[SPEAKER_00]: Hello and welcome to the table top miniature hoppy podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Matthew if you hear and in the spirit of these episodes I thought I would just grab the phone and do it with some of what we walk as many of you do when you submit your clips So let's get straight in and let's find out what everyone's been up to throughout the month of May 2026
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello, Matthew and let's be able to help me teach the hobby podcast listeners.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is David or Axe Annex from the Discord and the bad internet friends podcast, submitting my report, which covers the last three months, which were a slog of the last few months.
[SPEAKER_12]: Very rough.
[SPEAKER_04]: My hobby has been almost just nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I've lived through the tales from other people, such as you good folks who submit every month.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I wanted to do the same.
[SPEAKER_12]: Why I catch up?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, between, yeah, listening to that hobby podcast, as well as doing my own podcast with Ivan Swanson.
[SPEAKER_04]: Spin, that's it.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's all the hobby I've been doing.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I have been, well, I can assign quite true.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have been working on the battle tech hotspots hinterlands B-SGRA to use with battle tech aces.
[SPEAKER_04]: I finally decided on the starting force from the alpha-strike starter box to begin with, because it's kept waffling as to which manufacturers really want to use.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because they're all pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: That figured that gives me a pretty good point spread to use.
[SPEAKER_04]: But some pretty solid mix of light and heavy and even a dumb Atlas with his dumb skull face.
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, so I'll get those guys painted up, continue working on the opposition forces, which is probably the funnest part honestly, I really like doing the opposition forces painting, which is a lot of painting.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's been a great project to slog through.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've been working on in playing five parsecs from home, planet fall.
[SPEAKER_04]: my team is about half-fainted now, gotta get the other four done, and that the first two games I played, which were last Friday and Saturday, no Saturday and Sunday, are the first two games I played, any kind of interesting game this year, which has been Anna's, it's been a terrible drought of more gaming for me, mentally.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just can't bring myself to do it until recently,
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the global campaign really got me kicked off.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I really had a lot of fun playing a five-part sex from home planetfall.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a very vast system with a lot of cool things that, well, with the hobby of home news, global campaign, you're not really participating in a lot of the minutia that you would be if you're playing on your own for planetfall.
[SPEAKER_04]: But it's been great to contribute with other folks.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if you want to participate in that, you just got to join their Patreon as a paid supporter
[SPEAKER_04]: And they'll do a few reports, I think, for a month on the progress of the colony, and it's going to be a great time.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then finally, I have an upcoming game of saga, which someone a while ago gave me some Scott's Irish dice because they wanted to try playing it, and they figured out it was the kind of guy who should have Scott's Irish dice.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's good by me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've built a force of dark age dudes and I use them as scots and I played one game so far while back and it was a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the guy who arranged to have the game demoed has also said that he wants to play with me again.
[SPEAKER_04]: He built up some angle assassins or angle deans.
[SPEAKER_04]: They could build angle deans, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: So we're gonna scrap it out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe I should name one of them Matthew.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this one's from Matthew.
[SPEAKER_12]: And, well, that's about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is my second run actually of this because the first one I didn't realize that I've been nettering on so long about the time I had stopped.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, this time I'll keep it a little bit shorter.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm really looking forward to everyone's stories in.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks again, Matthew, for everything you do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Take care.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello everyone, this is John, aka the Walt Lord Reaver in the Discord.
[SPEAKER_02]: Calling all the way from the zoo to give you guys my homebeap date.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, May was a bit of a slow month, a lot of work to do, a lot of things to help with the family, with my family, and I didn't do as much as I want to.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, I did do some cool things.
[SPEAKER_02]: First things first, I started painting some Marvel Crisis Protocol miniatures.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a nice game, it's a nice
[SPEAKER_02]: Looking forward to play doesn't have a lot of narrative elements, but it's the rules are tight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Most important the friends that have made that are interested in tabletop games enjoy it and they are willing to learn and
[SPEAKER_02]: you know, get the miniatures for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a win-win.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've painted start painting camping and then the crawler to villainous characters for the criminal syndicate team.
[SPEAKER_02]: And looking forward to finishing them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have also started making some hex tiles with MDF
[SPEAKER_02]: probably gonna use them mostly for the fantasy trip RPG.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm planning a campaign and more to hide them and the city of the dam do it with with with the rules and a lot of my friend my friends groups are looking my both my RPG groups actually are looking forward to it so I'm very very excited for that it's really fun to make the tiles it's I was actually expecting it would be boring
[SPEAKER_02]: I also start painting some ruin terrains, a ruin terrain piece actually that I had built quite a while back and never got around to painting it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a generic destroyed house that can go into any game really.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also just received on the mail a package of modern miniatures like
[SPEAKER_02]: And to top it a lot, just today I managed to get in the auction, a pretty rare RPG, the DC Maker Exponential game for superhero campaigns.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm excited for that too.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I started to campaign with some of my friends using mutants and masterminds, but it was not
[SPEAKER_02]: not working out very well and I was started looking at different systems and hey it found that auction got by book at a very cheap price and I'm excited to read it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah that's that's that for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have a good one.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hello everybody this is Darren from the Nera from the discord calling it from California.
[SPEAKER_09]: Kind of a quicker update this time I've been playing being a player
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, playing that as is when I've been getting most of my hobby done, so it's just been kind of mostly, mostly once a week lately, but I've gotten a lot of those painted about gosh 20, those mark elves are almost done right now.
[SPEAKER_09]: And, um,
[SPEAKER_09]: the main takeaway or suggestion or tip from that is that I've been using these new speed paint pens.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've got two different kinds.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've got speed paint pens from army painter.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just they're just a couple of basic ones.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't have four colors, but red brown, green, yellow, red, two browns has been really useful.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then I actually also have a three from
[SPEAKER_09]: A.K.
[SPEAKER_09]: 3.
[SPEAKER_09]: A.K.
[SPEAKER_09]: Pan, but real colors markers.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the combination is actually pretty useful.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I've done these elves almost all in the, in with these pens.
[SPEAKER_09]: The speed paints from Army Painter are, um, our transparent, just like their speed paints that contrast paint style.
[SPEAKER_09]: But then the A.K.
[SPEAKER_09]: Gunma, excuse me, A.K.
[SPEAKER_09]: real color markers are, um,
[SPEAKER_09]: are opaque and so I've got like a gun metal silver and a black and a brown I barely use the black but I've been using the brown and then the silver and the transplants has been a good combination.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's been a great way to paint and when I'm painting kind of casually while also trying to like pay attention to a game.
[SPEAKER_09]: So yeah, they've kind of been particularly useful in that casual contest.
[SPEAKER_09]: So check out of these paint pens, kind of neat.
[SPEAKER_09]: Then the only other thing I've done is I'm trying to participate in the global campaign that I apparently is still going on.
[SPEAKER_09]: I play the game of guards and traders' toll.
[SPEAKER_09]: This new skirmish game, kind of funny, funny little unique skirmish game with a bunch of cards.
[SPEAKER_09]: And that was neat.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I kind of made the,
[SPEAKER_09]: kind of shoehorned the story and having something to do with the global campaign that the wizards, a attack by a beast man's shaman on the town or something like that, and that then the wizard Jeff came and stopped it, knocked the guards, and then kind of went crazy.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then I have a follow-up set up on the table here.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm going to have a little scrum-ish.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm going to try to do like a sub-1000 point solo, oh smart game, and I have the table set up.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have all the ministers on it, but I haven't had a chance to play it.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've been so tired at the end of the day every day.
[SPEAKER_09]: So there will be a second one for this month.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe tonight, every night I think I'm going to do it, but I've got some Beastman, a bit at Amboshina,
[SPEAKER_09]: headed towards Manland though, so the food rate.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, that's enough of me rambling.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hope everybody's getting on.
[SPEAKER_09]: The global campaign thing has been really neat to check out, although it's having great thanks.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have a great time, thanks.
[SPEAKER_09]: Matthew is always from a great podcast, always enjoying it.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good day, bedroom, battlefields, folks, and Matthew.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is Josh and Massachusetts with the May 2026 hobby update.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been pretty bad about posting on a regular basis with my updates.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so this goes back a few months.
[SPEAKER_03]: Overall, I've been struggling with getting products completed, things like the broken truths.
[SPEAKER_03]: box set from one page rules arrived and all it was all excited to work on those armies.
[SPEAKER_03]: People came back from a depth icon locally, excited to play malediction by loot studios.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have friends getting back into war machine after a long hiatus from playing that game.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I still have community members looking to play things like conquest and trench crusade.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what I need to probably figure out how to do better is just pick one project at a time and work on it to completion.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought that maybe posting on a regular basis here would help me focus and at least remember what I had said I was going to work on that month.
[SPEAKER_03]: But clearly
[SPEAKER_03]: and so I'm going to try this summer maybe posting some work in progress forums or discord posts and keep a little bit better track of what I said I would work on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also probably should just do smaller bite-sized projects maybe paint up a squad and a character instead of dedicating myself to try to speed paint a whole army.
[SPEAKER_03]: for something like one page rules or maybe just painting up a new character for warm machine or if we're trying to say it would be good enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's something a lot of us struggle with.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if anybody has good advice on focusing and not getting distracted by the local community changing up their games, that would be all good to hear.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you again for the podcast and keep up the good work.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those of you who are more dedicated
[SPEAKER_08]: Hi, it's Steve Crow here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Back with another, how we updated for the month of May.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's been a slower month, how we wise this month because the boys have been doing their exams.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, it's been a lot of revision going on by primary gaming partner has therefore been out of commission, but exams all behind us now.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, that's really good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Looking forward to getting some games in then.
[SPEAKER_08]: been preparing for that with a game which has been written by our very own pull-as.
[SPEAKER_08]: He has written a small sort of skirmish-scale rank and flank game, which calls Banzabastards.
[SPEAKER_08]: for the purposes of my own gaming with my son.
[SPEAKER_08]: We might not be leaning too heavily into that particular thing, but it's not going to stop us.
[SPEAKER_08]: We've got three bands on the go, dwarfs, undead, and goblins.
[SPEAKER_08]: So with the current sport campaign on the go, we certainly shall have lots of opportunities to get those guys on the table and play test the game form.
[SPEAKER_08]: So looking forward to that.
[SPEAKER_08]: got some sheets all drawn up and been looking over the rules looking forward to getting a getting a chance to sort of see in high plays and give them some feedback on that.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that's going to be good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Other thing have been up to you this month has been, we were sculpting, haven't pushed the pot air on for a wee while, so I'm getting back into that's been fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have sculpted
[SPEAKER_08]: getting all the way where I'm on the cork and having another go at doing another one.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think they're going all right.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that's been fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm a little bit trickier kind of doing like
[SPEAKER_08]: I've previously done a lot of animals for Frozen Badgers, and we honest, it's very forgiving because you're not trying to do like a sort of human style face, even like dwarfs are very forgiving with all the facial hair that got going on, so you're kind of getting a slightly safer halfway house with that.
[SPEAKER_08]: But yeah, definitely find it trickier to do that without them coming
[SPEAKER_08]: All together weird.
[SPEAKER_08]: I really wouldn't want to try like an elf.
[SPEAKER_08]: Certainly, you know, humans and elves and anything that's, you know, not really meant to be like grotesque and commonly funny, like an orc or a godwin or something, you know, certainly as a harder prospect to get right.
[SPEAKER_08]: But yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I'm looking forward to getting those pinned it up.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've been pinned up some more of my dwarf gold riders as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: I had pinned it like after them I think before but I've got some more that I never did finish because I don't particularly love pinned those models much but it's good to have a project like this that gets things you know back out of the almost finished pile and a bit closer to the line so that's pretty much been all of been pinned thing
[SPEAKER_08]: This month, I don't think there's been much else painting and sculpting, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So the only other thing I think I've been working on this month, how we wise has been recording the final episode of The Adventures of Smurking on Gratcast, which after I got the initial kind of narration part recorded, I sort of just started blatantly procrastinating on it and listen around with
[SPEAKER_08]: you know, doing the final out of time.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, so um, have been tipping away at that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, and I think probably what it is is that I don't really know what the next story I'm going to do is I want to do one.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, that was like a writing collaboration called Give It Your Best Grop.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I haven't written an ending for it yet.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to start recording a thing that I don't know where it's going or I don't know that it has a satisfying good conclusion because I don't want to leave.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to leave it sort of hanging.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I suppose if you are someone who enjoys writing
[SPEAKER_08]: like 40k Gretchen fiction.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like does anyone else write that?
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_08]: Give me a buzz and you know write a short episode of the give you a best growth story and that's sure to kind of inject the thing with a bit more and these hasn't to push it over the line towards this.
[SPEAKER_08]: hopefully satisfying conclusion.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't really know what else to do with it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've been stuck on like a writer's block on it for ages.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, it's a weirdly story, but they all are.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, you know what, that's how it goes.
[SPEAKER_08]: So yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing what everybody else has been up to and thanks for the part everyone and for the community and I'll talk to you all again next month.
[SPEAKER_08]: Cheers.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hi Matthew.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's George.
[SPEAKER_11]: George Pence on Discord and Old Hammer and Tongues
[SPEAKER_11]: It's been a little while since I've put an update across onto the podcast, but very sadly my dad died in March, which completely rocked me.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I've had moments of thinking that maybe I'm was not going to bother with the hobby anymore and it's all of this.
[SPEAKER_11]: But it keeps on pulling through.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it really, really has proved to be the most wonderful.
[SPEAKER_11]: escape and therapy.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean I know this has been talked about another lot but it's been quite interesting to see for myself firsthand how positive it can be.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I'd signed up to the old world's army challenge at the end of last year for this year thinking maybe I shouldn't do that given all the health stuff going on but went for it anyway and I'm just so glad that I did because I've been
[SPEAKER_11]: busy painting up, road trader and period guard army based on that brilliant John Blanchart work that first came out with the plastic box set.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think it was released in 1989.
[SPEAKER_11]: So basically just wave upon wave of God's manhem, with flags flying, all marching, closely packed together, very slowly totally inappropriate for any kind of modern warfare.
[SPEAKER_11]: But painting that has been
[SPEAKER_11]: So sort of positive and totally different to focus on.
[SPEAKER_11]: And remark, but I've managed to stay in the challenge.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, it's one of those where if you miss a month, you can pull a mulligan.
[SPEAKER_11]: But if you miss two months, and don't pay anything, don't hit your quota of 10 minutes, it's then you're out.
[SPEAKER_11]: But I have remark, but you managed to stick with it.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I think I've painted about 50 of these guards and so far I would more to come.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I've loved it.
[SPEAKER_11]: I've really, really have throw myself
[SPEAKER_11]: having an hour or two where all I think about is whether or not the grey highlights is really working your heart, whether I'm going to have time to do any of the detail within that month to make the cut off.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then having this wonderful thing to look at at the end of it, this is a growing imperial guard regiment.
[SPEAKER_11]: So yeah, it really has been a reminder of how good an important hobby is certainly for me and I think for others too.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I do apologise for
[SPEAKER_11]: on Discord, but I'm hoping to become a bit more irregular once again.
[SPEAKER_11]: So thank you so much for producing this brilliant podcast for us.
[SPEAKER_11]: Keeping this wonderful community of incredible people together and I'm really looking forward to hearing everyone else's updates.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Bye-bye.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hello Matthew.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hello bedroom battlefields crew.
[SPEAKER_10]: Another month and some painting has been done.
[SPEAKER_10]: As I'm sure you've seen on the Discord,
[SPEAKER_10]: My Goliath Necromander gang is mostly done, a few more to paint and a few more to acquire.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm sure, but they are ready to go, and hopefully I'll be playing with my sons again most likely next week.
[SPEAKER_10]: I did have some assistance with painting my Goliaths, Bella, do you want to say?
[SPEAKER_10]: What you painted?
[SPEAKER_10]: You've got to say, you've got to speak if you want to.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have a princess on me, but she actually does princess butter cut, but I think it's like a princess on me.
[SPEAKER_10]: And a beautiful job you've done it to, I will post a picture of her, but you also helped me
[SPEAKER_10]: So utterly thrilling, that she just doesn't have the words for it.
[SPEAKER_10]: But yes, it was a bit of progress, and now I'm trying to figure out what's, what do you want to paint next?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well yes, I'm going to leave all this in, this is wonderful, but yes, I look forward to hearing
[SPEAKER_10]: I think the next thing on the list will be some adapters' arbitos.
[SPEAKER_10]: Till next time.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm Matthew Martin here in Hampshire, responding to your request for hobby updates.
[SPEAKER_12]: What do we play, planning for, and painting?
[SPEAKER_12]: Not a lot has changed in my own.
[SPEAKER_12]: of the world.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm still doing some 28 mil m4 orcs.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've managed to finish 30 of the archers which has been a bit of a struggle, but I've got there and I've also started painting some 15 millimeter Polynesians.
[SPEAKER_12]: for an August DBA event coming up in Gostysia.
[SPEAKER_12]: Generally, there's been a bit too hot in the shed of painting, so only occasional bouts of painting have taken place.
[SPEAKER_12]: Did manage some gaming recently?
[SPEAKER_12]: I went to a DBA match, the pair's event in London last weekend, which was fun.
[SPEAKER_12]: Lots of weird and wonderful pairs of armies turned up on that one.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've also went to a drag and rampant tournament in non-eated quite a long day out that one but got four games in and it was lots of fun as always.
[SPEAKER_12]: The commentary simulators run that one and they're a nice bunch of people.
[SPEAKER_12]: most recently I ran a solo double-sized DBA game for a blogger in Ireland who runs a collaborative campaign.
[SPEAKER_12]: He's got a semi-historical mythical world which he runs the world and we the solo gamers get to fight down the battle soil.
[SPEAKER_12]: This one involved a breakaway province being brought back into
[SPEAKER_12]: The blog involved is projects and procrastination.
[SPEAKER_12]: We're up to 18 years a bit so far, so don't really well, all sorts of different games being played in that one.
[SPEAKER_12]: Next up, once the weather eases off, there'll be some more 15 mil painting when I get the chance.
[SPEAKER_12]: There's a horse of the things tournament coming up in Bristol on the 21st of June, which is
[SPEAKER_12]: So I'm going to go to that one.
[SPEAKER_12]: That should be good for a Giggle.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's been run by the Lincoln Barn War Games Society.
[SPEAKER_12]: They always make it a good deal.
[SPEAKER_12]: Anyway, thanks for all the blogs and podcasts looking forward to other people's updates, cheers for now.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a few, it's Keith from Sussex here, just calling him with my hobby update.
[SPEAKER_07]: I called him for the first time last month and spoke about making and painting up, I'll see up by my repas for my advanced Hero Quest campaign that I was about to get back into after a long period of time.
[SPEAKER_07]: The game went well, not so much for me as the dungeon master, no heroes were killed unfortunately, and I think I might have to up the ante for the
[SPEAKER_07]: The next quest, when that will happen who knows with life being busy.
[SPEAKER_07]: At the moment, it's flat out because I'm a gardener.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I have been doing a lot of water in this hot weather, and my hobby is...
[SPEAKER_07]: I've got very slow this month.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have made a start on the enemies for the next advanced Xero Quest campaign, which is going to be some D-minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've got a few classic old school ones from the late 80s, my childhood set, and I'm going to mix in a few of the new modern GW ones as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, okay, so I've got a few made up and the old ones cleaned up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hopefully you're underpainting them at some point soon, but yeah, the summer's always a bit slow for me with
[SPEAKER_07]: But I promised I'd keep updated, so there we go.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm going on to the discord, something I really ought to look at, but it's still not happened.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, thanks for the break of podcast and look forward to hear what everyone else has been up to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good day, everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mark Snackleworth from the discord calling in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a lot of hobby in the last four weeks because I'm preparing for my son's wedding, getting ready to travel to the beautiful California beaches just north of Santa Cruz.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm definitely excited, but when I return, I'm going to dive more into gaming and hobby time and lean back in to regular life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have worked on the unit of Lannister Halberdiers.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is for the Song of Ice and Fire Minatures game.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just getting back into it, we have a lovely community here, a large community, and simply put, I want to see those people more often at the table.
[SPEAKER_01]: Their friends, I want to spend time with, and it's just a fine game, a very well-done system.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I've nearly completed 8 of the 12 models.
[SPEAKER_01]: You may think that's odd to not do the whole unit at once, but eight is my sweet spot model count number for assembly line painting.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I tried to do more, I tend to not enjoy the process.
[SPEAKER_01]: It may sound totally inefficient, but I found that I paint faster, even in relatively small batches such as this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll complete two sets, 16 models, faster and with more enjoyment than I would
[SPEAKER_01]: I recall how excited I was to pay my 20 noblars for Warhammer Fantasy decades ago as a new War gamer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had them all lined up two rows of 10 and I just couldn't, I couldn't complete them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's good to know that perfect amount for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It took a while to discover it and accept it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm curious what your number is for 28 to 32 millimeter models.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will post this completed group and the entire unit later as well with the trade texture too.
[SPEAKER_01]: As some added, I can't be for your day as soon as they are done.
[SPEAKER_01]: The minute they're done for now, I've some packing to do for a very meaningful weekend.
[SPEAKER_01]: So tears to you and yours from Central California.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hello, Matthew.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's Ed here from Sussex and the discord, just calling in with my May hobby update.
[SPEAKER_06]: So in terms of hobby painting and creation, this month has been back to the rat.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've got a unit of 37 clam rats that I've been working on and are
[SPEAKER_06]: come together quite nicely just got the basing to do on them but I'm having a little bit of a break from that trying to do some other fun things to keep the motivation going and I'll come back and have a slot through goblin greening up and flocking a whole big unit climates.
[SPEAKER_06]: for some point for boil.
[SPEAKER_06]: So as I say, I wanted to move on to something a little bit more fun, and so I have a secret project, which must remain secret, only somewhat secret.
[SPEAKER_06]: Those of you who are on the discord and our attackers will be able to see what I'm working on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everyone else,
[SPEAKER_06]: become more clear once we get to boil.
[SPEAKER_06]: But yeah, the scaven up plotting, the scaven up planning, and as such I have to do some hobby, hobby stuff to facilitate those things happening, which is always fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: Outside of rats, I've been playing Blubble, one, my first two games of the league, which is great, I've got another game coming up this coming Sunday against Nergall, so I'm lying, I didn't win my first two games, I drew my first game and won my second game, but you know, sometimes a draw feels like a win.
[SPEAKER_06]: But either way, I'm sitting currently second in the league and I'm going up against a first place.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'll be a fun challenging game to play.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I've also got in a little bit of space Hulk.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've been playing space Hulk with a friend of mine, studying working all the way through campaign, using second edition space Hulk, and we're having a great time.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's really it.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's my hobby updates and I look forward to hearing
[SPEAKER_00]: Massive thanks to everyone who submitted a clip there throughout the month of May 2026 and you could submit a clip for the next hobby progress in a current ability episode you could do that by going to bedroom battlefields.com forward slash voice mail and get them in before whatever month it is you happen to be listening in.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you'll hear there, the last clip that we've played was from Ed, who was referencing, bring out your lead.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the upcoming Old Hammer Gathering in New York, in August.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's some of you might know already, bring out your lead, has since been cancelled for 2026, because the Foundry premises, there's a bit of, a bit of unknown about the availability of the premises, because Foundry, who've always hosted the event,
[SPEAKER_00]: they are looking to move and I guess they simply can't guarantee that whatever premise is it is where they're existing or wherever they're moving to I guess they can't guarantee that that's going to be available.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this had been known amongst everyone you know it was made very clear by a garden the other organizers that might not go ahead so he was keen advice that if you're
[SPEAKER_00]: There was also a talk that would be postponed until October and they have confirmed now that that isn't going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the next bring out your lead is now going to be in 2027.
[SPEAKER_00]: Assuming that Foundry have all their premises stuff sorted out in the move has happened and they're all settled then.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah it's a real shame that that won't go ahead but again totally
[SPEAKER_00]: nothing anyone could really do about it but the good news is that there are already some bootleg boil events popping up so if you would still like to travel with a lead belt and August then there will be events taking place it just won't be boil it won't be the official bring out your lead event so I'm particular event that I'll highlight at this moment is
[SPEAKER_00]: Boyle Gets, which has been organized by Jason Mark Ed and a few others in the Bedroom Battlefield community.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have hired the room at the Navigation N in Nottingham, and that is Friday the 7th and Saturday the 8th of August 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: So these were two days that would have been part of the original Boyle
[SPEAKER_00]: the only different players that are not doing the Sunday.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Friday in the Saturday and in the Navigation and Nottingham which looks really really nice pub, they're going to be doing a massive game of Warhammer fantasy, would you expect anything less?
[SPEAKER_00]: So that is the big game that Jason and the guys were hoping to pull off at Boyle, but um,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they'll basically move it there, and the game will go ahead, and that's the culmination of the global narrative participation campaign, we did an episode on that a couple months ago, and it might even be something that you yourself are involved in, but that's really good to see that that is going ahead, and then brother Meridith from the community saw that he's been
[SPEAKER_00]: are potentially going to be taking place in the area on that weekend, I'm sure as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's keeping a record of those on the old hammer forum.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll put a wee link to that in the show notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you are planning to go to boil, you might still be able to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not the official boil as we know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just some other events that are going to take place instead.
[SPEAKER_00]: and I'm sure there'll be excellent events as much as I think we'd all prefer to have been together at Boyle, as it's been for the past few years, these events I'm sure will be fact asked, they can their own right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's pretty sure that it's yet involved in the Bedroom Battlefield's Discord.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could do that at BedroomBattleField.com
[SPEAKER_00]: because we've got a channel in there about boil and you know all these replacement events will be talked about in there and you could register your interest and all that sort of stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So here bedroom battlefields.com forward slash discord as the best place to keep up with this stuff going forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as for the old hobby progress on on my front,
[SPEAKER_00]: I speak a boy who got a demonet of slenesh from David, from the discord community a couple of years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: He very kindly brought that over when he visited from America and gave it to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just got round to paint that recently which was really nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a good old as I say so often palette cleanser.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never painted one of those before and yeah pretty simple color scheme on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean that's all I could do is simple colors schemes but just painted paint it during a night and also did the official boil manager
[SPEAKER_00]: I think from 2025, so it was 2024, was that the Brian Anso chaos saucer or one, and then last year was the Hive Vampire, I'm sure, so it was the Hive Vampire that I painted, put some paint on him as well, great manager, and yeah again simple one evening bit contrast paint here and there and I'm really happy with how that came up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I
[SPEAKER_00]: There goes to a finished Shira Princess of Power, which was a nice model Apprentice, that's for the Masters of the Universe game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's quite rare for me to paint a plastic model, but I mean, in the end, there's a much difference, once the other quotes are, I'm not sure, I guess, like experience painters or artists would probably argue yes, there is, but to me, like,
[SPEAKER_00]: paint paint, the brushes are brush, because I'm an uncultured charlatan.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, dead hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was the other one?
[SPEAKER_00]: A space, a chaos space radar from nightmare.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of those guys, their brilliant models, proper like old road trader, a few to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So paint is one of those and I think next up for me is a 15 mil orch shaman and he's bodyguard for my 15 mil orch con goblin army.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's next on the paint table for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So paint has been really slow for me recently.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've not done a lot of it
[SPEAKER_00]: So I've been moving out of my work office, I'm fortunate I have been made redundant from my job after there's any other way to be made redundant, such a horrible term, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it means like useless, of no use, so I've been made useless as if I had some sort of use before which means moving out my office, my work, I
[SPEAKER_00]: have always paid for me to have a little office so I could work out outside the house and like any good hobby as we do I had a
[SPEAKER_00]: a game in table and a lot of miniatures in my office and that was really handy for you know if I was like playtesting some of his making or doing a solo game or like having calm around for a game of hopgoblin or you know anything else a basically like I could set things up the day before I could leave them set up so it was really really handy on that front you know what I said from the whole losing the job thing losing a hobby space
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not great either, so, again, the first word of problems and all, but I've been moving out of there.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it's one of them, we're like, I'm bringing home loads of stuff in the wife's like, what is all this?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, well, you know, because, you know, all the hobby stuff you think I had, that wasn't even all of it, he does all of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I've been bringing stuff home, I've been trying to make everything fit and the the glass cabinets that I've got for my managers.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a big cabinet, and I've like, you know, it's chalk on out because I've been,
[SPEAKER_00]: peeing pretty regularly since like 2018, which that's not a kick in the balls of 10 years now, so it's a fero amount of stuff I've bought through, and these cabinets are rammed down, but
[SPEAKER_00]: looking at it like in a positive way when I look at all the stuff that I'm not just stuff on board, I mean stuff on my bought belt painted and it's table ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have pretty much tried the fruit collection that I really need for all the games that I play and all the games I potentially could play.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm in quite a good position on that front, like I'll obviously welcome the new paint stuff and buy stuff now and then, but in the mean I don't really buy that much and I've still got like, you know, a reasonable amount of stuff and draws that is unpainted, that I could check a way up, but I don't really feel like I'm in any hobby with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel like I need to get stuff done in order to play a certain game or that, and to me that just feels like quite a good place to be, especially because like for a good two and a half years I guess I painted up three, fifty mil armies, and I always felt like you know, once I get these done, that's me ready for all the games.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now I've got everything painted in it, it's getting in the games that are
[SPEAKER_00]: the tricky part.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think most people are in the same situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the play in that is the hardest for us to execute and you know that the year did start pretty well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I got a few games and McCallum he very kindly came through and visited me and we bedroom battle field office and I think we almost always are always played Hobgoblin which is a really enjoyable
[SPEAKER_00]: but yeah nothing but 10 at the moment just because of the whole situation I reckon the next time we do manage to play something we're going to meet there's a couple of places calms away of this that's um geographically right between where we where we both live so can't equal times for us to drive there so we will get some sort of advice it's just a
[SPEAKER_00]: Sir, you're a busy period, then how about everything that's going on, having to find a job and all that, and I'm still wanting to keep the podcast going out, keep the newsletter going out, I don't want to interrupt anything on that front, but just find it's been a busy period combined.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the summer is where I like with her recent respeller, good weather and just don't really want to be inside as much as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: There goes my pal in the lorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, don't really want to be inside as much at this time of year either.
[SPEAKER_00]: Find myself outdoors a lot more than that, obviously means less hobby stuff too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's just a general rambler boat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where I'm at at the moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess I'll leave it at that.
[SPEAKER_00]: that is sort of my hobby update for May 2026 and like I say if you want to submit a clip for the next episode the next hobby accountability episode at the end of June you could do so by going to BedroomBattlefields.com forward slash voice mail.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alright thanks as always for listening thanks to everyone who submitted a clip this month and we'll check in on the next one.