What!?! What heresy is this “Heresy Free?”. Its like going to a coffee house and ordering a double half-caff decaf with a twist of lemon (LA Story). I gotta wonder about this but I’ll toss on my two cents.

1. Artwork that inspired me to buy stuff.. I’d say a pinup fan art piece for the Tau. The figure was done a few times as a scratch build and I was going to try my hand at it before I saw that there was a company that actually had it for sale in their Greater Good section.
2. I am a painting Collector as I’m not engaged with regular games. I seem to get through my Horde of Shame slowly. I say that as I am more apt to paint to high tabletop standards for others who do play. Others are happy, pay me for the work and I lament my clumsy hands when comparing them to the work of world renowned competitors.
3. A House rule for Lunch Money, a card game of playing as children on the playground beating each other for the eponymous lunch money, is to describe your attacks as vividly as possible when playing cards and insulting your opponents in similar childish fashion. You quickly find out who has the sharpest tongues among your friends.
Mixed bag on work but its good by me. I’ve got a three day weekend and just got paid. The downside is that work is likely not going to be doing anything for the next two weeks as there’re issues with mining permits where I am. No renewals means no mining that, in turn, means no need for explosives. So, its likely going to be turning into a trip for me to go on a 10 hr trip north to the middle of nowhere North Dakota for time at a camp. Honestly I’d rather take the time to hobby the hell out of it and punch out more on my painting goals for the year and replay Fallout New Vegas that I picked back up.
Ok, enough of that real life stuff.. hobby time. I’ve gotten my Bloodbowl team primed and I’m waiting for it to cure. I’ve also pulled out some of my project boxes for the painting goals that I know I can show as the display bases are built and awaiting paint. I’m glad for the Spring Clean completion and getting my new place. I’ll be picking up a second DETOLF from IKEA tomorrow with all the things I’ve got planned to show. Eventhough I’m now only hit and miss with posts, until I get a full computer set up, I’m happy to check in on you all.
@sundancer Hold fast and keep a pun in the oven while I’m out. Underdone humor is a sad thing though sometimes raw is exactly what is needed.
@mage make sure to keep an eye on that guy. He’s rather tricksy
@evilstu Where are you Scooby Doo?

1. Art is really cool and I like it, I’ve got a real soft spot for the 40K Imperial Guard. I also base almost all my 3D Terrain on artwork for example this Siege Tower from an Osprey Book which you can get for free Here

2. I’m a bit of everything but I really enjoy the research/fluff and collecting part of the Hobby. All my armies have a few thousand words of fluff about them, my Space Marines have a Parent Chapter, a Traitor Segment of that Successor Chapter, motivation and they’re in the same system as my Imperial Guard Regiment which is also custom. I like to play campaigns especially Sharp Practice Campaigns and LOTR Battle Companies.

3. I would like to implement Side Plots into pick up points match games like 40K. These are from Muskets and Tomahawks and include thing like “Truce” where your two sides are technically in a truce and you get some VP’s if the Opponent opens the hostilities or Martyrdom where your Leader has to die in Combat.

Pledge
Still haven’t broken my painting block so that is on the agenda.  Also one of my sister is a Star Trek nerd, she found two Spaceship kits she bought years and years ago, and some Citadel ninjas and Dwarfs.  If she brings them down to me, I’ll probably do some work on the Star Trek kits.  I get to keep the models if I paint and build the kits!

Questions
1. It is paintings like this that have got me interested in collecting Napoleonics. I could go on for hours and hours about artworks that have inspired me to buy stuff or collect, whether it be the artwork on a box of soldiers, rulebook etc.

2. At the moment, I would describe myself as a builder, collector and thinker.  When i was a teenager it was mostly gaming, every Friday and Saturday nights and loads of massive games during the holidays.  Now I am mostly building models and terrain, and thinking about history and games.  Need to start putting paint onto minis and getting some games in.  At the moment, my favourite aspect of the hobby is coming up with ideas for terrain and how to use everyday items to make it.

3. To go completely off topic, I’d love for referees properly enforce the offside law in Rugby Union.  In the Northern Hemisphere, it is ruining the game as defences are coming too dominant and a lot of it comes from teams continuously being offside.

Regarding the most famous heresy in the hobby… It wasn’t a heresy, it was just bad parenting.  Magnus did nothing wrong.

@robert those are Rubicon 25mm Bases, one side is lots of small dimples and the other is fewer larger dimples. Apparently they help basing material grip the surface. They’re very cheap, I’ve got hundreds of them just from needing to spend an extra $5 to get free shipping 🙂

@elessar2590 Perhaps I have been doing basing wrong all these years as I have never needed anything to help grip basing material!  The hubris that comes out of Rubicon is off putting at times, but they do make fantastic kits.  They aren’t as bad as Shieldwolf for it though.

@tuffyears tune \m/

@mage you speeled “jeerbs” wrong 😉