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Title: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: FifteensAway on December 26, 2019, 03:25:46 AM
No, not the secret santa thread.

This is the: What did you get for your hobby on the big day?

My wife got me the 33 packs of Peter Pig ACW I needed to wrap collecting ACW figures!  (okay, so I selected and ordered them but I had to wait until the Big Day to unwrap them and now they are sorted and will get worked on - eventually!).  And we won't count the order I've been itching to do for years, I finally sent off my order for some of the lovely stuff from Baueda - but it won't arrive until into the new year.  And that might be my last hobby order.  There is now nothing I want that I am aware of that is made that I don't already have.  Unless someone knows where I can order an additional forty years of youthful energy! 

So, what made your hobby day?
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on December 26, 2019, 08:32:08 AM
For me it was an entirely hobby free day...

Though I did get the Randall Munroe book "How To...".
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: flatpack on December 26, 2019, 08:35:00 AM
Got some goodies from friends and family.

(https://i.postimg.cc/Mpm7DkhW/E6-D33-FF1-6-B24-4-E97-91-F1-37-A83901-C2-A0.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VJ50fhfT)

A few sets of rules that I asked the kids for. The base set of a fist full of lead and the Napoleonic supplement. The Contact front rules, I bought myself after reading up they were good, so this is a little light reading over the holiday.

Then there’s a very nice 1/200 modern building and a set of bill boards for my 1/200 Cold War, if I ever get it to the table.

Then at the front there is a fine set of medieval coasters for the shed, so we don’t spill our drinks during the next game.

And finally, a super scratch build artillery piece by has.been. It’s for our 28mm Askari games. It’s to represent one of the guns removed from the SMS Konigsberg.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Harry Faversham on December 26, 2019, 01:32:30 PM
Every now and then, thanks to the law of averages, even my kids, gets something right!!!

Squadron Leader 'Skipper'…

“How many hours on Spits Simon?”

“Seven Sir.”

“Let’s make it eight, before Jerry has you for breakfast!”

(https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/hm_bbpui/128557/ea5bzpfi0z54wnwvt0j874ys5puy23h7.jpg)

"We may be going a bridge too far."

(https://www.thewargameswebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/hm_bbpui/128527/cgq08rvxxr3qlmvd9uvec3qj969iogdy.jpg)

 :-*

Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Shahbahraz on December 26, 2019, 01:44:11 PM
No hobby related stuff for me this year, but then, that's the same as every year  :)
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Antonio J Carrasco on December 26, 2019, 01:56:06 PM
Here it is on January 6, although I know what my presents will be: a brush set from Artis Opus, slippers and Dominic Lieven's book on Russia in WWI.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Inkpaduta on December 26, 2019, 06:03:26 PM
That is what I always think. I have got everything I need. I can stop now and play with what I have.
Then I go on LAF and there is something new and shiny!
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Elbows on December 26, 2019, 07:24:58 PM
No presents till Saturday when the brother's family come into town.  Only one I know of that's "hobby" related is 500 rounds of 9mm ammunition...and that's simply because the tiny box weighs about 12 lbs. :D Even my brother couldn't hide that fact when he handed it over to me.

We don't do much in the way of presents in my family, so I'm not expecting anything wargaming related, honestly.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: has.been on December 26, 2019, 07:42:35 PM
From my lovely wife, a Deepcut 6' x 4' clouds over the countryside (for my WW1 aerial),
and courtesy of our local Aquarium shop moving, two bits of scenery at 50% off.
From friends a made up MDF storage tank unit (see the Fight at Yb-Gur thread) and
an un-made Sci-Fi habitat. Happy days.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Dolmot on December 26, 2019, 07:54:44 PM
Hm...I got a gift card to a woodworking store. Knowing me, the odds are that it eventually turns into leadworking or at least foamworking, somehow. lol

No new lead, but I'm already sitting on top of a lead mountain of madness so maybe better that way. :-I However, I received my Death May Die game box this month, which may require its own slot in the painting queue...

The best gift, by far, has been a full week of free time for cleaning up the general mess and restarting some projects. I'd need more of those.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Digits on December 26, 2019, 08:21:00 PM
3 boxes of new Perry French nap infantry, and I think Wargames foundry vouchers...need to order some Congo stuff.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: JollyBob on December 26, 2019, 10:08:18 PM
The Boy got his old dad the Dreadball Xtreme boxed set bundle from Mantic's black Friday sale.

And my brother in law got me a Reaper brain in a jar figure cos, well, brain in a jar... Who wouldn't?
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: aircav on December 26, 2019, 10:20:11 PM
I got a Skeleton Ogre from my Daughter (I had pointed her in the right direction) & the fantastic surprise of the Gripping Beast Witch from my Wife, that was totally unexpected  :D
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: TheMightyFlip on December 26, 2019, 11:20:51 PM
I got air brush paints....I dont own an airbrush  :?
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: flatpack on December 26, 2019, 11:55:23 PM
If you are lucky, you might get the airbrush for your birthday maybe ?
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Muzfish4 on December 27, 2019, 10:35:54 AM
Plenty of gaming stuff at the house of Fish.

I received the new Judge Dredd starter box - looks good despite limited amount of villains being induced in the base rulebook - could an expansion be in the works?

Younger lad (aged 7)  received 'Tanks: the Modern Age' while his brother (aged 9) got a couple of issues of Warhammer Conquest that have enough for a chaos rhino and a copy of Star Wars Risk.

Not a bad haul for everyone.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: zemjw on December 27, 2019, 10:42:33 AM
I got the necromunda palanite enforcers and the red gobbo, along with the perilous dark frostgrave book.

The palanite figures are as nice in person as they looked in the pictures and may well be jumping up the painting queue.

I bought myself the ambots and bullgryns, as I'm working on a bit of a cyberpunk thing just now  :D
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: sundayhero on December 27, 2019, 10:55:21 AM
I bought myself some warzone v1 figures (trenchers imperial), a complete necromunda v2 metal goliath gang, 2 sets of valiant miniatures ww2 german paratroopers, and the modern ruleset "Contact Front"  :)
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: JamesValentine on December 27, 2019, 11:33:18 AM
I got!...nothing.
Not even a card from friends or family...
Yay...
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on December 27, 2019, 05:15:28 PM
I got a bottle of Calvados - enough of that and my figure painting is sublime.... :D :D :D

Doug
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: ragbones on December 27, 2019, 09:13:26 PM
My wife gave me the Battle Systems Frontier Core Set plus Medical Bay add-on so my Colonial Marines and Aliens have something to fight on and my son and daughter gave me 4 board wargames.  My miniatures wargaming is slowly being replaced by more and more board wargaming.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: AKULA on December 28, 2019, 12:42:54 PM
A whole bunch of the new Warlord Dredd range

 8)
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: sundayhero on December 28, 2019, 12:43:57 PM
Quote
I got!...nothing.
Not even a card from friends or family...
Yay...

You know, I bought my own Xmas presents, so...  lol
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: JamesValentine on December 28, 2019, 01:45:51 PM
Quote from: sundayhero on December 28, 2019, 12:43:57 PM
You know, I bought my own Xmas presents, so...  lol
No money.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on December 28, 2019, 01:59:11 PM
I was spoiled rotten....

both by my friend Tom...

https://thegrumpygnome.home.blog/2019/12/28/christmas-loot/

Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on December 28, 2019, 02:00:46 PM
.... and my wife!

Edit: Ragbones... nice loot there, I am a huge Battle Systems fan.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: ErikB on December 28, 2019, 03:24:15 PM
My family hates my hobby (obsession). 

One of my sisters got me some gorgeous Wargames Foundry Landsknechts five years ago, though.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Blackwolf on December 28, 2019, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: ErikB on December 28, 2019, 03:24:15 PM
My family hates my hobby (obsession). 

One of my sisters got me some gorgeous Wargames Foundry Landsknechts five years ago, though.

Bad show.

Not really anything hobby related,I did buy myself a Dremel Stylo,and from my wife a book of illustrations by Kay Nielsen,another biography of G. Orwell, Trinity (book about the Manhattan project),and a Badger mug(I like Badgers  :)).
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Cubs on December 28, 2019, 07:41:38 PM
It takes some of the mystery out of it, but MrsCub and I started writing 'want lists' at Crimbo time a few years back. She buys some of the things herself and then farms out the rest to family, so I got a lot of lovely stuff.

A book on Robert Guiscard in Norman Italy, Bernard Cornwell's latest Uhtred book, the latest Judge Dredd Complete Case Files issue, a box of Star Wars Hoth Rebel Troopers, a box of Star Wars Hoth Tauntaun Riders, and some pleasant surprises from my dad, a bunch of Vallejo paints and a pack of quality brushes. A good haul indeed. 
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: ragbones on December 28, 2019, 11:20:24 PM
Rick W., I’m looking forward to putting the Frontier Core Set together.  I’ve had painted Leading Edge Games Aliens and Colonial Marines miniatures sitting around for many years.  We’ve rarely played with them because our group has very little in the way of sci-fi or futuristic scenery.  I have a couple suitable structures but after a couple games it became clear I needed something more in line with our expectations of an Aliens game would look and play like.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on December 29, 2019, 10:05:19 AM
Ragbones, I was originally not a fan of cardstock terrain (and I am still not a fan of medieval fantasy cardstock terrain) but for some reason Battle Systems changed my opinion 180 degrees with their sci-fi stuff. And it saves me painting time to focus on painting medieval fantasy terrain. What I need to see now, when I get the time, is how I feel about mixing their sci-fi cardstock terrain with painted 3D plastic terrain since Christmas brought me a bunch of Mantic sci-fi terrain bits.

Edit: And I love it when folks like Battle Systems sci-fi terrain because that means we are likely to see the company do well and release more stuff!
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: armchairgeneral on December 29, 2019, 10:25:27 AM
I bought myself some Perry AWI militia and some Crusader woodland Indians as I am planning on doing something based on the Peckuwe campaign of 1780 using Rebels and Patriots or the new edition of Muskets and Tomahawks.

My wife bought me the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Uniforms of the American War of Independence which I am very impressed with.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Sir_Theo on December 29, 2019, 10:43:57 AM
My family don't understand and I don't get any hobby stuff typically.

Whilst doing some Internet shopping for presents, however, I did turn up somewhere selling a Star Wars Legion AT ST for £22 with free postage. So that is a present of sorts!

Pictured alongside a Dewback rider and some Rebel pathfinders I also bought myself for Christmas!
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Cubs on December 29, 2019, 11:30:50 AM
Quote from: Sir_Theo on December 29, 2019, 10:43:57 AM
Whilst doing some Internet shopping for presents, however, I did turn up somewhere selling a Star Wars Legion AT ST for £22 with free postage. So that is a present of sorts!


Hot damn, that's a bargain! They got any more?!
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Sir_Theo on December 29, 2019, 02:33:32 PM
Quote from: Cubs on December 29, 2019, 11:30:50 AM
Hot damn, that's a bargain! They got any more?!

Unfortunately myself and a friend got the last two. They do have a T 47 landspeeder for £13 though. Coolshop. co. uk
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Cubs on December 29, 2019, 04:09:05 PM
Ah, thanks, I'll pass. Great scoop though.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Wildman II on December 29, 2019, 05:22:01 PM
Tripods and Triplanes, which was actually a late birthday present.
And a set of miniatures from War in Christmas Village bought with
a gift card from a very good friend.
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: LeadAsbestos on December 29, 2019, 11:35:20 PM
Sold some stuff in November, so I bought myself a box of the new Necromunda Cawdor, and for Christmas, via gift cards, I bought the rules and a copy of Inquisitor to replace my long sold-off copy.

Plenty to do in the next months!
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: Blackwolf on December 29, 2019, 11:41:50 PM
Quote from: LeadAsbestos on December 29, 2019, 11:35:20 PM
Sold some stuff in November, so I bought myself a box of the new Necromunda Cawdor, and for Christmas, via gift cards, I bought the rules and a copy of Inquisitor to replace my long sold-off copy.

Plenty to do in the next months!

You going to do Inquisitor in 28mm  Chris?
Title: Re: Happy Unpacking Thread re: Xmas 2019
Post by: FifteensAway on December 30, 2019, 02:08:48 PM
armchair general, can you tell us more about the illustrated encyclopeida - especially if you can compare it to the Mollo book on AWI uniforms?  If so, thanks!