So... after constantly watching @Space Truckin and his WARSHED THREAD I realised that even though my own shed based antics probably didn't warrant a thread just about them... I came to the conclusion that a lot of my hobby life now revolves around checking in on my fellow Yaks...
Now, I may not post much but it's probably better if I explain who and why I am now so we don't need to go over it again later.
Firstly- I'm hitting middle age, father of 5 and I am involved 4 businesses, soon to be 5 as of the timing of this post. That being said, I'm trying to be clever, manage my time and fit in as much personal time with family and hobbies as I can while maintaining my commitments. Sadly, one of those businesses is Security and whilst it's been my bread and butter industry for 20 years, it's also hellish to work in - its just a soul draining enterprise between shoddy clients and shoddy people masquerading as staff. Don't get me wrong, we have some amazing customers and staff too, but the minority always make it feel awful.
Now, Coronavirus forced a paradigm shift in almost every way imaginable in life and for me that fell lucky as pre-covid19 I was trying to work from home, generally avoid people and have more time with the kids. The lockdown literally 'forced me' into what I was aiming for.
That brings me to Necromunda.
As an old school player from the 90s, buying the original game on release, followed by Outlanders and running riot with Spyrers (3 Malcodon, 2 Orrus and a Yeld....) my love for the grimdark of Necromunda has long been set in stone. Then sadly, life got in the way, embarrassment about my super nerdy interests, women, family marriage... all of that happened. Then about 10 years ago I decided.... I was no longer embarrassed about something that made me happy. Brought me joy and quite frankly with the hobby side, an amount of skill to be proud of.
More time passed, got ripped off, left homeless, lost everything and then had to rebuild my whole life from absolute zero.
This is when I started up my own business and never looked back. Started to succeed and have managed to achieve a small amount of freedom through a combination of hard work, tears, sacrifice and good fortune.
Bring me to 2017.... Necromunda is being re-released, just in time for my birthday... coincidence! I pre-order it and gang wars... along with some laser cut MDF terrain in order to satisfy my urges...
Skip forward to 2020. Beginning of the year... just before lockdown, I finally open that box and with the help of the Yaktribe I begin to learn the game anew. And not only that... it seems that the timing of everything worked out well enough for me to start playing again, painting again, build scenery and spend some spare money on starting off with YouTube- altogether with a huge amount of support from the Yaks and a few others over on reddit.
I'm thankful to be here, I think the place is epic (which is why I have supported both directly and via Patreon) and I think keeping up a blog here is going to be good for me.
Very cathartic and happy joy joy making.
So... thank you everyone... here is my shed.
Now, I may not post much but it's probably better if I explain who and why I am now so we don't need to go over it again later.
Firstly- I'm hitting middle age, father of 5 and I am involved 4 businesses, soon to be 5 as of the timing of this post. That being said, I'm trying to be clever, manage my time and fit in as much personal time with family and hobbies as I can while maintaining my commitments. Sadly, one of those businesses is Security and whilst it's been my bread and butter industry for 20 years, it's also hellish to work in - its just a soul draining enterprise between shoddy clients and shoddy people masquerading as staff. Don't get me wrong, we have some amazing customers and staff too, but the minority always make it feel awful.
Now, Coronavirus forced a paradigm shift in almost every way imaginable in life and for me that fell lucky as pre-covid19 I was trying to work from home, generally avoid people and have more time with the kids. The lockdown literally 'forced me' into what I was aiming for.
That brings me to Necromunda.
As an old school player from the 90s, buying the original game on release, followed by Outlanders and running riot with Spyrers (3 Malcodon, 2 Orrus and a Yeld....) my love for the grimdark of Necromunda has long been set in stone. Then sadly, life got in the way, embarrassment about my super nerdy interests, women, family marriage... all of that happened. Then about 10 years ago I decided.... I was no longer embarrassed about something that made me happy. Brought me joy and quite frankly with the hobby side, an amount of skill to be proud of.
More time passed, got ripped off, left homeless, lost everything and then had to rebuild my whole life from absolute zero.
This is when I started up my own business and never looked back. Started to succeed and have managed to achieve a small amount of freedom through a combination of hard work, tears, sacrifice and good fortune.
Bring me to 2017.... Necromunda is being re-released, just in time for my birthday... coincidence! I pre-order it and gang wars... along with some laser cut MDF terrain in order to satisfy my urges...
Skip forward to 2020. Beginning of the year... just before lockdown, I finally open that box and with the help of the Yaktribe I begin to learn the game anew. And not only that... it seems that the timing of everything worked out well enough for me to start playing again, painting again, build scenery and spend some spare money on starting off with YouTube- altogether with a huge amount of support from the Yaks and a few others over on reddit.
I'm thankful to be here, I think the place is epic (which is why I have supported both directly and via Patreon) and I think keeping up a blog here is going to be good for me.
Very cathartic and happy joy joy making.
So... thank you everyone... here is my shed.
