Cult Of Games XLBS: What’s The ONE Project You WILL Definitely Finish?
July 27, 2025 by crew
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My Kriegers will be completed .
Jorge is a Spartan 2 just like John, that is way Halsey knows him. If I remember well from the novels, some Spartan 2 went actually missing and he is one of them.
The Unicool resin is fantastic.
Eldfall Chronicles were the first using the Uicool resin (that is what they claimed) and they are amazing. Their dungeon crawler Northern Wind will soon be delivered.
When @shay gets his figure,will he love it and squeeze it and call him George?
The Grapeshot of Wrath wasn’t it?
Oathmark is a beautiful game, really recommend it. And an elf and dwarf (or an elf and Goblin) army would work really well in game.
Yeah I am very tempted by this Silmarillion Elf/Dwarf alliance force – or something with Elves and Humans.
Ah yes, a peak behind the curtain for the projects @avernos meant to finish. A fitting relief for the rest of us who have stuff in progress but yet to complete.
@brenon Combined arms of varied races might help you finish another force. Let’s see you resist the urge to just buy more dorfs.
@shayott Speedpaint speed run ftw!you have a plan and you just need to work the plan. We support this idea and just need to see it. First the ‘nids… then Conquest.
Note to self, get off ass and paint some stuff
I was on the North Star Dwarf page for the majority of Gerry’s chat about what he was going to be working on…
Are you unable to get Masterchef because he’s really Gregg Wallace and he’s been cancelled?
Buttery biscuit bases aren’t good for general wargaming
Happy Sunday! Really enjoyed the topic again, these two weeks have been thought provoking. If nothing else, having a sense of belonging that we are all in the same boat helps me feel not too bad about all my unfinished projects.
I think another interesting follow on would be to explore where people get their sense of satisfaction from their projects? For example I have found that I get much of what I get out of a project from the idea itself. That’s the creative part. Then I enjoy sourcing the models, and thinking through how to go about it. Then, weirdly, the execution isn’t always a fun, and sometimes when it’s done it’s a tick-box rather than a triumph. For others, it’ll be getting the game on, or closing the project or whatever. For me, this is what leads to many started but not finished projects, and even more projects I want to do but haven’t started. My ideas vastly outpace my ability to execute!!
I wonder how the crew and community compare? It would be interesting to explore because then it can come full circle to help people to enjoy their hobby more. Knowing where your enjoyment is can inform what you would do if you started again, and this would include those existing projects you want to finish. It might be a form of therapy!!
Meant to add that knowing this about myself means that I now make sure I don’t rush into buying things just because I’ve had a good idea. I have piles and piles of boxes, loads of regretful kickstarter backings etc – things that will never realistically see the light of day. I try to be less impulsive now! (Doesn’t always work!!)
I agree this would be an interesting area for a discussion. Like you I probably get my most consistent enjoyment from the creative outburst at the beginning of a project. For me the initial idea is fun but the best bit is putting an army list together and sourcing miniatures. I love mixing together compatible miniatures from different manufacturers, the more obscure the better, to get exactly what I want. I do try to keep my ideas on paper for as long as possible. I have a big notebook that I write everything in. That way I don’t need to pull the trigger on purchases too often as my painting output doesn’t match my idea generation. Despite this I’m still 50+ projects behind 😀 I do love finishing painting a project and have nice glass display cabinets where I can give everything ‘a good coat of looking at’ as a regular reminder that the effort will be rewarded.
Will bring up some of your comments here on the next show 🙂
Sounds like the makings of this week’s topic 😉
I have a project outstanding from the 1980s, which was to build 15 mm Napoleonic forces to fight the old Table Top Teasers from Battle magazine using Brigadier Young’s Charge rules. I bought a load of Wurttemberger and French (to be painted as Westphalian) figures from Jacobite Minatures and did get some of the Wurttembergers at least part painted before going off to university. If I knew where I’d put the figures I might get back to them someday, especially now Charles S Grant has started writing Table Top Teasers again…
Hope you end up digging them out!
I have a Tyranid army that was basically finished back in around 2005, with a few odds and ends added and painted between 2005-09. Then the Combat Patrol mag came out and I stupidly added a whole chunk of minis to the army. I have painted 3 warriors from the mags but now there’s a pile of sprues sat in a draw.
Something for next year’s Spring Clean Challenge, perhaps?
Happy Sunday!
ROME! @lloyd Roooooooooooooooooooooome!
00:22 Backstagers!
01:00 Wet-stagers?
02:13 SAGA – for example?
03:55 Red vs. Blue
08:40 someone needs glasses
10:15 the German pronunciation of George is (and I’m not kidding) Gay-Org. You’re welcome. @shayott
13:45 Unicool? Odd name
17:15 Shay needs more movie education!
24:00 Moody moderators
25:00 Ba-Booooms
29:30 Projects? Finish? What?
33:30 Oathmark is an interesting concept but feels like a game that easts most of your hobby time and budget
36:00 There was never an event. Never. Ever. No.
38:00 @brennon getting really excited
41:20 Nid’s eating up your hobby time
53:20 perfect is the enemy of done
57:20 G’Wullu mailorder?
1:07:00 I hear you. Start moving stuff around before starting doing any hobby is annoying as fuck
1:13:00 Willpower of wet lettuce. XD
1:17:00 Nice paintjob though I’m not to fond about the sculpts
1:22:00 will that tattoo get him a) into warhammer world for free or b) into court with G’Wullu? XD
1:26:00 throwing up in the pub? oO
The one project I’D like to finish, because it’s the biggest in physical dimensions, is my hex-board terrain.
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1235986/
Well just about to watch show, read the blurb ( never catch on) .
Boat game… I wonder what?!@!!
Ben you are a star, I did the same wasn’t going to buy Master Cheif, and !!!!@
As many know I’m retiring end of August, and have a whole plethora of projects to finish( start in some cases) but one I did start a long time ago and will finish with the new Plastics 28mm ‘Byzantine’ army.
Probably to late a suggestion Ben , but have you thought of painting your red and Blue Spartons in different shades of the primary colour.
Unfortunately, they are all “done” now but I like the idea. Could do a neat bit of armour plate painting perhaps later down the line 🙂
Happy Sunday.
I always thought I’d get around to painting my all metal Dwarf Warhammer army and who knows it might still get painted if the strangers I sold it to piecemeal decide to.
HAPPY SUNDAY……..
For a long time the one project for me was the feegles. The other two that are on par with it are actually ones I haven’t bought anything for yet despite being years into the causal planning stages. One day, I’ll find the perfect minis range for what I want 😂
In terms of the minis in the stash, most are projects that I’ve picked up because I want to paint them rather than feel a burning need to get them to the table. I’ve been doing a big clear out recently and the pile of things to sell probably includes six or seven different projects that I’ve lost interest in or don’t want to make them priorities over other things. I have a pretty limited storage capacity and so being realistic about these things is the only way I can keep on top of things. Every couple of years, have a clear out.
I deffo need to do that. Have a clear out and refocus some of the projects that are just languishing.
Another excellent topic again this week, well done Ben. The project I will get back to is the Bauhaus Imperial Guard that I was working on last Spring Clean Challenge. Some of the oldest models I own are in that army dating back to the early 90s and despite not being a 40k player anymore I will get it done as I love looking at complete armies in my display cabinets.
Great idea – looking forward to seeing how it eventually comes together 🙂
I must say this weekender has really had me rethinking my hobby plans, I’ll go away have a think and come back with some projects a likkle down the road.
Awesome – intrigued to hear what’s on the cards
Great Show. As a big fan of Oathmark it was a real shame that it was really impacted by the Event (stay indoors) though has a passionate community and the only games system I have managed to paint an entire army for… which I had great intentions of recording for a project but that failed even if the project didn’t.
But the project I keep telling myself I am going to do… “12 months of Necromunda”. I love the Necromunda lore and models and so aim for a building a gang a month, but man are those models over engineered and busy with detail. A basic Van Saar ganger with las gun is 13 pieces plus base!
Getting strong “as God is my witness, I will kick Bishop Brennan up the arse!” vibes from Ben. Not a complaint, you understand. Absolutely not a complaint!
Refusing to play Yorkists? Entirely reasonable – even if my own WOTR project (moribund of course) did begin with (and progress no further than) N asty Warwick’s retinue.
@avernos @brennon Sry I don’t know young Shae username, maybe he needs a quick prep setup to paint when he has 20min (5min) to set up, have a little painting tray like https://www.printables.com/model/117359-paint-station/related and have the minis with paints he want to next paint all together ready for a quick pick up and lay out and paint with a small portable holder, should easy fit half a dozen minis/stands of minis, with half dozen paints and brush, he’s obviously got a hobby stash, so he could just place one of those https://www.temu.com/uk/1pc-12-inch-small-plastic-tool-storage-box-with-handle on top and pick up and unack everything ready in minutes. Just a suggesston to pass along. Poundland do these cheap as chips so he could get a few ready at a time ad al stack together out the way till ready.