Reply To: Hobby Weekender 02/11/2018 – Straight to Video Edition

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1.    What’s in your reading pile at the moment (podcasts totally count as reading in time-poor 2018 BTW)

Since Mr. Pratchett is dead, my Shadowrun and Star Wars collections being nearly completed I’m all out of books. So my reading pile is literally empty. Even with counting podcasts because I usually have them heard the day they are out.

2.    Prompted by the antics of @mage last week, have you ever considered an ‘iron hobby’ challenge where you set yourself a short deadline to churn out a lot of hobby output? If you were going to attempt one, what goals would you set yourself? What rules would you put in place?

I did so three times but not only I. There is a german hobby blog/magazine (a smaller more hobby version of Beasts of War) called Magabotato and they do a Paintathon.  Paintathon being a butchered word for painting marathon. The goal is to paint 42 miniatures in one month. 42 because a marathon is 42 km in length and the month is usually July. In 2017 I did some Chaos Space Marines. See all painting Stages here. In 2018 I went with old school Space Orks but since this year was so friggn hot painting was a lot less fun. See results here. Since a lot of participants had trouble with the heat we did a second paintathon in Orktober but I didn’t have a single project this time but kept to SW:L. Those results had bee seen here 😉 The only rule for the Paintathon is: have fun. 42 is a goal but not mandatory. Some stay below and other blow way past that because they are painting machines. Sample pictures of past Paintathons:

3.    Are bespoke miniatures your thing or do you prefer large quantities of homothetic plastic minis?

Could you rephrase that question please? I always thought that I’m quite good at English but I really can’t make any sense from that. Sorry.

Hobby Pledge

As stated in my Temple Ruins project I got a new set of Modular Dungeon parts so I’m thinking on “what to do” with it.