[unofficial weekender] February … yes?

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

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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…

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

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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Questions:

• Have you ever quit the hobby for a certain time?
• If yes: what was the main reason?
• If no: did it cross your mind to leave the hobby and for what reasons?

Discuss!

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

Pledge: none

• yes
• a combination of no time, no money and no space. and then I lost interest… until X-Wing and SW:L came along
• n/a

Huzzah!

[commodorerob 11076xp 0]

Well it’s been a while

My pledge.. to continue with painting my 15mm late Imperial Roman Army..that’s easy

1. Yes

2. I went to uni

3. n/a

 

 

 

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

Uni…. destroyer of social life 😉

[limburger 21668xp 0]

weekend already ?
time flies when you’re having fun … so *eh* I must have had fun, right ?

• Have you ever quit the hobby for a certain time?
• If yes: what was the main reason?
• If no: did it cross your mind to leave the hobby and for what reasons?

hmm … I’d say the hobby quit me instead of me quitting the hobby.
A few shops that I used to visit suddenly dissappeared … which basically meant I lost access to almost anything hobby-related.
And because this was pre-internet (White Dwarf had literal mail order section) there was no way of knowing where to go.
When a local (game) convention got started I was pretty much back in again. It’s also that very same convention that had Flames of War … which would one day make me find a youtube video by Beasts of War called ‘Flames of War : for the win’ and I’ve never looked back.

The only real change in my hobby is that I used to collect a ton of RPG material (D&D, Cyberpunk2020 and World of Darkness). These days it’s shifted towards collecting wargames and armies.

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 0]

I will try and do more work on my bannerman, but it might have to wait for a week. Got a few things coming up before Reading Week that need working on… But we’ll see what happens.

Have you ever quit the hobby for a certain time?

I’m sort of always on the verge of this. I live in the arse end of nowhere with no gaming clubs all that close, my brothers moved out years ago (I really need to do the same thing as soon as I can afford it…), everything is expensive, particularly GW stuff…which is most of what I collect/paint/play, and I quite often have long periods of time where I am just disinterested in most things. The Event hasn’t helped much with that… 😛

If yes: what was the main reason?

See above. But mainly the primary reason for considering getting out of a particular game is usually the cost…such as GW literally pricing me out of their games a lot of the time. I usually have very modest infantry based armies with few of the heavy hitters and you just get stomped by anyone who has built the army perfectly for the current meta…

If no: did it cross your mind to leave the hobby and for what reasons?

I thought about dropping it during uni, but to be honest this year it became something I can actually share with people like through the projects log here which counts as social interaction at the moment! 😛

[danlee 22433xp 1]

This week’s pledge is to do another unit of Dweghom. I finished last week’s unit but they’re identical to another unit I already painted so didn’t see the point in photographing them.

 

1. Have you ever quit the hobby for a certain time? – I lost interest while I was in college.
2. If yes: what was the main reason? – Mainly because my circle of friends at the time lost interest.
3. If no: did it cross your mind to leave the hobby and for what reasons? – N/A

[limburger 21668xp 0]

ooh… if all goes according to plan I will have an airbrush+stuff today 😀

Time to see if this old dog can learn new tricks.

Re-watching this in advance :

Tips For Using Your New Airbrush

And because we now know that @sundancer loves his sea shanties :

sorry … not sorry 😉

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

HUMBUG!

edit: also @limburger don’t spray at your hand. It’s potentially dangerous because air could get trapped under your skin.

[limburger 21668xp 0]

@sundancer you’re kidding right ?

The package has arrived, which made it a ‘next day delivery’. Kind of cool given that they warned about possible delays and a tracking mail that said it was going to be delivered before I had ordered it.

First impression : the compressor is pretty fast at filling. Less than a minute from nothing to fully loaded.
Getting it up and running was easy. All I had to do is connect the hose (that came with it) and the airbrush (which I got as well).

I think I will do a testrun tomorrow once I get everything where I need it to be.

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

Nope, not kidding. I can’t find the video on where it was explained what exactly can go wrong… it was a bit weird but plausible.

 

[limburger 21668xp 0]

I suspect it might happen with high pressure air, but not at the low pressure in an airbrush.

More airbrush tips for beginners :

I notice every video so far has people pull the trigger with their index finger.
I’ve tried that and I can’t do it. Might be because of an accident I had as a kid.
Using my thumb gives me more control.

[horati0nosebl0wer 19610xp 3]

Pledge: to keep a better eye on the thread and chip in more than just this once at the beginning. Preparing for a move and starting a new relationship seems to be getting at my free time.

I have put hobby time on hold in the past.

The main reason was that I wasn’t devoting time/space to pursuing it. I spent money in other directions and I was generally mobile and unable to keep a stable set-up for my tiny fighting men. I think that not having a mindset of just painting but of collecting was a problem. The lack of focus seems to also come in when I think about being without a game system that I could go out regularly and interact with people for games. I got back into the habit as I was the only one i my RPG gaming group that took the hobby seriously for tabletop play. Bare naked metal figures that were just older than I was seemed boring. Having real figures that represented monsters instead of dice/coins just worked so much better.

Since I’ve been under a rock lately here’s my banner progress for my current project

@commodorerob University… did some of that but I never finished my degree *shrug* life sends you in interesting directions. How could intense study get in the way of an occasional dice chucking session?

@limburger Tiny fighting men and lots of materiel. Just one step away from big stompy robots and too much tiny detail in Battletech.

I agree that the WoD material writing was awesome. VtM and Changeling were superb as gaming environments. I think I could have gotten into other systems if exposed earlier. Well, maybe not Werewolf, the story idea just didn’t catch me.

@crazyredcoat Well, thanks to the visit by Corona-chan we all get to hobby more. Eventhough you live in the middle of BFE you can build/paint all you need in order to stay(?) relatively sane. Enjoy the projects as we also get to follow along with your progress.

@danlee Continuation of work, good show. Keep at it and show off what you’ve got.

@sundancer I’m onboard with limburger on the low pressure use. I can see the possibility of high pressure injections occuring (my parents got their polio vaccines that way) but its unlikely as 12 psi (no idea for bar). If its a concern disposable gloves are an option. These are a good idea if you were to spray lacquer based varnishes for masses of troops to keep your gripping hand clean. The one on the airbrush is well behind the nozzle and will be ok.

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

I’m not taking risks with my airbrush…. plus: cleaning my hands after painting is a chore anyhow…

[doomriderParticipant 1411xp 0]

I quit the hobby for a while, maybe around two years, there was no particular reason other than I went through a phase where I lost interest. This was about 10 or 12 years ago.

Now that I’ve moved abroad I don’t play because I don’t know anyone who plays 🙁

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