Water, water everywhere

A while ago (3-4 months) I walked into a local fabric shop and found a nice blue faux leather on sale. It was what I was looking for but I really was not expecting to find it so easily. Kind of disappointing I so enjoy the hunt. I requested a 9' long amount (it was 54" wide) and I figured that should do well enough even if it was going to leave a border on both long edges. I figured, a place for unit cards etc.

A 3" border, not too bad I guess

It was only after I got home that I started thinking about what I bought and what I should have done. My wargame table (really a ping pong table) is 5' by 9'. I belatedly realized/thought through what I was doing and realized I really needed a sheet that was 10' long or even two sheets 5' long each. It would allow me to completely cover the gaming table.  However I was not prepared to buy another sheet as this was supposed to be a quick cheap fix! So all I could do was hope that a little extra had been left on, that maybe the sheet would be close to 10' . However my gaming table was a little crowded (see other posts) and I could not stretch out the material to properly measure it.

Now the AHPC is over, and I have had a chance to clean up my gaming table.

A rare sight, the table with nothing on it!

So today I was finally able to spread out the sheet, and lo and behold they gave me a sheet that is 126" long. By my math that means I can cut it in half and have two sheets that are 54" by 63" giving me a small overlap along the long edge of the table. It also means I can use one on my secondary gaming table (1/2 a ping pong table) Oh joy oh bliss oh lucky horse shoe buried up my....

So here is the sheet with some models on it. I do kind of like the light blue colour, not to bright not to dark. I had thought about staining it to give variable patches of blue, but I may just leave it for now. Any thoughts?

All my painting challenge stuff (& a cleaner gaming room too!)

 

 

 Everything laid out from the challenge, does come close to filling up a ping pong table. I was also able to tackle the disaster that was my room, still stuff to be done but at least I can easily move around now.

The items on display have now, finally all been put away in their proper place. My gaming table is once again ready for gaming, but when and what shall we play?

4Ground Fort

 As promised, a crappy video about the 4Ground fort (soon to be OOP?)

 

 It does not have full flexibility to rearrange the fort, pretty well one layout, which is fine by me.

Life after the challenge

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So, today is the second day after the end of the Analogue Hobby Painting Challenge, I am therefore into my second day of withdrawal. For three months I have been living and breathing the challenge. If I wasn't painting I was prepping stuff to paint, if I wasn't prepping I was planning & thinking about painting. However, for the last two days I have not painted anything & for the last two nights I have woken up in the middle of the night thinking that I am running out of time to get stuff painted! When sleeping I dream that I am painting. I think it is a sign...!

So, throughout the challenge I was under a self induced pressure to produce. Whenever I was in my gaming room, I was there to paint and occasionally build stuff to paint. If something fell and I did not need it for whatever I was working on, then it would lie where it landed. If I was done with something it would be tossed aside to be picked up some time later. Worst was the styrofoam carving, for the most part it too just remain as ground cover to be tracked through the house. (boy does it cling)

Overall I was just too busy painting to be bothered to clean up my messes. It created an interesting obstacle course for me and anyone else foolish enough to dare enter my room. It provided a nice test of flexibility and spatial awareness as I pretzeled my way through my room being careful not to step on anything! It was like those movies where the spy has to avoid a laser grid to get to the treasure. 

I also had the challenge of finding places to put finished items, or space to work on new projects. Case in point, the mountain project required a lot of shifting and a lot of piling of stuff onto stuff into a teetering pile. The apocalyptic city board covered up my RPG stuff and forced my computer into another room.

Here is a video that reveals the horrible state of my room the day after the challenge ended. Be warned, it is not a pretty site...

Today is Tuesday and for two days now I have been working on my room in an attempt to reclaim it from the devastation that I wrought upon it. It is of course slow going, but I am channeling the energy that I devoted to the challenge into the challenge of cleaning my room.

Stay tuned for an update...ooh will he clean it or will he fester and wallow in his own wreckage?