(Making) Father's Day

Traditionally my children are not huge gift givers. (At age 22,19 and 14 then I guess that ship has sailed). However, this year on Father's Day my middle child presented me with the box pictured here, much to my great joy.

The reason for this is quite obvious - at long last, and completely independently to me he's getting into 40K! I did try to get both boys involved when they were younger but their hearts were never really in it, my passions were never theirs and it just never really took off.
So anyway, young Evan has been buying various space marine boxes and starter sets and has been painting them with, I believe, a decent level of skill, even if he is just starting out. He's also tried a couple of basic games, both in store and with his long-suffering girlfriend. (Bless her, you can tell she's not interested but just trying to humour him - definitely a keeper there!) I've been "convinced" to have a go on a couple of occasions and rather enjoyed it. I have also spoken to him about armies and minis I like, hence the gift - a not so subtle attempt to get my hobby juices flowing. Who knows if this goes well I might be able to start a very small amount of gaming, and it looks I will almost certainly get a bit of modelling in.


If I'm honest I have always preferred fantasy to sci-fi gaming and frankly the new AOS set looks awesome, but I'm willing to have ago and see what happens 40K wise. The Ork minis are not the best GW make, and I think a new release of the range is quite imminent but I reckon these 5 minis are quite fun, with lots of quirky details - who knows, maybe I might even post some pictures if I get them painted.


(As a small aside the attached sprue reminds me of my Airfix modelling days - particularly the post war fighters that always had an assortment of weapon payloads that you could use - traditionally I would always try to load them all up, in defiance of logic, sense and possibly the Geneva Convention - happy days!)

That's it for now - next post still might be a review of a charity shop find - like I said before slim pickings recently.




Carl