Planning some actual miniature hobby

 

With the realisation that I'd been too busy to use up my holiday allowance this year, I have the week off. The eBay clear out continues. The unpacking continues. I've got two games of Infinity booked, so we may see a battle report of some kind if I remember to take enough pictures...

But I also really wanted to start getting into getting some miniature assembly done. First up on my to do list is a Halfling Blood Bowl team. With the new edition out, I'm sure there will be some folk interested in getting some games in.

More experienced players of Blood Bowl may be asking where on earth the Treemen are in this picture. Well, I haven't bought any yet! The new rulebook and the team's Treemen will be the reward for getting the rest of the team assembled and ready for paint. I'm not daft enough to try and play Blood Bowl with a Halfling team without any Treemen...

I also could really do with getting my Dungeons and Lasers set off sprue and into a storage box. They're pre-painted, so it's not really an "assembly" job, but it's something that will take time.

As a potential bonus, I found this box of assorted Frostgrave sprues. I may be joining a Pathfinder campaign in the new year, so knocking up an assortment of generic baddies could be a fun little side project.

Now, where are my clippers?

The near meditative practice of having a clear out

As I packed up this week's eBay sales to head out to their new owners, I found it becoming strangely restful. There was a certain preciseness to the routine of packing the item, taping up the box and carefully affixing the postage label.

This whole thing was probably reinforced by the rain drumming on the conservatory, and my impulsive decision to re-listen to Pablo Honey all the way through. The soundtrack to my adolescence's kitchen chores was bound to put me into some kind of mood.

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Of course, this whole thing has been thrown out of kilter by my getting distracted part way through writing this, unpacking a box of rugs, then finding a key box of scenery, my Frostgrave warband, my currently assembled Malifaux and most importantly, my Infinity token box.

I'm writing this on Sunday night to be scheduled for Monday evening, and currently my brain is in full excited "we're back in business" mode while it really needs to be drinking a nice mug of mint tea, chilling out and getting ready for bed.

And my mind drifts back to Pablo Honey and "You do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts..."

Clear out first steps

 
So, I've finally gotten started on my clear out on eBay. There's a pretty eclectic mix of things for sale, and a pretty good reason for the eclecticism. I have a lot of stuff to get rid of, and this round of listing represents some easy wins. I had a box for eBay sales, and as I was unpacking, if I found something I wanted rid of, it went in the box.

There's some trends to this batch, too. First up are souvenir items I'm either not using any more or have never really used - the bags and the art print. There's then a bunch of stuff for out of production games - cards, dice and so on - that someone might have a use for, but if they don't sell they're either going in the recycling or the Big Bucket of Dice. There's a Magic the Gathering playmat from when I was trying that out in 2015, and then a handful of Infinity figures I have duplicates of because I needed two of some things for the number of armies I have.

In short, there's nothing here that's hard to deal with - I won't be mad if it sells for a small amount, and I don't have emotional investment in it. The only work was taking the photographs and writing the listings. The next box of stuff is more of a muddle, and may take me a little more work to go through...

Do feel free to have a nose through my eBay listings if you read this soon enough. You're not just getting something that will make you happy, you're helping make me happy passing on things I'm no longer using...