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

[horati0nosebl0wer 19649xp 2]

Late, but at last getting to posting before work

How do you deal with a cold or flu?

A cold or flu gets the basic treatment of being burned out using habanero sauce, drinking lots of tea and sleeping as much as possible.

Can you hobby when you feel run down?

Feeling run down? Yes, that can impair hobby and make for slow painting. Then, once one piece is worked on to a tabletop level or something similar, it proves you can get there and keep going.

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

The entertainment industry of the 80s was a great place to start with the “Anything goes!” attitude which fuels today. Look at Kung Fury as an example of what kind of lasting effect there is. In general I think it was good for what has been put out in film history with the help of Troma Studios.

Name a tv show you liked when you were younger or a child

A tv show that I loved as a kid was Battletech (the original Macross Saga). I really enjoyed the robots and the level of drawing that was, for my experience, way beyond what I’d seen before. It gave me a larger gateway to enjoy anime later on in life. I’ve since returned to the series and been able to enjoy the first story arc but was iffy on the second and not interested in the following one.

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

I’d say its a split between LEGOs and G.I. Jow having influenced me in the hobby. I’ve loved the ability to build and create things that have no basis on a specific plan to achieve a thing that I look for. This is my source of continued exercise in base creation where most anything can be analysed and looked at for potential for building something. G.I. Joe would be the other as a sense of heroic proportion to things or dynamic elements is what I want to be reflected in my minis. If there is a sense of larger than life play that catches my childlike wonder I am onboard.

As far as being slow to hobby I’ve been packing and dragging my feet to finally get around to slapping paint on a friend’s Eldar Epic army. I had to wrap my head around the fact that eventhough the figures are in 28mm scale they really are meant to be played at a 6mm scale. It has definitely changed my painting from being overly involved with trying to detail myself to death on these things.