[unofficial weekender] And then there was silence.

[sundancer 44208xp 0]

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/introduce-yourselves-new-member-thread/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/

Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil. This includes no philosophy, no home computer culture wars.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Question of the week:

• You backed a crowd funding campaign. You’re all hyped about it. And it took ages for them to delivers. Now your pledge is delivered and your enthusiasm goes *poof*. Did that ever happen to you?

And now back to the show.

[sundancer 44208xp 2]

My pledge: Continue the work in the Copplestone Castings non-LotR minis.

Pledge #2: Going voting tomorrow. [No, that’s not politics, that’s just a thing I do]

Answers (obvious): yes. Did happen. Just yesterday. For multiple reasons.

• It. Took. Them. Ages.
• I now play a game where I cannot say any more “all my minis are painted”.
• CGL is restructuring their pdf and getting resource sheets for the new minis turns out to be a nightmare if you don’t want to photocopy the set from the box :S
• The big 10cm mech is not a re-sculpt or anything. Judging by how deep the panel line cuts are I’m going to be that’s thus the 28mm model upscaled without any additional work. Also “foot on rock but mid air but with useless support” [I’ll take pictures of that and maybe do a blog post)

That’s about it, I think. Now music!

[limburger 22342xp 1]

I’m kind of tempted to say that happens to me all the time. It’s not so much the hype that died, but new shiny that has managed to distract me. My only counter is that I tend to back stuff I want to see made and be available.

Battletech has been a rather unique exception as CGL have managed to kill my enthusiasm for the game before it is shipped.

Maybe all I really need is find a way to stop distracting myself ? Not easy with the weekly updates from OTT.

EAV …. I know that song. I’d say the 80’s were full of good music.

there’s also this one :

Oh … and next week crazy stuff will happen.

One more …

[grantinvanman 8109xp 1]

Pledge: continue with the TMNT project; today I also get the 2nd batch of Necrons for my commission…

Poof? I haven’t backed any KS, but I, ironically, got pumped about Battletech thanks to the CGL drama… and now have a LOT of it. And it’s not as exciting as I wanted it to be. But, my localish shop I found has a Battletech night, so I should go to that and try the game.

[pagan8th 13582xp 1]

Pledge of the week… not get slaughtered in Silver Bayonet solo… more a hope than a pledge.

Kickstarter is great at generating excitement… but in the years that follow a successful project the excitement fades rapidly. It dwindles towards zero if the delivery gets put back by more than a few months.

I’ve got far too many games that I backed and either played once, or not at all.

It’s why I seldom pledge and when I do I try to go for short waiting periods… less than a year preferably.

Now I tend to wait until a game is released and allow them time to bug fix it. Luckily I have a pile of stuff to work my way through to keep me busy.

And lately… ks seems to unreliable. Too many companies promise a lot, realise they can’t afford to deliver (assuming they ever intended to) and end up denying backers the end product. If a deal looks too good to be true… it probably is and you’re throwing away your money.

There are several games that I backed and were delivered where the company is now dead with unfulfilled kickstarters. Luckily I’m not one of the people that lost out big.

Only ks I backed that failed to deliver was Exile Games Studio Perils of Mars and that was a pdf only pledge at $25. He just stopped updating the ks in November 2018.

[limburger 22342xp 0]

I’ve noticed that kickstarters for rpg’s can be a bit hit or miss in terms of delivery.
Ones that over promise tend to miss their deadlines by miles.  The ones that manage to keep it contained do tend to finish things.

The hard part is just saying no to yet another kickstarter, especially when there’s folk that have a passion for the product they’re promoting.

I keep telling myself that the Strikecommander kickstarter by TTCombat will be the last one ever, but then either the OTT Weekender or another newsletter shows a new shiny and I’m like ‘me wants’. This weeks’ weekender was another example.

[sundancer 44208xp 1]

Sunday.

General election day.

6 more hours until the first “semi reliable” predictions. To be honest, I am a wee bit scared of the potential outcome.

In other news: coffee and XLBS. Smell you lot later.

[grantinvanman 8109xp 1]

@sundancer the world is watching … 1945 wasn’t that long ago. Fuck AfD.

[sundancer 44208xp 1]

Indeed. And if worst things come we need the rest of the world to do more than watch. (No, not talking about thoughts and prayers.) Still I’m hoping for an outcome better than “wurst case”.

[danlee 22810xp 1]

Now the kids are back off their holiday, and I’m back at work tomorrow, hobby will resume as normal. My pledge is to get started on the Rorkanouts (think I spelled that right).

 

• You backed a crowd funding campaign. You’re all hyped about it. And it took ages for them to delivers. Now your pledge is delivered and your enthusiasm goes *poof*. Did that ever happen to you?

I don’t get that hyped about kickstarters, so I’m not that fussed about their delivery. When Kickstarter first took off I tended to back the huge board games with massive model counts (e.g. Conan, Mythic Battles). They took a couple or years to deliver even if they stuck to schedule, so a being a year late I wouldn’t even notice. I made a point of painting all the models and playing the games so I got value out of them. The last big one I bought was Monster Hunter, and by the time I arrived I just immediately sold it on. It wasn’t so much disappointment, it was just that by the time it arrived, a few years after I backed it, I had realised how much shelf space these games take up, how long it takes to paint the models, and the fact I still hadn’t finished playing the other epic games I had backed.

 

These days I just tend to back smaller campaigns for 3D print files. 99% of the time these guys have the files already done (except maybe some stretch goals) and they deliver within days of the project finishing.

 

@sundancer “6 more hours until the first “semi reliable” predictions. To be honest, I am a wee bit scared of the potential outcome.” I used to worry about UK politics, but our guys are just lame. Nothing as scary as what is starting to emerge on the European continent. Look on the bright side though – I doubt your outcome will be as bad as the USA.

[pagan8th 13582xp 1]

I seem to recall something in the “shameless copy and paste” that includes the words “NO POLITICS”…

But given that ‘those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it’ is in the mind of a lot of people right now.

And the less said about ‘ginger wig man’ the better.

[grantinvanman 8109xp 0]

@danlee as a Canadian, you have one party that is alarming to me, as they have taken the playbook from our far right nutters. Nigel Farrage is replicating the work of Preston Manning, and for that, you should be aware – if not alarmed.

My first year in the army, I sat and had a beer with a troop leader who landed on D-Day with my regiment. That’s how “not far away” the events of 39-45 are, for me.

And as a Canadian, the rhetoric out of the south is hauntingly familiar to that before the 22 invasion of Ukraine.

What a messed up timeline.

Back to Turtles – heroes in a half shell!

[sundancer 44208xp 1]

yeah.

Went as to be expected.

People are the worst.

Now we’ll wait and see what the final official results will be. After that. Well, we’ll see again.

This concludes my politics.

In other news: made pizza for dinner and now I’m stuffed. Remain safe people.

[grantinvanman 8109xp 0]

Good lord. It is indeed far worse than I would have thought. This is an extremely messed up situation.

Do people not see the unfolding horror of the US and immediately learn? Why FAFO when the implication is too obvious.

[limburger 22342xp 0]

Why ?
Because those opposing the AfD have no real answer other than “those guys are bad and we know what’s best for you”.
It’s the same mistake the Democrats made in the USA.
And it’s the same mistake anyone running against these wannab-Nazis keep making all over the world.

I don’t want to be told I’m bad.
I want to know how the fck you are going to fix the shitty situation that you’ve helped to create in the past decade.
Why am I supposed to trust you fckers again when you’ve shown to be complete incompetent at your fckin’ job ?

Stop handing them the ammo.

We’ve had 2 terrorist attacks in the EU in the recent days … one committed by someone that should have been deported already as he was on a terror watch list.

AfD & co are winning because they are claiming to have the answer while everyone else is telling us that things aren’t quite as bad as we see in the news and in our streets.

/rant

Anyways … I may have ordered some of those AK Interactive 3rd gen primers that were mentioned recently.
And because there’s a minimum order amount for ‘free postage’ and I had a 5% discount a few other things were added to my cart because *eh* yeah that’s how that works.

There’s four more days of work before my holiday starts, so maybe I can get some actual hobby done ?
I know it’s crazy …

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