Reply To: Hobby Weekender 01/03 – Back to the 80s

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Happy Weekend everyone.

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After the house move, I have a few models that have lost an arm, or I have dropped so I have a bit of repair work to do.  Also a lot of my Kings of War Dwarfs have come off their unit base, so will get them stuck back on.  Plus more sorting out my massive pile of shame and the hobby shed.

Questions
(1) How do you deal with a cold or flu?

I know I am tempting fate here, but I have never had the flu (I did have atypical pneumonia once, which was horrible but anyway).  For a cold, rest, paracetamol (if I have a fever or headache) and hot drinks.

(2) Can you hobby when you feel run over?

Building or painting… not really.  Playing (not that I often do), no chance.  But perhaps reading a rulebook or history/fluff or researching a paint scheme or ordering more models I don’t need, then yes!

(3) Your opinion on the entertainment industry of the 1980s is…?

In terms of the music I like, massive heavy metal fan here, the 80s were perhaps the pinnacle of the movement.  Traditional bands like Maiden, Priest and Saxon were in their prime and then you had Thrash – Slayer, Metallica, Dark Angel etc. Death/Black Metal was just coming into the scene with bands like Morbid Angel and Bathory.  Plus AC/DC, GNR, Motley Crew and that sort of more Hard Rock stuff.  I would guess most of my favourite metal albums are from the 80s.

Movies,  you had Conan, Empire/Return of the Jedi, Rocky movies, Rambo, all the other Arnold and Sly action movies…basically all the movies I loved as a kid in the 80s and teenager in the 90s.

TV again it is The A-Team, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazard, Airwolf, The Fall Guy all shows I love or loved!

So in conclusion, I love the 80s 🙂

(4) Name a tv show you liked when you were younger or a child

See above!  I was also a big fan of Metal Mickey – though I don’t remember this as I would have been under 5 when it was on TV.  But parents, siblings, aunts and uncles tell me I was nuts about it.

(5) What toys or tv shows influenced you, directly or not, a little or a lot into this broad hobby?

For a TV show it was Thomas the Tank engine but trains in general.  I was majorly into trains before Warhammer.  Even as a 11 or 12 year old I loved watching Thomas and trying to work out how they built the scenery and all that stuff.  (I hate the CGI stuff now…) Trains have a big influence on how I make or do scenery.  Even making stuff now and painting, I would do things the same way my Dad did for trains.  It is only a matter of time before I start gluing cereal boxes together, weighing them down for months under encyclopedia’s (so they don’t warp while drying) to make “thick” card for buildings and platforms.  Also, if you have a building and you want to put curtains in it… Find an old catologue from Next or something, and cut your curtains out from that with what ever you find takes your liking!