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My "Craft" (painting miniatures)
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 25 Feb 2008, 07:07 ---A couple of months back I started patching up a lot of my warhammer/40k/Inquisitor/LotR stuff that had basically fallen apart in the box, and I keep thinking how I should maybe try painting some of them up again now I'm not 13, but I never get round to having enough cash to buy the requisite paints.
I could post pictures of some of my conversions here, I suppose.
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If your stuff is falling apart, try pinning the joins. And don't worry about not being thirteen - I'm quite a bit older and still playing, and I even have a wife and kids disproving some of the rumours about gamers.
Jposh:
How is it played? Is it expensive?
I wanted to play a few years back, and I remember thinking they were quite costly.
Border Reiver:
Of the two systems that I play - Warhammer Fantasy Battles, and Lord of the Rings - Lord of the rings is definitely the less expensive of the two.
The basic rulebook will set you back $75 for each system, and if you buy the boxed set, vice the hard cover book, will include a number of plastic miniatures (over $100.00 worth of WFB minis, or around $80 of LOTR minis) of opposing sides that will allow you play. You can then add to your army, or start additional ones. LOTR rules are quite easy to understand and the game is fairly quickly paced. As a guide I was able to teach my 8 year old the LOTR game over the course of a game, while WFB is an ongoing process.
Miniatures vary in price - plastic infantry units for LOTR come in boxes of 24 and run about $30 Cdn - all you have to do is cut them from the sprues, glue them to the bases and paint them. Metal miniatures (which tend to have more detail) are sold in blisters of 3 for rank and file troops for $16 Cdn, or singly or paired for leader miniatures (characters like Aragorn usually come with a model on horseback and a model on foot) for $25 each (since the company sells fewer of these, they charge more).
What I've spent on the hobby shouldn't be counted here - I've been seriously playing for about 13 years, and picking up some miniatures since the early 1980s....
clockworkjames:
I remember I played inquisitor for a while too, you only have 1 dude who is 3 inches tall but that is like D&D PvP I guess. Fun but again it was 40k.
You can get a model for like, 12GBP (20 bucks?) and I suggest you PDF the rulebook to see if you like it because they are mega expensive.
Siert:
I used to paint minitures back quite some time ago. In my younger days I played "Warhammer 40,000" Had Space Marine (Then turned Chaos because I thought Chaos were cooler) And an "Ork" army (Specifically started with the Gorka Morka set, gotta love that.)
Now I was getting chatted back into going back. a few friends had recentley started again playing as Tau, and I decided, ah why not.
As soon as I went in the door, I probably heard the most cringworthy thing i've heard in a while, now i'm a geek through and through, i've played computer games since i was 18 months old, and am proud of it. But when you walk into a room and see a man in only a loincloth, covered in green paint, screaming and cheering as he moves little minitures, makes me want to run away very quickly. BUT back on point, I know not all of you are like that, but it does scare me.
My best piece was probably a hand crafted bunker I made that involved a... retired space marine army...
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