Wednesday 1 July 2009

Reality & Fantasy

Just about everything is in hand for my upcoming wedding on Friday. We're planning a dress rehearsal this evening to iron out costume matters and so on. I've been amazingly relaxed about everything, possibly because I've not been entirely idle in my hobbies. They serve as a welcome distraction from planning venues, celebrants and reception menus and so on.

Jeff Bluebear's new
project Mythic Fangarm Quest reminds me of happy times spent playing D&D in the 80's and 90's. My old group split up long ago and of course I'm in another country now; but even so I still have a liking for the fantasy genre. I'm in the early stages of planning a modular dungeon complex scaled to 25/28mm using the Hirst Arts system of molds. The Merlin's Magic casting plaster (appropriate name!) is on order.

Once the whole set-up is built and painted I hope to arrange a play session or two in a local games store. Then if I find a willing customer I'll sell the dungeon and begin anew. That's one of the beauties of the molding system. It helps fund further projects, be they more Hirst Arts molds, wargames figures - or even mundane real-life matters.

7 comments:

Bluebear Jeff said...

AJ,

May your wedding go off without a hitch (except for the intended one, of course).


-- Jeff

Capt Bill said...

It's not too late to make a run for it! Just kidding, I think...

Frankfurter said...

On our local news today, somebody was celebrating their 65th anniversary ...
May your union endure as long, and be very fortunate and happy and humorous!

Best Wishes
A

Martin said...

Hey A.J.

Welcome to the International Brotherhood Of Married Men! (Our motto is, "It's a heck of a union!"

As far as D&D/fantasy stuff goes, GenCon is going to be held in Indianapolis this August. St. Louis is about a 3 to 4 hour drive away.

Martin

Fitz-Badger said...

Are you turning into an American, getting married on the 4th of July (aka Independence Day)? lol
Should make it hard to forget your anniversary! ;-)
Best wishes to you and your bride!
We'll try to have some fireworks to celebrate the event...

Fitz-Badger said...

D'oh! You said Friday. That's the 3rd of July, of course. Got mixed up 'cause I have Friday off. Ignore my 4th of July comments and keep ther best wishes! lol

Anonymous said...

Best wishes for the future, to both of you.