I'm back from a great holiday; great music and cheese again. I took some painting to do, some Reaper Bones and a couple of their paint sets, but only managed to get one mini almost finished, there was that much else to do.
I also took a good bit of time to a) read other hobby blogs and b) try and sort out where I'm going in the hobby.
I tend to suffer from 'Ooo Shiny' syndrome, even more than most gamers. I read several blogs giving tips on how the writers dealt with it themselves. There's the 'Conquering the Lead Mountain' challenge, which I might implement, but for sorting out and organising what I am doing I liked the 'five box' system. This is designed to help keep focus without restricting hobby time to just one thing. I read about this on a Dutch gamer's blog (Gunbird, he mentions it about halfway down this page) and it seems a good way to rein in the 'Ooo Shiny' impulse. I've made a list of projects and organised them according to priority. My first box will be for Frostgrave, as I've a mausoleum to finish, and I promised one of the gamers I'd paint his warband for him (just ten figures, can't be too hard, right?). I'll decide on the box contents as I go, the second one will probably be 15mm Greeks.
BTW, I'm also trying to tidy out my stuff, so I'll be doing a lot of sorting through and thinning the Lead Mountain over the next few weeks.
Or months.
I'll also try to keep a bit more up to date on the blog and generally improve it. I do enjoy doing this, though sometimes it feels a bit lonely, but I have a lot of projects that have been done, and not shown. I should remedy this. I hope the larger picture size I'm trying here helps make out the details a bit better, please let me know what you think.
Anyway, with the holidays generally over, we are back to the D&D 4E campaign. For last night's game I needed a larger version of the crystalline constructs I made here. I already had a mixed bag of plastic 'crystals' that I got off eBay (I think they are sold as table scatter for weddings?) *EDIT; they are available as counters for Magic the Gathering etc, here* , but the flight stands I made were just too flimsy. I had no clear plastic rod, but a quick search in my local independant Poundsaver type shop turned up a set of party cocktail bits. I didn't use the paper umbrellas, but the stirring sticks were ideal. I cut a length of about 50mm and drilled a number 6 hole in the centre of a 40mm clear acrylic base. Friction has kept the rod in place. then simply a case of hot gluing on randomly a selection of the crystals a few at a time.
I also took a good bit of time to a) read other hobby blogs and b) try and sort out where I'm going in the hobby.
I tend to suffer from 'Ooo Shiny' syndrome, even more than most gamers. I read several blogs giving tips on how the writers dealt with it themselves. There's the 'Conquering the Lead Mountain' challenge, which I might implement, but for sorting out and organising what I am doing I liked the 'five box' system. This is designed to help keep focus without restricting hobby time to just one thing. I read about this on a Dutch gamer's blog (Gunbird, he mentions it about halfway down this page) and it seems a good way to rein in the 'Ooo Shiny' impulse. I've made a list of projects and organised them according to priority. My first box will be for Frostgrave, as I've a mausoleum to finish, and I promised one of the gamers I'd paint his warband for him (just ten figures, can't be too hard, right?). I'll decide on the box contents as I go, the second one will probably be 15mm Greeks.
BTW, I'm also trying to tidy out my stuff, so I'll be doing a lot of sorting through and thinning the Lead Mountain over the next few weeks.
Or months.
I'll also try to keep a bit more up to date on the blog and generally improve it. I do enjoy doing this, though sometimes it feels a bit lonely, but I have a lot of projects that have been done, and not shown. I should remedy this. I hope the larger picture size I'm trying here helps make out the details a bit better, please let me know what you think.
Anyway, with the holidays generally over, we are back to the D&D 4E campaign. For last night's game I needed a larger version of the crystalline constructs I made here. I already had a mixed bag of plastic 'crystals' that I got off eBay (I think they are sold as table scatter for weddings?) *EDIT; they are available as counters for Magic the Gathering etc, here* , but the flight stands I made were just too flimsy. I had no clear plastic rod, but a quick search in my local independant Poundsaver type shop turned up a set of party cocktail bits. I didn't use the paper umbrellas, but the stirring sticks were ideal. I cut a length of about 50mm and drilled a number 6 hole in the centre of a 40mm clear acrylic base. Friction has kept the rod in place. then simply a case of hot gluing on randomly a selection of the crystals a few at a time.
Ozzie the wizard (for scale) looks on and tries to remember what energy type this is vulnerable to.
It looks magic!
ReplyDeleteCheers.
DeleteThe extra large pics do kind of creep out of their space though. Still, I think everything is still readable.