly recommended. If you missed it on Kickstarter it should be in retail at your FLGS shortly.
Happy Sunday
What inspires me? Really, you have to ask?
It’s the Beasts of War crew of course!
Also, movies, books, history, and my own imagination that dreams up some stuff based off of everything around me.
But Beasts of War has been a big part of that since that fateful day I stumbled on the BoW youtube channel.
The naughty the 3rd Reich just bastardised the Prussian Seven Years War era flags
Always something to learn. If I had an interest in the period and those books to hand I’d have a very different guard force to paint.
Yep. And if you look up Russian flags during Napoleonic Wars, they were very heavily inspired by the Prussian style flag.
I try to stay away from Russia, that’s how you end up with frostbite and no army
Truer words have never been spoken!
Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday!! As someone who has been uninspired to do any hobby for almost 9 months (apart from collecting boxes with bits in…) this is a pertinent question. I’d got out of the ‘habit’ of hobby during a period of pain and discomfort after a bad attack of RSI like symptoms. I’ve finally spent my evenings over the last week assembling a FoW Desert British force and you know what? I didn’t know why until you asked the question! A bit of self-analysis reveals some boredom and lack of anything decent on the TV made me want to do something.… Read more »
HAPPY SUNDAY.
What inspires me? It could be anything, from a book, to a comic or a movie, sometimes videogames or just the look of some awesome models.
I belive the Netflix Watership Down and @Brennon talking about Burrows and Badgers inspired me to get into this game (Redwall isn´t a big deal here in germany, but Watership Down gave me childhood war flashbacks).
My problem is, I get inspired to much, every other day a new project… dang it. ^^
I feel you, my man cave is a shrine to half remembered unfinished projects 🙂
Talhoffer is great, and a great read.
And I get what Justin is on about holding the sword by the blade and swinging like a mace seeming to not make sense, but When Kingdom of Heaven came out it made it all make sense – there is a bit during the ambush at the start where Baelin does that move, and it turns the pommel & quillions into a fairly deadly bludgeon. It helps that he was wearing heavy leather gauntlets so the risks to the hands was mitigated…..
White Dwarf used to inspir me, back in the day. Nowadays my tastes are more eclectic and artwork of all sorts tends to get me going.
One thing I read recently was that John Stallard was inspired to produce Cruel Seas by a story he read from the old Warlord comics he (and I also … I’m a similar age…) read in the 70’s. Its alll stored up there!
What inspires my hobby? This week, yellow blankets.
I would take everything in those Documentaries with a tonne of salt. We today have hundreds of books about Sci-Fi Spaceship design. We have everything from the Death Star to an X-Wing designed down to the nuts and bolts but it doesn’t mean we built any. Historical manuals were full of jokes, cons and gimmicks like the “Pommel Throwing” and without an actual example I wouldn’t give this Tower of Death any more credibility than an X-Wing. The Diving suit is a pretty common sense idea but without pressurisation it’s just an interesting concept. We have concepts for Star Destroyers… Read more »
There are other manuals written in the 15th century like
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/italian-fighting-manual-ca-1410/
There is the Hussite( Named after the famous GW character of course) War Wagons of the 15th century which I suppose could have been adapted to add further weapons
Have you tried the History Buffs youtube channel? The guy takes movies and examines the history elements.
I whatched one about Master and Commander the other night. Was pritty good, covered the types of ships etc and encounters between real ships the book/movie where based on and how/why the USS Constitution wasn’t used.
He’s got a great Channel. His “Death of Stalin” and “Gettysburg” video’s are my favourite. If you’re interested in the American Civil War “Blood and Fury: America’s Civil War” is a great series (6 Documentaries). Starts at First Manassas/Bull Run showing the chaos at the start of the war, Antietam, Fredericksburg (Opposed river crossing then house to house urban warfare then Irish v Irish at the famous wall), The Sharpshooters at Gettysburg, Nashville (one of the first actions of the United States Coloured Troops) and Petersburg (Proper trench warfare). They normally pick a handful of men who left journals/memoirs and… Read more »
Happy Sunday!
What inspires me? There’s this flippin’ website where bunch of dudes go on about toy soldiers every weekend…
Other than that, reading about history and especially traveling, visiting museums and battlefields. Another thing is seeing visually inspiring gaming tables, at wargames shows, on magazines and on the above mentioned website.
Happy Sunday. Good show today and yesterday. I didn’t comment yesterday as I don’t play LOR and I live in fear that someone will take my blankie, so I can’t see myself taking Justin’s away from him.
Seeing other people enjoying playing a game. Whether that’s in a video or in person, more so if it is at a local club.
Good morning everyone…. I’m primed on coffee and ready for anything.. let’s watch this!
“Unless you are controlled and precise as I am” is that the same @avernos that some time in the last year stated in a twitch feed “I have to many rooms with stuff. Rooms as in plural”?
Sir, I call this humbug! 😉
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Like Gerry everything inspires me and transfering historical battles to fantasy and sci-fi is always interesting,even moving historical battles to another period or front. We’ve played Arnhem set in Poland for something a little different.
But whatever I read it see the phrase ” There’s a game in that” is never far from my thoughts)
So I’m not the only one that hears that phrase “There’s a game in that”.
Ha! My lovely wife was wrong!!! I’m not insane……..I’m a GAMER!
LOL that takes me back, many many years ago; are Christmas game; bring a unit, whatever we had decided to fight that last Sunday of the year, one unit was used (A little drinky smoke cigars and Christmas cake; in them days “History” when one could smoke inside). the Golden Hammer Christmas special. Yes if you killed it; it was yours(?) Who died (could be if one felt like it, be handed back over one figure for one figure). (and each figure was painted at least with three colours, Skin cloves and weapon and most where painted wall the way).… Read more »
After writing this and reading it again MUST say Airfix figures LOL
Happy Sunday folks! My inspirations, 99% of the time it comes from books/fluff from the game and movies. For example, one of my lists I’m working on for my HH Iron Warriors was inspired by the end of SW:Attack of the Clones, when the clone troopers are flying in aboard their gunships. Translate that to HH, and you have legionnaires flying onto the table in Storm Eagles (using the Angel’s Wrath Rite of War). @dignity – there’s a great adage in life, but especially relevant when it comes to list building, “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”. If… Read more »
Great discussion, always great seeing Lloyd and Gerry bouncing ideas off of each other. I side with Gerry on the what inspires ideas, it could literally be anything, a set of colour combinations I want to do but what should I paint them on? Other peoples collections (I’m currently trying to track down pictures of an army from around the storm of chaos campaign, Empire almost entirely metal, each on from a different area of the range, survivors of the storm it was called). Film, Orks drift was good, also in Warhammer World there was a display board for imperial… Read more »
Which Storm of Chaos was it?
I have an unbroken run of WD so if they were showcased in there i should be able to dig them out for you.
The original one worldwide campaign, I think it was in an issue around the 290s.
found it, issue 324. I’ll scan the pages in later and post a forum thread for you. Mix of elves, bretonnians, Empire, Mordheim, Dogs of War and anything else he could lay his hands on in a green, white and red colour scheme.
I had once upon a time an unbroken run, sadly however through several moves and nefarious individuals I shouldn’t have trusted I have a less than complete set these days, thanks for finding it though.
@longlivethesheep Yeah it’s great bouncing of Gerry.
You love it
How funny is it that I mentioned Rorke’s drift yesterday and today we start with it… Happy Sunday! I’m snowed in and feel awful but I love this show. Having tea and enjoying the rest of my day.
Since we were running on a bit I dropped a few things from my list. Sports teams are a great one if you’re a bit of a die hard fan. Being a county Down man the red and black of Down features fairly often, and for certain forces and particularly sports games it’s a very easy way of putting colours together. You don’t even need to know about colour theory and if the colours go together, because someone already has and they clearly do. The other big thing for me is other peoples work. There are certain miniature painters that… Read more »
I would recommend the Saxon Dog Face book page
as well as his blog
http://saxondog.blogspot.com/
I like his work on Claymore seen it before, didn’t realise he had a blog, thanks for the link.
@torros cool link lots of class armys to drool over 🙂
Love it. What a cracking Sunday weekender. Great show chaps.
Looking at the Weekender inspires me ?
I just saw Timelines history of the Talhofer manual. Being into martial arts I already knew of Talhofer, but not his medieval tank and other designs. Now I challenge the fantastic miniature companies out there to produce a range of medieval/fantasy vehicles, siege engines, knights and other assorted fighters based on Talhofer book. Ive got my wallet ready, patiently waiting for a Talhofer Tank.
paint your wagon BoW style. ?