[unofficial weekender] Finish it!

[sundancer 42979xp 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.

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:

• Having finished a big project (army, terrain or table): How do you feel?
• The final stretch: towards the end of a project does it get easier or more annoying?
• How to store that 42 cm x 62 cm piece of a chunker? Seriously, how can I put that away safely?!

And now back to the show.

[sundancer 42979xp 0]

Pledge: not collapse with the next terrain project. Also find a way to store it properly.

My answers:

• Exhausted and relieved. And proud. And scared that I will do it again. Have to. Finish the open projects.
• Both at times. Depends on how much progress can be seen.
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I need some music now.

[templar007 52376xp 0]

Pledge::  Sailing forward on my 1/700 WWII fleets.  More Carriers and Cruisers.  I did procure a UBoot and Gato in 1/700.  I still need to find my bookmarked location of an IJN submarine model and see if I can find a model of a British submarine.  I’ve not done much research on what the Brits were sailing under the oceans at that time.

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Questions of the Week::

1) Having finished a big project (army, terrain or table): How do you feel?

Answer:: Really SMUG!

2)The final stretch: towards the end of a project does it get easier or more annoying?

Answer::  I get edgy, nervous, and judgemental.   Did I do enough, Did I make the right choices, Was the right amount of research done before starting?  Should I have started it differently?  In the end, I’m generally pleased with myself.  I don’t do projects to please others although I do like to take on a project sometimes that others are doing as well.  It’s good to be in a group thing sometimes.  But it’s usually a project that I’ve been thinking of doing anyway.  My end results are just for me.

The short answer would be “I start criticizing my work”.  (probably why I’ve not published any video projects yet as well)

3) How to store that 42 cm x 62 cm piece of a chunker? Seriously, how can I put that away safely?

Answer::  I take a trip to the local Hobby Lobby, Dollar Store, or Sporting Goods shop in search of a cheap plastic box that has adjustable dividers in it to hold the “chunker” and any other pieces that will go with it.  Sometimes I’ll make a wooden box and stain, varnish, or wax it to look nice if it’s a relatively important piece.  I have put some beneath glass bells that are set on wooden bases as display pieces.  It just depends.

For my 1/700 Napoleonic-era ships {standing and running rigging}, I started with wooden display boxes that the front glass swings open.  But those cost $40 a piece when on sale and I have to store the entire British Fleet from Trafalgar and the Franco-Spanish Fleet as well.  So I’ve had to rethink that one.  I believe I have a workable plan but only time will tell.

[pagan8thParticipant 10863xp 0]

How do I feel when I finish a project… relieved… it doesn’t happen very often…

The final miniature just sits there… pointing a tiny plastic/metal/resin arm at me!

Good luck with terrain storage… I struggle with that every time I build something and it usually just ends up in a box in the loft. Now I try to make terrain in modular pieces that I can store in a smaller box.

 

[guillotine 16039xp 0]

1. Typically: ”how about I add something more…”. But also great happiness of the accomplishment.

2. I’m pretty good at closing out the project when it is close enough to the end, as long as I don’t go an extend it as mentioned in question 1 answer…

3. Mel the Terrain Tutor’s tip: start with the storage box and build your terrain pieces to fit it.

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Mel the Terrain Tutor’s tip: start with the storage box and build your terrain pieces to fit it.

Good advice. A bit late XD

I’ve gone through the complete listing on all boxes from Really Useful Boxes and they only have *two* boxes that would fit.

• 70 litre Really Useful Box
• 145 litre Really Useful Box

And neither is available locally or from Amazon Germany.

Guess I need a different plan :S

Sunday is almost over. Tomorrow will be an interesting day.

[ced1106Participant 6224xp 0]

* Never feel a sense of accomplishment. Always more work to be done. ):

* Nowadays, I’m painting miniatures to play a game (Ganesha Game’s “Sellswords and Spellslingers”), and, irksomely, prefer to use only one company’s miniatures for the either side. I’ll paint to some tabletop level the miniatures I’ll use for the next scenario, and leave room for more painting later if I do more gaming with the miniature.  Usually towards the “end” of painting a miniature, I’ll be annoyed that the thing isn’t done painted yet — there’s always something to do that I missed, so it feels like what I *want* to do can’t be completed. Frex, I want to wash these miniatures, but keep finding a mold line that needs to be taken care of. Painting miniatures when I need them for a game keeps me from being concerned about how many miniatures I have unpainted, while still chiseling against that mountain of grey plastic, and using the miniatures as soon as they’re painted.

* Good luck with the plastic boxes! I also use tea boxes as containers to keep the mini’s from shaking about, then put them into a plastic box for storage.

[sundancer 42979xp 0]

Yea so I can’t find any suitable boxes. Need to think of something different.

Also couldn’t find time for the forum obviously… hell, that week went fast! I think I’m still recovering from that terrain build.

Let’s see what the weekender tonight brings. 🙂

[danlee 22443xp 0]

Would you invite this guy to your kid’s birthday party? https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1794968/

 

[sundancer 42979xp 0]

He does remind me of Mum-Ra

[templar007 52376xp 0]

I just watched the current XLBS……..

 

Congratulations on your GOLDEN BUTTON Mr. Sundancer!  Well DONE sir. ??

[sundancer 42979xp 0]

Thank you very much kind Sir.

Monday morning. Coffee is flowing and work is building.

You lot might have noticed I didn’t start a new thread. Main reason being: I forgot. As I do with many things these days. Will make a new one next weekend!

[pagan8thParticipant 10863xp 1]

Easy to forget and lose track of time.

Bought Baldur’s Gate 3 a week ago and seem to have played it for over 50 hours somehow…

[sundancer 42979xp 0]

Bought Baldur’s Gate 3 a week ago and seem to have played it for over 50 hours somehow…

I don’t want to ask “is it any good” (because @pagan8th already sunk some hours into it) but I really would like to try it. Some people I know are speaking very highly of it but somehow all what I can see from videos (gameplay and trailers) really doesn’t tingle me. Oh I mourn the passing of game demos.

Never mind that, my PC is probably to slow anyway and now it’s Tuesday and with that: more coffee!

[pagan8thParticipant 10863xp 1]

I’m running BG3 on PS5.

One of the requirements for PC version on Steam is SSD to run it.

Full Specs…

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

Processor: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM)

DirectX: Version 11

Storage: 150 GB available space

Additional Notes: SSD required

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