tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post3033832745584456646..comments2024-03-27T12:37:27.837-07:00Comments on Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog: 10 Yearstimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-32083428415124652902016-12-23T10:55:27.922-08:002016-12-23T10:55:27.922-08:00Wow, 10 years! I don't think I've been re...Wow, 10 years! I don't think I've been reading it that long, though I don't recall when it was that I started following your blog. It's been very entertaining, though I enjoy the game posts more than the painting posts.<br /><br />Any chance that just upgrading the browser on your old computer will help it last a bit longer? It shouldn't be hard to find a library of newer versions of your preferred browser online.<br /><br />Regards, GordonGordonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-77807358440935295852016-12-22T21:47:29.219-08:002016-12-22T21:47:29.219-08:00I did indeed come down for a couple of the Heroes ...I did indeed come down for a couple of the Heroes Gambits & definitely remember playing Mordhiem, in fact that is when Chris first got me into playing it. I still really like that game & am looking forward to it's new release by GW.Terry Silverthornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02873668652853883440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-13770268365027804142016-12-22T11:42:35.281-08:002016-12-22T11:42:35.281-08:00Lately I've been feeling more like a modeller/...Lately I've been feeling more like a modeller/painter, as it feels like I've PLAYED very little this past year. I was playing a bit of Frostgrave in January/February... and I got in one game of Dragon Rampant over the summer while visiting Bob in Edmonton... and of course the REGINA TRENCH! game at ToonCon. Maybe that's what's getting me down with the Vimy Project - lots of painting, not much PLAYING! <br /><br />If I took stock of the miniatures I had and noted whether they'd ever been used in a game, I have no doubt I'd have hundreds (if not thousands) that have never actually seen action on the tabletop - but 99% of them were painted WITH GAMING IN MIND! I just sometimes never get to actually PLAYING the games I imagine as I paint them. (there are occasional miniatures I do just paint for fun knowing it is incredibly unlikely that I'll EVER use them in a game). many of the ones have haven't been used are ones where I haven't finished enough of the force to play with and/or haven't finished opponents (New Kingdom Egyptian DBA army is a perfect example; well over half painted, but not enough to PLAY with - even if I HAD an opponent painted.... which I don't, because the only opposing army I own are the Nubians and they're even less painted...). <br /><br />Perhaps that is why I've been finding skirmish games more rewarding over the last few years. There's more immediacy to them - I paint a handful of guys and BOOM they're on the table fighting each other! <br /><br />This is also why I've been feeling like I need to get Skirmish Saturday Nights going again in the new year - at the risk of becoming further distracted fro the Great War projects... Maybe I just need to make a pact that, until April, I will only play skirmish scenarios using ALREADY PAINTED miniatures - goodness knows I have enough and this shouldn't be TOO much of a hardship... <br /><br />Thanks so much for your comment, Iain - and indeed all of your comments of late - they really do keep me going! timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-2342935540915336052016-12-22T11:29:01.287-08:002016-12-22T11:29:01.287-08:00Thanks, Shaun! I hope to play a lot more Song of.....Thanks, Shaun! I hope to play a lot more Song of... games this coming year. Stay tuned! timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-40849558911867910862016-12-22T09:00:43.861-08:002016-12-22T09:00:43.861-08:00I like the variety in your posts, not that I'm...I like the variety in your posts, not that I'm bothered by a sea of khaki every now and again, I'm mainly a modeler/painter who occasionally games, I like it that your geared more towards gaming, it's interesting because it's a slightly different viewpoint from mine I guess. I went back and worked through all your posts, it was an interesting exercise! Especially as I've never done hordes of things or DBA, I've just played frostgrave and am about to put together a warband, I found the series of posts fun even though I was only doing historical at the time and now it's back to fantasy! Oh well, always a good read even when your fed up! <br />Best Iain caveadsum1471https://www.blogger.com/profile/02174163740406928172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-8504431525167051102016-12-22T03:38:49.379-08:002016-12-22T03:38:49.379-08:00Congratulation s on reaching 10 years! A stirling ...Congratulation s on reaching 10 years! A stirling effort and result. i don't have one particular favourite but I have enjoyed all the SoBH AARs. Especially if it has the ford in it. From reading all those AARs, I seem to have gotten a little au fait with some of your terrain boards! Shaun Travershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691522858410783769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-25639549147214283702016-12-22T01:34:40.105-08:002016-12-22T01:34:40.105-08:00Thanks, Barks! Thanks, Barks! timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-38897059519794036822016-12-22T01:34:19.508-08:002016-12-22T01:34:19.508-08:00Cheers, Millsy!Cheers, Millsy!timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-67775413022486566392016-12-21T22:28:23.657-08:002016-12-21T22:28:23.657-08:00Great work, Tim, you have a venerable blog!Great work, Tim, you have a venerable blog!Barkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04389368754759452544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-60647426512672823062016-12-21T18:01:51.185-08:002016-12-21T18:01:51.185-08:00I haven't ready every single post but I've...I haven't ready every single post but I've read a good proportion even so. Thoroughly your posts regardless of topic, scale or genre. Here's to another cracking 10 years mate!Millsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580692168847505881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-74964960741225544562016-12-21T16:22:45.643-08:002016-12-21T16:22:45.643-08:00I have ESPECIALLY enjoyed your cycling posts (bein...I have ESPECIALLY enjoyed your cycling posts (being a bit of a bike geek myself). <br /><br />Even though I'm not a sailor, I really enjoy the sailing posts on Steve's Random Musings on Wargaming and Other stuff. timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-60358083231617787502016-12-21T15:32:18.109-08:002016-12-21T15:32:18.109-08:00Tim, very pleased to hear that you enjoy my travel...Tim, very pleased to hear that you enjoy my travelogues and especially Peru in 2015. My wife and I returned to Italy in September and I ought to make an effort to put together a travelogue from that most recent adventure.<br /><br />I think it good practice to mix in some non-wargaming fare into our blogs so that outsiders may see a glimpse of normalcy! I put in cycling as well as travel into the blog and those postings get comments too. Jonathan Freitaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07862373894196924886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-57290927465866347502016-12-21T12:10:27.320-08:002016-12-21T12:10:27.320-08:00Oh, no, I lied. I posted some pictures from Hero&#...Oh, no, I lied. I posted some pictures from Hero's Gambit 2006 (which, I think, was the last one - or at least the last one I participated in...) and there's a picture of CVT playing in my Savage Worlds: Rippers game. I remember now he played "The Choir Master" - it was an English Civil War puritan preacher miniature (black cassock and skull cap with a sword and bible) who was followed around by a hoard of little choirboys (made by West Wind) - who could sing and drive away evil things... but him (and maybe the Jeffs) wouldn't let up on the innuendo about preachers and little boys... timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-30683019552463764132016-12-21T12:05:16.839-08:002016-12-21T12:05:16.839-08:00Didn't you come out to a Hero's Gambit in ...Didn't you come out to a Hero's Gambit in Saskatoon with CVT to play Mordhiem...? That was well OVER ten years ago. I think the last Hero's Gambit was the year before I started my blog... and the year you came out would have been the year before that, because I'm pretty sure CVT didn't come to the last one. That first Vimy game I ran was at mayday in teh spring of 2007 and I know you played in my Back of Beyond - Contemptible Little Armies game at Fallcon later that year. timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-87433086588968865682016-12-21T11:44:08.092-08:002016-12-21T11:44:08.092-08:00It's been an enjoyable ride Tim, glad to have ...It's been an enjoyable ride Tim, glad to have been a part of some of the shenanigans! Has it really been that long? When did we first meet? Surely at Fallcon many years ago. Well, we can certainly look forward to the next 10, by then we should all have holo-decks!Terry Silverthornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02873668652853883440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-33418887700400064722016-12-21T10:22:29.248-08:002016-12-21T10:22:29.248-08:00Thanks Jonathan!
I'd had a few Feudal Japan ...Thanks Jonathan! <br /><br />I'd had a few Feudal Japan things for a long time. I picked up a bunch to make a DBA army at one point. Then I got excited about Legends of the Five Rings and picked up a PILE of those, but what really got me painting them was Ronin - the skirmish wargame from Osprey. I also happened to be participating in the Analogue Hobbies painting challenge that year, so I cranked out a great many of them. They are some of my favourite figures ever - I did a lot of patterning and detailing in the clothes. It all culminated in a very successful weekend skirmish campaign... and then moved on to other things and I don't think I've played it since or painted anymore of the figures... <br /><br />I have over 300 blogs on my blogger reading list (I only know this because when I've tried to manually add blogs into the list in the past blogger has told me I have over 300 and have to delete some to add a new one... but strangely when I use the "follow me" gadget on blogs that has one, it still lets me add them...?). It's a little hard to keep up with all of them. I know I'd had your blog on my follow list for some time, but the post that really made me sit up and think "I need to check in on this one regularly" wasn't even a miniature wargame post - it was the ones about your trip to Peru! Not that your miniature are anything short of magnificent or that I don't love your game reports, I just really love it when the authors of the blogs I follow slip in a post or two about... other stuff... it really makes them stand out. In what can seem like and endless sea of beautifully painted miniatures and exciting game reports - it's the posts about other stuff that allow me to somehow visualize the author as... I don't know.. a real person...? Someone that can be related to....? Does that make any sense? (not trying to say that I think all the other blogs I follow are made by unrealatable wargaming robots or anything...) <br /><br />Early on in my blogging I started a few other blogs (I mentioned Savage Timmy's Playhouse, but I also started an Art Blog and a Bicycling blog) thinking that they were very separate interests and the people that might be drawn to a blog about cycling wouldn't be interested in wargaming and vice versa... but I have come to realize this was probably a mistake. Especially considering how very little I've posted on the others (and the correspondingly small audience they've garnered), I should have just done this as simply Tim's Blog and included everything here... Or Tim's Miniature Wargaming (and Sometimes other stuff) blog! timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-89071475202415330562016-12-21T09:52:41.721-08:002016-12-21T09:52:41.721-08:00Thanks, Monty! Thanks, Monty! timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-89011819563541498312016-12-21T09:52:12.530-08:002016-12-21T09:52:12.530-08:00Well come on in and put your feet up by the fire, ...Well come on in and put your feet up by the fire, all are welcome here! <br /><br />Funny story about the 30 Games in 30 Days Challenge - Just before the September of second year we did it, I noticed on blog I follow (Gaming with the Gnomies), I noticed that Eric was getting ready to do something similar with his daughters and I though "Hey, we did the same thing and I didn't even realize it was a thing... y'know... that other cool people actually do!" then I read a little further on and realized he'd gotten the inspiration from my own blog!? Realizing I'd inspired others to play more games (especially with their kids) is the best feeling ever! <br /><br />This year, in addition to the 30 games in 30 days Challenge, I thought I'd get everyone in the family (well, at least me and the kids... not sure if Amanda will join in) to write a list of 50 games that we want to play over the next year and... well.. PLAY them! It would mean we'd have to play about 3 (or 4..?) games a week, which is do-able... <br /><br /><br />timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-77773598538138611432016-12-21T09:31:02.375-08:002016-12-21T09:31:02.375-08:00Wow! That was eight years ago!? Not only is it the...Wow! That was eight years ago!? Not only is it the most popular post - in terms of hits - I think it's the one that most people have asked me to do more of. Part of me would like to do more step-by-step instructional posts, as it was fun and in terms of my goal of inspiring people it was an obvious success... but it was also time consuming and mostly I'd rather just get more stuff painted. Not saying "never", but after eight years, it seems it's really not a priority... <br /><br />I suppose I did try to take a few process photos of my Frostgrave terrain building, which was similar and a lot of people said it was very helpful...?<br /><br />Thanks, J!<br />timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-25144384709673649372016-12-21T09:24:04.013-08:002016-12-21T09:24:04.013-08:00Thanks, Tony! I don't think most 10 year old c...Thanks, Tony! I don't think most 10 year old computers last 10 years. I think I've been pretty lucky that this one hasn't sputtered and died so far. timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928949644765765070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-34680687629200710942016-12-21T06:26:55.927-08:002016-12-21T06:26:55.927-08:00Very well done, Tim! While I have not been follow...Very well done, Tim! While I have not been following for your entire ten year tenure, I certainly enjoy what I have seen since discovering you. When did I begin following? That I cannot answer but a quick check of when I first made a comment would be a very good gauge.<br /><br />While I always enjoy for painting parade and Vimy project, my favorite postings center around you family gaming exploits. I must check up on your Feudal Japan project.<br /><br />Keep up the great work!Jonathan Freitaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07862373894196924886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-11062356622910127882016-12-21T05:42:50.879-08:002016-12-21T05:42:50.879-08:00Great work, Tim - always find your blog a good rea...Great work, Tim - always find your blog a good read 👍 Montyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06230149195753516430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-12384830432048334812016-12-21T04:39:10.414-08:002016-12-21T04:39:10.414-08:00Been a secret admirer for three years now and at t...Been a secret admirer for three years now and at times I feel like a pauper peering into a window at the Vanderbilt's mansion. I really enjoy the September 30 games in 30 days series. <br /><br />Tim Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-10853382488977039132016-12-21T03:56:08.176-08:002016-12-21T03:56:08.176-08:00Congrats! Your "DPM Painting Tutorial" g...Congrats! Your "DPM Painting Tutorial" got me back in to painting after a long hiatus, so I guess I've been following for around eight years now... Actually, I can't think of another blog that I've followed consistently for even HALF that long, so thanks again for all of the entertainment and inspiration, and here's looking forward to the next eight. Bravo!J Gregorynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140646711960604590.post-5893671651793523502016-12-21T01:09:25.536-08:002016-12-21T01:09:25.536-08:00Congratulation on your 10th anniversary , sadly I ...Congratulation on your 10th anniversary , sadly I think you will find modern computers wont last 10 years , TonyThe Good Soldier Svjekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749564052124659180noreply@blogger.com