Below is our living room Christmas tree this year, one thing that myself, Lindsay and Megan have been doing, well ever since I moved out of my parents, is to have no repeated baubles. My mum was always one for uniformity on the tree and I have found that to be super bland.
So for years, me and Lindsay, and later Megan when she moved in with us, have been buying unique ornaments and baubles each year, and we have now such a decent selection of ornaments that we have no duplicates.
This tree is the one we have in our living room and is usually reffered to as the geeky tree as it contains all our ornaments from various fandoms and stuff. These baubles have come from a variety of places, from the Disney Store, Debenhams, Primark, Etsy and right down to Poundland. And of recent some 3D printing, this year we added a Tardis and an Eldar Scrolls ornament that I printed. We also have a small selection of Warhammer models which got painted gold and a bit of string put through them to turn them into baubles!
There is also a large amount of Disney decorations too, most of which were inherited from Lindsay and Megan’s family collections, these are beautiful, I must admit I would prefer the tree without them, but hey I am just one of three. But we do have enough Disney decorations that we could genuinely have a tree of just Disney stuff!
The dining room is host to a more grown up tree with the traditional style of decorations, which is lovely and exactly the same with unique non-repeating baubles, but its far less fun!
I got a few nice presents, to add to the driving rig, I got a Logitech Driving Force Shifter, which was purchased on Prime Day for me!
I also got a couple of board games, Ticket to Ride Paris from Paul, Unlock Adventures, which includes scenarios from Ticket to Ride, Pandemic and Mysterium from Emma, also from Paul a box, some dice and a notepad for RPG playing and a sign about my Dumbfuckery, Jane and Geoff got me a new desk mat, a Warhammer 4ok one, and from Lindsay’s father I got a hat and gloves.
Of course the best present was my Lynx Africa set!
In my stocking I also got the servo skull palette which on reflection is actually pretty cool!
My VideoGameGeek Secret Santa got me a nice £20 worth of vouchers for Steam, so I was able to grab a few cool things from my wish list, those being
- Jedi Survivor
- Fable The Lost Chapters
- Divinity: Original Sin
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 – Krone Trailer Pack
But pretty much as soon as Christmas was done, I was out for the count with a nasty lergy and spent most of a week and a bit in bed feeling very sorry for myself!
What I Am Modelling
I got finished the Dread Pageant at long last for Direchasm
Plus the third Leman Russ Vanquisher
And a Leman Russ Command Tank
So whats next?
- Blood Angels Land Speeders
- Karazai
- Paragon Warsuits with Heavy Flamers x 3
- Lasrifle Section x 20
- Dark Angles Impulsor
- Ardboyz x 10
- Skragrot the Loonking & Rabble-Rowza
- Allarus Custodians x 3
- Rockgut Troggoths x 3
- Atheon Heavy Sentinels x 3
What Tabletop Games I Am Playing
At the Durham Raiders long gaming day, I played two games of Heresy, one against Sam’s Iron Warriors
And another in a doubles game, where I paired up with Sam to take on some Sons of Horus and World Eaters
What Video Games I Am Playing]
Quite a bit of Hell Let Loose with Graham and Chris which is a lot of fun!
And I have started playing Lego Batman!
What I Am Creating
I published the Issue 04 Combat Patrol Magazine Battle Report
We got a new epsiode of Edge of Empire out, using a totally new workflow
What I Am Spending
I bought with Christmas money vouchers, both of the Malcadors I needed for my Solar Auxilia list
Got the Sci-Fi Shooters Humble Bundle which bagged me
And of course it was Humble Choice, which got me
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
- Old World
- Atlas Fallen
- Crime Boss: Rockay City
- The Invincible
- Moonstone Island
- Inkulnati
- Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
I also added
- Scott Pilgrim vs The World
- American Truck Simulator: Montana
- American Truck Simulator: Wyoming
- The Crow’s Eye
- Super Crazy Rhythm Castle
- Deep Sky Derelicts
- V-Rally 4
- Battlefield Hardline
- Battlefield 3
- Mood:- Recovering
- Caffeinated Beverages Consumed:- 1
- In My Ears:- Padam Padam – Kylie Minogue
- Tabletop Game Last Played:- The Horus Heresy
- Video Game Last Played:- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Book Last Read:- Eidolon: The Auric Hammer – Marc Collins
- Audiobook Last In My Ears:- Fabius Bile: Primogenitor – Josh Reynolds
- Movie Last Viewed:- Hornblower: Retribution
- TV Show Last Viewed:- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Podcast Last In My Ears:- The RTFM Show
- Current State of Projects:- Started on an orange dragon