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Browsing Dakka: more fun than work...

I'm more of a painter myself - I've probably played less than 5 games in the 10 years I've been into Warhammer. I keep meaning to play more - It's just that I don't want to turn up to the local GW etc until I've got a finished army I'm really happy with, I just never seem to get there.....

I like the building and converting aspect myself. Painting is a drag for me, almost as hated as cleaning metal models of flash, mold lines vents and anything else that makes it look like crap.

I love painting and converting.

Only played 2 games back in 4th ed so I am a little undecided about that side of the hobby.

I don't find some of the prices particularly enjoyable.

I don't particularly enjoy painting, building and converting, but I very much enjoy the fuzzy feeling you get when the model is finished and on the table. Makes it all worth it...

I enjoy the modelling about as much as the playing.

Sometimes building and painting gets to be a bit of a drag but that's probably because I don't pace myself. (I tend to buy huge piles of models and I then I have to hammer through them because I have too much to do. My '09 project (7500pts of marines) is going to be finished this month.

I'm sick of building/converting/painting.

I really just like to play at this point, though I do admit that I enjoy looking at my painted armies every once and a while. Still, I can't stand getting there.

Browsing models: Makes me want to rob a bank
Buying models: Makes me want to rob GW
Building/painting models: Makes me want to rob a hobby store
Converting models: Makes me want to rob, uhh, all of the above?

Looking at MY painted army: s'ok
Looking at others painted armies: s'ok aswell
Showing off my painted army: Fun

Friendly games: Fun
Club games: Fun
Tournament games: tourney games iz srious buzines. no fun is to be allowed.

Reading others stories: Usually horribly written and makes me want to stab out my eyes with a pencil
Creating stories for my armies: Reminds me of what other peoples' stories makes me want to do to myself, so i just dont do it.

To be honest, as I get older, less and less.

I only play 1 game a week, lasting around 2 hours or so and find that is more than enough. Mainly its an excuse for a chat and a beer with like-minded friends. Pretty much half of our gaming time is just spent shooting the breeze about the latest geeky stuff.

I paint once or twice a week. As much as anything its an excuse for a little "cave time", and a chance to relax without having to watch the gak the wife enjoys on TV.

I browse t'interweb while I'm bored at work - spodding for toy soldiers isn't going to get me in trouble with the internet police at work, unlike other things I could be looking at!

I buy the occasional hobby magazine and black library novel for light reading material when I've got nothing better to do.

The rest of "the hobby" (tweeking rules, building army lists, assembling, converting, building terrain, etc., etc.) really don't interest me at all, they're just necessary evils.

It really is a pretty minor part of my life.

Although it ranks slightly better than "work" in the list of things I want to do with my time!

Browsing models: Fun when new stuff is coming out
Buying models: When I actually have money to buy stuff it's either my birthday, Christmas, or tax-return time. Since I have to be smart (for me that is) with my money it becomes tedious.
Building/painting models: My favorite aspect of the hobby.
Converting models: I generally only convert stuff for 40k and it is enjoyable.

Looking at MY painted army: Feels good, not sex good, but good.
Looking at others painted armies: Fun when they are painted well, but makes me sad if they're better than mine.
Showing off my painted army: Fun I usually get compliments and that feeds my inferiority complex

Friendly games: Fun If I'm playing a friend then I have a great time.
Club games: Not so fun. The guys in my home town are generally idiots.
Tournament games: Fun I prefer tournaments because I meet new people and play different armies.

Reading others stories: Fun I like to see how people shape the history/battles with their word power.
Creating stories for my armies: Some fun. I usually just don't think about doing it.

Checking Dakka: Fun, nearly crack addictive. I spend too much time on the forums and in the articles.

Buying models: Ambivalent (In other words: Picking and choosing, figuring out what to make = Fun! Laying out the cash = Not fun)
Building/painting models: Lotsa Fun!
Converting models: Oodles o' FUN!
Looking at MY painted army: Cool
Looking at others painted armies: Great fun whether good or badly painted

Friendly games: Usually lots of fun
Club games: fun
Tournament games: Focused and reserved excitement

Creating stories for my armies: Fun
Reading others stories: Sometimes fun

Final verdict: FUN!

Funfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfun!

Talking about buying models and how we could convert them.

I prefer building and converting models to actually painting them, and I enjoy the gaming side (though I've not had a game in a while).


I also dislike spending money :p

A lot of the hobby has to do w/ the people you play w/. If you don't have fun it's no longer a hobby; it's a job.

-J.

Very little. I get some joy out of painting and conversions, but that's minimal compared to the amount of time they take.

Browsing models: Not so Fun
Building Lists : Really Fun
Buying models: Depressing
Building/painting models: Sometimes relaxing, sometimes frustrating
Converting models: Not so fun

Looking at MY painted army: Meh. I like it, but I wouldn't mind them coming prepainted either.
Looking at others painted armies: Whatever. I mean, yeah, nice paint job, it really represents, whatever it is. yeah.

Friendly games: Fun!
Club games: Fun!
Tournament games: Lots of Fun!!

Creating stories for my armies: Not so fun
Reading others stories: Not so fun

Riding my harley to the game store: fun
Looking at stuff there: fun
Buying new toy soldiers: fun
Riding home from the game store: fun
Unwrapping the plastic crack: fun
Filing the mold lines: not fun
Assembling the models: fun
Converting the models: more fun
Priming the models, inhaling the fumes: fun(?)
Painting the models: fun, mostly
Drinking some beers w/ friends: fun
Rolling some dice w/ friends: fun
Making new terrain: fun
Arguing on the internets: fun
Going to the bazaar: fun
Going to local tournaments: fun
Going to major tournaments: fun

I guess I enjoy most of it.

I'm not going to lie, the only part of this hobby I enjoy is the painting and modeling. 5th edition stinks and is boring to play, and I stress out when I play with toy soldiers because the rules are SO DAMN BAD.

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Vladsimpaler wrote:I'm not going to lie, the only part of this hobby I enjoy is the painting and modeling. 5th edition stinks and is boring to play, and I stress out when I play with toy soldiers because the rules are SO DAMN BAD.

So go find someone who likes playing something else and play that with them. Where's the problem? There are many "tighter" rulesets out there, and you can even use GW figures with many of them...

Yay! I am a lemming!

Browsing models: Fun!
Buying models: OUCH! My finances!
Building/painting models: Fun!*
Converting models: Fun. Frankenstein fun!

Looking at MY painted army: Rainbows, lolipops, and fuzzy kittens... I mean... uh... Shooty gunz and fungus beer! Um... dakka?
Looking at others painted armies: It's fun, if it's well-done. (Hey! It rhymes!)

Friendly games: Good times!
Club games: Fun, too!*
Tournament games: Never tried, but want to.

Creating stories for my armies: Don't spend much time on it.
Reading others stories: Likewise, don't spend a lot of time on it.

*Can be made un-fun if deadlines or scheduling conflicts make it feel like work.

What is the greatest joy in life ?

To CRUSH my enemy, drive him before me and her the lamentation of his women!

Yeah im a tourney gamer so its all centered around that, I enjoy painting and paint to a fair standard but thats just a means to an end.

I love list building, concocting strategies, trying to second guess what my likley opponents will bring to the table and how they will react to what I have.

I love friendly games with competitive gamers who want to win but still realize that its a game.

I love going to the bar afterwards and discusing the after action reports of the toruney with my friends and my opponents especially the opponents who beat me.

I love the social nerdgasm of hanging out with 100 or more fellow gamers for two - three days of beer hazed carnage.

its all about the tourneys for Big Troy