Quar Smorgasbord (trench board Pt 4 too)

 

Or perhaps you would prefer a potpourri?

Epic Hobby Weekend

Ever feel like you were just spinning your wheels wasting time doing a bunch of small projects only vaguely related? little progress here, little progress there, but nothing feels complete? 

Then things kinda come together and finish at the same time in one epic hobby weekend.

It's a rush!  Things jump forward with multiple endorphin hits.  

It's like one of those cooking shows where five simmering pots and pans and the oven timer goes off and suddenly things are done at once.  

Now I have something to blog about, and it makes me happy.

You have something to read about, and that makes you sad.

Just the way of the world.

Service today is a little Miniature Gaming Medley.

Enjoy!
(The Swedish Chef is the only cooking show I enjoyed)

Miniatures

Once can't make terrain all the time (even though I kinda have been), and in between I put paint to miniature when there wasn't anything better to do.  Six more Quar Crusaders join the cause today.

Close ups

These are my first of the newer hard plastic range.  I find it...challenging... to get the arms in the right places.  But other than that I really like the miniatures.  

In fact I'm very much enjoying the whole Quar project.  I'm SO into it I even joined Facebook for the first time just to I could be a part of the Quar discussion group.  I told myself that I'm joining Facebook for my daughter's sake, because she's gonna want to be on it soon (being 11) and I had better at least have an idea of what it is.  Being an old out of touch dad is lame.  

I can totally see how Facebook is a giant endless rabbit hole.   Also Cool, because it dials you into the groups / areas that you find interesting.  Also scary, because a computer program learns you VERY fast.  

Bridge

According to the plan for the "This Quar's War Trench Terrain Board" the third board would also feature another bridge, but smaller.  I don't know why.  'The plan' was conceived so long ago that I don't remember what I was thinking.  But let's assume that past me knew what he was about. 

I didn't have another bridge laying around, so I had to make it.  I wanted the bridge done first so that I could assure that it fit over the trench; that it would be easier to cut the foam to the bridge than construct the bridge to the foam.  I dug out my Hirst Arts 'Fieldstone bridge' mold that I got years ago and casted up all the blocks.  It takes forever.  And I'm out of practice.  A skill more remembered than relearned.  

Bridge built.
Still in it's pale plaster white.
The same color that my skin defaults to. 
This one is 2" wide.
And since it's from the same mold it matches the larger one
seen in previous post.

The wood pile behind it is my ever-growing pile of planks for use later.

After I took this picture I tidied it all away in a Ziplock.
Started to take up too much room on my hobby desk
and kept reminding me of my backyard.

Trench Board

With the bridge done, I could move onto the third board construction.  And the Epic hobby weekend cumulated with the wife and daughter leaving town for a night and two days, leaving me with just the two boys.  Making sure to run them around ALL day outside in the heat, they went right to sleep at bedtime leaving me with an extended evening to cut foam while listening to inappropriate music.

mapping it all out.

The third board will feature a T junction for the big wide trench, a U shaped WWI style trench, the bridge, and a rocky cliff face (I also cast a bunch of rocks from molds while casting the bridge).

All cut out.

stone texture craved into the foam to mark where the bridge goes.

It's a big leap forward and the end of phase 1with the boards is in sight and soon I can start to make them look pretty versus just stuff glued together.

Surprise Convention:

I was not planning on attending Pacificon this year, the only out of town con I usually attend.  Bills being bills and times being what they are, I didn't think 3 nights in a hotel was a necessary expense. 

I probably bitched about it a few times, because my wife got me a ticket as a Father's Day present.  Before I could complain that it wasn't so much the ticket price but the hotel (besides, if I hosted a big enough game I could get in for free anyway) and I thought we were trying to save some cash she told me that she had worked it out with her parents that I could sleep at their house (which is about 45 mins from the convention hotel). 

-truth is- I had already thought of that and rejected the idea.  I get along with my in-laws just fine, but they are the sort that would 'wait for me just to make sure I got back safely' even though I'm in my late 40s and the caretaker of 3 of their grandchildren....  plus, I'm in my late 40s and I'm gonna couch surf at my inlaws?  LAME.  but it was decided for me.  I have a nice wife.  

The week after my friend Mr. DR. told me that I could stay in his hotel room for free.  He's a nice man.

So I'm going.  And since I have paid admission, I can wait to the very last second to decide if I want to run a game or just be a player the whole weekend.   

Blog Birthday

This Terrible blog is 7 years old this week.  This is the 181st post.  

Thanks to everyone whose reads this Terrible blog and double thanks to everyone whose wrote a comment to let me know they read it.  I KNOW it's mostly a waste of time, but hopefully the blog is at least mildly amusing so that:

Sometimes I think that my blogging time is ending.  But then I think "what else am I gonna do while at work?"  

Till Next Time