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  • Hobby Streak – Day 11

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    Some days I get this done early on in the day, other days I need to sit myself down at the desk and put paint on plastic. Today was absolutely the latter…

    The morning started off kinda nice — over the last four weeks I’ve been engaging with a Game Facilitator Camp on how to run GMless/GMfull games put together by The Open Hearth. I really enjoyed it, and have been loving getting more involved with the Hearth, and encourage anyone interested in TTRPGs to check them out. They’re focused heavily on running indie rpgs, storygames, and other ttrpgs with a focus on inclusivity. It’s pretty great.

    Anyway, for that final session I facilitated a game of MOBILE FRAME ZERO: FIREBRANDS which was fun, though I think I’d like to run it over more than a 2h one-shot. Maybe 4-6 total playtime would fit better. Definitely would be something I could see running well on a stream or stream series in the future.

    Now, for the actual painting. I’m slowly working through the Legitimate Salvage crew and today I started colour-blocking for our Medic “Ick”. I am trying to go more of a firefly scheme for any of the unarmoured folk so I’m playing with earth tones (greens, yellows, and browns).

    Tomorrow I’ll keep going and see how it comes together with more than just a single thin coat…

    // Moxxie

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 10

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    Double digits today, woo!

    Today was Gaslands and the painting desk. Our 3rd game of the escalation campaign I’ve got going on with my friend Andrew, with me eking out my second victory. I’m now two-for-two at wining a game by reversing in the last moment. I am really starting to love this game.

    Next I managed to sit and finish up my first character for my Legitimate Salvage run! Meet the crew’s CLO, Bingus (a.k.a. “2020”). He’s equip with a Torch, Fabricator, Pistol, Stun Baton, Electronic Toolkit, and a Molatov. And somehow, he’s an Anarchist. Still, nobody likes him.

    More to come soon!!

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 9

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    Today is the first of my “I only managed to do TTRPG stuff” days. We planned for this in the rules, and I’m pleased that it also counts and keeping the streak going!

    So, Tuesday nights are my Lancer nights, and tonight was one of my favourites. I managed to get so many of my drones out and it scratched that wargaming itch wonderfully. I NEED to get myself some minis to represent my mechs. We’ll be starting a new campaign soon and I’m at a loss as to what I’ll be doing next

    That’s enough for tonight, I’ve done so much talking…

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 8

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    Hoping that it’s not going to jinx me in some way, but I actually had a good day today. I managed to not just hit the longest I’ve streamed so far playing Guild Wars 2. Now that I’m well-and-truly into the affiliate space, I’m certainly going to be increasing my hours.

    Today I got the paintbrushes out for the first time in a week, and gosh it was lovely. I’m working on two more of my Legitimate Salvage crew (which I still need to get the character sheets sorted for). The first (left two) is going to be a red suited soldier, the second (right two) is going to be our doctor with pale skin, leather jacket, and other bits. I’m just getting some colour blocking down before more detail work tomorrow.

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 7

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    It’s been a full week, and honestly, I wish I managed to get more painting done. Today I was feeling the tail end of the post-migraine hangover and, while playing a ttrpg session online (Pathfinder 2e) I put together the entire Stargrave Automatons box ready for Legitimate Salvage.

    That’s 20 little borg-like servitors ready to be enemies on the gaming table.

    Tomorrow I’m back at the painting desk on stream, I’m planning to lock-in a little more and focus on the Crew for Legitimate Salvage and get at least one or two table ready. I think I’ll even do some re-writing of the intro and the like ready to be recorded for an upcoming project.

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 6

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    Today’s a good day. I think my migraine is finally starting to break — I’ve spent the day in significant postdrome, but I had enough energy to finish off the Genestealers and get some paint on them.

    Not long of an update today, but I’m enjoying feeling like I’ve done something.

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 5

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    Almost didn’t make it today. Each day of this challenge beyond the first has had a strong colouring of pain and fatigue. I absolutely knew I’d need to account for my spoonie nature through my own challenge rules, I just hadn’t expected to need them literally from day 2.

    I was a little more productive today though. I had spent the day passed out in bed where I could and gently drifting between kitchen to sofa to keep myself hydrated. The afternoon I made a trip to the store in order to get things for dinner and to increase my stockpile of paracetamol and ibuprofen. That gave me a little push to put 30min on my pomodoro timer and get to making.

    Day 3 of making these Genestealers, and honestly building this box has reminded me how much I adore the Tyranid design. I need to get these goobers painted and playing asap. I don’t want to play 40k, so I’m going to have to try and see if I can drum up some local interest in OPR.

    That’s 8 of 10 built. Tomorrow I plan to finish the last 2 and base them. I may not paint them anytime soon, but it’s fun to start getting some projects planned.

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 4

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    Still real heavy migraine day. I couldn’t get to my mini painting yet, but got two more Genestealers built. 5/10 done.

    Honestly, sitting and scraping mold lines, tidying up the sprue remnants, and gluing together is oddly meditative when your brain throbs. I do want to see where these end up after a good zenithal highlight and some detail work.

    I’m thinking maybe Hive Fleet Jormungandr would be a cool scheme to work with. I already have a bunch of sandy and dark colours, so should work well.

    Hoping future Moxxie has some good ol’ pain-free fun.

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 3

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    Migraine was worse today, but I kept going. Progress is progress is progress. I think my favourite thing about this hobby is the lack of screens — doing something away from the screen is deeply important to me.

    Not a huge update today, decided to do some work at my computer desk while listening to my partner’s stream. I have a box of Tyranid Genestealers from when I thought I might get into 10th Edition 40K. They’ve been sitting on the shelf for a while and I thought that they’d be good for something like One Page Rules. More than that though, I thought it could be fun to use some Games Workshop miniatures to showcase my painting ability for potential commission slots I’ll open in the next month or so.

    Back to the migraine-mines. Hopefully it’ll clear up in the next day or so. Look after yourselves everyone!

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  • Hobby Streak – Day 2

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    What do you know, day 2 and I come down with a godsdamned migraine. I managed to get a little bit done, which was AMAZING, but I could’ve used a save point today. Who knows, maybe this will help me focus on migraine days.

    So, to what I did. I set myself the goal to finish making my mini for “Smash”, an android character I rolled on stream for an upcoming Legitimate Salvage project I’m working on. The thing about Smash is that they’re effectively a robot wearing a bikini, and is completely genderless – though despite this, or perhaps because of it, every single one of their crew (the magenta figures in the background) find themselves unexpectedly attracted to them.

    That didn’t take me the full 30 mins, so I got back into my Dark Age Warriors from yesterday, putting together 3 spear men, an axe man, a swordsman, and two javelineers. It’s such a versatile kit, and I’m aiming for 8 of each (7 swordsman, one will have a battle-horn and act as a “leader” of sorts. Still not sure what game this will be for, but with this layout, I think I could play a game of 28mm Blade Wrath once it gets to my door. At the very least it’ll help me decide on a paint scheme for my 15mm army.

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    Something I thought would be fun to do, would be to show off what I’m listening to on these 30-min streak-sessions. Today I was working my way through my podcast backlog which has built up over the last few weeks. Today it was Episode 107 of The Mechbay podcast. I’m super excited for the new rulebook for BattleTech and am eating up any and all discussions around the place. If you’re interested in BT, play it, or are somewhat curious, these guys are pretty great, podcast wise.

    Tonight I’ve got my Lancer group, otherwise I’d spend a little more time base coating or the like, but alas, my time is short today. Let’s hope tomorrow brings more hobby success!

    // Moxxie

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