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Other Stuff => General Wargames and Hobby Discussion => Topic started by: Mr. White on 24 August 2023, 12:21:42 AM
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What's the biggest hobby project you finished that never actually saw table time? Was it an army? Two armies? Two armies and terrain?
Why didn't it ever happen?
Is there a possibility of bringing it back from the dead or did you eventually pour one out for the little lost homies?
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Alien Squad Leader in 28mm: I had the armies planned out, I bought lots of 50mm square bases, and I put together and painted a few units for several armies. But then the lockdown-born project lost momentum, and I realised that I had plenty of 15mm stuff that would serve better.
I've since recycled quite a lot of the elements for sci-fi skirmish and Kings of War/Hobgoblin; for example, the cheap tank kits I bought remain on their 50 x 100 bases and now serve as 'mincers' in Kings of War after heavy kitbashing. And the 50 x 50 bases are being used up by 'monsters' of various stripes for Kings of War.
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I bought tons of the figurehead WWI fleets and painted them all.
Never played them. I guess I never found rules that I liked.
Big waste of time and money there.
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A Kings of War orc army and some of their undead army. Did this to help promote another product, but, as I sent progress reports, they stopped responding.
Not entire a waste of time -- I revisited the skellies five years later, did more painting, and am using them to help draw attention to two other companies, Tiny Furniture (Harvest of War corpse miniatures) and Loke Battlemats. :P
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I will have to FINISH a project first, and then not play with it, then I will let you know.... lol
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I will have to FINISH a project first, and then not play with it, then I will let you know.... lol
Where's the upvote button?
I think I've only ever managed to produce one project with all scenery, figures, everything based, the lot.
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I'd say for me it was getting back into 40K.
In 2017 I started collecting miniatures to start playing 2nd edition 40K again. I met a bunch of new gamers and GW launched the 8th edition of 40K, promising a "new" game, etc. It was admittedly the first significant change since 3rd edition (which formed the framework for 7th edition). 3rd/4th edition had made me quit 40K, etc.
I ended up painting more than 6,500 points of both Eldar and Chaos Renegades, etc. While I enjoyed my "armies"...I just hated the game. My group tried over several years to 'fix' it, but finally gave up. I recently sold all 13,000+ points of models on eBay and haven't looked back. I was so enthusiastic about reaching that high school goal of having all the 40K stuff I wanted, painted to a nice standard, with several tables worth of terrain. The game was just so absolutely dire that it finally killed 40K for me.
Painting big armies to a nice standard and building really cool tables...and...every single time, after 3-4 hours, I'd think "Wow, that was...not very fun.". Every single game, even with good friends was just an absolute dud. My whole group more or less came to the same realization and of the 7-8 of us, no one plays 40K anymore. A couple guys dabble in Horus Heresy and I've kept a handful of Space Marines for some 2nd edition games, but...yeah.
I thought I'd regret selling off literally hundreds of painted 40K models...but the reality is they just funded a bunch of new hobby projects and games.
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WW1, I finished the Germans, used em twice I think (& have sold them) & never even started the Brits, don’t even know where they are Or what I did with em ::)
Oh well lol lol
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A regular wargame opponent and I decided to wargame the Maximilian Adventure but with US cavalry and Apaches as well. A bit like the Major Dundee film.
Then, just as I finished the figures for both armies that I'd bought, he got promoted at work and moved too far away to wargame. Since them the armies languish in a box.
Anybody interrested?
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My failing is that I hate playing a wargame with unpainted miniatures. So, I painted an entire North Africa themed Italian army for Flames of War before putting them on the table. Played my first game of Flames of War and thought “What a stupid game” and never used them again.
Almost did the same thing with Dystopian Wars - fortunately I played a game with a friend’s painted army first, before abandoning what I had already painted to that point.
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My failing is that I hate playing a wargame with unpainted miniatures. So, I painted an entire North Africa themed Italian army for Flames of War before putting them on the table. Played my first game of Flames of War and thought “What a stupid game” and never used them again.
Almost did the same thing with Dystopian Wars - fortunately I played a game with a friend’s painted army first, before abandoning what I had already painted to that point.
Try O Group with your Italians. Much better game with the same minis.
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A regular wargame opponent and I decided to wargame the Maximilian Adventure but with US cavalry and Apaches as well. A bit like the Major Dundee film.
Then, just as I finished the figures for both armies that I'd bought, he got promoted at work and moved too far away to wargame. Since them the armies languish in a box.
Anybody interrested?
Pm sent, old bean.
:)
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Oh, my favourite subject!
The most ambitious project I worked on (though I never got anywhere near finishing) was something I called...
AGE OF MORCAR
This started back in 2016, when Age of Sigmar had only been out for a year, and I planned to use the first edition of the rules, which were only four pages long. The concept was playing Age of Sigmar as written, but using plastic miniatures exclusively from Hero Quest, Battle Masters and other 90s era board games of that ilk.
Morcar is, as any UK-based Hero Quest player will know, the name of the villain from the story (in the American version he's called Zargon instead). I collected enough miniatures from the era to make small armies for several factions, which took quite some and money doing, but in the end I had several (mostly unpainted) armies which I was looking forward to engaging in epic battles.
But in 2017 I had a bit of crisis: my third child (my first and only daughter) was due to arrive in the world imminently, meaning I was going to lose our spare bedroom I was using as a 'games room', and I also fell out with a colleague at work who I had been playing wargames and board games with for about four years. I went through a bit of an emotional rollercoaster during that year and I just decided, on a whim, to ditch the entire project. However, I didn't throw it all in the bin as I usually do when this happens: because most of the miniatures were Citadel and had some resale value, I put all the miniatures on eBay and made a fair amount of money from them (though not nearly as much as was spent on them, no doubt).
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Oh, my favourite subject!
The most ambitious project I worked on (though I never got anywhere near finishing) was something I called...
AGE OF MORCAR
This started back in 2016, when Age of Sigmar had only been out for a year, and I planned to use the first edition of the rules, which were only four pages long. The concept was playing Age of Sigmar as written, but using plastic miniatures exclusively from Hero Quest, Battle Masters and other 90s era board games of that ilk.
oh wow, that sounds like a great little project! I guess you could maybe kick it back off with the newly released version of the game, though I don't find the models as charming.
The upside to something like this, painting up models from an adventure game, is that after you painted up all the models you'd have both a fully painted dungeoncrawler but also models to play model agnostic games like Dragon Rampant or Rangers of Shadowdeep. Win-win.
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My failing is that I hate playing a wargame with unpainted miniatures. So, I painted an entire North Africa themed Italian army for Flames of War before putting them on the table. Played my first game of Flames of War and thought “What a stupid game” and never used them again.
The good thing about painting up WWI Italians for North Africa is that there are literally dozens (possible 100s) of other games you can use those in!
Battlegroup
O Group
Bolt Action (scaled differently)
Rommel
Chain of Command (scaled a bit differently)
Rapid Fire
Nuts!
Round of Fire
Blitzkreig Commander
and on and on and on. That is off the top of my head, and I don't even game WWII!
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oh wow, that sounds like a great little project! I guess you could maybe kick it back off with the newly released version of the game, though I don't find the models as charming.
Haha...I think not. I've well and truly moved on from that idea, and I'm totally off Games Workshop these days.
The upside to something like this, painting up models from an adventure game, is that after you painted up all the models you'd have both a fully painted dungeoncrawler but also models to play model agnostic games like Dragon Rampant or Rangers of Shadowdeep. Win-win.
Well yes, if you can keep your head and not purge everything whenever your mental/emotional boat gets rocked... but that's never been my style.
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Well, going back to the 80's I got the entire new Skaven collection that Citadel had just released on the back of seeing them in the Kaleb Daark comic in the Citadel Journal. I painted about half a dozen of them and then got bored and gave them to my brother. They could have funded my retirement.
I had an entire Orcs & Goblins army as well (about 5,000pts if I'd fielded them all, all painted) and ended up flogging them off to help pay for my wedding. Still, it did get me into the 'pro painter' gig, so I can't complain. Also I got married.
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I finished painting the (understrength) Space Shark Company last year, including a few vehicles which will probably never see a table any time in the future as I do not play 40K in any form. These were painted to scratch an itch, an entire force of 80's Marines who are all individuals as there are quite few conversions in there too, painted simply because I always wanted to do a Space Marine company when they first came out and had not done it since.
I have now!
:)
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I will probably end up selling them at some point as they will not get used....
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I have 365 painted LotR miniatures that have never been used in anger (although- to be fair- the collection is not "finished": still @800 minis to go...). I also have an entire 11thC Taifa Kingdoms army that has never seen the tabletop in it's entirety (although, one time, a few units got used to test To The Strongest!).
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I will probably end up selling them at some point as they will not get used....
A shame, as they're stunning!
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A big Back of Beyond campaign. I was on the Copplestone pre-order list for the entire range and bought elements of several other ranges to flesh out both the Bolsheviks and Warlord Chinese along with archaeologists, mercenaries and sundry others. I managed to get around 100-120 infantry painted for each faction but my opponent, who'd amassed about the same, moved away.
I kept it up painting dribs and drabs (with plenty more still to be started) now and then but never got them to the table of honour. Maybe one day. Maybe...
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Oh, but there are so many! And a lot of those I refuse to call lost. You know, because some day... ::)
But thinking about this, there is one project that does jump out, but is actually moving towards a happy end as we speak (no, not like that! lol ).
When Frostgrave was released, I went in full tilt, getting my Nickstarter with all the wizards and their appretices, I bought a shed load of terrain pieces to be assembled and painted and I had big plans for the table too. I was sourcing the entire bestiary in multiples (you never know when you roll the same encounter more than once after all) and started designing my own spell cards too. I must have spend many hundreds of euros and many,many hours by this time.
But then, in short succession, I received a cease and desist letter because of the cards (I used the original artist's artwork and documented my progress here on the LAF), and my regular opponent decided that he did not like the game that much and would not invest, so basically this killed all momentum.
Everything was stored away for many years, until chance would have it that I bought an oldhammer mini from this guy and we got to talking when I collected the mini. Turns out he was selling off his stuff because of lack of interest in his group and he needed the space. But our talk set him on the track of Frostgrave and he texted me a week later, telling me he had bought the book, was warming up his friends to it and asked if I wanted a test game.
So this got stuff moving again at pace!
I've now played several games already, assembled my own warband (painting pending), built an entire snow covered table (3 modules of 120x60cm; if you do a 3"x3" table, why not go the extra mile and do an entire table's worth, right?) and I'm in the process of finishing the center piece building; a 5 story (partially destroyed) wizard's tower, which can also be used as two seperate buildings and more buildings have already been planned and lined up.
So, moral of this story; don't give up. Even decades later a project may all of a sudden get rekindled after all! :D
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I prefer to say what could be, maybe and will be.
There are indeed so many.
I am not dead yet. I will leave "what could have been" to them what comes after.. me.
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I prefer to say what could be, maybe and will be.
There are indeed so many.
I am not dead yet. I will leave "what could have been" to them what comes after.. me.
Wise words. I agree with you. :)
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Has been implies failure - not so!
Has been is history
Has been was
Has been... might again
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When my gaming group imploded after decades, I canned my rather large Sudan project. I sold off the painted and unpainted miniatures along with a significant portion of the overall lead mountain. My painted Dacian, Zulu British and Imperial Guard armies (Bah on the name change) still reside on my shelf. It has been years since they have seen the table but hopefully they will see combat again.
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A shame, as they're stunning!
Thank you!
:)
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Trojan War for me. I've got everything I need for both sides, plus terrain, rules, a mat, the works.
Except an opponent. 😞
Still have the majority of it, but I've been selling and swapping, so it's only a matter of time
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Siberia/Manchuria skirmishes in the 1920s, and Mexican Revolution skirmishes in the 1910s.
But I still hope to bring them on the gaming table.
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Trojan War for me. I've got everything I need for both sides, plus terrain, rules, a mat, the works.
Except an opponent. 😞
Still have the majority of it, but I've been selling and swapping, so it's only a matter of time
I have pieces of three Trojan War projects, so I could have been your potential opponent. :D
I guess I’ve actually done reasonably well; the biggest project I ever sold off without playing with any part of it on the table was a skirmish set of one each of most or all of the Foundry Northern European Bronze Age figures, and not having the impetus points left to build the specialized terrain or write some satisfactory rules was the main reason it got abandoned.
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My failing is that I hate playing a wargame with unpainted miniatures. So, I painted an entire North Africa themed Italian army for Flames of War before putting them on the table. Played my first game of Flames of War and thought “What a stupid game” and never used them again.
Might I direct you towards Battlegroup? No silly, gimmicky national characteristic and the like special rules, no constant rule revisions and version updates, no Napoleonic tactics, no WW40k, no seperate national army books, certified non-Wehraboo ruleset, recognises and rewards the use of historic WWII tactics, allows for use of various combat support elements like logistics, engineers, medical, etc, lively and engaging FB group (if you're into that) with direct input from the writers, played by all the best people. Probably.