This Is My Thing: Miniatures Gaming!

On This Is My Thing, we’re persevering with our mission to speak with folks in regards to the issues they do only for themselves – not as a result of it’s their job and never as a result of it’s a accountability, simply because they like to do it. The stuff you do as a result of it’s your factor.

This week we’re speaking with James Hughes about his practically lifelong love of miniatures gaming. If you are not acquainted, it is just about precisely what it seems like — a kind of gaming performed with miniature collectible figurines. James stumbled into this world as a child whereas visiting a recreation store along with his dad, and he is been dwelling on this planet of miniatures ever since.

We’ll discuss his love for all of the elements of miniatures — accumulating them, portray them, and naturally taking part in video games with them. We’ll go to his gaming studio (the spare bed room the place he shops and paints his miniatures, and which his spouse insists on calling his ‘man cave’) and we’ll study what the interest and the neighborhood imply to him, and what it is all doing for his coronary heart and his mind.

On this web page, you’ll be able to take heed to the on-air model of this story, however in the event you try the This Is My Thing podcast feed, you’ll discover a longer model of this piece (in addition to some older items you may need missed or may simply need to take heed to once more).

We’ve talked to plenty of different folks about their issues and people tales can be coming in future weeks. We’re engaged on tales about sumo wrestling, public artwork distribution, fountain pen accumulating, and extra! Stay tuned!

And we need to hear from you in regards to the factor you do exactly since you find it irresistible! You’ll discover a web based kind on the principle This Is My Thing web page the place you’ll be able to inform us in regards to the factor that brings you pleasure, calms your thoughts, or feeds your soul ultimately.