Hobbies

I've just recently rekindled my love of Warhammer & Warhammer 40,000. I used to play it maybe nearly 40 years ago and I mentioned it at my assessment (which has got to have some significance even if I can't quite connect the dots up yet). I was getting too drawn into video gaming, particularly Valheim, and I wanted an alternative which didn't shut me off quite as much. I spotted a couple of Necromunda sets (a spin-off from the main game but using similar rules) in Cash Converters and then got a couple of the rulebooks on eBay.

I've built and primed the set of models and I've started painting one of them. My eyesight is obviously not as sharp as it was when I was 13 or 14, so the results are not quite as tidy as they could be! I do need to practice and get used to painting such small figures again, but it's absolutely loads of fun and I'm enjoying the learning process!

I've just recently rekindled my love of Warhammer & Warhammer 40,000. I used to play it maybe nearly 40 years ago and I mentioned it at my assessment (which has got to have some significance even if I can't quite connect the dots up yet). I was getting too drawn into video gaming, particularly Valheim, and I wanted an alternative which didn't shut me off quite as much. I spotted a couple of Necromunda sets (a spin-off from the main game but using similar rules) in Cash Converters and then got a couple of the rulebooks on eBay.

I've built and primed the set of models and I've started painting one of them. My eyesight is obviously not as sharp as it was when I was 13 or 14, so the results are not quite as tidy as they could be! I do need to practice and get used to painting such small figures again, but it's absolutely loads of fun and I'm enjoying the learning process!

There was a group of four of us who were really into Warhammer (initially the Fantasy Battle version, then 40,000) at school. We had what feels like a lot of battles but in reality was probably only two, maybe three. These things were full-day events, starting about 9am on a Sunday and lasting until about 4-5pm (with a lunch break!). We would take over our dining room for the day, it was so much fun! There would be weeks of negotiations at school lunch breaks in the run up to the event - what were the rules we were using, who was playing what, was siege artillery allowed, do we have reinforcements that sort of thing.

I really used to enjoy the book-keeping side of things, building armies, looking at stats, checking the rules, making sure everything was balanced.... We couldn't afford all the figures / models when we were playing, so we used card tokens the same size as the figure bases, with a name or description on instead. I spent so many hours lost in my own world playing and preparing for games! It wasn't until I was a little older that I could begin to afford the miniatures, but by that point in my life I had mostly given up the hobby.

It's great to have it back in my life!

I wasn't into Warhammer but I remember my brother was and he had quite a collection of it!

Cool! I've been recommended Warhammer back when I was a teen. I build Gundam models though, mostly HGs and SDs

I used to do Warhammer and Blood Bowl right up until my eldest was born. The game was always a good laugh but making scenery and painting was so relaxing.