Reply To: Hobby Weekender 7/09/2018 – A Hobby Weekender is Never Late

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Hey look! Classic rock tracks from back when pubs used to play live music! /shakes head in disgust at the current state of affairs… 😛

@elessar2590 thanks for hosting this week. and a big thanks to @woldenspoons for hosting us last week 🙂

First up, questions..

1) How important is pose-ability and variations in your minis? Are you happy to have a “Clone” army or do you prefer mixing it up a bit?

Really depends on the game system and the size of the army. I prefer some poseability as a general rule – I don’t want to buy a box set of ‘dynamic’ posed single piece sculpts that look the same as everybody else’s, but at the other extreme I don’t want to be gluing together 7 to 10 pieces a mini if I am doing a large scale project. So I guess for smaller ‘skirmish’ sized or styled games then I’d look for poseability and scope for customisation to make each mini more of an individual. Once the piece start count ramps up a little though… Let’s just say I wouldn’t consider Napoleonics if Warlord and Perry didn’t have 3 part minis (body/backpack/head). Having said that, the Perry and Warlord minis have enough variety in their stances (even when sculpted ‘at the march’) so that they don’t look too same-y. Not sure how I would go if they were all identically cast.

However, I will admit that having to go through this process for a single 35mm mini did break me:

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2) Do you have a single Miniature or Group of Miniatures that you look at and say “Wow that is the best thing I’ve ever painted/converted/??? Why and if you can please share them with us.

I have a couple of minis that I spent some time on last year which I would consider to be my current ‘benchmark’ but I know I could do better if I took my time. I do have some nice mnis stashed away for a rainy day (or month…)which I will look to tacking when I’m bored of batch painting high volumes of wargaming minis. First one is a Reaper Bones frost giant – I wanted to play with detailing leatherwork and also had a bit of a go at NMM and black and white on the beard and furs. didn’t really spend too much time on the skin tone (I think it was a basecoat and a single thin highlight?) but it still turned out looking OK given there were other details to focus on.

And this guy was a Confrontation lini that I wanted to use as a Necromancer on my (now stalled) Kings of War undead army. He was quite good fun to paint 🙂

3) Are you a Hobby Butterfly or do you tend to find a game system and stick to it? How many Game Systems is too many?

Given It’s a family thread I will politely describe myself as ‘promiscuous’ with regard to hobby 🙂 I’ll happily jump into projects, dabble for a bit, park them and then come back to them years later. I think you would have to have a very specific mindset to play the one thing continuously without it becoming ‘stale’. How many games systems is too many? If there were such a thing it would probably be when each game was no longer unique – as in each game was just a mash-up of elements of other games. From a personal perspective, I guess if I was buying games and never getting around to unboxing them or reading the rules then I’d probably take that as an indication that it might be time to start unwinding the procurement a little… 🙂

Pledges this week will be to paint up a test Ork and to mess about with green stuff to see if I can convert vanilla space marines to look lies Salamanders. Likely to be other stuff I might get to but not going to overcommit this weekend 🙂

And tunes: