[unofficial weekender] Let’s go crazy!

[sundancer 44259xp 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 Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

If you fancy to see some nice WIP pictures go to the WAYPN thread https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/what-are-you-painting-now-2025-edition/

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Question of the week:

• Did you ever completely fall for a hype train only to fall right off it the moment it was delivered? This can be hobby related but not restricted to our hobby here.

And now back to the show.

[sundancer 44259xp 1]

My pledge: finishing the move to my new PeerTube instance so that I have a complete backup of the videos for people to watch and not just local copies and YouTube.

Answer of my: I don’t think I ever had a sudden moment of “poof – hype gone”. But with things (mostly crowdfunding) taking way longer then expected, that surely takes a toll on hype. Battletech Mercenaries, Star Citizen to name just a few.

Music: Let there be shred!

[danlee 22818xp 0]

This week’s pledge is finishing the fortress minis for Heroes 3.

 

• Did you ever completely fall for a hype train only to fall right off it the moment it was delivered? This can be hobby related but not restricted to our hobby here. – I went all in on the Monster Hunter Kickstarter (I think that was the franchise) and by the time it arrived I’d lost all interest. I didn’t even open the box. Just sold it on using eBay.

[zoidpinhead 12788xp 4]

Pledge:  Continue to get on with the Drunes upgrade for my Midgard army.  Two units of 11 left, should get 2/3 done this week.

Answer:  I have definitely fallen off the hype train a few times.  Some harder than others and most linked not just to crowd funding but crowd funding that was heavily hyped here on OTT.  I went all in on Mythic Battles: Pantheon painted the minis and enjoyed the game but found it a bit limited by the map boards.  When the Valhalla version came around I passed and then gave mine to my son.  I got totally fed up with the antics of Adam Poots and baled out of Kingdom Death after nearly 8 years waiting for that to deliver what was promised and paid for.  The one I’m worried about now is “The Damned” by Wargames Atlantic.  I’ve got loads coming and I’m not sure I’m bothered any more but again that might be because they are over 18 months late and the attitude of Hudson Adams/Tony Reidy has not been great.

[pagan8th 13769xp 3]

Pledge: Keep on plodding at hobby and do it when I feel like it. Painted a bit more Carnevale this week and outlined a plot for the RPG in that setting tomorrow.

I have have numerous times when the hype train derailed for me before the product arrived. In the 20 teens I backed too many kickstarter and often by the time it arrived I’d lost interest. The worst offenders were CMON and Modiphius who frequently delivered product over a year later than they said they would. Same with Freeleague stuff.

The solution was to stop backing kickstarters unless it was something with a short delivery window, a tendency to deliver on time and the company is based in the UK… so pretty much Crooked Dice.

I still have an outstanding Discworld RPG I’m waiting for from Modiphius which they are estimating now from March making it about 6 months late. I know I have the pdfs, but it doesn’t count as delivered until I get the book. Sadly… I have lost my enthusiasm for the game by this point… seemed a good idea at the time, but it’s probably just going into the archive.

[grantinvanman 8251xp 2]

Pledge: continue on Tau and Blood Angels commissions

 

Hype: I don’t do kickstarters, which I feel the pull of, too many horror stories. Sometimes I get FOMO with GW releases, and I have a pile of that to prove it. This is my year to cut back.

[sundancer 44259xp 2]

So earlier today (or maybe last night) someone here on OTT said something like

Is it OK to take a brake from the hobby because of the current world situation?

I hope I got it right and paraphrased correctly. My answer would be: absolutely. Taking a break from almost anything is a valid thing to do if it only causes stress, bad mood or is simply not enjoyable.

I’ve taken brakes. More than once. Taking care of yourself and your well being is important. It’s rather easy to do that on a physical level for your body but mentally it’s way harder.

You take care of yourself!

[pagan8th 13769xp 3]

I mentioned a break @sundancer, but my comment was in the weekender.

It was more an observation. Just feels that modern wargaming in particular is in bad taste.

I know you’re not keen on politics which this borders on, so I’ll leave it at that.

 

[avien 2080xp 2]

Pledge: paint at least a few hours this week. Simple and sweet.

Answer;

The only time I’ve fully bought into hype and then lost all interest on delivery was the Alien vs Predator miniatures game from Prodos. I backed the Kickstarter, which ended up being very poorly handled: long delays, funding issues, using later projects to fulfil earlier ones, and additional shipping costs that backers were asked to cover via the web store. Communication was also a major problem, and some backers still dispute whether the campaign was ever fully fulfilled. I personally never received the clear resin Predators.

By the time the product eventually arrived, the experience had soured it completely for me and it’s remained untouched ever since.

[Redscope 2732xp 1]

Going to be a busy time painting wise. I have to finish off a flames of war army. I have been working on it all month so made good progress we should be finished worse case at the end of the month but ideally this week hopefully.

Once they are out of the way I have both a Witch Hunter warband for Mordhiem to start work on and a Soulblight GraveLords army to start. I am trying to reach painting 100 minis by the 6th May.

Did you ever completely fall for a hype train only to fall right off it the moment it was delivered? This can be hobby related but not restricted to our hobby here.

I think as a lot of people mentioned Kickstarters are main cause of failling off the hype train. You are often buying the games 18 months in advance often by the time it comes around you have moved on hobby wise. The reality is often worse, the game is delayed, you have to put up with the bunch of BS with additional fees, lack of communication, out right fear you might not get anything.

The whole kickstarter model can be draining at best, pretty depressing at worse. Mythic “Bloody” Games managed to kill any will for me to even unbox Darkest Dungeon when it finally arrived.

I have personally stopped using kickstarter I dont feel like I have missed out. When I see the complete mess Battletech, Wargames Atlantic and Mini Wargames kickstarters have been, how long they have been deplayed while those companies have all focused on other products even retail over delivery of the items people backed. Kickstarter is a mugs game once they have your money you no longer matter.

[horati0nosebl0wer]

Pledge: finish off the first mounted unit for the current army build

I was on the hype train of the first Kingdom Death KS and fell off past the year mark it took for delivery. I didn’t go in for the game and it was only models. I had hope for a KS from Titanforge Games and it was a back and forth issue for delivery that took about a year to iron out. I still have the army and have yet to fully paint it. Overall there aren’t any KS or other hype trains that I follow as there’s already so much stuff that I have which needs to be worked on.

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[sundancer 44259xp 2]

I know you’re not keen on politics which this borders on, so I’ll leave it at that.

Thanks there @pagan8th . It’s not that I do not like to talk politics in general but this thread is all about the hobby so again thanks for your understanding. If you feel that this is a topic that should be addressed: create a new thread and we’ll see were it goes 🙂

[pagan8th 13769xp 3]

I don’t think that’s necessary @sundancer I’m afraid that if I started a thread about politics it would rapidly deteriorate into a flame war and the last thing we need here is discussion about war 🙂

[limburger 22360xp 1]

Anything close to ‘current events’ can get tricky and very uncomfortable when not handled with care.
I think Oriskany and the SitRep podcast have discussed that topic before as ‘modern history’ is their thing.

Anyways …

Hypetrains ? Kickstarter has been mentioned already.

btw: did anyone see the recent update from the Battletech Mercenaries kickstarter ?
That really made me go ‘hmmm’. They still haven’t finished and are shuffling stock around as well as having shortages.

For me it’s not just the wait, but how a crowdfunding project is handled. CGL are most definitely the worst of the worst.

I hope I can ignore more crowdfunding projects this year. That didn’t go as well as I had planned last year.

There are a select few out there that manage to deliver their kickstarters on-time, but that’s also because they tend to be very limited in scope.

Then again … if things always went as planned they’d be risk free. Sometimes you need a reminder that crowdfunding is not a pre-order and that reality tends to f*ck up most plans that come into contact with it.

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Today was spent hauling stuff from the yellow/blue store to my house.
Doing this by public transport is not fun.

 

[grantinvanman 8251xp 1]

Ironically, I kind of forgot about the KS/ CGL Battletech saga – which had the ironic effect of building a hype train for me, as I watched it unfold, and nostalgia for 1980s Battletech took over. Result: I have a mountain of Battletech and terrain in various states of painting… and I’ve yet to play a game.

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