Monday, June 22, 2026

THE HOBBY DRAGON STIRS! (2026 blog update)

With some gentle, yet persistent, prodding about updating my blog I am finally stirring into action. Like a long torpid draconid resting upon it's massive treasure pile (of plastic and lead), SOMETHING has provided enough stimulation to cause the beast to move. 

One of the barriers to blogging has been the workflow for posting picture. I have had to pull them off my phone to my computer, resize them, then post them. Due to changes in my computer setup it's progressively more annoying to access the box and cabling to do so. So....I just don't pull my pictures that often. Then I need to sort them, etc, etc.  


Despite the APPARENT absence of activity, there has been some steady chipping away of the hobby projects. Reviewing my photos I can see I manage to do a bit of painting each week. With some actual gaming happening....a couple of times a year (boo). The biggest prompt to game seems to be visits out of time (to visit me, or to visit others). 

I do have quite a backlog of games to post on, so my series of posts moving forward will be dealing with that deficit. My painting progress pics aren't super compelling, but maybe I'll try and get some of those up as well. I haven't been good about taking decent photos of completed things (the few completed things), so maybe I'll go back to take pics of them. That's definitely a reach goal however. 

Perhaps most notably in this update is my purchase history for 2026. I have bought:

- 28mm: 15 figures (and painted 13 of them)  

- 15mm: 32 infantry, 8 cavalry, 4 ballistas/12crew (artillery painted, all the rest is in early progress). 

I think, ambitiously, I may paint everything that I bought this year. Assuming I don't fall off the wagon and buy a bunch of stuff in the next half year.  

 

4 comments:

  1. Yay! Nice to see you posting again Dave. No pressure to post more, but if/when you do I look forward to seeing where your state of hobby is at.

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    1. No no, pressure is helpful at times. I've already queued up a post for tomorrow. I figured 2 posts at the same time would confuse feeds.

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    1. Thanks Neil. Hopefully it's the start of a run of activity...

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