I hosted a games night!

 I decided to host a games night at a local venue to see what would happen. I didn't have to pay rent or anything. About 10 people game, small time stuff, but a good time was had by all. One person had come really unenthusiastiacally and went away having had a great time. 

I played Snake Oil with some people, which was a success. I have yet to play that game and have a bad experience with it. 

People started leaving a bit early, which was frustrating but I stayed on with a friend playing Dominion until he got a phone call saying he had to come home. Classic. Now I haven't played Dominion since Pre-Covid. It was beautiful to get that out on the table again. I need to make sure it is played more. I think I will be hosting something like this on a more regular basis. We played just the standard starter deck. I have Seaside and Intrigue expansions but don't ever use them. If I play more, I want to be able to do more decks. Last night I actually looked on BGA to see if Dominion is there but it isn't. I do remember playing it online though at some point so will look into that further.

I was one turn away from attempting to end the game as I was 90% sure I had more victory points saved up. I was correct. I played through my turn and would have had the correct cards to buy what I needed in order to end it so I count it as a win.

JB MDF Farm - mostly painted

After putting the farm together it sat on the top of my Billy bookcase for a couple of weeks. This weekend I primed it and then put a lot of paint onto the buildings. I am pretty happy with the result to be honest. I would actually be happy popping this onto the table as is to be fair. 

To aid this, currently I am popping into B&Q every week to check their "free wood and offcuts" box to see whether they have any hardboard. I want the hardboard to use as a loosely okay cobblestone-esque section of the table. I want to be able to put the buildings on top of it. I found one to pay for: £8 for a big piece. £12 for a piece double the size but I would need to store it. I want to be efficient with costs but also have limited space for storing large sheets of wood. Bonus - I did find a section of MDF that is a good thickness for walls and is actually the perfect size to just cut into strips to make a variety of both man-height obstacles, and low obstacles for a little light cover. 

To paint these I took Vallejo Red Brown (I use it for leather) and watered it down then let it flow over the roof. You can see where I watered it down too much and too little.

The walls are simply a white heavy mix of white and a little black from generic craft paints from The Works. Doors are either Vallejo Beige brown, or Citadel Staken green. Windows are that same green. The black parts are just black. The door knobs are just dots of paint. 

The gaps between the roof and the wall is starting to bother me a little, but hopefully won't matter once on a table. I like the almost cartoony nature of the door - but this isn't 6mm so once the bullets start flying and my 20mm Brits are taking cover, I might get annoyed by it. Then I will give it a wash!

I still can't decide what to do with the doors on the end of the barn. Glue them open or closed. I will probably go with closed. 

I am pretty happy with this set of buildings though. Looking forward to putting the ruins together. I will have to break out my cat litter to make rubble.