"Which Aspect of the Hobby Do You Enoy the Most?" Topic

One of the secrets to enjoying the hobby is knowing what aspects of the hobby you enjoy and doing those.

So which aspect is your favorite?

I think I like developing projects and then painting the miniatures to complete them.

That and my various friends and project partners. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy running and playing the games too, but the creative time in between is what I enjoy most.

Painting figures and playing with them.

+1 FusilierDan

Seeing painted figures set up on my soldier table. I squat down so that the view does not see the bases.

Playing, painting, planning. Enjoying time playing with a good group of friends is first.

I especially enjoy painting. Not that I'm great at it, but I find it relaxing. And I like reading various rules sets.

+1 rustymusket

Painting, playing, friendship and a great looking game.
Also admiring other people work. Which is one of the reasons I come here.

Researching, painting, playing. I find learning about units and uniforms engrossing, and then painting the troops and pushing them around a table.

I HATE painting
What I like is playing the games then writing after action reports. I really enjoy recording the stories that arise from the scenarios

I once enjoyed researching, painting, and gaming equally. Now it is all about the fellowship.

Researching history

Still trying to figure that out.

+1 to Ksmyth, for me its the development of a project, research to include organization, painting guides and coming up with a ruleset with which to base them. Finally, its getting them on the table to game with them. I love gaming but its almost an afterthought (or maybe the gravy) to the whole project. I start alot of projects, I don't often complete them.

Making terrain for them, and sculpting the odd figure.

Dan

The groupies.

The part where everyone plays and laughs and enjoys themselves.

Playing the game with friends.

The smell of paint

Playing games, painting figures.

Research. In excess, actually.

Learning how army's actually fight by playing and reading historical accounts and technical manuals. painting is just a neccessary evil. In my period flats generaly do not fit the bill and tokens make it harder to play for me, as games have an element of 3 Dimentions had to visulise in 2D.

I enjoy everything about the hobby, painting, building scenery, researching everything from uniforms to battles, playing the game, organizing the army you want, good friends who enjoy the hobby also, and setting up the table. The only thing that I don't really enjoy a whole lot is putting everything away after a battle.

Ripping open the box and spreading out my new toys!

Since you asked so nice, in order

Painting
Organizing armies
Gaming with my gnomies
Reading about the campaigns/armies
Building scenery and terrain

Painting. I find it so cathartic. I am really appreciative of the solo aspects of the hobby lately. I like sharing what I created, but the vision and formulation of idea to a little lead reality. I believe that is as close to movie making as I will get.

I love painting miniatures. Next I like planning a scenario, drawing maps, selecting the troops, etc. Third would be running the games and fourth playing in a game.

Reading. I do a lot of reading.

The creation of armies. Friendships. Converting historical situations into wargame scenarios. Reading the military history and the wargaming theory.

No, I won't rank them in order. The ranking might be different tomorrow anyway.

The social aspect….

Fighting the battle, and the social interaction associated with that.
I'm a terrible painter, lousy at making terrain and do not enjoy being a game
Master unless I can play. Yet I do all those things to
Make playing the game possible.

Painting models, terrain, etc. Organizing forces, setting up TO&Es/OOBs. And I've always enjoyed reading and studying military history. Don't do any gaming any more though …

I don't have a favorite. I like everything about the hobby.

Research, planning and painting, gaming I can take or leave.

Starting miniatures and finishing miniatures – the middle part can be a challenge.

I really enjoy the painting of figures; it doesn't have to be a major painting session. I find that just spending a few minutes (OK, it maybe 30) simply painting the cuffs of a unit or adding their crossbelts is very satisfying, as you push them that little bit closer to completion.

Humorous camaraderie. EVERYTHING else takes a distant second behind that.

As the club I'm a member of has moved towards skirmishes, zombies and board games I've been left behind however I'm really enjoying painting and basing figures (whilst listening to music) to the extent that these activities have become the hobby instead of wargaming.

Scenario and campaign design