Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Heeeeere's Johnny!

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Happy Friday.

I’ve done nothing hobby wise these last two days, just been too tired, but I’m keen on getting something done over the weekend.
First I want to finish off a Reaper Miniatures drone for Stargrave, it’s kind of like a large robotic floating golf ball. There’s not much left to do on it, just finesse and a few highlights.

Then I want to paint a miniature that closely resembles a goblin guard from The Labyrinth from Northumbrian Tin Soldier.

Lastly I have one of the big Reaper Bones dragon models to clean up and assemble.

Also this Saturday evening I’ve been challenged to a game of SPQR my Romans vs my Friend’s Gauls.

Having just seen how fast your hobby/passion can drop to a total zero[*]: Is your hobby insured? Will you get some compensation when your hobby room catches fire, is robbed or some form of elemental damage due to natural disaster.

I don’t have contents insurance, I prefer to have emergency savings instead. I’m always in two minds when I comes to insurance, in my mind it’s a gamble (and good luck trying to prove that you had the items if it came to a claim). Also similar to what @limburger said, some things cannot be replaced, for me that’s my painted miniatures. If the worst was to happen then like a lot of people I’d just start collecting again.

At what point does an “unofficial anything” (like uHH or this thread) get “official”?

It’s like the difference between amateur and professional but instead of free or paid it’s a signature on a bit of paper or document.

And this one is a real spicy one and really just “food for thought”: if BoW/OTT where to transit to a new homepage/forum/project system (for what ever reason) and had to start from scratch, would you join in again or would that be a point in time where you’d reconsider being part of it?

I’d probably join again if the content was just as good. Anything I want to keep I do so anyway when creating a project (I actually write out my project first in a Google Doc before copying it to the project system). It would be a real shame if everything just went and was lost forever though.

 

Also that video @sundancer was devastating. I don’t think I’ve watched any of the guy’s videos but my heart goes out to him.

My favourite Skyrim track: