[unofficial weekender] Did you notice? January is over!

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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…

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.

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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Questions:

• What is it that keeps us abandoning/postponing projects?
• Have you ever invested a lot of time, effort, blood and money in a hobby related project of any description only to can it at some point.
• If your answer to the last question was yes: what was it and why? If your answer was no: Why are you lying? 😉

And now back to the show.

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My pledge: do hobby of some sort… like I did last night:

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My answers:

• for me it’s mostly “getting bored” with something or (much more common) outside factors throwing me out of the curve. Coming home and being tired as hell doesn’t really help. The last big hobby streak I had was around new years when I had two weeks off. Conclusion: Work is bad for getting hobby done but needed to afford hobby. DOH!
• I don’t think I can recall canning a project. Putting some on a very long hiatus (like my tavern brawl, the hex map table or most of my 40k ork army…) So technically they are all still around and just wait to be finished…
• Maybe my brain protects me from remembering “wasting” money… or I just horde too much crap.

Huzza! It’s Friday my friends.

No music but a movie classic:

 

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Happy Friday.

I’m off work next week so hopefully I’ll get lots of hobby done, but my pledge for this weekend is to finish three Warlord Gaul Heroes that I’ve only just started painting. Then, on Saturday evening a friend is bring Blood & Plunder for us all to play.

What is it that keeps us abandoning/postponing projects?

For me, new shiny things, mostly. Oh, and Kickstarter delivery’s. I had two last month so other things got delayed.

Have you ever invested a lot of time, effort, blood and money in a hobby related project of any description only to can it at some point.

Yes, several armies for 40k and Warhammer Fantasy, Bloodbowl back in the late 90s, Necromunda soon after. Ok, I’ve been doing this for a while.

If your answer to the last question was yes: what was it and why? If your answer was no: Why are you lying?

Deep time, interests come and go, newer stuff comes along, I re-prioritise projects. All sorts of stuff.

 

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This week’s pledge is to assemble some large 3D prints I did last week. Last night I finished a collection of models, ticking off another box on my bingo sheet. https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1706063/

 

 

1. What is it that keeps us abandoning/postponing projects? – I don’t do that a lot.
2. Have you ever invested a lot of time, effort, blood and money in a hobby related project of any description only to can it at some point. – Nope.
3. If your answer to the last question was yes: what was it and why? If your answer was no: Why are you lying? ? The only project I’ve put on hold was my large Egypt diorama from last year. I’m deliberately holding off finishing it to give me something for the spring clean challenge this year.

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Nice work on the white cloth

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Spoon you say ?

Also

Enough music? 😉

1. What is it that keeps us abandoning/postponing projects?
   Me abandoning or postponing things ?
   Nah … never …  ooh look … *squirrel*
2. Have you ever invested a lot of time, effort, blood and money in a hobby related project of any description only to can it at some point.
   Not really …
3. If your answer to the last question was yes: what was it and why? If your answer was no: Why are you lying? ?
   To quote our leader : I have no active recollection of such things …
   And … look over there a squirrel 😀

Nemesis Lockdown, Successors kickstarters this week.
I still got the Solomon Kane boxes to return home …

Book of Boba is more like Book of some Boba and a Mando

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I like the Book of Bobby Fed

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so that’s the Rorke’s drift lifestream watched …

very close finish

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I misses some parts of the stream during urgent repairs needed to be done on the old family car. What I did see (and hear when I later did more tax stuff) was nice. And I must point out that static cams are the best! No wobbly swushy cam work. FOCUS!

Nice work @avernos and @lordsanes

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next time they should get a bigger studio 😉

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What is it that keeps us abandoning/postponing projects?

For me, it seems that I’m more interested how to get something done, rather than actually getting it done. I’ll start a project, in order to find out how something works. Once I’ve sussed it out, though, it feels less like fun and more like “repetitive factory work”. That’s when my stuff gets abandoned.

Have you ever invested a lot of time, effort, blood and money in a hobby related project of any description only to can it at some point.

All the time – sometimes deliberately in fact. “I wonder if this will work?” then shortly after “nope”. Though more often it’s a case of “I wonder if this is a better way of doing that thing I already worked out how to do…..”

I abort lots of projects after investing massive amounts of time (and, don’t tell my wife, sometimes money) to them. I give a *lot* of stuff away. For me, it really is like that cool meme your auntie keeps sharing on Facebook to stay in touch with the kids – it’s the journey, not the destination.

If your answer to the last question was yes: what was it and why?

The last one was an electronic card reader that could detect multiple NFC chips, embedded into playing cards. It’s to make it easier for players to play cards from their personalised deck either against each other, remotely, or against a computer AI. I got hold of four different types of NFC reader and after comparing them to each other, compared the best way of reading an array of three identical detectors (in the end I went with “multi-plexing” – not necessarily the simplest or more efficient, but the method with the lowest part count).

Oh, and I painted some Ninja Turtles then gave them away because I couldn’t be bothered to paint their weapons. For the first time in ages, I actually finished the bases for them (that was what I wanted to learn about that little project – does basing before completing a mini make it easier to get motivated to see it finished? I guess the answer is no).

Here’s your music. It’s that dude from the Hanoi Rocks. But – like many of us – it seems he got old but nobody noticed, since nobody was looking.

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I totally get the “this is good enough for this… next project” vibe… And I guess it’s what gets mixed in with being a hobby butterfly sometime… we (the gamers) want all the shiny all the time

And nobody got old here.

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It’s moanday once again. Did I get any hobby done this weekend? No, only recorded the Imperial Interlude. Other free time has been eaten by repairing plastic parts on the car…

Hope your weekend was more productive.

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My pledge is done, Gaul Heroes all painted, and I’m off work all week. Next I’m going to paint a few Roman characters, but first this afternoon I’m going to play another solo game of Core Space, part two in the campaign.

Oh and this morning, since I’m caught up in my viewing I spent my time walking listening to two guys off the internet taking about The Book of Boba Fett. Their voices sounded strangely familiar.

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Just don’t complain about spoilers! 😉

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