Warhammer 40K

[Sepp Salerno]

Oh yes, I’m a dye in the wool geek, and like a rash that keeps returning every 5 years, I’m back painting Chaos Space Marines.

Since 1992 it’s been the same deal, I just get swept up in the plastic, lead, primer, paints, glazes and washes. I collect, piece together then paint only to sell them on when they end up taking up loads of room and gathering dust…..I LEARN NOTHING as once again, after having a Sunday with nothing to do my wife suggested we pick some up and paint them. Like a drug, one wiff and I’m buying more and more to paint.

I’ve never bothered with codex’s or playing with them or anything I just love the process of painting and how awesome they look (especially Chaos Space Marines – My allegiance since they popped up)

Anyway, anyone else on here into the mighty hammer? To paint? To Play? Or both?

[FatTrucker]

Used to do both, but its far too expensive nowadays. Games Workshop seem to be on their own Crusade to put themselves out of business, the prices they charge for plastic stuff has been increasingly mental for years now. I can't understand how they're still selling anything in any numbers.

Couple of my mates still wargame fairly regularly with the Fantasy Battle stuff. I stick strictly to the videogames now (the upcoming 40k Space Marine title from Relic is looking great).

[firebreather]

Just blood bowl nowadays, although i like painting some figs from other companies like hasslefree minatures etc, loads of pics of my stuff here
http://firebreather.moonfruit.com/
Shaun of the dead, Dr Who etc -http://firebreather.moonfruit.com/#/non-bb-figures/4549237364

In fact this weekned i was at warhammer world 1ith 189 other geek playing in the blood bowl GT

[Crunchy]

Used to do both, but its far too expensive nowadays. Games Workshop seem to be on their own Crusade to put themselves out of business, the prices they charge for plastic stuff has been increasingly mental for years now. I can't understand how they're still selling anything in any numbers.

I was well into it back in the day, both Warhammer FB and 40K. As you say though, the expense just became too mental.
Games Workshop changed tack a few years ago. The model/codex business is less important than the fiction publishing side these days.

[pforson]

my wife suggested we pick some up and paint them.

You've bagged a goodun there son.

As for myself, I used to play Fantasy Battle and Blood Bowl when I was much younger, but then I discovered Magic the Gathering and Warhammer never stood a chance. Painting the models is fun, but MTG is the best non-computer game ever (IMO). I remember spending quite some time as a kid creating a tree lined hill for my dwarf cannon to stand on.

[QuantumCrayons]

My girlfriend and I paint some Space Marines now and again; she's the one who got me into it!
That and Dawn of War are my uses of the series.

[James A]

Used to love these, 40K, Warhammer, Blood Bowl, Manowar, Dark Future you name it i used to play it.

Like Sepp i used to go through pahses of loving then hating it. About three years ago i got back into it and made a Renegade Deamonhunters Army as a few of my friends got back into collecting. problem was by the time we'd all got our armies sorted everyone had lost interest in it again. The other problem was the horendous prices for the figures. 5 plastic Terminators are about £25 Im not on a bad wage but even i couldn't afford to collect it anymore. Ended up selling the army in the end which was really guting as id spent ages tracking down an early Inquisitor in terminator armour to be the centre piece and then converting it. Still pick some bits and pieces up at the Carboots. Last year i got a complete Space Marine Army for £10 which got sold on and ended up going towards a new car.

Just keep to the book side of it now but theres always this nagging thing at the back of my mind saying get another army sorted

[Sepp Salerno]

I know, I know....the prices I mean, they've always been expensive but....wow! and they're not even lead!
My wife and me spent £50 f**kin quid on friday for pretty much nothing, some paints, glue, 2 brushes and 1 FIGURE EACH!!!!
She got some robot thing that looks like it's a Mech out of Appleseed, and I got myself a Chaos Lord (which to be fair, looks pretty badass, but I'm not sure it's £13 worth of badass. But she was really up for doing it, and it don't take much for the bug to bite me. Like this afternoon I got a massive Choas marine battle pack off the net for an arm and a leg, but it'll keep me busy.

Blood Bowl? Is that a board game?

[QuantumCrayons]

1 FIGURE EACH!!!!

If they're big figures, it'll take you a good day or so to paint.

[Sepp Salerno]

They are, and they did. Look impressive though.

[Ferret Oxide]

I used to play 40k with some guys at school. When the Lord of the Rings game came out I played it a bit with some people at uni. I've looked at the Fantasy game a few times, but it seemed too 'comedy' in places. The old rulebook from the Brettonians/Lizardmen edition had silly sketches on most of the pages if I remember...

I went into Games Workshop not too long ago to look at their Imperial Guard models, and I don't understand how anybody could afford to collect for that army.

I'll stick to the Gaunt's Ghosts novels and the PSP Warhammer games, thanks.

[felgekarp]

I saw some video of the new game the other day, I thought that looked alright.

[Antiriad2097]

A well timed thread. I've walked past the 'new' Games Workshop countless times in the last couple of years (its been there longer, but its new to me). I ventured in for the first time last week when I went out for a lunchtime stroll.

They've an interesting new group of figures on speeder bikes and with skiff barge things, very Return of the Jedi.

The whole shop is geared towards Warhammer though, not nearly the range that Virgin Games used to carry in my day.

I've still got all my figures in a box somewhere. I did come across a stash a couple of years back as my Zombie Dragon now sits in the bedroom. I ought to sell some of those off if I ever find them, all my paint has dried up after 20 years of inactivity.

I spent a fortune on all the 'official' acrylic paint sets, but found that good old plastic kit enamel paint gave a better finish. The acrylic stuff can be quite gloopy but if you thin it down it doesn't hold its colour so well. The enamels go on very thin so they don't obscure the detail of the cast but give more even colour than the same level of the acrylic. Priming is the key, we found that matt white undercoat spray paint from Halfords gave an excellent base and you can do a whole row of figures in one batch, just line them up and spray around and over them quickly.

I'm tempted to get back into it. Might keep me off the PC and I could be doing that while the telly is on. I've always fancied making my own, did a few custom hacks in the past.

[mohicankid]

i like to paint them...can't stand playing the game though!

[James A]

Thanks to this thread i didn't buy my new guitar last night and am thinking of getting another army Probably be cheaper though to get a new PC and Dawn of war. The other thing that annoyed me was the ammount of annoying kids anytime you went into the shops. I know its the core for it but it was a nightmare if you had to pop in on a Saturday.

About four years ago i actually applied for a job with Games Workshop as sort of an beginer author scheme that they were doing. Despite no experience in that field i got offered an interview but in the end had to turn it down due the low wage and the band i was in. Looking back now im kind of gutted i didn't go for it especially with the censored i have to put up with on my current job.