Reply To: Hobby Weekender 26th of April – Yargh Mateys!

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Woot! I got in my MicroMark catalog for spring. I also got in my Legend of Signum KS core box and the Queen Xenobia add-on … sooo much resin O_O . Even with the shipping it came out to less than $6 a piece for 28 figures. I believe I am done with buying any more minis for the rest the rest of the year with Brutality figures sitting as bare plastic in the box. I still have War for Chicken Island to look forward to and the Kingdom Death figures due next year. There is work to be done.

@FOGH I understand about trying to work with some smaller miniatures. The ones that have all sorts of fiddly bits have given me quite the irritation. Your project reminded me of playing through Empire Earth and the interesting back and forth between the Cuirassiers and sabre equipped cavalry. Then again a ton of foot soldiers and artillery did tend to punch them pretty hard before they hit my lines.

@sundancer !?!Space Marines!?! *takes temperature, checks pulse, observes pupil dialtion I think we might have a Replicant here. We might need to administer a Voight-Kampf

@tuffyears Sweet work on the sub. The music reminded me of playing Hunt for Red October on the Commodore64 as a kid (yes I’m dating myself).

@mage Tetris 99? Go for Tetris Effect its trippy as anything and quite the eye candy

That particular gameplay video reminded me of playing Chime which got the followup Chime Sharp

As far as hobby I think its a start stop thing that just needs evidence of progress to push me along. That’s really where I find the site and everybody here helpful to give me motivation to keep going despite my want to sit back. I pulled up the article on Being Good and I’ll read it in a bit as I think it might be relevant.

Paint-wise that sounds like I might need to look more at glazes. I’ve had my eyes on Warcolors sets as I’ve seen really good reviews and videos where they’re used. I’m not yet onboard with Secret Weapons’ quick washes but they might prove interesting if I see them in person.

Model-wise I’d say that I know there’s only so much that I want to expend in time and energy so getting a custom set of work that is clean and repeated for a few figures is going to be the best bet for me. I am likely to buy into the game now with the cool factor of customization. I also know that Forgeworld is slow to do anything like this and would be a metric butt-ton more expensive than shelling out the money for the conversions that I might be able to get a say in creating. As I’ve seen there’s a Mastadon dreadnought kit that looks pretty badass but nothing for the Phantoms other than chapter insignia and a custom Rhino upper glacis.

@woldenspoons I totally understand