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Hobby Streak 11/10/22

Dwarf warriors completed. I finished painting a unit of 10 dwarven warriors, nothing truly spectacular as they are just grunts infantry. Here is the list I intend to use for the battle when the army is done. (aka this gives me approximately 30 fully painted models)

Unit Name# of ModelsPointsOther
King1325
Engineer1235
Dragon Seeker1355
Clan Warriors20305Champ, Musc, Standard, Great Weapons
Clan Warriors30425Cham, Musc, Standard, Shield
Clan Warriors25390Champ, Musc, Standard, Shield and Spear
Greybeards20370Champ, Musc, Standard
Clan Marskmen15310Handgun
Rangers8182Champ, Musc, Crossbow
Kings Guard20505Champ, Musc, Standard,
Grudge Buster1305Airship
Steam Copters1215Sharpnel Bombs
Field Artillery1255Run Crafter Dwarf Cannon
Field Artillery1325Flaming Shot, Rune Crafted Organ Gun
20% complete1454502

11/09/22 Streak

The streak begins with a few minor models. I cleaned up my hobby space which was littered with 6 months of clutter from no work being done. I filled up my water cup and wet palate put the paints where they belonged, and threw away the accumulated garbage. I am starting with a set of 10 dwarven warriors with great axes on square bases. I do 10 because that is the typical unit size in Age of Sigmar, and I have 3d printed tons of base adapters. You can go from a square base to a round base but not a round to a square, so I use square.

I only had about 30 minutes; I painted all of the exposed skin using contrast, the wood, and the hair. I think I had 3 or 4 different hair colors. I also brook out the reaper darkened steel for metals and the Vallejo extra opaque yellow and blue as the base colors. This way, they match the rest of my Cities of Sigmar. All of the models were previously zenithal highlighted.

Should finish these in the next few days. I also inventoried my death guard, which, given I don’t know much about the army, was an accomplishment.

Yesterday I lost an Election

11/09/2022

Yesterday I lost an election. I campaigned to be the mayor of my hometown. Literally, everyone told me how great I was, I would do a good job, and they voted for me. I did all the things, door-to-door, radio ads, Facebook ads, and direct mailers, it wasn’t enough.

For a while, I have wanted a hobby page and hobby business. I enjoy tabletop games. I enjoy playing, thinking, and creating. I enjoy painting and studying lore. I do not enjoy gluing models together.

So today, after much deliberation, I am going to start a hobby streak. A real hobby streak. I am relying on this blog to keep me accountable. Pictures of what I accomplished the whole kit and caboodle. I want my armies finished and on the table. I want to solo fight beautiful battles.

What Counts as Hobbying

  • Painting Models
  • Building Models
  • Painting/Building Terrain
  • Playing A Game (hobby’d minis only)
  • Creating Rules
  • Creating Scenarios
  • Creating Campaigns
  • Building Army Lists
  • DND Creating
  • Soccer Officiating

Most of those are obvious. I feel like anytime I am building models or terrain or painting them, it counts as hobbying. When I am playing a game with miniatures that I hobby’d it counts. Aka if I play a General D’Armee or Warhammer. What does not count ASOIAF, X-Wing, Armada, where now hobby work takes place.

If I am creating rules, I am working on a ruleset for General D’Armee to add dragons, per the Temeraire book series. If I am creating unique situations or scenarios for games to add objectives or intrigue. How often in war is the objective to stand on this spot for 5 turns. I love doing this for Warhammer, especially because it adds a lot to the game. Ditto creating a campaign, my little brother and I have a Grecco-Persian war campaign close to ending, and it is time for a new one, probably 100 Years War or crusades. Building army lists is also huge; I like thematic lists. That meets the competitive side but is also thematic. A unit of icefall yetis is not going to visit the tomb kings; I am fine with different armies I just want the lists to be thematic.

One thing I really enjoy is DND. I haven’t had a campaign for a few months, the start of the election cycle, but getting back into a campaign would be exciting. I added these more bookwork things, not for ease of use but on days when my wife and I are traveling, I can still hobby. This goal may change in the future, but I look at our upcoming adventures together, and it seems silly to set myself a goal that I know I will fail at instead of setting myself up to succeed.

The same goes for refereeing soccer. I consider that a hobby of mine I enjoy. I also know I will struggle to find time to hobby and painting when I am at a tournament for 12 hours stuck in a hotel with a roommate. So I am going to consider refereeing a hobby at least for now.