[unofficial weekender] Don't mind me

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/introduce-yourselves-new-member-thread/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/

Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil. This includes no philosophy, no home computer culture wars.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Question of the week:

• Have you kept your new years resolutions?

And now back to the show.

[sundancer 42925xp 0]

Pledge: think of new pledges

Answer: No, because I didn’t make one. I think. Can’t remember XD

Now I will need to catch up on sleep.

[pagan8thParticipant 10747xp 1]

New years resolutions are pointless. If you want to do something, do it…

If you don’t really want to, you won’t and making it on the 1st of January won’t make you any more commited.

Pledge: find something I want to do as a hobby project and do it.

[limburger 21679xp 0]

I’ve got so many ideas for projects I could do that I don’t even know where to start to be honest. And I’m easily distracted when new ideas pop into my head.

Anyways … hobby ?

Due to the flat tire of my trike I had an idea that will make it easier to move my trike indoors. It’s  too big to go through the door, but it can be folded. However when folded it still is too wide,but dragging it sideways through the door is a lot of effort.
So I came up with the idea of building a frame with wheels that I can load the folded trike onto. Work smarter, not harder as it were. I’m not sure if it will work as planned, but I’m gonna try it.

And yeah … new years resolutions are pointless. Just do it. I find it’s best to make a sort of plan that allows you to work towards your end goal in small steps. Trying to get to the goal without a plan is depressingly hard, which is why small milestones help you keep focus and allow you to reward yourself a bit.

[grantinvanman 2164xp 1]

Pledge: prime and start painting my Battletech robot thingies!

Answer: Yes! I cleared out a MASSIVE amount of sitting hobby pile. Horus Heresy, gone. Blood Bowl, gone. Dark Ages to Norman Conquest, gone. Wild West, gone. WW2 12mm sold Victrix, threw away a box of around 200 old Minifigs blisters not worth selling. Gone! Necromunda, gone.

Only things still to go are my 40k Orks, and my Vietnam.

Now all I have left are Battletech with Legions Imperialis to mash together; Car Wars, a Gaslands project that will mash with Car Wars. Lots of hobby books, not worth the cost of shipping. Guitar stuff, cleared out a ton of effects pedals. Amp is next depending on my incoming smaller amp. Guitars themselves stay.

Canada Post is on strike right now, too. So some of the sold stuff is waiting to move. Hopefully they resolve the strike this weekend. Can’t see it lasting long.

MOAR COWBELL!

• This reply was modified 4 days, 21 hours ago by  grantinvanman. Reason: mash

[danlee 22434xp 1]

This week’s pledge is to continue working on the 1/12th figurine I’m in the middle of.

 

• Have you kept your new years resolutions? – My resolution was to participate on every OTT event this year. I did something for dungeonalia, the spring clean challenge, and terrain fest.

[sundancer 42925xp 1]

Pledge: find something I want to do as a hobby project and do it.

@pagan8th  Start a local gaming group for teenagers? 😉

Pledge: prime and start painting my Battletech robot thingies!

@grantinvanman  good one. But until the Mercenaries KS arrives all my BT is already done! 8)

@danlee good on you for making your NYR happen

It’s Monday. Let’s see what the week holds besides work and coffee. Also I need to go back to building broch!

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@sundancer it was the BT CGL Oh Noes! thread that got me into BT again ironically 🤣

I now have three box sets of rules, three hardcover books, one more on the way (Postal strike in Canada – day 4!). So the minis from the three boxes are the ones I’m going to be painting.

Luckily I airbrush all my primers, as the warmest fall month in history changed overnight to this:

And it will now be -15c lows to -5c highs. Winter has come.

[sundancer 42925xp 2]

Oh noes! FFG is distributing again? XD

[pagan8thParticipant 10747xp 2]

@sundancer you don’t know me well… a grumpy 60 year old teaching annoying teenagers how to game! Not a chance.

[limburger 21679xp 0]

@pagan8th at least you can’t say there’s a lack of ideas on what to do for hobby 😉

I’ve been thinking of getting my nephews and niece to do some kind of tabletop game or hobby, but I’m not sure there’s anything that is practical as it would need to be travel-sized.

Maybe I can turn the tables (ha!) and invite them over next year so the transport bit is no longer a requirement.
But then I hit that other snag of having to provide food for more than myself (and I’m not really a fan of social gatherings).

It doesn’t help that I can’t find a way to focus on a single project without going *squirrel* …
Heck, me moving to my new place has been slow for pretty much the same reason.

Pardon me for ranting/rambling 😀

If all is well I may get my hands on some Kromlech terrain to build and paint tomorrow. Not sure if I can stop that project from stalling, but I will try my best. Maybe starting a project on OTT is useful for that?

(I probably need some kind of project system to track all my ideas … but that’s a different idea)

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@pagan8th I hear you.

Sad thing is: I’m a member of a gaming club for ages now. Initially it was founded as a “club for the younger ones”. With a suggested upper age limit of 25. Needless to say the average age is something around 30 – 35 these days because no new blood is coming in. Or little to none. The last “large influx” was when Star Wars Legion became a thing.

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Referring back to a previous ‘unofficial weekender’ where I said my RPG campaign was going badly…

I’m taking a break and someone else going to run things for a while.

My ‘inner GM’ is going to a remote location to relax for a bit and revitalise himself. My body is staying where it is.

Biggest struggle for me as a player is being one character… I’m usually a universe full of characters.

[limburger 21679xp 1]

Attracting new gamers to a club is a lot of work … and I suspect it’s the one thing most clubs kind of ignore.
The ones tied to schools tend to be lucky as they can get free advertising and exposure to outsiders with very little effort.

It takes a specific type of personality to do this and those tend to be very rare as a lot of us may not be the most socially gifted.

Anyways …

Hobby talk now.
I gotz my Kromlech buildings. Instructions appear to be on-line only, but … the few I’ve seen were pretty easy to understand.
The timber framework is a separate sprue, which makes me think that painting that first will make the building look good with minimal effort.  Starting a project and documenting the experiment is a thing that needs doing. The quality of the terrain projects I’ve seen is scarily good,  so I find myself having doubts on that part.

Tonight is UHH (right ?) so not a lot of hobby is going to get done.

I think there’s a Gerry can on mdf kits … and there’s Mel’s terrain book, which is bound to have a few clues.
The latter is somewhere in storage I think, so I may have to rely on the wisdom of the squirrel lord instead.

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*rolls out of bed and begins the party*

Pledge: keep working on the Greeks

Last week was good and got the pledge done. Now, horses are my bugbear. It’s all easy when muscles are defined. Meh, time for cake.

 

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