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No matter which way I look at it neither gluing nor glueing seem right, but I'm going to stick with gluing! As I've mentioned elsewhere, unfortunately my health hasn't been great recently, and I haven't been able to paint nearly as much as I'd like. In the absence of painting I often turn to preparing miniatures, primarily gluing them together. I have a lot of Games Workshop miniatures coming across my painting desk soon, so in the last few days I've put together around 50 of them. Here is a small selection of them:
Now I know that for a lot of people gluing together their minis is their least favourite part of the process, but generally I actually find the process quite relaxing. While I'm not painting, gluing feels like I'm still achieving something, and I can do it pretty much anywhere and anytime. Essentially I don't need to be sitting at my desk while I'm not well.
OK, so it's not exactly building a house from the ground up or anything, but I find something quite satisfying about creating something which was previously in pieces. These minis are sufficiently easy that it's calming, and still give me the satisfaction of completing something.
I did specifically say above that I *generally* find it quite relaxing. It turns out that their are definitely miniatures which try my patience! I had a few of these ghosts (Nighthaunt, I believe) and they were definitely not zen...
Here is a sample of the build instructions. Note the warning on the left...
So these miniatures not only have many, very fiddly pieces, but the connective surfaces are hard to see! Putting these together seriously tried my patience...
Not only is it hard to see the connective surfaces, you have to attach each piece exactly right because many of them connect to multiple parts. That means that if one attachment is off it is likely impossible to build the miniature as intended and you end up in the realm of converting the miniatures just to make them work. I imagine you have essentially no chance is you have issues with your eyesight or your hands aren't steady. Of the around 50 I put together, though, only three were like this. A few others had small parts, but at least it was obvious where they needed to go and they weren't structurally vital! For the most part I still found the experience positive, but I will have to be sure that in future I carefully select the miniatures I'm going to build while I'm away from painting :)
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Hi everyone :)
An exciting announcement today - I'm starting to do some work with Mushroom Gaming! Mushroom Gaming are a small games company based in the UK. They've created great games like Fishy Tactics and Rabbit Rummage, and have many more games planned for the next few years. Equally importantly, from my point of view, is their ethos - that gaming be accessible to everyone. My role is going to be looking after marketing, with a particular emphasis on community building and social media, so check out the Mushroom Gaming social media channels now and I'll see you over there soon :) I do want to say a little bit about my reviews of Mushroom Gaming products on this website - they were written long before I started working with them and, indeed, began talking about working with them. My reviews were and are impartial, and in no way related to my work. Check out Mushroom Gaming at www.mushroomgaming.com Hi everyone :) After the recent one-off Blood Bowl match I played (you can check out my match report here), I was really excited to build a team of my own. This morning I set about making the 'Orsome Ogres' - I figured that qualifies as a clever team name if you're an ogre :p One quick side note - As you can see from the image above, this wasn't quite as simple as sitting down with a single book - to make the team I needed the Blood Bowl rulebook, the Spike! Almanac and Spike! Issue 8. That's £39 worth of books in addition to the base game (£70). I get that Games Workshop are a company who need to make a profit, but £109 before getting any miniatures is very steep. I was lucky that I got a lot of that as a gift, but it's fair to say that Blood Bowl is not a cheap game to get into. Playing OgresWhen you build a team you are given 1,000,000gp. This sounds like a lot, although it soon starts to disappear when you start buying ogres for your team! Although ogres are the focal point of the team, it is actually comprised of both Ogres and Gnoblars. Ogres are big, violent brutes, while the Gnoblars are tiny creatures capable of little more than filling out the team! The big choice I was faced with was how many ogres to select. Technically you can get 5 ogres with your starting money, although if you choose to do that you can't afford any spare Gnoblars when they are inevitably killed and you can't get any re-rolls or fans. I took what I think is the safer option and selected 4 ogres and 12 gnoblars. Given that you can field 11 players at a time, that means I have 5 spare Gnoblars. Both Ogres and Gnoblars are somewhat...well...inept, so the 2 re-rolls I picked up could definitely be life savers! Each allows a single die to be re-rolled for each half of Blood Bowl played. To be honest, half of the time taken building the team was writing all the skills in for each player! All the players have a number of skills, although not all are positive... Ogres have the 'Bone-Head' ability, which means that every turn they have a chance to stand there and do nothing, while Gnoblars are officially 'Disposable'! In case you're feeling particularly observant and notice that my team value isn't the full 1,000,000 and that the numbers don't quite add up it's because Gnoblars are so rubbish they don't even count towards the team's value. Once I'd figured out all the mechanics of the team I had a bit of fun with the names :) I'm really excited to get playing with my team, and I'm also looking forward to finishing painting my minis. I need to get them to the point where I can tell which mini is which player so that I know which one to swear at when they drop the ball :)
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