Soon, a Decade.

 It occurs to me that in scant weeks this blog will be an entire decade old.  That could be seen as a testament to tenacity though I believe its more of a monument to sloth.

 Be that as it may, I will endeavor to mark it in some fashion. Or maybe just post more often. Or more likely I will forget and then post something late.  Not that anyone will notice. So no pressure, really.

 Wasted potential, his life was, they will someday say. Or more hopefully - a late bloomer (though not of the onion variety). 

A New Project (or perhaps Madness)

 Recently I have been painting a number of character/vendor/hired gun figures for Necromunda and sending pictures of them in various stages of completion to various folk who may be interested. My friend Bruce sent me a text stating that we should put together a narrative campaign so we can get all these figures on the table, to which I heartily agreed.

 The basic idea being - at Bruce's suggestion - would be 4-5 games minimum over the course of about 8 months. More games if possible, but even if we manage the 4 or 5 that's a win. If we manage more that's a better win. Flexibility will win out over rigidity of scheduling and overplanning. How much simpler it all was when I was in High School and all of my gaming buddies were as well. Every Saturday meet somewhere for a game and every so often go to someone's house on Friday night and game/eat garbage/nap until Sunday. Oh, what halcyon days they were.

 Strangely, I have been pondering this idea of doing some narrative games for a while and wondering if anyone would want to actually participate. I now have an answer, as I suspect Bruce is not the only one in our merry band who would enjoy participating. If that had not happened I would likely have just done it anyway in my own head. But that has openings and things fall out, like memories. This will be far superior as I have a reason to write it all down.

Here is hoping for good madness.

Still Not Dead Yet.

 As with most things, I have long intended to restart my journal of building/crafting/painting via this blog. And as with almost all things I intend, I do not seem to actually achieve it.  So no promises but I still have that intent.

 Despite this blog having turned into me essentially shouting into the void when I do bother to post I should not allow that to keep me from doing the shouting. But again that's all based on intent.

Acta Non Verba

A Crafting Adventure

 Now that I have my YouTube channel (Hacksaw's Hobby Bunker) firmly established, I will endeavor to expand on certain projects via this blog. At least that is my intent. 

Not dead yet.

 Just to confirm, I am not dead yet. Hopefully more to follow.

The maddening nature of the internet...

I was recently chided for not having updated this blog with photos of my current projects. Upon attempting to remedy this deficiency today I discovered that my image hosting service has decreed my account to be about twice as large as is allowed for the "free" hosting.

This means I must find another hosting service...transfer all of my photos to that...then relink them all to my posts.

This may take me a while but it isn't like anyone besides my helpful friend is actually reading this.

In the meantime I am sorely vexed but that is nothing new.

Time flies like an arrow....

...and fruit flies like a banana.  So, its about two and half weeks shy of four years since I declared that I was beginning work anew after a previous two year absence. Four years.

 In that time, I mostly did no work on anything miniature related. I played almost no miniatures games. It was a dark time to be sure. Last year I started to snap out of it a bit. I bought the starter set for Strontium Dog and was excited about a project again, was ready to paint and build and roll dice and...then I had a fairly major health issue arise. Suddenly I was wondering if I was going to shuffle off this mortal coil and depart for the great beyond. There are certain words that doctors can say that will cause you to change your focus rapidly. My doctor spoke one of those words to me. Minis and gaming and just about everything else was shoved back the rearmost burners for a while. Thankfully all went as well as anyone could have asked. So after a time, I began to think about fun things again.

 My Strontium Dog project (such as it was) went off the rails - partly because of the previously mentioned incident, and partly because I was ghosted by someone who said they wanted to play it. It's not the sort of game that appears to lend itself to solo play easily so it went back to the rearmost burner. That was about 80 bucks worth of excitement that never went anywhere. Such is life. At least I am here still to make that observation.

 As chance would have it another game came to my attention and as a bonus it fit in with almost everything I had managed to achieve for Valhalla Falls.  Fallout had finally come to the table in an officially licensed and supported format. A ruleset, miniatures, terrain, the works. After pondering it for a bit I found a starter set at one of my local shops and picked it up. Since then I have obtained several expansion/faction sets and look forward to future releases. I have also restarted work on my terrain and buildings from way back at the start of this blog.

 I have completed several new barricades, scratchbuilt a couple of wasteland shacks, and completed a few of the O scale buildings shown in earlier posts. Thankfully I took pictures of most of it so new posts will be forthcoming detailing how and what and all that sort of thing.  While my current focus is on Fallout: Wasteland Warfare I have not given up on my original vision for VF.  It is still there and will still eventually hit the table. Stay tuned (I suspect I am shouting into the void again but that's fine). In the meantime I hope you enjoy some adventures in the Wasteland.

Cheers!