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You know what? I do miss Warhammer.

Every weekend we went down to the game store to play. They had 6 big tables to play on, beautiful hand-made terrain.

I was 16, the rest were about 8 decent blokes, each no younger than 35, responsible adults all with families and careers. A few had wives who painted minis and played too. Everyone knew each other. No other kids besides me, yet they made me feel comfortable and included.

I was always bringing in conversions or kit-bashed minis to show off. Everyone loved showing off their minis. Winning games was not in the forefront. It was about having fun moments, making each other laugh.

Setting up armies of tiny boys, plastic or pewter. Back when a box of 30 small alien boys was only about 20 bucks. Games Workshop sold "Bits" which were metal parts of each miniature (heads or arms) for customization. Minis from as far back as the 80's were still in the catalogue.

Rulebooks/Rules editions lasted 5 or even 10 years. We would stay up and play as long as the manager felt like staying around. Depending on how much fun everyone was having, that could be 1 or 2am.

A convenience store right next to us, caffeine and snacks, rowdiness within reason.

🎶"BOY THE WAY GLENN MILLER PLAAAYED..."🎶

Highlight of my whole week. I was being homeschooled at the time, so that was where all my socializing took place. Mom never had to worry about me getting into trouble or drugs or booze, because the guys were responsible adults. She even got to know a few of them.

Now those fellas have moved on. Sometimes it was because they had kids, the ones who already had kids didn't have the time anymore. The shop closed, re-opened at a new place, then closed and re-opened again. Some kept following along, some bowed out.

I miss those respectful, mostly responsible folks. I didn't get treated like a kid, just another one of them, and that felt special.

That environment just doesn't exist anymore. Guys and gals like that can't be found in the 2 remaining game stores we've got around here.

These game stores close at NINE now, for fuck's sake. NINE PM. After work that's enough time for 1 maybe 2 games, then going home.

The kids nowadays are all the same weird breed of noisy clown. Back in OUR day, we played dumb miniatures games with honest humor, civilized roasting, and dignified dumb bullshit.

🎶...SONGS THAT MADE THE HIT PARAAADE...🎶

That place, those people, I don't think I'll have anything like that again. It's just one of those things you can't go back to, the world is different, times have changed.

Can't bring myself to get rid of those damn minis or books though. Because maybe MAYBE the opportunity to use them may come again. Who knows.

🎶...GUYS AND GALS WE HAD IT MAAADE...🎶

🎶...THOSE WERE THE DAAAYS🎶

barontyrwulf

My Orc Shaman on his Wyvern!

I had fun painting this today!

bugg-rat

Got to try Mordheim the other day, it was fun! My skaven handled the treasure stealing pretty well and made off with it turn 4

rustytheraccoon

Also, painted new defiler.

I didnt chase meta, I swear, I just want full daemon engine army with Vashtorr and all of his spiky friends/projects/pets/slaves/etc.

rustytheraccoon

Every time I tell myself, "don't make a character mini before you even start playing the campaign," and every time I fall into that trap again.

Meet Galen Attalus, my character for Deatchwatch RPG that I decided to play with my friends. It was supposed to be one-shot mission that probably start the campaning and so I build and paint him before the game, instead of using simple token or random marine mini

Galen is an Ultramarine who follows the word of the Codex Astartes extremely rigidly, and is also extremely rigid in his medicae practice. That is why he was sent to the Deathwatch in order to study the practices of other chapters and their combat doctrines and maybe become more flexible specialist.

But don't get too attached to him. Galen's story ended in the same one-shot, as well as his entire squad. A series of extremely unfortunate critical failures from various squad members led to the fact that we were forced to flee in our Blackstar from an entire squadron of Necrons. Three 95+ rolls later and we all die in fiery explosion on the orbit of the planet we are supposed to investigate.

But we manage to send collected data before our deaths, so, campaning will start anyway, but we all be making new characters.

Ill probably post mini of the new character when I make him

dan-kreature

Sometimes just a grid and minis is all you need.

pyracious

Grand Cathay Iron Hail Gunners

thewenglishwarlock

Little diorama, never painted a backdrop like this before so that was fun!

angelanvar

Scibor miniatures

I’ve had a lot of health issues over the last 6 weeks. Chronic Fatigue sometimes kicks my ass. But thankfully I’m doing a lot better and had focus and energy to paint minis for the first time in a month. So today I thought I’d finish my scibor Gamefound minis. Not great paint jobs, but they’re done. I love the minis but the 32 mm scale and the subject matter means I don’t know if I’ll get them to table.

lostdollbaby

they look amazing!

and there’s a few ways to get them on a table, solo game (like 5 leagues from the borderlands) or skirmish (one page rules has their mini game rules) just to get you started looking for ways to play them!

angelanvar

Thank you! I’d love to get into solo gaming but find it hard to get everything set up just for me.

Some oldhammer style Chaos types

#warhammer fantasy #painted miniature #warhammer the old world #tzeentch #chaos warriors #oldhammer #Beastmen

vintagerpg

There is text in Woses of the Black Woods that seems to indicate that the set of scenarios is called “Pirates of Pelargir.” After some confusion where I thought the book titled the same name must be a reprint, I realized that this was actually just a typo. But, since I haven’t tackled Pirates of Pelargir (1987), I figured I would wrap up the week with it. You gotta listen to the omens.

Or, maybe not? This is a puzzling MERP module. The first adventure is “hire onto a ship as guards” and it ends with “get attacked by pirates.” Win or lose, the second adventure is “look for the pirates” and the third is “having found the pirates, raid their implausibly gigantic base.” None of this is bad, but it isn’t terribly MERPy in feel. There are quite a lot of moving parts with NPCs and personal agendas that are actually quite interesting, though. I kind of wonder if maybe the real problem with MERP was that it was burdened with Middle-earth? But then, this wouldn’t fit right in Shadow World, either. It’s odd.

Very nice sea battle painting by Angus McBride on the cover. Jim Holloway inside, who I never really love in MERP, which adds to my ambivalence to this module maybe.

Scibor miniatures

I’ve had a lot of health issues over the last 6 weeks. Chronic Fatigue sometimes kicks my ass. But thankfully I’m doing a lot better and had focus and energy to paint minis for the first time in a month. So today I thought I’d finish my scibor Gamefound minis. Not great paint jobs, but they’re done. I love the minis but the 32 mm scale and the subject matter means I don’t know if I’ll get them to table.

#warhammer fantasy #painted miniature #warhammer the old world #scibor

sandmandaddy69

John Blanche

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WARHAMMER

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It was announced today, that the legendary artist of things for Warhammer and other grim and dark settings, John Blance, has passed away. The cause of death has not been revealed, but the death was reported by a fellow creator from the early days of Warhammer, Trish Carden on the request of the late John Blanche's widow.

It may be obvious, what with my love of old Warhammer, and me using his art a lot in my videos, but John Blanche's art was very important to me, and he will be missed. He gave to Warhammer more of its spirit than perhaps anyone else could have.

Rest in peace, John Blanche.