Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Cutting budgets, adjusting consumation of content.

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pledge –  having moved recently I need to set up my hobby bench and sort out my stash of kits , building supplies and kit parts . Have wasted the last month sorting my cd / dvd / book collections which means I spent a lot of time watching movies , listening to music and reading books  I forgot I had . Where did the time go ?

I don’t spend much time on BOW anymore , even let my membership lapse when my Visa card got hacked ( long story , sketchy ebay purchases ) I realized I hadn’t watched a Weekender or XLBS  in months , just lack of interest . I really liked the old format of the crew together in the studio , this remote stuff isn’t for me .  There was a time most Weekender /XLBS got 150 plus comments , now most have under 50 , so I assume a lot of people don’t like this format either . Unboxing videos  get very few comments now for some reason . To be fair many sites have gone to remote broadcasting or are using twitter / FB as they’re main means of communication . I don’t think Rubicon have posted on their main site in over 6 months and all new release info is via FB , god I hate FB .

I’m retired now and have a bit of cash in the bank so I pretty much buy what I want when I want it . As most of my local hobby shops have limited 28mm WW2   stuff , I’ve been ordering it  direct  from Warlord . Rubicon , Bad Squido , etc. Not to mention buying a ton books  on various WW2 subjects . Always fun to track down  an old book you used to have in the 70s and have dish out 10 to 20 times the original cover price because it is long out of print .

 

I probably should get involved with patreon as I’m a member of about 100 youtube sites , but,  I really don’t know if I could afford it . What I am doing is buying merch , t shirts , albums , commerative one off figures .   Its a win / win as they get most of my money and I get a cool t shirt or special version of a cd by helping out the band .