Reply To: Hobby Weekender 15/03/2019 – The 2000's

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@Robert best of luck with the sorting. I know from recent experience how easy it is to get distracted when you find long-forgotten treasures in old shoe or postage boxes… Hrm don’t really know much about the Battle of Benburb but from a quick research it looks like it would make a great game of Pike & Shotte. One of the inherent dangers I find with Warlord Games is that they always have fantastic looking interesting themed army deals available with free global postage. So I’m going to make a point of trying not to look until I have a few more of my current projects knocked off 😉 Great tunes! 40 points for pledges and responses.

@woldenspoons I liked what I saw of Smallville, but I tended to be out the nights it was on so didn’t catch that much of it. Similar story with the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I suppose given the short number of episodes would be easy to track down and watch… WoW didn’t grab me personally ( I was entrenched in DDO…)  but a lot of my friends were really invested in it. Ah yes, Inquisitor. GW were really hitting some high notes in the early 2000’s (Mordheim, Inquisitor, Warmaster) but as in-store support for the games waned other companies stepped in to fill the gap in the gaming markets (skirmish, narrative or massed battles) and ended up carving out market share. Interesting to consider how different the strategy would have been (if at all?) had they known then what the now have visibility over… ha! Nakatomi Plaza for TWD would be awesome! Complete with magnetised and separable levels I’m assuming? 🙂 40 points for detailed responses on a phone 🙂

@blinky465 laser cutter and a 3DP? So you actually do have capacity to make any gaming table you desire 😛 Seriously, best of luck in getting the 3DP up and running. It is a rewarding and challenging process. Although given the skills you have shown off with previous projects hopefully shouldn’t be too onerous for you. Thingiverse is a great starting point for some practice models. After that I’d enthusiastically recommend Printable Scenery. For software I started off with slic3r then switched across to Cura, as Cura is less sensitive with regard to how the models slice (had backed a few KS’s where I couldn’t get the models to slice with slic3r). Not sure I can be much help but if you have any questions I’m happy to help out if and where I can 🙂 Had completely forgotten about the Batman reboot. Shame on me, those films were all great. Again, nice choice of tunes. Industrial is a solid choice for a tabletop – While I really like the aesthetic and hi-tech look of cyberpunk there is less scape to shoehorn it into as many gaming systems. And we’re all about replayability round here 🙂 40 points for pledge and detailed responses.

@mage look after yourself! best of luck progressing the Minotaurs, have fun having your son for the weekend and stay safe on the return journey 🙂 Will confess to not having read ASOIAF – sort of holding out to see if GRRM can finish the series. I’ve been burned too often with short investment comic book runs getting canned halfway through an interesting story arc to commit to something on that scale without knowing there is a meaningful conclusion at the end of it all. Trust me though, I’m waaaay too old to be a hipster 😉 Plus my current reading pile has blown out to embarrassing proportions. I really do need to get my eyes checked (I know I’m due for an upgrade in my prescription on my glasses – I get really fatigued reading at night so that’s a bit of a giveaway) so hopefully once I do that and clear the backlog in my book pile we’ll have closure on the ASOIAF series. Interesting point on the Two Towers since I’d imagine the WTC buildings were named or at least referred to that way as a hat tip to the books. I’ll join you in saying I enjoyed the prequels for what they were. Yep, they weren’t great masterpieces, the actors had no sets to refer to (mostly bluescreen) hence they obviously struggle with that hindrance in their acting, but my inner eight year old was doing cartwheels with 50 Jedi fighting in the arena of death or the Battle of Coruscant at the start of Episode 3 looking like a game of Wing Commander on sci-fi steroids. And Star Trek was a nice surprise too – a reboot with enough of a hat tip to the original to give it cred but definitely moving in it’s own direction. Dipped in and out of comics and manga during this decade so missed the ones you referenced. Who is this Deadpool gentleman to whom you refer? For I have not seen his likeness or name anywhere on the internet in the last few years… 😛 Sorry. Always makes me feel a little sorry for poor Deathstroke… Congrats on the score with the Dinobot! 70 points for pledge and super-detailed responses.

@sundancer given how good your english is could you just get the english edition and go with that? Or is it more enjoyable/relaxing for you to work with the German edition. Strange that they’d split the volume slike that regardless… Wait! I think I see footprints! We may be able to track the At-AT back to it’s lair… 😛 20 points for great looking hobby progress.

@limburger Ouch. Haven’t seen the Last Airbender film but based on your comparison to the Highlander sequel which i haven’t seen because they never made it it must be pretty average. I did quite like what I saw of the series though, despite being way outside the target demographic for it. Again, a nice selection of varied tunes, I’m seeing on reflection how diverse songs were during the decade. I think from memory my previous question on gaming tables was more ‘if money was no obstacle’ rather than ‘what could you actually do if there was somewhere to store it once done’ but your point is well made 🙂 Combining B&P with Oak & Iron is a good call. The sea mats would scale pretty well too so all you’d really need to worry about is the size of trees and terrain features on any islands. 40 points for pledge @ responses.

@dawfydd picked up a few of those comics back when they first rolled out (see what I did there?…) but never got around to adding to my standing order. Should go fishing around in some old storage boxes and see what I actually have. I found FMP to be hilarious up until the reveal of the secret identity, after which it turns into a good but somewhat more generic giant robot anime. Yes looking forward to HG’s tight grip on the macross licence slipping through it’s fingers. I enjoyed Frontier more than Delta – characters were much more rounded and well developed. Not to say Delta wasn’t worth a watch but Frontier was always going to be a hard act to follow. 20 points for feedback/responses.

Ok, think I’m all caught up?… Off to see about this empty coffee cup and get a start made on some hobby (Back to Middenheim for me…).