Reply To: Hobby Weekender 31/01/2019 – Let's All Down with the Sickness

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@sundancer A solid list of alternate ideas to painting when the weather does not suit. The idea of sitting with power tools sounds unusual to me – maybe because from an early age I have always seen people stand when operating them, so this makes sense too. Glad you don’t have to sit at the C all day when doing actual work 🙂 I think you can buy pre-mixed flock blends from Woodland Scenics? Would that help out with the baseing? Heh, I’m a little the same with being in control of a moving vehicle – not particularly comfortable being a passenger, and on planes, even though I know how highly trained the pilot has to be, i think because I can’t see what’s directly ahead I start to worry a little 🙂

In response to your bonus question, in the late 80’s and early 90’s a few things happened – my neighbour got a copy of the Hero Quest board game, I picked up a copy of 2nd edition Battletech and my friends at school started to play a role playing game called Dragon Warriors. From that point on I pretty much had no hope, but I think if I go back earlier it may have started with the Castle themed Lego sets from around 1984?…

Nice start on the wookies! I think there was a Three Colours Up painting tutorial posted not long ago where Roman was looking at painting wolf fur – could come in handy? Are all wookies brown? I’d almost be tempted to do mine in white, greys and blacks, but then I suppose they could end up looking more like abominable snowmen… Might be better to stick with the standard colour scheme 🙂 30 Woolong for question responses, another 20 for hobby progress. 50 total 🙂

@dawfydd hope you are feeling better by the time you read this 🙂 Snowed in doesn’t sound like fun, fingers crossed that 32mm bases are the only thing you are out of. Heh – Diet Knight *giggles*. Marshland bases do look good – it’s immediately obvious as to what the base represents and must look really good when the squads are all massed up in the deployment zone. I think from memory they don’t let you go skydiving drunk :-/ Otherwise, would have been a solid plan 🙂 Nice work on the Knights – good to see you found a workaround for being out of standard sized bases 😉  Heh, the lore reminds me a little of Battletech with light mechs getting used to rain the new kids 🙂 30 Woolong for question responses, 20 more for hobby progress. 50 total 🙂

@horati0nosebl0wer terribly brave of you – at least my alarm clock doesn’t have the capacity to claw my face if I try to snooze it… Good suggestions re hot weather hobbying. I have been using the quick glue setting to get a lot of minis put together (200+ over the last few weeks) so will have plenty to paint as long as the shift in weather holds for a bit. Using sprue offcuts and random car bits sounds like a good plan. I picked up some minis from Anvil Industries for their Afterlife game a while back – the sprue is actually moulded with detail to look like rubble, construction beams etc so once you clip the mini parts, the sprue can be used to add detail to the bases. I personally thought that was a brilliant idea, a really nice touch that reduced waste for little extra effort on the part of the designers  🙂 Yes both handy skill sets to have for the inevitable zombie apocalypse I guess. Unless there are zombie sharks. In which case I may never take a bath again… Foregoing video games to finish a pledge? That’s hardcore! 30 Woolong for question responses.

@mage solid pledge. Objective markers for which game? I have been meaning to do some deployment markers for Sharp Practice, hopefully pics of your objectives may inspire me to get going on that…

BTW, looks like some of the units for test of Honour are being discontinued by Warlord (perhaps the whole game? Not sure…) so as I know you had some o the stuff just wanted to flag in case there was anything you wanted to grab before it all got super-hard to find 2nd hand… 10 Woolong for the pledge.

https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/last-chance-offers?page=1