Does Your Hobby Have Enough "Completion?"

The Hobby is the Models we made along the way.

The feeling of a completed model that you’re actually proud of is honestly one of the best feeling I absolutely love it. I collect and paint and build have a couple army’s now. But I don’t play

Hehehe, I like that point about video games. when I accidentally play galciv3 all night I feel bad, when I accidentally paint all night I feel proud! :-)

When you accidentally hobby too long, the results from this hobby are more rewarding than video games. Excellent point!

My other ‘hobby’ is playing golf. It has taken me 20 years of playing, practicing, and taking lesson to get to the point that I feel good at it. So it’s about the same timeline as getting an army painted. Hahahaha

Totally agree about "losing time" in video games versus "investing time" in building/painting models, as it feels. Great video!

Video games = eating a well made burger Miniature wargames = hunting a boar and sharing the meat with a tribe

Totally nailed it, the satisfaction is seeing these kill-teams face off in my small display case, fully painted. Conquering friends on the battlefield is just a bonus.

I agree, it’s two complementary hobbies. I assemble and paint models, but not interested yet in playing games like Warhammer.

Having a physical item to show for my time is a huge part of why I like the hobby so much. Its also really nice to have the modeling part to focus on during COVID when its not possible to get together and play, say, MTG with people.

Watching this video as I literally lose track of time staying up late painting models. I feel seen 😂

I'm definitely in the camp that likes building and painting more than playing. It took me a long time to realize I need to enjoy the road while I'm on it rather than be discouraged that I'm not at the destination yet.

To summarise: "Some weirdos think that your grandma doesn't start knitting until you put the scarf on."

Hey Adam, I’d really love to hear your take on this actually being two hobbies - and I agree with that take completely. I’ve collected citadel miniatures for around 17 years now, starting off with the crave of painting miniatures. As my friends and I grew a little older we really got into the tabletop battle side of the hobby, and though it was a fun period I felt that “painting to build an entire army” kind of fizzled our the excitement of painting and converting for me. I kept going on and off the hobby for around 6 years now, maybe painting 3 minis a year at most. I allowed Video Games to take over most of my free time. In April this year I decided to dust off pile of shame and attempt painting again. Around 8 months have passed now and I have never painted so much, and enjoyed the hobby to a point where I didn’t think possible. I’m painting stuff I never painted, and also picking some new ‘random’ models that look like they’d be a fun painting project. The satisfaction of seeing all the colour schemes and conversions I have in my head physically displayed in my book case (for now) brings a sense of satisfaction and reward on a daily basis, and keeps me itching to paint more. The painting and playing are, imo, two completely different hobbies. For those who enjoy both, it’s something that very few other past times can offer!

This is exactly why my two main hobbies are miniatures and woodworking. At the end of any project I have a beautiful thing.

Just a generell thank you for all the amazing videos that now acompany me after my restart in the hobby 3 years ago! Greetings from Germany and stay healthy!

My fun starts with the lore. Reading wiki articles about 40k is nearly as much fun as building and playing, for me.

Buying a kit really is already part of the fun. I think there's a lot of aspects of this hobby whereby you have a sense of satisfied completion. Building your list for example already feels nice. Knowing from the get go what to buy, because you spent time to think about points costs and tactics. Then the actual process of assembling is great. Looking at a fully assembled figure is kind of neat, especially when you've done some modifications. Spray priming your models so they don't look like dark grey plastic anymore can feel very nice. Same with coming up with the ideas of basing them or painting them. Then painting up your first figure of the army or team. Then finishing your last figure of a squad. Then finally finishing your army. All of those are neat completions that we should value as progress.

Was thinking about this, all of this week. Great vid.

Another excellent topic Atom! I have tried for years to explain exactly the sense of completion one gets from the building and painting aspect of this hobby. I have also used the video game comparison. IE: You spend hundreds of hours on a video game, with nothing tangible to show for it , but with the same hundreds of hours put into this hobby can leave you with quite the collection of models that you can be genuinely proud of. I love wasting time on video games, but even when I play, I often find my mind wandering back to what is on the hobby desk. About ten years ago I saw an article in a local paper about a hobbyist's lifetime collection of 54mm historical toy soldiers that needed a good home, after he had passed away. His widow was worried she would never find someone to take on his collection of over 70,000 painted miniatures, plus another 40,000 waiting for completion, along with scenery, etc., While I felt terrible at the news of this individual's passing and his widow's difficulty with the enormous collection, the figure 70,000 stuck in my head along with the thought" 70,000? Could I end up with that many painted models? Let's see!" Suffice to say, I have my mission. Now it's time to get back to painting and modelling. These things ain't painting themselves! Thanks Atom, this might be a great topic for " The Every Other Sunday Show"