Reply To: Hobby Weekender 24/08/2018

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@mage 10 points for first post 🙂

Wow, both of those Luna Wolves projects are fantastic, thanks for sharing. As is that dark Elves one you stumbled across in your travels 😉 yes there are a large number of projects on-going, I had a go at trying to keep up with them but I think due to the volume of work being undertaken it might be better to treat it as a resource and just search for key topics that might be of interest. Are you considering doing a project log for your 4 player game setup? Might be a nice way to show off your AoS forces.

A nice selection of songs and like the timeline idea 🙂 yes Metallica’s ‘Black’ album was one of the first CD’s I owned (however I am old enough to have had cassettes and records prior to that…). Odd thought – why is it every band pretty much get’s judged on the strength of their last album whereas Metallica are forever judges on the basis of everything they released in the 1980’s? Anyhow…

So your best hobby advice was stepped through, detailed painting guides but then you had the patience and perseverance to practice the techniques demonstrated? Nice to hear you were getting minis to line up to White Dwarf standards – I was usually Ok for the priming and basecoating steps and then there was almost a ‘magic happens’ step and suddenly the final shot was something unattainable. or at least so I thought at the time… I remember reading in one of the articles that Victoria Lamb painted red colours in seventeen separate stages. Back then it sounded insane and almost nonsensical. Nowadays it seems perfectly reasonable to me for a display piece.

Pledge sounds good, nice, and hopefully, achievable 🙂 Do you find much of an issue switching between the 25mm LoTR minis and the ‘Heroic’ 28’s for AoS? Just asking because I find myself getting frustrated when stepping down a scale that I can’t cram the same amount of detail into the mini as I usually can. Wondered if it was just me?

Is theLoTR stuff for a tournament, social gaming or just a hobby project for the time being? Where are you thinking of taking it as far as size is concerned?

Can’t say I have ever watched Pocahontas, or most Disney movies for that matter (well I guess since they bought Lucasfilm and Marvel that’s not technically true anymore…). Outside of the Pixar films or the recent comic/sci-fi acquisitions I honestly couldn’t tell you the last disney film I watched. Possibly The Black Hole?… Yeah, showing my vintage there… But then I don’t have little ones to look after. My understanding is that as part of children’s cognitive development they are pre programmed to rewatch something 50 times in a row. Good fir Disney DVD sales I guess but it must become somewhat maddening for the parents hearing those songs on a continual loop…

Well, that 1d4chan thing was a little on the grimdark side of grimdark 😛 Here’s something to brighten things up a little…

Hrm… Not sure if that helped or made things worse…

30 points for question responses, another 30 for tunes and 20 for assorted bits and pieces plus pledge. 90 points all told.