[unofficial Weekender] Communal hobby – a hidden secret?

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Got my weekly solo board game session in this evening: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1909513/

 

Pretty sure I didn’t forget any rules this time.

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But forgetting rules is half the fun. So I’ve been told by myself.

Sunday. Nothing to do for once. I might just embrace that and “waste” a day with nothing.

But first: coffee and XLBS

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doing nothing is good for the soul.

It only sucks when you really ought to be doing something, but can’t remember it.

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Yes – chill days are highly underrated.

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I’m planning some solo wargames and decided to add Silver Bayonet to my collection.

When I ordered something from Warlord they sent me a free sprue of Napoleonics (not sure which country) and I was looking on ebay for some sprues to bulk out the 5 figures when I remembered something in the loft that I bought 40 years ago…

Still have the casting stuff and a bag of pewter big enough to make dozens of miniatures. Admittedly they are single pose, but they cost nothing more than the time it takes to cast them…. and paint them of course.

Casting metal can be unpredictable, but if the model fails I just melt the miniature down and start again.

I also have a set of fantasy chess moulds.

Edit: I just went through the bag of metal… I have 22 officers and 10 riflemen that are viable casts. Seem to recall that the rifles were prone to miscasts because of the thin bayonets.

And I had cast all the chess pieces. Maybe I should finish that project I started 40 years ago 🙂

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Pledge: I will not destroy minis innocent of the crime of offending my sight.

Seeing breakage of a model and breaking delicate kitbash work yesterday I am more than a little peevish. As always a balance in the Force falls somehow and I got some painting done. Time to find a new phoenix to work on.

Communal hobby in painting seems to really be good for me. I look forward to the weekly painting circle and the obligatory dick and fart jokes. If I get some other people interested I might be able to have games of SAGA. This really is a daydream but I can always hope. If I could avoid the snapping of figures I’d almost have a starter pair of armies to showcase the game. I am glad the next one I have planned is made mostly from glorious metal.

That all being said on hobby and games I agree on conventions. I’m going to one next weekend and I plan on taking workshops and classes that are best in person. I also think the painting competition is best that way to have judging done by real people instead of having curated photos online.

Music? HERESY!!!

Let’s get Classical

All the lulz

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sunday’s done. Did some shopping at the blue&yellow store. I was gonna buy more, but not being able to pick stuff from the shelf and having to jump through additional hoops to pick stuff up from their warehouse location wasn’t worth the effort.

Maybe next week ?

More music … something with German flavour :

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Long weekend here. Also cold as hell. But later this week… hope. Finally. Two weeks of solid -20c ish temps have sucked. Reminds me of when I lived in the real north. And why I left.

Project wise, I managed to build four Crooked Dice metal models, and a Crooked Dice van. I forgot that metals can be so hard to clean and work on!

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Pledge: I will not destroy minis innocent of the crime of offending my sight.

Never destroy minis. Even the ugly ones have a use: they can serve as bad example.

Spider Murphy Gang – that’s a callback to ancient times.

-18°C? And here I was about to complain about -10C° on my was to work.

I’m inside now, safe and warm and coffee at the ready. Huzzah!

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Oh look! Shiny new metal minis on their way!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bequestminiatures/more-goblins-and-gobblers-bequest-miniatures

Oh and to wet your whistle even more, this is how fast Jonas is fulfilling his KS:

Star Rogues II – ended November 2024, delivered January 2025
Fantasy Adventurers – ended April 2024, delivered May, 2024
Star Rogues – ended July 2023, delivered September 2023
Shambling Bones – ended April 2023 , delivered May 2023

Eat your heart out CGL!

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I think it’s safe to say that the only crowdfunding to miss more deadlines than CGL and in general make the creators look like greedy b*stards is the Star Citizen project.

Sure, not everyone hits their projected deadline, but once production gets going delivery tends to be pretty flawless.

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Oh the OUYA took some extra time as well. XD And sadly currently the latest Terrain book from Michael Martin had some troubles. BUT he did communicate all of them. Which brings me back to “setbacks can happen but be upfront with your supporters”. A point that CGL fails again and again and again

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@sundancer super cool goblins, but …

 

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Finished my latest batch of models. Six representations of English folklore “characters”. It was really different trying to copy the green colour schemes.

 

Dan’s 2025 Side Projects

 

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Nostalgia overload! Found this cool 30th anniversary reprint of (I owned the original…) Rogue Trader in sealed shrink wrap today. Was it cheap? No, it wasn’t. But whatever.

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