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Hey Team, hope everybody’s well 🙂 @sundancer thanks for hosting!

Been stupidly busy with work etc so hobby has been pushed to the side of late so thought I would jump in this week and make a pledge in the hopes of actually getting some progress made…

Questions:

– How is the weather in your part of the world? Cold. Southern hemisphere winter and far away from the coast, combined with clear nights means it was down to close to 5 below this week. Topping out at the 12-14 mark so pleasant enough once the sun is up and doing it’s thing but early morning starts are a bit more brisk than I’d ideally like. Means any outside stuff (either gardening or hobby related) gets pushed back until it’s warmed up a little.

– Miniature painting and BBQ. Can you do both simultaneously? Possibly?… I have known issues with rinsing my brushes out in my coffee so I’d probably prefer a bit of distance between the BBQ and gaming table personally. Although now that you mention it, using BBQ tongs to push counters around an old-timey command style map could be fun…

– How many streaming services are currently subscribed to? Two (I’m assuming OTT counts as I watch it more than any other form of media; although of course it feels more like a community than a platform so maybe the use of the term ‘media’ isn’t quite appropriate…).

Pledge: To get some progress made on my Slaneesh daemons that I was supposed to be doing for the Spring challenge (Yup, missed the boat there…). Still, would like to get them painted up so I can move them to the basing stage and start to look at more historicals. So please feel free to mock and point and jeer at me if I do not make progress this week – I do need to get them finished before work gets really busy in 3 or 4 weeks… 🙂

@sundancer sounds to me like you have good hobby weather at the moment, although I may be slightly biased 😉

@robert been liking the progress on the Celts, and the tartan too 🙂 Can see that a change may be due though given all the progress you have made.

@blinky465 nice prints! wow, love the detail in not-Gandalf’s beard and not-Galadriel’s hair too

@flatbattery oooh fun looking project ahead of you there.

@horationoseblower oooh really like the basing! Hope you are recovering ok and all your bits are loosening up once more.

@m30wm1x Nice work on the FOW 🙂 I’ll confess I was half-tempted to get the new starters and revisit my earlier efforts form back in 2nd edition but I have enough on the to do list for now, and I probably don’t really need to add 15mm scale to the list as well… Yours looks great though!

@limburger Oooh Oak & Iron! On a bit of a 17th century reading binge at the moment (mainly 30 years war…); strikes me that that could integrate into some campaign games nicely.

@crazyredcoat Arctic? that just sounds unpleasantly cold to the likes of I 😉 Have personally had mixed success using the contrasts on historicals. I’ve found it is handy for packs and things but I prefer a little more control over the colours on uniforms that I can seem to obtain than when using the contrasts.

@danlee I’m inferring the kids are presently too young to be handed brushes and set to work then? 😉