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Resolutions Update – April 2021

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On 1st May 2021

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So the first few days of the month were a bust thanks to the black dog of depression.

But I did manage to get to 538 models completed this month.

Paint 2000 points of Necrons for Warhammer 40,000 – 54.75% Complete

I completed the Chronomancer, Cryptothralls, Canoptek Reanimator, and Flayed Ones for my list, along with a few other models for the army.

The Skorpekh Lord and Skorpekh Destroyers with their Plasmacyte were also painted as well.

Paint 1000 points of Early War Germans for Bolt Action – 68.4% Complete

I finished all my infantry this month, starting with the last Heer Infantry Squad, and the commander of my force a Lieutenant and Riflemen.

I also figured that it’s worth sharing the list I am building for these.

+ Compulsory  [337pts] +

Heer Infantry Squad [123pts]
. Regular NCO [13pts]: SMG [3pts]
. 8x Regular Soldier [80pts]
. Regular Soldier with LMG [30pts]: LMG [20pts]

Heer Infantry Squad [123pts]
. Regular NCO [13pts]: SMG [3pts]
. 8x Regular Soldier [80pts]
. Regular Soldier with LMG [30pts]: LMG [20pts]

Platoon Commander [91pts]
. Leutnant [91pts]: Pistol, Veteran [65pts]
. . Veteran  Soldier [13pts]: Rifle
. . Veteran  Soldier [13pts]: Rifle

+ Infantry [183pts] +

Heer Veteran Infantry Squad [183pts]
. Anti-tank Grenades [30pts]: 10x Anti-tank Grenades [30pts]
. Veteran NCO [16pts]: SMG [3pts]
. 8x Veteran Soldier [104pts]: 8x Rifle
. Veteran Soldier with LMG [33pts]: LMG [20pts]

+ Infantry Support [110pts] +

Mortar Team [60pts]
. Medium Mortar Team [60pts]: Regular [50pts], Spotter [10pts]

Sniper Team [50pts]: Regular [50pts]

+ Artillery [50pts] +

Light Artillery [50pts]: Regular [50pts]

+ Tanks, Tank Destroyers, Self-propelled Artillery and Anti-Aircraft Vehicles [210pts] +

Panzer IV AUSF D [210pts]: Veteran [210pts]

+ Transports [104pts] +

SdKfz 251/1 Half-Track ' Hanomag' [104pts]: Pintle-Mounted MMG (Forward Arc), Pintle-Mounted MMG (Rear Arc)(15pts) [15pts], Regular [89pts]

Paint 2000 Points of Flesh Eater Courts for Warhammer Age of Sigmar – 22% Complete

This month I painted a unit of 20 Crypt-Ghouls for this target, need to work out a list yet, but it’s certainly gonna need a lot of Crypt-Ghouls.

Bring my Mechanicum to 3000 points for Horus Heresy, including the Warhound Titan – 4.16% Complete

I have calculated that I have 2040 points to complete this resolution, and I started it this month by painting the first Termite for the list I am thinking of.

I have however built the Secutarii Peltasts and Castellax I intend to have painted up for this list.

Other Resolutions

  • Paint Blackstone Fortress and it’s Expansions

Completed Resolutions

  • Paint The Scourge For Dropfleet Commander

So headed into May, what’s coming up in my painting queue?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. T’au Tidewall Rampart
  3. Secutarii Peltast x 10
  4. Legio Custodes Venatari x 3
  5. Flesh-Eater Courts Crypt Horrors x 3
  6. Necron Immortals with Tesla Carbine x 10
  7. German Hanomag & Panzer IV Ausf. d
  8. T’au Broadsides x 3
  9. Custodes Vexellia Carriers
  10. Mechanicum Castellax x 4

A Week Off

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On 26th April 2021

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I have had a week off as it were, mostly due to being quite off mentally and dealing with that.

But I intend to post a bit more about it this week, in the meantime, there is no Hobby Studio episode this week 🙁

What I Am Modelling

Last week I finished off with a few bits for Zone Mortalis, which you can see below.

I then moved onto some Aquilion Terminators for my Legio Custodes, two sets, one with the Firepikes to take care of horses.

I then started on the Termite for my Mechanicum, this starts off the next resolution for the year.

Then I took a Chaos Space Marines Sorcerer off the shelf, stripped it in some Biostrip and repainted it up as an Esoterist for my Word Bearers

And then it was a big blob of Crypt Ghouls for my Flesh-Eater Courts.

Whilst working on those I was also working on my 10 Hexwraiths for my Nighthaunt.

I am now working on painting the Skorpekh Destroyers and Plasmacyte for my Necrons. As well as the Skorpekh Lord.

So what’s coming up in the next week then?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Necrons Skorpekh Destroyers x 3, Plasmacyte & Skorpekh Lord
  3. T’au Tidewall Ranpart
  4. Mechanicum Secutarii Peltast x 10
  5. Legio Custodes Venatari x 3
  6. Flesh-Eater Courts Crypt Horrors
  7. Necron Immortals with Tesla Carbines x 10
  8. German Heer Hanomag & Panzer IV Ausf D
  9. T’au Broadsides x 3
  10. Legio Custodes Vexillia Carriers x 4

What I Am Reading

Been reading Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest and I am almost finished, so expect a review coming soon!

What I Am Playing

I did play through Minerva’s Den, the standalone DLC campaign for Bioshock 2 this week and a video of that is now on YouTube.

Streaming video games going forward is something I need to figure out, with Lindsay now in the office I need to figure out if and when it’s possible.

On Friday Lindsay had the afternoon off, so we took off to Saltwell Park and played a game of Alhambra Roll & Write, which I came last in!

On Saturday evening, we played a couple of the quick and simple games, Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America and Ticket to Ride: London.

We all lost Pandemic and I came last in Ticket to Ride, despite it being my personal best score in that version of the game!

On Sunday, me and Lindsay also played a game of Ticket to Ride: New York in which she absolutely handed my arse to me!

Today I played some Star Wars: Squadrons and I finished the single player campaign

What I Am Backing

Still backing the Wowstick Drill, and I find myself tempted by the new Redgrass Wet Palette that’s going up next month.

The Dungeon Masters Little Black Book arrived on Sunday via Drive Thru RPG, that was a throughly decent, quick and awesome campaign.

What I Am Cooking

Not much but on Sunday I did make beans on toast for dinner and helped Lindsay make a roast for tea.

ESL – Shove It!!!

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On 20th April 2021

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I am gonna be frank, it can go take a long walk off a short pier.

It’s just a terrible idea by the rich clubs designed to keep them earning the big bucks and take the lions share of the TV money.

I think it shows that football has strayed too far from the fans and what they want.

Let’s face it, the way things are now, more than ever it feels like a massive stitch up with the big six wanting to ride roughshod over everyone else in the Premier League and their desire to get more money because they are the big stars of the league.

I think it’s time that football and the organisations called their bluff.

Explain the consequences, but enter into no further talks, I strongly suspect that this plan is tactic to get more money from the Champions League. And if they continue on this route, the day after the season ends, expel them from the leagues, and dock them 30 points.

And if they want back in, they start at the very bottom.

I am out sick of the big clubs throwing their weight around and demanding the lions share of the money, trying to dictate the direction of the game, and only seeking to dement their dominant position.

As fans we need to say no to this and stop enabling them.

They want their own league with blackjack and hookers, fine, they can piss off and have it, but they don’t get to play in our league.

I have lots to say on the subject, but, boy am I mad about it and I don’t think Lindsay and Megan would appreciate all the swearing.

Megan’s PC

I managed to pull together the last parts for Megan’s PC this week.

And on Friday I built it, using some bits cast off from mine and some select budget pieces.

The build she has is:-

  • CPU:- Ryzen 5 3400G
  • Motherboard:- ASUS ROG Strix B450-F
  • Memory:- Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3600mhz DDR4
  • SSD:- Crucial P1 1TB
  • PSU:- Scavenged 10 year old EVGA 750w (this will be replaced first)

Not a particularly amazing build, but she wants to run The Sims 4 with it and it should show ok at that.

Future plans for it, will be to add a GPU and a Capture Card.

What I Am Modelling

I started off the week by painting the terrain from Pariah Nexus, which involved a lot, and I mean a lot of drybrushing.

Before finishing off the terrain from Kill Team Arena.

I then started on the Heavy Intercessors and the Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle for my Blood Ravens.

But whilst various stages of those were done, I painted the last of the 3D printed terrain that Nikki printed for me.

And I painted the Battlezone Objective Set for 40K, which is going to live in the Vigulus based table I am soon to paint.

On Sunday I got the Heavy Intercessors and Captain finished.

That means everything from Pariah Nexus is painted.

I then painted some bits for Zone Mortalis, a bunch of supply crates, fuel barrels and pipes, but I will show you pictures of those next week.

So what’s coming up for my next week?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Mechanicum Termite
  3. Flesh-Eater Courts Crypt Ghouls x 20
  4. Legio Custodes Aquilion Terminators x 6
  5. Hexwraiths x 10
  6. T’au Tidewall Rampart
  7. Skorpekh Destroyers x 3 & Skorpekh Lord
  8. Secutarii Peltast x 10
  9. Custodes Venatari x 3
  10. Word Bearers Esoterist

What I Am Reading

I started on Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest by Cath Lauria.

Enjoying it so far and hope to finish it in the next few days.

What I Am Playing

Not actually played anything this week 🙁

What I am Backing

The second half is my Paranoia pledge for Project Infinite Hole arrived, the R&D Fun Pack.

Still backing the Wowstick drill project.

What I Am Cooking

Not a sausage this week 🙁

Hoping Lockdown Ends On Schedule

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On 12th April 2021

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Not much to say other than that, I am really down right now and could do with spending time with friends and family.

I just hope it all goes according to plan.

What I Am Modelling

I spent Tuesday finishing off Horticulous Slimux, a particularly disgusting character, and one that I am rather proud of.

I then moved on to the Heer Infantry Squad for Bolt Action, alongside a Lieutenant and accompanying Riflemen. That’s all the infantry for that army finished now.

After this I moved onto an Onagar Dunecrawler that’s been sitting in a box primed for way way too long.

I then started on some more Necrons, the four Crypteks, two Cryptothralls, five Flayed Ones and a Canoptek Renanimator.

The Cryptothralls were finished first.

Then I knocked out the Flayed Ones.

Followed by a Canoptek Reanimator.

And finally today I finished off the four Crypteks.

I am now working on the Pariah Nexus Terrain.

So what’s on the list going into the week.

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Kill Team Arena & Pariah Nexus Terrain
  3. Blood Ravens Heavy Intercessors & Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
  4. Mechanicum Termite
  5. Battlezone Objectives
  6. Flesh-Eater Crypt Ghouls x 20
  7. Legio Custodes Aquilion Terminators x 6
  8. Hexwraiths x 10
  9. T’au Tidewall Rampart
  10. Necron Skorpekh Destroyers & Skorpekh Lord

What I Am Reading

My review of the The Qubit Zirconium was published yesterday and you can read it here.

I read Blood of the Emperor and finished that, a review will be forthcoming.

And last night I finally finished Poison River and a review of this will also be published very soon.

I have now started on Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest.

What I Am Playing

On Saturday we played Alhambra Roll and Write, and I won, which is a surprise!

On Sunday I played a couple of hours of Star Wars: Squadrons with the lads.

What I Am Backing

Gloomier has successfully funded!

Still backing the Wowstick drill, that’s got another two weeks to run.

And the first shipment Project Infinite Hole arrived, and I am most happy with it, just awaiting the R&D pack now.

What I Am Cooking

On Friday I made a slow cooker Chinese Chicken Curry for tea with chips, it looked awful but tasted amazing!

Sunday morning saw my turn for Together Breakfast, and I made Fried Chicken with Waffles and Maple Syrup.

Quiet Easter

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On 6th April 2021

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It’s been a quiet week, I have a few things waiting to come to fruition so I am gonna keep this short and sweet.

I hope you guys had a good Easter.

I published a couple of videos this week, one which was an unboxing and review of the Daylight Conpany Lumi Tasklamp, and a review of Instar Soap+

What I Am Modelling

It’s been a slow and hard week.

I started out by painting the first of my Flesh-Eater Courts, an Abhorant Arch-Regent.

I then picked up the Herlads of Nurgle, but stuff going on in my head really kept me from any painting.

I did build stuff to ensure my next twenty of so projects are ready to paint, and apart from a squad of Peltasts for my Mechanicum, they are all built and primed.

I decided I needed an easy win to get back my mojo, so I painted this Knight of Shrouds for my Nighthaunt.

And then I managed to finish off the Sloppity Bilepiper, Poxbringer and Spoipox Scrrivener for my Nurgle Daemons.

So what’s coming up next for me?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Adeptus Mechanicum Onagar Dunecrawler
  3. Horticulous Slimux
  4. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10,Lieutenant & Riflemen x 2
  5. Necron Crypteks x 4, Cryptothralls x 2, Flayed Ones x 5 & Canoptek Reanimator
  6. Kill Team Arena & Pariah Nexus Terrain
  7. Blood Ravens Heavy Intercessors x 5 & Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
  8. Mechanicum Termite
  9. Battlezone Objectives
  10. Flesh-Eater Courts Crypt Ghouls x 20

What I Am Reading

I finished The Qubit Zirconium by M. Darusha Wehm and a review of that should be up tomorrow.

I have now started Blood of the Emperor and am a decent way though that now.

What I Am Playing

Played a bit of Star Wars Squadrons which was a lot of fun.

On Easter Monday, me and the girls played a couple of board games, we started with Pandemic: Hot Zone North America which was a lot of fun and we managed to beat the game nice and convincingly.

Then we played Ticket To London and Megan absolutely whooped mine and Lindsay’s arse!

What I Am Backing

I am still backing Gloomier, the profits I made from crypto mining is paying for that.

And I have also backed the Wowstick drill, I love the screwdriver so the drill should be good for hobby work.

  • Mood:- Hot
  • Caffeinated Beverages Consumed:- 4
  • In My Ears:-
  • Tabletop Game Last Played:- Ticket to Ride London
  • Video Game Last Played:- Star Wars: Squadrons
  • Book Last Read:- Blood of the Emperor – Various Authors
  • Movie/TV Show Last Viewed:- Deep Space Nine
  • Current State of Projects:- Horticulous Slimux 60% done, mostly Mulch left to do

Unboxing and Review of the Lumi Tasklamp from the Daylight Company

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On 1st April 2021

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Resolutions Update – March 2021

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On 31st March 2021

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I had a slow start to the month but I have managed to get 324 models painted to date this year.

My T’au got a big boost with two Ghostkeels, three Riptides and a Stormsurge joining their ranks this month.

An in general I am happy with how everything else is going.

Paint 2000 points of Necrons for Warhammer 40,000 – 29% Complete

For the Necrons this month I added a squad of Warriors, some Scarabs, two Royal Wardens and two Overlords to the done pile.

I decided to share the list I am aiming to build this year and it’s as follows:-

+ No Force Org Slot [3 PL, 55pts] +

Bound Creation [2 PL, 40pts]
. Cryptothralls [2 PL, 40pts]
. . 2x Cryptothrall: 2x Scouring Eye, 2x Scythed Limbs

Viral Construct [1 PL, 15pts]: Canoptek Plasmacyte [1 PL, 15pts]

+ HQ [17 PL, 310pts] +

Chronomancer [4 PL, 80pts]: Aeonstave

Overlord [6 PL, 100pts]: Warlord, Warlord Trait (Sautekh): Hyperlogical Strategist
. Tachyon Arrow and Hyperphase Glaive [5pts]: Tachyon Arrow [5pts]

Skorpekh Lord [7 PL, 130pts]

+ Troops [34 PL, 750pts] +

Immortals [8 PL, 190pts]: 10x Immortal [170pts], Tesla Carbine [20pts]

Immortals [8 PL, 170pts]: Gauss Blaster, 10x Immortal [170pts]

Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]
. 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Flayer) [130pts]: 10x Gauss Flayer

Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]
. 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Flayer) [130pts]: 10x Gauss Flayer

Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]
. 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Reaper) [130pts]: 10x Gauss Reaper

+ Elites [19 PL, 390pts] +

Canoptek Reanimator [4 PL, 80pts]

Flayed Ones [3 PL, 65pts]
. 5x Flayed One [65pts]: 5x Flayer Claws

Lychguard [7 PL, 140pts]: 5x Lychguard [140pts], Warscythe

Skorpekh Destroyers [5 PL, 105pts]: Skorpekh Destroyer (Reap-Blade) [35pts]
. 2x Skorpekh Destroyer (Thresher) [70pts]: 2x Hyperphase Threshers

+ Fast Attack [15 PL, 335pts] +

Canoptek Scarab Swarms [4 PL, 90pts]
. 6x Canoptek Scarab Swarm [90pts]: 6x Feeder Mandibles

Canoptek Wraiths [5 PL, 120pts]
. 3x Canoptek Wraith (Claws/Particle Caster) [120pts]: 3x Particle Caster [15pts], 3x Vicious Claws

Triarch Praetorians [6 PL, 125pts]: Rod of Covenant, 5x Triarch Praetorian [125pts]

+ Flyer [8 PL, 145pts] +

Night Scythe [8 PL, 145pts]

All I need to buy for this list is a Night Scythe.

Paint 1000 points of Early War Germans for Bolt Action – 40.6% Complete

I painted the Mortar Team and Infantry Support gun this month, along with a second Heer Infantry Squad and a Sniper team.

Paint The Scourge for Dropfleet Commander – Complete

In a surprise move, I crushed this resolution this month.

It’s been made easy using the airbrush and the colourshift paint, and I am super happy to have completed this resolution.

Paint 2000 Points of Flesh Eater Courts for Warhammer Age of Sigmar – 12% Complete

At the very end of the month I managed to start on this by painting the Abhorant Archregent!

Other Resolutions

  • Paint Blackstone Fortress and it’s Expansions
  • Bring my Mechanicum to 3000 points for Horus Heresy, including the Warhound Titan

Completed Resolutions

  • Paint The Scourge For Dropfleet Commander

So what’s on the list going into next month?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Adeptus Mechanicus Onagar Dunecrawler
  3. Heralds of Nurgle x 3 & Horticulous Slimux
  4. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10, Lieutenant & Riflemen x 2
  5. Necron Cryptexs x 4, Cryptothralls & Flayed Ones x 5
  6. Kill Team Arena & Pariah Nexus Terrain
  7. Blood Ravens Heavy Intercessors x 5 & Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
  8. Mechanicum Termite
  9. Battlezone Objectives x 6
  10. Flesh-Eater Courts Crypt Ghouls x 20

Stop Paying Scalper Prices!!!

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On 30th March 2021

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I am currently in the process of building a PC for Megan, she wants to play The Sims again and misses having a desktop. Most of what’s going in her PC is essentially my cast offs.

She is getting my old case, a bunch of my old fans, a salvaged PSU, and my old 3400G as her CPU. I have bought for her a monitor, motherboard and SSD, but still need to get her some RAM, a mouse and a keyboard, once they are in, she will have a working PC.

The one missing thing is a GPU, I have intended for her to have my 1660 Ti, when I replace it with a 3060 Ti or a 3070, but alas the GPU market is absolutely crazy right now.

Thanks to a combination of an actual shortage of silicon, social distancing reducing production capacity, a logistics nightmare (now made worse thanks to a silly boat), a drought in Tiwan, demand through the roof thanks to lockdown, a cryptoboom, bots/scalpers, and the biggest generational leap in GPU performance in many generations, we are seeing prices of GPUs being sky high and availability at practically zero.

But what annoys me is that people are paying the prices being demanded by scalpers, for example I am seeing RTX 3070s being sold for over £1000, that’s a card that should be selling at £500 for the Founders Edition.

Because people are paying those prices, its keeping the price for everyone else artificially high, and I really think the only way to combat this is to basically tell people no, we will not pay those prices.

I have basically accepted I won’t be getting a new GPU this year, and I have a suspicion that my PC will probably miss the 3000 series GPUs and end up getting a 4000 series one, if this keeps going on the way it is.

So what I am imploring you guys, stop giving scalpers the money, refuse to buy cards above RRP, the supply situation isn’t going to resolve itself, but the more we keep making it easy for scalpers to make money, the longer the high prices will last!

We can only beat this if we all work together!

What I Am Modelling

I started the week by working on a squad of Sagittarium Guard for my Custodes.

A bit useless in game but they look really nice.

I also painted the 81mm Medium Mortar Team and 7.5cm LeiG Light Artillery for my Bolt Action Germans alongside these.

These will make up some nice support for my infantry.

And then I moved onto the Royal Wardens and Overlords for my Necrons, these were painted to be a lot more, all together there, and in better condition than the warriors.

For #MarchForMacragge I decided to face down the Primarch himself, Roboute Gulliman.

This model has say intimidating me for the longest time, and now I am not sure exactly what it is that I had to fear, he was a joy to paint.

That then lead me onto a German Heer Infantry and a Sniper Team for Bolt Action.

And avoiding the Dunecrawler, I started work on a set of leaders for my Custodes, two generic Shield Captains, one armed with a Sentinel Blade and Shield, another with the Castellan Axe, plus the characters Ixion Hale, Trajann Valoris, Valarian and Aleya.

I have now started on the Flesh-Eater Courts Abhorant Archregent.

What’s coming up next week on the painting queue?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. Adeptus Mechanicus Onagar Dunecrawler
  3. Flesh-Eater Courts Abhorrent Archregent
  4. Heralds of Nurgle x 3 & Horticulous Slimux
  5. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10, Lieutenant & Riflemen x 2
  6. Necron Crypteks x 4, Cryptothralls x 2 & Flayed Ones x 5
  7. Kill Team Arena & Pariah Nexus Terrain
  8. Blood Ravens Heavy Intercessors & Captain with Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
  9. Mechanicum Termite
  10. Battlezone Objectives

What I Am Reading

I published my review for The Deacon of Wounds, which you can see here.

And I started on the next KeyForge book, The Qubit Zirconium, which I agreed to review for Aconyte, so far its really good and I hope to have a review up for you later this week.

What I Am Playing

No video games played this week 🙁

But I did play a game of Aeronautica Imperialis with Megan, and I am planning on doing a battle report for this later in the week.

What I Am Backing

Currently just backing Gloomier, but I need to talk to the girls about how we are funding it, Lindsays birthday has left me broke!

What I Am Cooking

Nowt cooked this week 🙁

Why Do You Defend Trans People?

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On 24th March 2021

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So I am gonna write a serious post here, not a long one but serious.

I was relentlessly bombarded a few months back by a friend of a friend who as it so happens, is a major TERF.

She was unhappy that I pointed out that JK Rowling is not a very nice person in regards to her attitude towards transgender women.

The tile of this post is a cleaned up version of the questions she initially put to me, trust me it was a very nasty way of saying it.

And one of her final tirades before I blocked her, was that the only reason I wasn’t transgender was because I would make a fuck ugly woman.

And let’s be clear here, I would absolutely be a fuck ugly woman, but still, that comment got right under my skin.

I spent a good couple of months questioning what it meant to be a man, if I even was a man. I hate that a TERF and a troll actually got under my skin like that.

Anyway, basically I came to the conclusion that I am a man, and to me being a man isn’t about how hairy my chest is, or how strong I am, how many birds I pull, how much I can bench etc.

But rather it was up to me to define how what being a man means to me. To me, being a man means sticking up for the under trodden, it means standing up to bullies, it means setting an example of how to be a good person for my nephews and nieces, and it means just enjoying my life and helping others to live their truth.

So why am I telling you this, well at the end of the day the whole argument came down to me, defending my trans friends, and I have, a rather large number of them.

I don’t care that they are trans, they tell me they were born in the wrong body, then fine, I will absolutely accept their true identify, refuse to deadname them and make sure I work my arse off the get their pronouns correct.

Trans people aren’t out to get special privileges, they aren’t trying to get into spaces reserved for the opposite gender, they just want to live their lives in peace and happiness.

Of all the trans people I know, most of them given the chance would have chosen not to be trans, to face the discrimination, abuse and bigotry is not something I think anyone would willingly choose.

No, they were born that way, and as a cisgendered person, it’s my responsibility to be welcoming to accept them and to be ready to stand up and defend them when others won’t.

I am not writing this expecting any brownie points, I know I have my blind spots, especially with my non-binary friends. The concept of non-binary is something I have trouble understanding, but just because I do my get it, doesn’t make it any less real. And I will make sure I do my best to get the right pronouns and address them by their preferred forms of address.

This song by Sunday Comes Afterwards helps to summarise how I work to figure it out.

In the long run, I was very wrong about my ideas of gender as a young man, I thought the way to be a man was very different to how I feel now, I was so caught up in the idea that I had to be hyper masculine like my dad, that I forgot to access what I could bring to the table of manliness.

What I bring is less masculinity and more compassion and what would probably be described as girly feminine traits, and there is nowt wrong with that, because us men could use those things I think.

Takes all sorts of people to make this crazy world we live in, and when it comes to gender, I realise from my own questioning, that it’s not exactly a binary thing, and sometimes, you aren’t put in the right end of the spectrum.

So guys, when someone asks me again, why do you white knight for trans folk, I do so because it’s the right thing to do, and I would do the same for any of my friends.

And really, don’t we just want people to be happy in themselves, and trust me, even with all the negatives (mostly caused by bigoted cis folk), trans people are happier when they are allowed to be who they are supposed to be.

And let’s face it, if the ayatollahs of Iran can recognise the validity of transgender people, then I think the rest of us can as well.

Not A Great Weekend

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On 22nd March 2021

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I am a day late with this blog update, I will be honest my weekend didn’t go the way I planned it at all.

I had to go out on Saturday and stuff just was crazy all round, and honestly I am exhausted and very tired.

My body is still giving me issues, the whole being unable to climb stairs properly is really getting to me.

I am gonna maybe start having a mid week post, but I am going to experiment with that this week.

Hopefully this week will be a touch better.

What I Am Modelling

I started the week by doing a big bunch of priming and airbrushing, which lead. To actually painting the entirety of my Scourge for Dropfleet Commander!

This also meant I got the Timeworn Ruins from Mortal Realms painted, two sets in fact, one from my Subscription and one from Forbidden Planet.

I then turned my attention to a squad of 10 Necron Warriors and their accompanying Scarabs.

I also worked on some Munitorium Armoured Containers for my Zone Mortalis board, these were painted with Death Guard Green as the base colour and then made to look nasty and a bit rusty.

I then started putting my last T’au Empire model for a little while on the table, a KV128 Stormsurge which is armed with a Pulse Blastcannon.

I am now working on the Mortar Team and the LeiG for the German Heer, and the Sagittarum Guard for the Custodes.

So what’s coming up for me this next week in terms of painting projects?

  1. Zone Mortalis Terrain
  2. German Heer 81mm Medium Mortar Team & 7.5cm LeiG Light Artillery
  3. Custodes Sagittarum Guard x 5
  4. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10 & Sniper Team
  5. Necron Royal Warden x 2 & Overlord x 2
  6. Adeptus Mechanicus Onagar Dunewalker
  7. Custodes Shield Captain x 2, Ixion Hale, Trajaan Valiris, Valerian & Aleya
  8. Flesh-Eater Courts Abhorrent Archregent
  9. Heralds of Nurgle x 3 & Horticulous Slimux
  10. German Heer Infantry Squad x 10, Liueteneant & Riflemen x 2

What I Am Reading

I finished First Team by Robbie MacNiven, and you can read my review here.

I also devoured the Litany of Dreams by Ari Marmell and the review for that is here.

I then read Deacon of Wounds, which is my first official review for Black Library!

My review for that will be published tomorrow!

What I Am Playing

Just a bit of Star Wars Squadrons during the week and a couple of hours on Sunday.

What I Am Backing

The Dungeon Masters Little Black Book successfully funded and I am really looking forward to this!

I have also decided to back Gloomier: A Night At Hemlock Hall because I absolutely love Gloom, I just gotta talk to the girls about what level we should stick at!

What I Am Cooking

Sadly nowt this week 🙁

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