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Hobbies

Interesting hobbies? I'd say photography & writing is my only interesting hobbies, the rest are pretty mundane.
 
I consider gaming to be a hobby of mine. I've also been known to write from time to time, but I tend to get complacent with that pretty quickly. I also used to play soccer and run cross country until I got shin splints and had to stop. Most of my time these days is just taken up by gaming, school work, and social activities.
 
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I suppose I play enough games now to consider it a hobby. I enjoy reading, listening to music, admiring artwork, and lurking around on forums and if any of those can be called hobbies then there's that too. Also, watching stupid videos of other people's hobbies is fun too.
 
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Drawing, Gaming, Photoshop, and Martial Arts (wing chun).

Does using the internet count as a hobby? Cause I'm pretty sure I do that a lot.
 
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Tsuyu said:
On that topic, I've always wanted to get into Warhammer: 40K miniatures. But they're freakin' expensive and I fear my hands are too shaky for that kind of assembly...
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I did Warhammer 40K for a while, got some Chaos/space marines and a s*** load of Tyranids, After completely f***ing up my Chaos army, mainly due to a lack of experience and patience, I decided to buy some Good guy Space marines, did them as black Templars because they were straight forward to paint plus they were probably the most badass marines in the game with their Power armour/crusader crossover thing going on. < I did a lot more research and preparation this time around so they turned out quite well. My Tyranids turned out decent too, blood red with bone coloured talons, the details came out rather nicely.

Sadly though I lost interest after a while around 4 years ago, now I have £150 worth of miniatures sat in a box at home unassembled, gathering dust, that was money well spent. My mate was going to get some but I warned against it because of how difficult they can be and my opinion that they're not worth the money, plus my friend has even less patience than me and would probably end up abandoning them as I and pretty much all my other friends have.

However If you're going to get into it I do have a few pointers that'll save you a lot of stress and potentially ruined miniatures:

1: Before Glueing them together, use blueback to practice assemble the miniatures, that way you can change the poses/accessories around until your happy with it. Like you said they're pretty expensive, so you'll want get it right when glueing them together.

2: If you're painting a tank or any other kind of vehicle, ALWAYS paint the interior of the vehicle first before assembling the model, that way it's much easier to paint especially the detailed parts. Also DO NOT glue the door on, the hinge fits into the two sockets as you glue the model together, if your going to shell out €30 something for a tank, then you want to get all the details in there, nothing says my models are the real deal like a finely detailed interior.

3: If you're using Ordinary paints and metallic paints together as you paint your miniatures NEVER use the same brush water for both your normal and metallic paints, also if you're using the same brush with both paints you need to rinse your brush thoroughly before switching to the other paint and wiping it on some tissue to get all the previous paints off the brush. This way you prevent metallic leftovers from getting in your none metallic paints and ruining them and your models. The paint; like the models are not cheap, so you want to look after them.

4: If you get space marines, I recommend painting them as either Black Templars or Raven guard simply for the fact that they don black color schemes, this is handy for beginners because you can simply use a can of black spray paint to color every single model at once, only spray them lightly though at a good distance, otherwise the paint fills up the crevices in the model's detailed parts as it drys up ruining the overall finish of the model. If you do spray them, do it lightly then go over any bits you've missed manually with a paint brush using ordinary black modeling paint.

5: Don't buy a battleforce straight away, start with a small box of infantry miniatures and some basic paints: Black, white, red, etc. That way you can dip your feet in the pool before taking the plunge, Most people make the mistake of letting the over friendly GW staff talk them into buying a large overpriced kit that they're totally unprepared for without letting them know it can take months to paint if you want to do it properly or how hard it can be. If you start with a small squad you can have a go at painting them to see if you like it, then back out if you find painting them too frustrating. Plus if you end up ruining them you haven't spent too much money on them so no harm done.

Whew! That was longer post than I envisioned writing, but the above tips I gave you should help you avoid some serious disasters if you choose to get into WH40k, trust me, a lot of the above advice is derived from personal experience. Tell you what though, if you practice at it enough you'd be suprised at how good you can get at painting these things once you figure out the right methods. Before you know it you're confident enough to do conversions and have a freeze frame model of a Tyranid Carnifex impaling an unfortunate marine with it's mighty scythe claws! :) which is always sure to earn the admiration of your fellow tabletop gaming nerds. The lore is pretty interesting too if you have time for it, heck you don't even need to get into the model kits to get into the books.
 
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