Black Friday, Cyber Monday.. Orcs Nest?

So since today is Black Friday a trend brought over by those bloody.. sorry lovely Yank-a-doodles, me and my Wife decided it was high time for a trip into London. What's a trip into London without going into the infamous Orcs Nest (And Forbidden Planet but shhh we won't talk about how much my Wife sent in there).

Nostalgia or Why we buy silly things..

Oldhammer, Retrogaming, collecting/hoarding or whatever else you wish to label is simply a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.

Or

Nostalgia

We all have that same feeling of that ''Golden Age'' when we first looked upon the hobby we now love and some cases despise. My ''Golden Age'' is around '94 to '98 when I was deeply rooted in the hobby and for a fat nerdy and very quiet kid a way to express himself and not feel quite an outcast.

My local hobby shop was and still is GW Watford, I remember or at least though my nostalgia tinted glasses a welcoming place as much as a smelly Heavy Metal booming shop could be I guess.

It was nostaliga which made me buy these are longing for them as a poor kid

SAGA: Anglo-Danish Ceorls Part 1

Arhhhh so at last my Mum and Auntie has been sent packing back down to Barnstaple and the family which gathered for my Mums 70th has dispersed back to their various holes.

As such I haven't had much chance to paint this week but I did knock out 8 Anglo-Dane Ceorls (Warriors).

2 Points completed, 4 to finish.

Warband of The Bane Mistress: Part 9

At the beginning on the year I was working on my Slaaneshi Drow or Dark Elves if you prefer. But dew to other projects and partly burn out that these were shelved.

During my house move 2 months ago these got pretty bashed up with 90% of the figures having some form of damage (The Brides of Slaanesh suffering the most).

But having won a few Ebay lots of various Dark Elves I was missing from my collection (Including my favourite Dark Elf ever made) I bit the bullet and decided it was time for the repair and repaint to happen.

Brides of Slaanesh: Daemonette possessed former Khanites

Painting Citadel Judge Dredd Part 7 - Sherson & Watlock

So after being robbed yesterday of £205 (Had to buy new glasses dew to my failing eyesight, which need special lenses) I set to work cracking out a few Perps/Muties.

So I present to you..

Sherson & Watlock Mutie Detectives:

Sherson & Watlock

No Law 2000 Miles: Judge Minty - Part 2 + Ma & Pa

Well finished painting Judge Minty, while painting there was a feck up though *Grumbles*. I bough some Nuln Oil from my local GW and noticed it had a black top (Like they had when the range first came out) but thought nothing of it, anyway when I used it the wash dried Glossy despite a good 30 seconds of shaking, I'm guessing the old medium has begone to break down.

So I had a shiny Minty... lucky enough a second wash from another almost empty pot of Nuln Oil got rid of the shininess.

Judge Minty looking to take aleak behind the crates.. Damn old age!

No Law 2000 Miles: Judge Minty - Part 1

Due to his age his views start to change and he starts to think the people of the Mega City are not that terrible.  However, while on a mission with Judge Dredd he finds himself gun-to-gun with a small time thug.  Due to his reflexes not being as good as they used to be, the thug shoots first and Minty was hospitilised.  While laying in the hospital bed he Realised he was no longer fit to be a city Judge he decided to take The Long Walk out into the Cursed Earth to bring law unto the lawless. He encounters a small band of people in the Cursed earth he also has to deal with Radioactive dust storms.

Combat Zone: Scavengers, Rus-Co & Scatter Terrain

So last few days I have been busy painting as normal, trying to get everything painted in time for a game on Wednesday which I'm providing both sides for (Scavs and Rus-Co).

I'm also trying to get my own Terrain finished (Some case even started), I'm still umming and errring about my home made stuff, part of me wants to just leave it and move on to the bought stuff.

3 Scav Heroes: Road Warrior, Mr U Kip & Chang

Wargaming Scenery on a Budget

Now yesterday I posted up the second part of my Scenery on £4 series of posts ( Part 1 & Part 2). Now they aren't great but do the job they were made for.. to game with without breakages or any worries.

Now I haven't just been working on the cheap end and have started on some mid-range pieces (Still haven't spent more then £20 on the following though).

Now these haven't been built by me but rather bought.. from a well known store, Yep Pets at Home heh.

Rus-Corp Grunts patrol the Rad areas looking for Gangers