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What was your last non-wargaming related project?
I’m not sure what this means? Just, what stuff (that isn’t little fighting men) have you made? Or something else? I made a vortex paint mixer out of a motor from a laser printer the other day. Does that count? If not, then I guess it’d be a hexapod I built for my son-in-law a few months ago. Most of the stuff I’ve been working on since lockdown is tabletop-gaming-related in some way or another!
Do you take care of your back?
My back has been busted for about eight years and I regularly get spasms. Every year or so, I’ll have a few sessions at the chiropractor to straighten it out a bit. I’m careful with it, rather than taking care (so brace before a big sneeze, never cough while putting your socks on, the typical middle-aged-man kind of stuff….)
Garden, beach or foreign lands. What is you preferred space to relax and tune out?
Beach. We live a few minutes walk from the sea. Since late May, Mrs Blinky and I have been going swimming. To really zone out, I find a good long walk is perfect. We were looking to get another narrowboat recently (having lived on one a few years ago, we both admitted to really missing messing about on the canals) but since lockdown and loads of people looking to live aboard, prices have shot up (and I’m not sure that playing on the canals would be all that much fun right now, there’s a *lot* of activity because of cancelled holiday plans etc). To really “lose myself” I love playing at jam nights – it’s hard to focus on anything else at all when you’re desperately trying to recall which key you’re supposed to be playing your pentatonic scales in, so a perfect way to leave everything else behind! I miss playing live music.
Pledge: finish some buildings for Cyber City; I’ve laser cut a load of mdf, but the idea of spending weeks painting and modelling a whole bunch of basically big boxes leaves me cold: I might just make some stickers of brickwork etc. and slap them on the sides and call it done.
Music: yep, it’s Croydon’s knock-off Blondie wannabe tribute band, Transvision Vamp. I don’t care. I like them. Sorry @ninjilly if it’s the weekend, it should be guitars. Loud, noisy, fun guitars 😉
