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@limburger You brought this on yourself… and the rest of the thread, my friend

@blinky465 Catching up on the threads I am glad to have read your review before watching the video. I was stuck into the XLBS and wondered if I should set it aside and get caught up.

By the by I got the police mini assembled and painting will commence right after I get the current gob project done.

@sundancer Advocatus diaboli? When did you start taking an interest in Italian cuisine?(j/k)

@crazyredcoat There will always be minis to paint. Grades… meh. Doing work and getting experience helps so much when you pick the brains of greybeards (not actual lobotomies, atleast officially).

So much talk about music I think I need to go and dig back some more into stuff I listened to.

On the topic of digi sculpts I agree with @limburger . The deterioration factor is quite a difficult issue with traditional methods. Thinking about the present technology available I see Privateer Press in a difficult place for keeping their exclusivity for Minicrate. Chinese recasters are too numerous to count for knockoffs for producers like KD that manufacture there. The again there’s the anime garage kit market that suffers the same way when you look into the Thai casters.

Trying to find originals in metal OOP figures from yesteryear is great as a ‘hero’s quest” (tying this back to the OP topic) but doomed to fail unless to dig up troves the likes of Gerry’s when gamers and hobbyists like us take our dirt naps. 3D files have become the new medium and its unfortunate that there is little to no appreciation outside of our niche for the physical process. Look to the incident of the boys who destroyed table setups at a model train convention being hit with minimal measure against the time/effort put into the hobbyists and this bears out in personal value versus financial.

I’ve tossed the thought out @sundancer and I think the abbreviation of variable return hobby investment (VRHI) is what we might consider. Marie Kondo is mentioned when the value of objects get overtake by the need to make space. Well, when minis and hobby start to become more emotional and physical liability than asset it might be time to pass them on. This is a problem for the physical producer that must make with all material manually. The digital is just limited by storage space o a hard drive and potential corruption of data. Perhaps this is the time where we hobbyists re-evaluate the hobby as physical medium and what we do with it. I’d say that the social implications of ‘The Rona’ has definitely made us all the more aware of our interactions as “high functioning social retards”.

Whoo… I actually can still write long and present real thought. I’ll not make this a habit. I need a nap.