Getting to Know Each Other--Dec 2014

[TaleSpinner]

After a conversation with Ladystorm, we decided to reboot this thread each month, to keep it from getting too cumbersome.  Here is a link to the original thread.

 

One other note, I'd like to propose that someone else take the questioner helm come January.  The thought here is that a different person takes a turn as the questioner each month.  This will keep the game fresh with a new spin on the questions as the months go by. As I have already started it, I'll do December.  PM me if you want to be a questioner and I will coordinate the months in another thread.

 

The rules will remain the same:

 

1. Each day (unless I am out or ill or something) I will post a question (Large and Bold).

2. You each have one day to answer that question before I post the next.

3. After I post the next question, you may no longer answer a previous question.

4. Only I may post questions, but you may submit questions to be posted by me via PM or to [email protected]

5. You do not have to answer a question, obviously, even if you are playing the game.  Either simply wait a day without posting or post that you decline to answer (why would be nice).

 

Andy

 

 

 

Questions so far:

 

November 2014:

 

Question 1: What is your real name (first only is OK)?

Question 2: Where is the most amazing place you have ever gone and why, and where, if money and time were not an issue, would you most want to go and why?

Question 3: What is the most memorable*/favorite costume** you have ever worn?

 

Weekend Question 1: List five adjectives that best describe your personality.

 

Question 4: What was the first mini you ever painted (pictures/links if you can), and what is the story behind your choosing to paint it and start this hobby?

Question 5: What do you do for a living?

Question 6: Do you have any pets, and, if so, tell us about them?

Question 7: If you won a Design Your Own Mini (DYOM) reward, what would you want created?

Question 8: What was your introduction to miniatures and the surrounding hobby?

 

Weekend Question 2: List your 5 favorite foods.

 

Question 9: Do you prefer Pewter, Lead, Hard Plastic, Soft Plastic (Bones), or Resin minis and why?

Question 10: We are all passionate about minis, but what other activities do you enjoy?

Question 11: If you suddenly had access to one free trip on a time and space machine, when and where would you go?

Question 12: If you could be a character from a fictional novel, movie, TV, etc..., living in their world, who would you be and why?

Question 13: Are you planning on attending any Gaming/Hobby (i.e. Fun) conventions in 2015, and if so which ones and why?

 

Weekend Question 3: List your 5 favorite minis that you have painted.

 

Question 14: When preparing and painting a mini, what part(s) of the process do you dread/dislike the most?

Question 15: What is your preferred fictional genre?

Question 16: How much time do you spend on hobbies in an average week?

Question 17: When faced with overwhelming, crushing stress in life; how do you relax before you end up putting your fist through a wall?

Question 18: What is your favorite holiday and why?

 

Weekend Question 4: List your 5 favorite desserts/sweets.

 

Question 19: Considering miniature painters, whose work most inspires you?

Question 20: Where do you live?

Questions 21-22: What are you doing for Thanksgiving and have you any special family Thanksgiving traditions you'd like to share with us?

ROW Question 21-22: Does your country have any holidays that you celebrate that we Americans do not and what are your traditions surrounding them?

Question 23: What is your favorite use for left-over turkey?

 

Weekend Question 5: List your 5 favorite movies.

 

 

December 2014:

 

Question 24: What class of miniature do you typically purchase and/or paint (PC, Humanoids, Monsters, Dragons, etc.. Feel free to make your own categories, just define what they are)?

Question 25: Star Wars, Star Trek, or Dr. Who; what's your preference?

Question 26: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Question 27: What personal accomplishment of yours are you most proud of (kids don't count)?

Question 28: What do you like in music?

 

Weekend Question: Missed

 

Question 29: What was the most difficult/frustrating mini you have ever painted?

Question 30: Have you ever done someone a favor and been totally surprised by the positive (or not) outcome that occurred because of doing it?

Question 31: What is your usual mode of transportation?

Question 32: Have you ever had a dream or nightmare that has stuck with you, if so tell us about it?

Question 33: What's your vice or guilty pleasure?

 

Weekend Question 6: List your 5 favorite animals.

 

Question 34: Why do you paint/sculpt minis?

Question 35: What do you look like (either description or picture is fine)?

Question 36: What makes you laugh?

Question 37: What do you like on a pizza?

 

Weekend Question 7: List your 5 favorite Muppets.

 

Question 38: How have you suffered for your hobby (tales of injuries and damage as a result of painting/modeling)?

Question 39: What do you do for exercise?

Question 40 (Wed-Thurs):  What is your favorite Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Winter Holiday, or whatever you celebrate this time of year tradition?

Question 41: What is the most absurd reason you can think of for Talespinner's absence? (Because the business of holidays is a boring reason)

Question 42: What are you secretly hoping that Andy is trying to get sculpted by the end of the year? (TGP)

Question 43: What are you doing for New Year's Eve? (Or what did you do for our time traveling friends on the other side of the globe?)

[TaleSpinner]

Question 24: What class of miniature do you typically purchase and/or paint (PC, Humanoids, Monsters, Dragons, etc.. Feel free to make your own categories, just define what they are)?

[DixonGrfx]

The past year all my mini buys have been fantasy genre. I'm a sucker for anything I can use in my D&D sessions. Most recently I bought the October promotion chibis because of the collectible/cute factor. I did back DSM's most recent KS for all the pretty figures. That's a new thing for me. Buying a figure just because I wanted to paint it. 

[klarg1]

Monthly questioner? Is that anything like the Quisition? Where's Shadow Raven?

 

Question 24: What class of miniature do you typically purchase and/or paint (PC, Humanoids, Monsters, Dragons, etc.. Feel free to make your own categories, just define what they are)?

 

I buy a huge range of miniatures.

 

The bulk of it is fantasy or mecha related. (Meaning DHL/Pathfinder or Battletech/CAV/etc.)

 

For fantasy, I buy all kinds of monsters, PCs and NPC types. I tend to shy away from excessive nudity / cheesecake most of the time. I also limit myself on huge dragons and the like, because I rarely paint them, and they make me feel guilty.

 

I don't buy very much in the pulp/modern genre. I have bought some, but not lots, of Steam Punk stuff. I play miniatures games, so that adds some additional stuff. (Currently Firestorm Armada and Dropzone Commander.)

 

At a very rough guess, my spending, stacks up roughly as follows (from most to least):

 

1. Fantasy man-sized figures (including both characters and monsters)

2. Sci-Fi Mecha (Mostly meaning Battletech, but also including Kickstarters, like CAV and Robotech)

3. Gaming minis not previously covered

4. Giant monsters (Dragons, giants, mythical beasties, etc)

5. Everything else.

 

These rankings vary over time. 5 years ago, fantasy minis would have been in 3rd place with everything else in the same order.

Edited December 1, 2014 by klarg1

[Loim]

Not counting Bones miniatures I tend to buy "personalities." Generally human, elven, or dwarven, with a smattering of others thrown in. As far as classes go I prefer Knights and Clerics to paint.

[Dontfear]

I paint fantasy miniatures almost exclusively.  I tend to like monsters and women.  I'm pretty specific about my ladies though.  I'm not a fan of cheese cake.  I like my ladies pissed off and practically dressed but this isn't often possible.

[Pingo]

Women.  I buy many types of figures -- monsters, dragons, sci fi, historical -- but I always look for women and female figures.

 

This is a historical artifact.  When I was a kid female figures were few and far between.  I made a point of seeking them out, especially prizing the sensibly dressed ones (but I didn't say no to cheesecake). 

 

To this day I still get an "Aww" reaction if I look over a minis line and realize that they are all male.

 

A depressing number of them are.

[Nocturne]

Question 24: What class of miniature do you typically purchase and/or paint (PC, Humanoids, Monsters, Dragons, etc.. Feel free to make your own categories, just define what they are)?

Purchase tends to be all over the place, getting round to actually painting something I tend to prefer Humanoids. Orcs are always fun, especially those with cobbled together armour, either fantasy or sci-fi.  I'm swinging towards an interest in a dark fairytale vibe at the moment though so I've been looking at Elvish figures, not quite full on Dark Elf with Spikey Bits but not as regal or nice as the usual High/Wood Elf style. Some of GW's newer Wood Elves and PP's Legion of Everblight have been peaking my interest. Stags and feathered cloaks seems to be hitting the right note for some reason.

[dsmiles]

Question 24: What class of miniature do you typically purchase and/or paint (PC, Humanoids, Monsters, Dragons, etc.. Feel free to make your own categories, just define what they are)?

 

Just about anything, but I am sorely lacking in the "humanoid monster" department (bugbears, gnolls, hobgoblins, lizardmen, etc.). Lately, it's been PCs and Dragons, though I did just pick up a Chuppa from Hearth Stone Miniatures. You know you want one.

[Dai-Mongar]

Fantasy mostly, and I have a penchant for undead and barbarians. I alternate between batch-painting troops for wargames (usually not very big batches, 10 at the most) and focusing on single characters which may not necessarily be used for gaming.

[TaleSpinner]

 

 

Monthly questioner? Is that anything like the Quisition? Where's Shadow Raven?

 

Shadow Raven is the High Quisitor.  Us mere Quisitors try not to bother his Questioness with our petty concerns, preferring to attend to our Quisition duties and hoping to earn his pleasure.

[haldir]

Fantasy, definitely fantasy.

 

Purchases are all over, thou I tend to buy more PC types then anything. Unless of course the creature is a unique that I can't replicate with something else, then I'll buy it.

[naponatom]

Fantasy sure! Some pathfinder monsters and animals to be on the majority side of my recent purchases...

[NomadZeke]

Is "kickstarter" a class of mini?

Sans needing one-offs for a project or whatever, I'm slowly moving through all 20 of the miniatures I have, soon to get 20 more from cav, bones 2, kingdom death, and dark sword. Ill paint anything and everything, personal preference overall to dragonkin...but that's just because they look awesome

[CorallineAlgae]

Fantasy minis for me! I play Pathfinder so anything that works for that is fair game. I also love Eastern models and animal like humanoids.