A quick post for my pledge: finish my Chaos Knights. I am so close. Literally touch up the metal on them and do their bases. Sooooo close. Also update and total previous weekenders I did…

@dawfydd thnks for taking the reigns this weekend.

Well looks like another weekend without being able to make a pledge…. Matty isn’t here for the weekend, he’s gone to his Nans to help her take her old shed down and do some other chores for her. So without my erstwhile Gaming Buddy i’m a bit stuck.

I’ll have a nose round see if I have any outstanding stuff to paint up otherwise no hobby for me 🙁

Anyhoo on to the questions:

1) Errrm nothing. Well unless I can find something I can do solo.

2) The Empire Strikes Back… well any of the original Trilogy will do really.

3) Mmm not really able to answer this as If I like a faction I tend to collect it. However there is a game that I have been wanting to get into for ages after seeing a few things posted on here by @mage and thats the Batman Miniatures Game. Trouble is everytime I get close to being able to buy it something crops up that eats into my financial resources.

4) i’m pretty good thanks for asking… a little bit tired and irritable with the heat, but i’m guessing were all in the same boat in that respect.

Right off to dig through my Bits Box see if I can find something to do….

@dawfydd I agree with you mate but i’ve been on the hobby weekender since the first one, so I’ve pretty much done something every week for three years, now it feels really wierd to miss three weekends in a row. Sort of like that feeling you get when you know yoou have to do something but can’t remeber what it is. Hellfire mate if this keeps up i’m going to have to start watching Netflix with the wife…. and not the good stuff either…. Romantic weepy type films…. 😀

I checked my bits box and theres just bits, nothing really usefull for what I want to do.

Nah the original Trilogy are classics. I think they lost the plot a bit with the other five films in the series. Waaaaaay back when I was a youngling, before Star Wars became “A New Hope” there was supposed to be nine films but they were all going to be about Luke Skywalker, in fact the books were subtitled “from the Adventures of Luke Skywalker” so I am a bit disappointed with the way things have gone since Return of the Jedi.

Yeah I know what you mean, Shipping can be as much or sometimes more than the Items you buy sometimes. I was in the same boat when Wild West Exodus was done by Outlaw Miniatures in America. Very few places stocked it in the UK and even less stocked the whole range so if I wanted a particular Mini I would have to wait for ages until I wanted enough to make the shipping worth while… and then you have to wait for ages for the flippin things to arrive and then on bigger orders wait for customs to pull their finger out.

@dawfydd Nah mate, I wear the trousers in our household… the wife says I can…

Love what you’ve done with the Space Wolves mate. A couple of things really set them off for me. The graduation on the Lightning Claws is excellent, and the skin tones. The highlighting on the faces looks a little subdued which gives them a very natural, more realistic look. What can I say other than excellent work.

Better late than never! Ok, so I got up after lunch time yesterday after work. After playing some pokemon go, visiting my cousin, and heading to a 40th last night my Saturday was all booked up. I’ve been playing Pokemon Go a lot today too. It is so much fun.

I will be doing a little hobby now, then off to the gym and pool. Tonight is hobby night with a couple of mates too. For now I sprayed some Servitors, a Middle Earth Dragon, my KoB Scouts, and some LOTR Hardrim Abrakhan Guard. Ill do a little work on my chaos knights a tiny bit later with pics to follow soon after.

Onto the glorious questions!

And also, before I forget, many thanks and much appreciation toward @dawfydd for running this thread! Woooo!!!!!

1. Pokemon go, outside of my pldge of Chaos Knights. I evolved a Golem, Gengar, Aggron and Gyarados in the last few days. They are powerful, and took a while to get. Im doing some research quests to go after a legendary type and hoping to catch a Regice after two failed attempts capturing it after successful raids. Id also like to play d and d Tuesday and get some Pokemon monopoly Id like to play too.

2. Rick and Morty for when I feel I need a laugh, Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the guys for a good atmosphere, and Community for when I feel low, sad and apathetic. As for movies I do not watch them so much for background noise anymore, I guess tv shows are easier to digest. Big tolkien fan @dawfydd ?

3. Regarding Games, Kingdom Death. Im going to be mean this year and treat myself to it this year at Black Friday with my Christmas club and get less presents for people on the periphery of my family and friendship circles. As for a proper mini game, which @dawfydd the 40k player suggests, haha, kididng, I would say Daughters of Khaine or Kharadron Overlords for Age of Sigmar.

Haven’t gotten around to them due to time and money but they are defo on the to do list. Its just they are so unique and more creative than the generic fantasy and tolkienesque rip off armies they did a few years ago. Evil, elven chicks backed up by medusa ladies, all in the name of a dead god of murder and hating chaos? Dwarven steam punk sky pirates with odd codes of honour and conduct? Sign me up for both twice.

I 100% agree with you on the updated aesthetics with the Necrontyr and Dark Eldar. They really hit the ball out of the park when they do something kind of new and not derivative with their own creative teams.

4. I am great. Lots going on and to do, off for a few days but a tad broke haha. Hitting the gym to do some lifting soon and possinly the gym to cool off after. Looking at bulking up and losing weight (mainly the belly) and shaved my beard off with the heat. Life is good.

@a27cromwell Good to see you on the thread! 🙂

you wouldn’t mind making more paragraphs out of your post? Its hard to read a huge wall of text, no offence.

@biggabum Maybe google solo play games? Id recommend downloading Shovel Knight on xbox or playstation and having a go. Good old retro fun. Not a tabletop game but a good laugh.

Empire Strikes back is always good. BMG is sooooo good. I stay indoors or go to the pool in this weather. It is better for mankind, or an Inrcedible Hulk shall be created. RAAAAAGE! Hahaha.

@dawfydd Ill do my best to go back, it doesen’t help my street cred if I don’t, haha. Pics of the Knights shortly. They are 95% done.

More feedback later gents, the Iron calls to me…

@dawfydd I shall have to get me a bottle of that Aggrax Earthshade, I’ve never used it before. I usually use a dedicated skin wash but find the results too dark (or red in some cases). Do you water it down or use it neat?

@mage good idea. I’ll have a look for Shovel Knight I love Retro games (Manic Miner yay). Some of them are a lot harder than much of the modern fare, which to an owd fart like me seem to focus on visuals rather than playability.

Unfortunately I try to avoid water since an Eskimo tried to harpoon me while I was doing the backstroke…….