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Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Re: Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction

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Post by Xelbair »

jesperht wrote: post #35
Xelbair wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of reasons i bought Necromunda Dark Uprising - the terrain there is awesome and can be used for infinity too... and for Kill Team. I have few friends that are into wh40k, but i want to stealthly convert them to infinity :>

Definitely going to give Necromunda Dark Uprising a look then, especially considering the "compatible" terrain. Havent touched Necromunda in a very very very long time, so love the idea of giving it a shot again. Thank you for the tip, and goood luck with your stealth mission ;-)

I have to wait for all the magnets to arrive before i assemble it though. The terrain is very modular and it has pre-made spots to fit in magnets.

I am still drilling spots for few other pieces to make is as modular as possible.

It might be a bit hard to get some of them with all the pandemic going on. At least my paints arrived already.

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Post by test1235 »

tartoran wrote: post #9

The zenlike state relates quite well to painting and why so many people still choose to paint/draw in this digital age. And all comes down to doing manual work I think. Some of us are more wired for it, others for different tasks. To me, when I paint it feels I was made for doing this and feels i could do it 24/7 without getting bored. My rational self tempers this urge though.

I agree - I get this too. I've often wondered if the John Carmacks of the world have the same thing for coding, in which case, I envy them for being addicted to something so lucrative (as opposed to taking up an activity which is worth next to nil, financially, and is frowned upon, pricewise and socially)

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Post by ArtDev »

I have been working on making space to start painting minis again. The zenlike trance I was in for hours when modeling did wonders for my attention span.

The minis are expensive but I collected quite a bit over ebay.

40k Kill Team makes the game much more affordable too.

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Post by test1235 »

russellbeattie wrote: post #26
tibbydudeza wrote: post #12

The Emperor protects. But it is simply amazing to see the amount of work being output by The Gaming Workshop in this Universe. The amount of audio books and novels and depth of world building is simply mind boggling and here I thought Lord of the Rings/Wheel Of Time was huge.

I actually started reading some of these novels for this exact reason. I figured that if I liked them, I'll have plenty to keep me occupied for the next several years. Didn't like the Inquisitor novels, so I stopped that series. The Horus Heresy got a little bogged down in the second book, so I read a summary online and decided to skip the other 50 books (LITERALLY). But the first book in the Gaunt's Ghost series has…

Ciaphas Cain is a fun series of books ... he plays a cheesy anti-hero who always seems to win, but it's fun in that it's set in the 40k universe.

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Post by thebouv »

beedyg wrote: post #28

"A friend who plays more tabletop games than I do tells me that — in terms of the mechanics — as tabletop games go, it’s middling" absolutely, just played my first few games of Infinity recently (yes plural each game took around an hour) and was blown away by how much more fun it was to play. The next day we were trying to organise the next session. That never happened with 40K because the games were exhausting and m…

My whole group was in on Infinity for a long time.

But eventually the intricacies of Infinity rules gets to you. It is a dense DENSE ruleset that requires constant referral to the rulebook.

It is fun. It is a great setting. But I know it wears on some people due to its complexity.

After a week of work where I'm heavy on the brain-stuff, I've decided I want my games dumber than Infinity.

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Post by test1235 »

INTPenis wrote: post #7

Why the shame? Self-deprecation I hope. Because there should be no shame in having a productive and creative hobby. I wish I had the patience to paint such tiny figures but whenever I've tried my hands start itching, I even feel itching behind my eyes, in my brain, and I just scream and throw things on the ground.

There should be no shame, but in reality, there's no end to the number of people ready to take the piss out of you for "painting toy soldiers". I couldn't have a few Space Marines on my desk at work for example, like I might have Lego.

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Post by Symbiote »

larzang wrote: post #39
Symbiote wrote: post #10

I haven't played the game since about 2001, when my friends decided it wasn't cool any more. They (we) moved on to Magic: the Gathering instead, which was a problem as I was the teenager with by far the least money in our group. My parents had just about accepted that Warhammer was expensive but intricate and time-consuming (equivalent to my dad's train set in the 1950s), but 15 cards for £$€ ? No way. I more-or-less…

Being an adult warham is kind of a mixed blessing, at 19 I had no money and all the time in the world, at 36 I have no problem affording my plastic addiction but little free painting time. At least now with the virus I'm 100% work from home, which gives me an extra 90 free minutes a day from not commuting.

I think what I'll miss is having 20-year-later eyesight, so working on intricate details with artificial light will be less appealing. (By now I know what my dad would mean when he'd say things like "how can you see that in this light?") Once I've finished a more important assignment, I'll push my work-from-home hours to the mornings and evenings, leaving the afternoon free.

If the isolation should somehow continue to the winter, I'll also miss out on evening daylight, since I live 4° further north.

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