Hobby Weekender 01/03 – Back to the 80s

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Maybe you can finish it (your set) … maybe not… my crystal ball is currently in the dishwasher for cleaning 😉

 

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*wheee* I have survived the madness that is ‘carnaval’ 🙂

// (1) How do you deal with a cold or flu?

A hot shower, lots of sleep. I do tend to want to eat fruit whenever I feel a bit non super.

// (2) Can you hobby when you feel run down? (Initially I accidentally wrote run over…)

Nope, probably because I’m using every bit of energy to fight the evil bugs.

// (3) Your opinion on the entertainment industry of the 1980s is…?

Not as good as I thought it was, but much better than whatever the heck new kids get to endure.
I know the old shows were thinly disguised advertisements for toys, but modern shows appear to ramp that up to eleven.

(4) Name a tv show you liked when you were younger or a child

Airwolf, Blue Thunder, A-team, Mc Gyver, Star Trek Next Generation, Fall guy.
I do have to say that I’ve only ever seen ‘Fall guy’ on the German tv channel (ZDF?) and it was called “Ein Colt fur alle falle”.
It was the first time I saw a series with an ad-break.

And because someone dared to post the butchered version of ’99 Luftbalons’ I’m posting this one episode of ‘Fallguy’ in German :

btw … there is a song called ‘ding-a-dong’ by a band called ‘Teach-in’:

The song in Dutch as it was meant to be :

It was the Dutch song that won the Eurovision song contest in the 70’s when they still had to use a full orchestra.
I wonder if they knew how dirty that title sounds in English 😉
I certainly didn’t.

Anyways … once I’ve fully recovered I shall think of a pledge for this week.
I’ve got plenty of stuff to read and a mountain of plastic bits to conquer.
Oh … I know … I need to finish my Gitz list and order the bits I need to build it.

 

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Dutch music from the past…. love this one:

 

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Hm. My socks do not seem fully dry. It is uncomfortable. Fire is good though! And back with the orville. Tearing through my Minotaurs. Many pics to follow later.

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Ohhhhh. Ok make sure to wash it at a low temperature, less the magic wash off it. Its not a non-stick frying pan, after all.

Interesting music, I wanna check it out!

@limburger <45 points>

 

Good! Carnaval sounds like a good excuse to dress up as a venetian plague doctor.

(1) Hot shower eh? I have a hilarious clip from South Park I want to post but it could be misconstrued on the site (nothing to do with showering or bodies fyi) as being politically incorrect… Fruit eh? 10 rupees.

(2) Me neither. Evil, evil bugs. Like insecticons. Only completely different. 5 rupees

(3) Well played. 15 rupees. I think the fact the old shows werent too heavily disguised made them able to revel in their own fun, coolness, absurdity and cheese. Like they gave themselves less ability to take themselves seriously and just ‘be’. Shows from the early 2000s onward sucked. I watched some, had younger relatives watch them and man they were yellow donkey water.

(4) 15 rupees, nice shows. I will come back to the music. Watching tv now.

Take your time with the pledge. Enjoy both the paper pile and plastic mountain. What were you gonna order?

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To be honest I think the only difference between what us children from the 80’s consider classics and the modern era is that we are older, more aware of how the entertainment industry works and we’ve got the internet to prove our conspiracy theories.

I’m pretty sure those from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 90’s and 00’s have a similar delusion that their time was the best.
Besides … everyone knows the 80’s where the best ever decade for music.
It was the birth of MTV (when that channel actually had music instead of crappy scripted reality shows).
Videoclips from that era still attempted to tell a story (Michael Jacksons’ being the most expensive and story-like).

@mage : I haven’t decided yet. I want the spider grots ’cause spiders are flockin’ scary, but the models themselves lack variety.
Might start with a troll herd and build from there.

There are a few ‘modern’ cartoons I kind of like.
Never quite got into the ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ hype, but a few episodes are fun.

Phineas & Ferb were interesting. Milo Murphy’s law isn’t too bad (and with Weird Al Yankovic being involved I do need to find the original version instead of the localized one).
Althoug best of the new breed has to be the reinvented Scooby Doo (‘Mystery Inc’), which added a lot of backstory to the gang and their reason for solving mysteries.

And then there’s a cartoon that somehow got past Disney’s happyness enforcement machines : Gravity Falls.
Two seasons filled with mystery and a story arc that has a good ending.
Definitely fun for grown ups as well as kids.

btw : no plague doctors … that’s more like Venetian Carnevale 😉
It’s more like Halloween, except with more emphasis on fun (clowns, pirates, cowboys, and unicorns, and all sorts of crazy stuff) and no horror.

Brexit was kind of a theme for a few groups :

A royal trying to lose a few pounds before Brexit :

Bye bye my love :

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Not much progress on painting this weekend  , after a day in bed ill yesterday. Started rebasing around 80 models

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@horati0nosebl0wer quite a musical variety there… you’ve got me thinking… I’ll come back to music soon…

@robert helmet wings look good? cheers! I know what you mean about projects too…

@mage aww good fun painting with the little ‘un! The plaster models are a good start, doesn’t matter when they slather one colour of paint everywhere ? we had my little girl doing similar things at that age, then later I was making up stories for her at bed time about what adventures they were getting up to at night…

Go to google? Look at @sundancer ‘s list!

Pure childhood entertainment! Some on that list never showed here in Oz, but many did!

More work on DA incoming!

Hmm, I’m thinking I want to get Shadowspear too… but I also want Blackstone Fortress… which first??

@blinky465 New Project! New Project!

Show us what you got!!

@sundancer “For his adventures just be sure and stay tuned to this staaaation!”

seriously though, that guy was dropping pills like no tomorrow!

Still, with with power of 20 atom bombs for a period of 20 seconds, one could get through a hell of a lot of painting ??

@limburger Ding-A-Dong?? It must have been popular, the BoW/OTT team reference it on every video that goes to YouTube “And remember to Ding-A-Dong” that’s what they  say isn’t it? ?

Carneval looks like fun!

 

Oh, maybe bonus Rupees for @tuffyears ? Referencing the questions, staying on topic!

Sorry to hear you’ve not been well, I hope it has passed for you!

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@mage & @rayzryr : please stop mentioning that S word … I need focus, not yet anoter glorious box of plastic crack marines no matter how awesome they look. They would make for a perfect killteam too …

*argggh*

Why must GW be this great at promoting new content that looks cool too ?
Even though they’re space marines and still not squats.

#bringbacksquats

 

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@robert Yes, Epic is nothing but a pain if you look at it as 28mm. A few slaps of color and the things are magically transformed. I added a few special effects to the paint with some masking to airbrush patterns. I don’t know the fluff of 40k much but I think it might work. Are Harlequins their own thing in that universe? I know that they have the most gods awful and gaudy patterns in the whole of the game and the rest of the Eldar seem uniformly different.

As far as keeping warm it was -4F (-20C) when I walked out of work to my car. I can’t say that the uniform polyester trousers are much for insulation. I very much miss the time when I could wear the cargo pant uniform. My jacket, hat and gloves made up for that fact.

@mage Painting with the little ones is good stuff. Happy time to play around and build up the nerdling’s skill level for future development.

@blinky465 Lol! You broke down for the bob cut beefcake to put on your Blood Bowl pitch? I’ve seen that from RN Estudio amid their other work. I shook my head with a grin that there was love for that series going to go to fantasy football (is that technically right in Europe or would that be Guild Ball?).

Forgive the music being from the next decade

@mage **blink blink** WTH? I’m US based and that borked my brain. I had to go back and watch the US version of the intro to clear it all up. Thankfully there was a collection of all the 83-87 themes. It was funny to think back, pick out the different characters on screen and pull their specialties from memory from having various figures (names were hit/miss).

@sundancer What crazy custom is it to throw your crystal ball into the dishwasher? What did you do to…. nevermind. I’ll stop and not ask to save myself the pain of knowing. Thinking of brain twists wasn’t the series ALF known as ADF in Germany? I think I remember that.

As far as the music it did sound like there might have been some influence from Frank Zappa in as far as the vocals.

Thinking of him.. here you go

@limburger I had to go back and watch the opening to Airwolf after humming it to myself. After that I went off on the A Team. Here’s a series “Otherworld” that I remember that was rather interesting where a family on vacation to Egypt gets zapped across time/space.

Then I had to go back to check out Amazing Stories. It was good stuff from John Williams for the opening theme. It might also give some inspiration to Carneval next year. Speaking of Weird Al, he’s got at least one episode feature in it.

@rayzryr Music music music … more to fan the flames of silliness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Ow1nlafOgA

 

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@limburger Shadowspear, Shadowspear, Shadowspear 😉

I fell for a trap.

A GW at that.

Warhammer 40k Conquest launched in Germany an I really like the terrain that’s planned with it. So I jumped to a subscription. But what do I do with those SM and Chaos minis? I’m not playing 40k. Collect them and sell as batch? Toss them on the PoS?

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@horati0nosebl0wer Nope, you remember wrong. It was Alf all the way. And what’s so wrong about putting the crystal ball in the dishwasher when it cost dusty from not dusting it off properly… what where you thinking about? XD

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Okey doke. I’ve never been a student of German so that was just me hearing things as a kid.

Considering the 80s, making mention of dirty magic balls doesn’t mesh well with the thought of David Bowie as the Goblin King in the film Labyrinth twirling around ‘mystic orbs’ in his hands with the particular pants that he is wearing. (It was actually the performer Michael Moschen who is doing the contact juggling).

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@sundancer : it’s “Rosenmontag” … how can you still be sane and awake ?
Shouldn’t you be clowning about outside by now ? 😉

And while you may not play 40k now … you will have to now that you’re committed to the insanity that is 40k.
Such are the addictive powers of the plastic shaped by the grand wizards at GW.

There’s a reason it is known as ‘plastic crack’ 😉

@horati0nosebl0wer : this is weird … I think I have seen ‘otherworld’ too because I remember the ‘bad guy’ .
I don’t know if I saw more than one episode though, because we didn’t watch foreign tv channels (insert joke about how German tv wasn’t considered foreign tv ;-)). I think it was Belgium tv that had it.

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@limburger very simple: I’m living in northern Germany. That nonsense you speak of has no meaning or power here. Other than children dressing up for school today. (And today only) Also I really don’t like that “forced happy times” stuff… “move along, don’t bother me.” If someone enjoys it, so be it, but it’s nothing for me.

As for 40k: I played in the past. I still have my 3500’ish Ork force and other 40k stuff but the game just completely lost me. So no “crack” for me more “superfluous” stuff.

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@sundancer  : ah, so you’re just normally crazy 😉

Nothing is forced here. And I definitely agree that one shouldn’t feel forced to take part in this sort of stuff.
You either like it or you don’t. Nothing wrong with either option.

I never got on with the older versions of 40k.  Too much complexity to hide a lack of balance.
The 8th edition rules are much simpler, although GW still can’t control their need add more stuff to their poster boy armies (ie : chaos + space marines) while factions like the Eldar haven’t gotten a single new model for their core troops or elites.

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