Stuart's Warhammer 40K rediscovery Thread...
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:13 am
Not sure if this is of interest to anyone on here - but in the spirit of staying within the community and letting you all know what I’m up too, I thought I’d at least post something up.
Due to real life issues, a modelling room disaster and the summer heat, I’m not really building much at the moment, although I still have two or three in long term WIP. However, what I have suddenly found myself getting back into building Warhammer 40,000 models – which is a bit of a shock, as I’ve not touched one since I gave up wargaming in 2001.
For those of you that may not be familiar with it (and a bit of back story) – Warhammer 40K is a table top Sci-fi Wargame invented by Games Workshop in the UK, set in a dark war torn (obviously) universe of the far future. Now I personally have had a massive interest in this universe since I first read my copy of the Games Workshop magazine White Dwarf back in the 80’s, and although I’ve not always played it, I’ve always read up on it and enjoyed the novels and fan fiction set in this universe (google the Black Library). But I’ve not felt like buying the models, mainly because they’re too damn expensive and I was never any good at figure painting anyway.
However, Just recently a good friend of my starting building some of the 40K kits and writing about it on his blog. I was so inspired that I decided to take the plunge and picked up a few of the cheapest kits I could find, and have decided once and for all to try and learn how to do the Games Workshop style of figure painting that I’ve always loved. So this is what this thread is about – just me tinkering with some of these figures trying to paint them up as best as I can. And to be honest, I wanted to build something that was quick and easy (ish) whilst I’ve not got much time at the bench, and would give me the satisfaction of building and finishing something.
The strange thing is, I want to try and emulate the style of painting from the early days of 40K, not so much the currant look – or maybe a mix of both. A lot of the house painting these days seems a bit dark and had lost the colours of the past.
As I said, I’m not sure if this is of interest to anyone, but I didn’t want to stop posting up on SPAM.
As a strange aside to all this – I find myself wanting to play again… which I was not expecting. Before I knew it I’ve picked up some of the old (from the 80s/90s) rule books that I used to have, including one for a game called Space Hulk which can be played by a single person. I’m not interested much in the modern version – a LOT has changed since my day, and not for the better in a lot of (expect the figures and models, they’re truly beautiful), but I really want a chance to read through the original 40K rule books from the 80’s as a great bit of nostalgia (I find myself looking back a lot recently). One thing I might also report on in this thread are my efforts to pull together the bits and Bobs needed to play Space Hulk (the counters etc.) in its original form. Yes I could by the whole recently re-released version but that’s not really in the spirit of what I want to do.
Anyway – sorry for the waffle!
Cheers!
Due to real life issues, a modelling room disaster and the summer heat, I’m not really building much at the moment, although I still have two or three in long term WIP. However, what I have suddenly found myself getting back into building Warhammer 40,000 models – which is a bit of a shock, as I’ve not touched one since I gave up wargaming in 2001.
For those of you that may not be familiar with it (and a bit of back story) – Warhammer 40K is a table top Sci-fi Wargame invented by Games Workshop in the UK, set in a dark war torn (obviously) universe of the far future. Now I personally have had a massive interest in this universe since I first read my copy of the Games Workshop magazine White Dwarf back in the 80’s, and although I’ve not always played it, I’ve always read up on it and enjoyed the novels and fan fiction set in this universe (google the Black Library). But I’ve not felt like buying the models, mainly because they’re too damn expensive and I was never any good at figure painting anyway.
However, Just recently a good friend of my starting building some of the 40K kits and writing about it on his blog. I was so inspired that I decided to take the plunge and picked up a few of the cheapest kits I could find, and have decided once and for all to try and learn how to do the Games Workshop style of figure painting that I’ve always loved. So this is what this thread is about – just me tinkering with some of these figures trying to paint them up as best as I can. And to be honest, I wanted to build something that was quick and easy (ish) whilst I’ve not got much time at the bench, and would give me the satisfaction of building and finishing something.
The strange thing is, I want to try and emulate the style of painting from the early days of 40K, not so much the currant look – or maybe a mix of both. A lot of the house painting these days seems a bit dark and had lost the colours of the past.
As I said, I’m not sure if this is of interest to anyone, but I didn’t want to stop posting up on SPAM.
As a strange aside to all this – I find myself wanting to play again… which I was not expecting. Before I knew it I’ve picked up some of the old (from the 80s/90s) rule books that I used to have, including one for a game called Space Hulk which can be played by a single person. I’m not interested much in the modern version – a LOT has changed since my day, and not for the better in a lot of (expect the figures and models, they’re truly beautiful), but I really want a chance to read through the original 40K rule books from the 80’s as a great bit of nostalgia (I find myself looking back a lot recently). One thing I might also report on in this thread are my efforts to pull together the bits and Bobs needed to play Space Hulk (the counters etc.) in its original form. Yes I could by the whole recently re-released version but that’s not really in the spirit of what I want to do.
Anyway – sorry for the waffle!
Cheers!