Subnautica: The first few days (hours) of play

 Day 1 (2 hours of play)

Wake up and the Aurora is exploding. No idea what happened, jumped into an escape pod, launched, landed in a huge ocean. Looks like the whole planet is covered by water. The Aurora crashed a few hundred meters away, too far to swim, have to look for resources so I can build some equipment. After a few hours of searching the surrounding ocean I get enough stuff to make a radiation suit, some containers, a seaglide, and some basic tools: flashlight, knife, scanner, and repair tool. I have not been able to successfully dodge a small red fish that likes to blow up. Though with the seaglide I do sometimes avoid it. The nest it leaves has sulfur, with is useful. Going to attempt to go check out the Aurora wreckage.

Oh, the Aurora just blew up. Good thing I have that radiation suit, and with the seaglide I should be able to get there faster. There is a small patch of wreckage on the way that I explored and found some useful tech I scanned. There is also a large kelp forrest, scanner says it is creep vines, that is also home to a hostile animal. A couple knife slashes tends to drive them off. Tomorrow I will see how close I can get to the Auror.

Addendum - Went to the Aurora wreck, did not make it inside, only the front destroyed area. Lots of small crab creatures attacked me and my knife was useless. Crafted a larger oxygen tank though and and am going to attempt to create a more permanent habitat. I also got a warning about the Aurora's engine going to cause some radiation leakage or environmental impact in the the next 24 hours. Hopefully I can go and harvest materials and find some way to get rid of those crabs things.

#105 all the stuff I painted in 2019

All the stuff I painted in 2019 minus 14 items I painted on commission. Over all a good year, painted 96 miniatures.

#104 Hopey

We had to put down one of our dogs today. It was sudden and painful and I don't want to think about the pain she must have been in during all of it. She was a cute, sassy, puppy-sized bundle of awesome and I'll miss her greatly.

I think she was very brave at the end. I hope she wasn't hurting.

#103 X-wing and some more painting

I've managed to get quite a few games of x-wing in over the past few weeks. Imperial is what I've been flying since 2.0 came out, primarily strikers. I was using a reaper and various tie/ln at first then last week I dropped the reaper and tie/ln for tie phantoms. So far I have liked how the two ship types mix. I just need to focus on better mine laying so I can bring my phantoms in to flank or vice versa.

I finished painting the ugnaught and without thinking about it I put the rebel saboteurs up for painting next.

For commissions I've got two e-wings and if I remember to get them another fang/star viper robotech duo paint scheme. Max and Mirya again, which looks awesome on the table.

If only painting could be my job instead of finding all these dead end ones. Which reminds I have to double check some emails about some hopefully decent jobs.

#102 Some painting done

I'd love to post some pictures though blogger seems to have other ideas at the moment.
Anyways, I've gotten a few things painted since the end of April. I did two commissions for x-wing miniatures: an Escape shuttle painted in BB-8 colors, a Star Viper painted in Zentradi and Mirya colors, a Fang in Roy Fokkers colors and another Fang painted in Max Sterlings colors. They came out quite well.

In the Imperial Assault side of things I painted the HK-47 units, the Death troopers, the Alliance rangers, the Wookie warriors, the Lolth cats and the Wing guards.

Next on the table are the Ugnaughts and the Hired Guns. I want to get through all the non-unique figures before I start the unique characters.

If blogger works again the I'll update this post (or make a new post).