Hate painting figures and love the gaming side but never seem able to get a game There has been times when I wonder why I bother with the painting slog and could make much better use of the room I have my stuff stored in!
So i'm really envious of anyone within half an hour of a regular club and don't understand why they wouldn't try to get a game at least once every couple of weeks.
As Jeremy said, either way posting game reports with pictures is difficult here in any case - and the word "Wargaming" encompasses all aspects of the hobby doesn't it not just the gaming. I like this place for the banter, friendship and inspiration and I get that same inspiration from other similar forums.
Is there a forum where the game is king David? I can't see one in any of the places I visit and I see that role as being one for a blog where there is time to prepare a post as opposed to the off the cuff opportunity remarks that occur on here
Tim Hall wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:02 pm
Well, for me it's always been about collecting, converting and painting the figures really.
That certainly shines through with your ACW collection - and those SYW/Imagination conversions of the Perry plastic cuirassiers were the absolute dogs dangly bits!
I used to love painting figures and even took commissions when I was a student and worked part-time at Games Unlimited in Kingston. For reasons I can't quite explain, I lost the will to paint and whilst I will generally be up for a game at short notice, painting - beyond sticking stuff together and priming/undercoating - just eludes me now. I'm sure if I disciplined myself and made the effort to get back into it, I'd be ok, but I just can't seem to acquire the drive to finish anything off.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
Tim Hall wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:02 pm
Well, for me it's always been about collecting, converting and painting the figures really.
That certainly shines through with your ACW collection - and those SYW/Imagination conversions of the Perry plastic cuirassiers were the absolute dogs dangly bits!
I used to love painting figures and even took commissions when I was a student and worked part-time at Games Unlimited in Kingston. For reasons I can't quite explain, I lost the will to paint and whilst I will generally be up for a game at short notice, painting - beyond sticking stuff together and priming/undercoating - just eludes me now. I'm sure if I disciplined myself and made the effort to get back into it, I'd be ok, but I just can't seem to acquire the drive to finish anything off.
Thank you for the kind comments there. I thoroughly enjoyed working on that collection, and as much as I am trying to call it finished, I know I will sneak back to it and paint another regiment or two, or a vignette or something. I have tried commission painting, but my heart was never in it as it stopped me painting my own stuff. These days I am changing my painting style, slimming down the amount of work that goes into a figure yet achieving similar results, that seems to be working. But I would far rather have two excellent games a year than settle for an indifferent game each month. And yes, putting up pictorial game reports is now a complete fag, which is why I do it on facebook, as it's so much easier to post pics. As for painting, I try to get in an hour every day at the very least, often more. But I am retired and have a fair bit of time on my hands.
Rules? You ask me what rules do I use. No, I don't do rules.
Well, since February 2020 I have played two ftf games. It's hard to post pictures of virtual games. I paint almost every day but even in better times, would play at best 2 games a month. Hardly surprising I have more to post about painting.
In 'normal times' I'd get around 10 games a year in and a PBEM campaign every year or two. However COVID and other assorted illnesses amongst the group have severely curtailed activities, with 2 games so far this year.
I’ve often thought about a blog, but just never gotten round to it. I think largely because I spend 9+ hours a day for work on a PC, then most of my RPG’s are online, combined with virtual games since lockdown, it’s a lot of screen time.
There has been times when I wonder why I bother with the painting slog and could make much better use of the room I have my stuff stored in!
and made the effort to get back into it, I'd be ok, but I just can't seem to acquire the drive to finish anything off.
