What Bits Of The Hobby Do You Enjoy Most?

[SV52]

Fascinating.  Like-minded isn't in it, apart from the true gamers not like me.  Hobby seems to tick all the same boxes for folks.

[fsn]

1 Taking the p*ss of FSN or Techno
2 Figures on the top totty page........ Oh sorry you mean actual  wargames figures.

Ok start again

1 Gaming
2 Planning what I need to buy
3 Buying stuff
4 Painting
5 basing, Cos this means it is finished
6 The satisfaction of putting stuff on the table for the first time
7 Taking the p*ss of FSN or Techno

I was number 1 for a while! 

[mmcv]

1) Research - love of history got me into this and learning about new periods or getting deeper into old favourites is a big factor driving it.

2) Planning - partly because I can do this anytime I've internet access and partly because it's a natural follow on from research. I enjoy planning out units and scenarios long before I've the materials to do anything with them.

3) Painting - putting those plans into action and getting something looking good (or at least not terrible) can be relaxing and satisfying. Except for cavalry. Bloody horses with all their straps and tacks and awkward angles...

4) Gaming - mostly solo and rarely have time for it but do enjoy putting the finished products on the table and letting slip the dogs of war when I can!

5) Basing - to be honest, it's growing on me now I have more materials to use and can make something a little more interesting.

6) Prepping models - trimming, clipping, gluing, priming and other such necessary evils... One of the things that put me off 28mm pretty quickly was all that faff with sprues and glues. Not so bad at 10mm except for artillery.

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10) Buying things - looking at all the lovely models for potential projects I really can't afford at the moment!


I guess terrain building should be in there somewhere but not sure where as I've not had the time, space or motivation to do any yet. Plan to do some hedges, tree stands and a bit of scatter in the near future though.

[FierceKitty]

Going by your AARs isn't it usually your partner who gazes upon your slain body...

It's like champagne when it's my turn, then. 

[paulr]

6) Prepping models - trimming, clipping, gluing, priming and other such necessary evils... One of the things that put me off 28mm pretty quickly was all that faff with sprues and glues. Not so bad at 10mm except for artillery.

I recently used a touch baking powder with super glue following advice on this forum, sets almost instantly and forms a much stronger firmer bond

[Westmarcher]

.... In particular you come to realise that contour maps are not produced with combat in mind, as the difference between contours is always too large to show militarily significant differences in height between positions! It is amazing how often seeing the field instantly answers those nagging questions as to how and why a particular battlefield incident occurred.....

Agreed. I found that with Antietam/Sharpsburg and the boulder strewn ground sloping up to Little Round Top at Gettysburg - so different from what I had previously imagined. 

[mmcv]

I recently used a touch baking powder with super glue following advice on this forum, sets almost instantly and forms a much stronger firmer bond

Yeah I've used that trick myself recently, it does help, but I've not the most delicate of hands so can still be quite fiddly!

[SV52]

I recently used a touch baking powder with super glue following advice on this forum, sets almost instantly and forms a much stronger firmer bond

Haven't tried that, currently use a spot of Blu-Tac with superglue, it sets like concrete.  Must investigate.

[Techno]

As long as you're not making something that will end up in a vulcanising press....Like what I do.

You can get away with murder.

You can also try Black-tak......FAR stronger than Blu - Tak

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Re. Mollinary's comment above: I too enjoy battlefield walking and was surprised to find how much the supposedly flattish battlefield of Mars la Tour actually undulates. I had wondered how the Prussian cavalry could have taken French 6th Corps' gun line by surprise. When standing on that spot it is noticeable that in only a short distance ahead the ground drops away by no more than thirty feet, but ample to conceal a man on horseback.

[fsn]

What I have discovered that I do enjoy is painting something to the first time.

Spent today trying various things with the Triremes.

[howayman]

Did it float your boat?


Research is the main thing. The uniforms, organisations and tactics.
Finding rules that are enjoyable.
The banter amongst players.
Organising the figures into units.
Painting and modelling are lower down the list.

[fsn]

Did it float your boat?

[steve_holmes_11]

Once it was history, uniform research, figures.

Now I'd say it is rules, army planning, games.

[SV52]

What I have discovered that I do enjoy is painting something to the first time.

Spent today trying various things with the Triremes.

I can appreciate that, four battalions about my limit though.

Once it was history, uniform research, figures.

Now I'd say it is rules, army planning, games.

Seems like a natural progression that, the one I failed at!

[mollinary]

Re. Mollinary's comment above: I too enjoy battlefield walking and was surprised to find how much the supposedly flattish battlefield of Mars la Tour actually undulates. I had wondered how the Prussian cavalry could have taken French 6th Corps' gun line by surprise. When standing on that spot it is noticeable that in only a short distance ahead the ground drops away by no more than thirty feet, but ample to conceal a man on horseback.

Yes, I have walked the same ground. From the French artillery position you can clearly see, and target, the Prussian positions around Vionville below. What you cannot see, particularly in a smoke filled battlefield, is the gully which debouches about eighty yards to your right and less than a hundred yards to your front.  You have no time to react.

[Chris Pringle]

Yes, I have walked the same ground. From the French artillery position you can clearly see, and target, the Prussian positions around Vionville below. What you cannot see, particularly in a smoke filled battlefield, is the gully which debouches about eighty yards to your right and less than a hundred yards to your front.  You have no time to react.

Surely the biggest factor at Mars-la-Tour was the fog limiting visibility to 100 yards?

Or perhaps that was just because when I visited the battlefield it was October.   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nowt uts an addiction I'm trying to get cured of 

[Techno]

Hey, man.....

Are you trying to score 'Some white metal ?'

I can probably fix you up. (Oooer, Matron)

Run......Quick.....It's the Feds.

Did we ever decide whether I'm the 'pusher'......Or is that down to Sir. ?......No, Leon must be the pusher....And 'me and my colleagues' are the suppliers.

Cheers - A Total Wally

[Itinerant Hobbyist]

Playing the games, then researching history, setting up scenarios, YouTubing and blogging, painting figs, making terrain

In that order