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

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hey @all, quick responses only – apologies have been nursing an uncooperative headache all day… X-P

@mage heh, the Tau joke made me laugh. Although to be honest that is one of the things that always perplexed me about most 40k armies – whats the point of all the deadly weaponry if you just end up charging across the battlefield and clubbing your opponent anyhow? … Glad some of your loot arrived in the post. Hope the lack of spray paint wasn’t too much of a roadblock to getting stuff progressed for you.

@oriskany campaign map looks great! Looking at it I can practically smell the cigarette stubs and taste the bitter black coffee for the authentic General’s command post experience 😉 Hope you get some sleep soon and haven’t had to go driving or anything. You catching any residual from Florence? Those darkstar vessels look outstanding! Really great work on them.

@dawfydd No fun – Hope you get a break soon, and hope you are at least feeling a little better. Hadn’t thought of the use of Primaris as ‘true scale’ marines, that is a clever idea. As I’m doing Kill Teams to mess about with the 3rd Armageddon war I might save the primaris for one of the chapters that didn’t fight there. Dark Angels maybe? Might just be a nice opportunity to paint something in a different colour.

@woldenspoons heh yes you would end up filing them into nothingness – they are like that the whole way through. Glad the issue is resolved now anyhow. Helter Skelter is my favourite Beatles track – well played 🙂 Am with you on the trench/siege rules for 40k. Of course if both you and your opponent were keen you can always home brew things if you want to up the ‘realism’ level a little.

@sundancer are you considering any weathering or grime to break up the grey on the tower? Or some panel lines or similar perhaps? Nice progress on the rebels.

@elessar2590 I wish I’d known about Sabaton when doing history in high school – it probably would have kept me much more engaged…

@irishsteve 13 years in Korea – awesome! My GF was there for a year teaching english in a hagwan (sp?) near Gangbuk i think it was?… I got to visit for a couple of weeks, amazing place. Hope you can find somewhere locally that does decent Korean food to ease the transition 🙂

@sundancer @mage having seen @oriskany finish off his LRDG I am contemplating an Ork equivalent for my main project next month – the ‘Long range Dakka Group’. Rest assured, we can rescue the whimsical and chaotic greenskins of old from their grimdark future descendents… 🙂

Well a local online retailer had a sale on so looks like I have more historical mins inbound to add to the pile of shame. (my rule about discounted historicals is buy first, work out what to do with them later…). Some ACW and AWI stuff (Perry miniatures) to set aside for the GF to give me for my birthday, plus some more Napoleonics bits and pieces (a mix of Perry and Warlord). I really need to learn to paint faster ;-P