Cult Of Games XLBS: Avoiding The Burnout; Other Adjacent Hobbies To Enjoy!
September 25, 2022 by warzan
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It’s the XLBS Show…………….Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
If that had been me @johnlyons I’d have been going off the deep-end insisting on the workmen returning a LOT SOONER! My God, your family is very patient!
All this talk of ‘Kings of War’ has me tempted to get out my Elven Army from Mantic. So many units are still in the Plastic Cases and have not been touched yet. I even bought Ogres to beef them up.
do it, Ambush is a great chance to force other…I mean introduce people to the game
As far as @avernos helping others find minis that they are wondering where to find………..he has helped me on more than one occasion. Thank you very much, kind Sir.
I’m a big fan of the Speedpaints. They work really well, mix well and don’t tear the way the Contrast paints can.
I think Ben needs to keep that colour scheme because it takes.him out of his comfort zone of grim dark. I think it’s a good thing to step out if your comfort zone every now and again. It’s a good way to improve your painting skills as well.
Thoroughly enjoyable show this morning, it’s inspired me for my day!
I don’t particularly have an adjacent hobby, I tend to need a few different projects in the hobby to rotate around, but it has challenged me to think about whether I could explore other things. I binge the odd video game occasionally as an alternative to hobby, but that’s not really adjacent manual skills…but it does inspire the hobby in terms of how to bring the video games to the table.
I need to go find some woods to walk in and have a ponder!
squirrels?
Badgers, now that’s the question.
Didn’t encounter any squirrels, but I did go for that walk, and I thought about my (temporarily) empty painting desk and decided to enjoy the silence for a few days before opening the next box of models. It’s quite zen looking at a desk of potential for a change rather than a desk of carnage! Reading some rules, plotting a campaign, without half done models staring back at me is quite refreshing!
I used to paint pictures but I don’t have the time or insensitive these days. I like to break up the hobby by just adding variety. If I have 30 rank and file prussians I’ll paint ten then paint a couple of slaine or stargrave minis. I’ll then paint another ten but if I want a change I do scenery which can be very different to the minis
I have one secondary hobby next to wargaming, and that’s simulators on the PC.
Mostly it’s flight simulation, with DCS (Digital Combat Simulator), which is insanely in-depth. Every switch, button, handle, and knob in the cockpit is simulated to be as close to the real deal as possible. Very difficult and challenging, but also very rewarding when it finally clicks in your head.
Also sometimes I like it a bit more relaxing and drive trains. Train Simulator, or the newer version Train Sim World, is not as detailed, but definitely will give you a challenge.
Hi XLBSers an the crew.
Yay peat monster’s.
Happy Someday…. 8)
00:05 So @brennon would you mind to elaborate on that a) what that means and b) how do you know about that XD
00:23 Sappy Hunday
01:05 What’s a PT?
01:35 “Gym”? oO
04:30 Guuuuys….. is this still all hobby related? XD
06:40 21 years? oO
10:45 BATTLEREPORT!
11:11 Earth, wind and fire! MANOWAR!
15:15 @warzan unless you had Chilli you’re no flame elemental!
30:00 English pirates? Thieves! 8)
31:00 @avernos is painting British, French and Jack Sparrow
34:00 what is it with minis coming with separate fingers lately? oO
39:30 Just get any paint you can get your hands on @warzan The best paint is the one you have at hand.
47:30 Slap! Chop!
49:45 The community is up to no good… as is tradition
57:45 Stoned Mooners
58:00 Lobstermooch? oO
58:50 All flesh must be eaten!
1:01:45 John goes LotR? whaaat
1:03:45 Gunpla is great… and can be a heck of a deep rabbit hole…
1:09:30 That red Mohawk looks… odd… maybe to red?
1:12:00 Nobody here is a cunt…. we’re all nice people.
1:18:45 Outside? Remain Indoors! Bright evil daystar!
1:25:15 Was it the misty mountain @brennon
1:28:00 Hobby by proxy!
1:29:00 So when you say you go watching the footy to get away from the hobby… and at the same time we do the uHH… does that then become “Schrödingers Hobby”? @avernos
So, other hobbies I do… a little bit of scale modelling but I guess that’s about it. Though I do use some materials and tools for different things in the house. Two part epoxy for little puddles and ponds but also to glue things back together. And, similar to Gerry, I neither have space, time or money to fit something else. “At capacity” is the term.
Have a nice Sunday all.
@sundancer PT is personal trainer
Ah thanks. That makes sense.
What about painting the metals in coppery colours Ben.
Happy Sunday.
Three more golden button winners which I’m going to follow, amazing work.
Brilliant work on the Gundam John.
Aww shucks, Cheers guys for the kind words.
As far as other hobbies go, I play computer games and have about 30 hobbies within our hobby.
Building
Collecting
Painting
different kinds of the above.
3d sculpting / drawing
3d printing
CAD in general
laser cutting
scenery making
narrative building
photography
savaging basing supplies (outdoor walks)
project management
reading
list building
You could go on and on and on and… all that’s without changing the genre which means you change up fully what’s you’re doing.
There are infinite hobby adjacent things to move onto.
So Gerry is the Ice age squirrel?.
A Great show guy’s.
I often burn out, really often. Partly it’s time and energy, partly it is that this hobby can be a grind. In the early stage of burnout I’ll do terrain, as it’s a bit more forgiving on my sloppy brush work. Later I’ll then daydream new armies or projects – and I’m getting better at leaving them in the shops. There’s watching football and cricket but that’s very unrelated to the hobby unless I see some beautifully weathered surface somewhere.
Currently I’m back on a bit of a roll. I’ve stalled the Silver Bayonet (Napoleonics are hard, who knew?) and am finishing off some game-agnostic sci-fi miniatures that have been floating around forever. These are a nice break as there’s no batch painting, just a lot of individuals.
It’s also quite fun buying this game-agnostic miniatures. I had 45 tabs of ebay search for “mutant” open earlier. Enjoyed looking at them before closing them all thinking “nah just get some Plague Zombies painted and use them”.
Typing this out it dawns on me I should mix terrain in more often. Related but easier on the eyes, and it’s not like I’m short of kits to bash or assemble, and paint. BRB
Happy Sunday
Hope all are having a good one. I know my sunday is looking up. going to watch the Greatest Movie ever Made.
Incredible show, hearing about the side hobbies actually had my mind wandering as I did a little bit of this over the last 2 yeard without even realising its why I did it.. Until today
I also explored RC and love it (reminds me I need to finish my second buggy)
Gunpla is something ive been curious about for a while but never done, I do have a Neon Genesis kit I brought around 12 months ago but I havent opened it…. yet.
HAPPY SUNDAY, brill show lads, love the last topic of using skill learnt outside of the hobby, having grand kids i find myself building stuff with for there toy trucks, dino toys to play on and well the old skills take over and nothing better then your grand kids saying “wow granddad that’s great”, and then watch them proceed to wreck it during in play the little B……, lol
Awww thanks for the Golden Button!
The bases were based on the final level from Golden Axe II on the mega drive ?
Its Tuesday night and just turning 22:45, and i
ve just finished watching Sundays XLBS. Great show as always guys.So far this year i have had four hobby burnouts, i start out with lots of get up and go that with in days turns into i can not be arsed. I then spend anywhere from a few weeks to sometimes months looking for a reason to get back into the hobby, then out of the blue i
m picking up a mini and either finish making it or painting it (i so hate painting these days). So lately i have been thinking about leaving the hobby, just getting rid of the lot, but then i look in a mirror and think fecking do one you asshole. Back in the day i used to do a lot of converting, so im now going to go back to that and leave army building alone until i feel the urge again.For me converting was always what i loved doing, not on an army scale more dioramas. So i
m going to spend the rest of this year looking at what i have in unmade kits, and make a list and take it from there. So keep an eye out, as i may even surprise myself and start a project at the start of the new year. So for now its time to sleep, and dream of electric sheep 🙂@warzan my experience of Speed Paints vs contrast is that I prefer the speed paints. That’s not because contrast paints are bad – they’re not and they do have some advantages over speed paints. But I switched to army painter speed paints because I was frustrated that, at the time, by the low pigmentation in certain colours meaning I couldn’t get nice, intense coverage of some shades and speed paints allowed me to do that. I am lead to believe the extended range of contrast paints fixes that but I can’t justify spending money on a load of contrast paints now when I have a full range of speed paints. Here’s my summary of the differences – I am sure that all of the “cons” with both ranges can be mitigated.
Contrast Paints – Pros: Larger colour range meaning you don’t need to worry so much about mixing. Don’t reactivate after they have dried.
Contrast Paints – Cons: Inconsistent coverage, some paints have low pigment content, some have super high pigment content. There’s no way to tell before you use them and even then, you just have to remember which ones are which. More expensive than speed paint and they have the stupid, tall and unstable flip pots so if you are a bit clumsy, expect to spill lots of this stuff.
Speed Paints – Pros: Strong pigment with really good coverage. Can be thinned to reduce the colour intensity. Uses dropper bottles, which are perfect for highly fluid paints like washes and contrasts
Speed Paints – Cons: Colour Palette is not as extensive as Contrast Paints. They can (and do) reactivate after they are dry. You can get away with light drybrushing but for anything else, you need to seal it before doing anything on top of them (you also need to clean them out of your palette if you want to reuse it or residual paint will mix with the contrast paint