Reply To: Why I do not like hobby butterflies

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I am a hobby butterfly, sort of.  I was very much so around 4, 5 years back – loads of new games and projects acquired, and backing up in my hobby space awaiting the time for me to get around to them.  I’d frantically be painting new stuff ready for that forthcoming game that had been arranged when we would be trying out the new shiney.  Then onto the next, and the next.  Running fast, but the Pile Of Opportunity was backing up even faster!

Then came lockdown, and suddenly I had loads of opportunity to paint and little to play. Wonderful.  I got loads of stuff painted, certainly all of the projects I was most keen on getting to the table.  As we came out of lockdown some of them got to the table.  Many more of them still haven’t and are just sitting there in their boxes, painted but buzz-free – my urge to get them to the table long since having dissipated.

To the extent that I actually haven’t played anything at all since July, whereas up until then I was pretty much game 3 or 4 times a month.  I seem to have had the butterfly stuffing knocked out of me.

I’m sort of back on the treadmill though now as I realise it was only the excitement of getting something new to the table that kept my interest.  Once I’d played it a couple of times I lost interest.  Once it had lain around for a while and was no longer “new”, I also lost interest.  Weird that.  But I can’t do much about it – we all have different aspects of the hobby that get our juices flowing, and mine seem to be driven by getting something to the table while it is still new.  What a weirdo!

So I’m gradually working through getting a Warlord “epic battles” ECW army painted up, and then next in the queue is the “Raise the Black” starter set for Blood & Plunder.  I’m going on a wee 17th/early 18th century bender it seems…  The bug question is, will I get a game scheduled, or will these just end up back in their boxes?  Time will tell!

Human psychology is weird!