Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves

[Dave]

I'll put it down as a tentative no whilst I contemplate how to adopt it. (now where is the sitting on the fence smiley?)

[fatolaf]

And he lives on in Warhammer Invasion, as a rather good yet suicidal hero

[cunningmatt]

Sunday 5th December – Take Two on Wednesday 8th December

Right here goes attempt two to tell you all about this week... must remember to hit Save now and again, must remember... Apologies it's a long one, get yourself a cup of coffee, some biscuits and a sleeping bag!

So it's time for a normal Tale of OG Gamers – High Elves blog entry, I say normal, but what I mean is no advent calendar nonsense. On the subject of which I hope you are feeling all festive and that the "The Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves: Forgotten Special Characters Advent Calendar" has helped you feel the festive love. Thanks for all the nice comments and PMed suggestions (particularly looking for help with Skaven – every character I've found seems to still be in the 7th edition book, also Dark Elves, Lizardmen and Wood Elves are proving tricky as I don't know much about them! And it would be nice to have at least one model from every available army if possible!). I don't know about you but it's helped me feel festive, I've started writing Christmas cards, put up my decorations, leave the jokes about the Christmas fairy please, and even done some Christmas shopping.

Now obviously I'd love to do all my Christmas shopping with my official sponsor, no not Shakeaway, but OG Games – not that I've seen any sponsorship money, apparently it's all trapped in a Nigerian bank or something Whilst it would be much fun to do all my shopping on this illustrious website, most if not all my nearest and dearest probably wouldn't appreciate the kind of thing you can buy here. I'd love to buy my mother an Imperial Guard Catachan Battle Force (available to order from OG Games now at a significant discount), sadly however I doubt she'd appreciate it. And it would lead to a rather awkward conversation in which I realise I know as much about the contents as she does given I've never played Warhammer 40,000.

This leaves me with one of three options:

1. Gift Vouchers. Gift Vouchers are where you have your perfectly useful cash in the form of pounds sterling, that can be spent in any store with very limited restrictions. You take this cash into a store of your choosing and swap it for a new form of cash that can only be spent in that store, and must be spent within 24 months of being converted, cannot be used in conjunction with any special offer, and can never be converted into any other form of cash no matter how hard you try. Put like this it makes perfect sense. The good news about this major inconvenience you can inflict upon your friends and family is that it's very easy to wrap. Obviously it goes without saying that gift vouchers for OG Games represent very good value and are the present everyone would love this Christmas!

2. Online Shopping. Online shopping is the future apparently, you go online and find your loved ones the perfect gifts, or after two hours of looking through the Boots website you go sod it and get them a set of toiletries. After several attempts to attempt to pay for these goods using your credit card, they are eventually dispatched to you, and it's this point you realise the estimated delivery date is April. At some point these will be attempted to be delivered to your house, when a card will be popped through the door telling you, that you were out when we came to deliver the package, even though you were in. At which point you'll be given the option to go and collect the package from your "local" depot, usually somewhere in Crawley, or for a small fee of £5 you can have them redelivered to your nearest store for collection thusly removing the entire point of collecting online in the first place other than to pay an exorbitant postage & packing fee. Given my flat doesn't have a letter box (for complicated reasons), it represents Fort Knox to the postman and thus online ordering is not for me.

3. In Store Shopping. Having exhausted all other options I am left with the last resort of actually going into a shop and purchasing goods in person. May god have mercy upon my soul.

So this weekend I headed to Westfield in London:



Apologies for the lack of focus, my hands were shaking as I was having a fit before entering the store! Here's more proof, I should point out it's 3pm in the afternoon not the dead of night as implied in this photo:



An interesting aside former Secretary of State for International Development Claire Short was on my Tube on the way in to Westfield, that's nothing to do with the story, but thought I should share, make me look a bit more high brow that I recognised her given all the I'm A Celebrity... talk I've peddled recently.

I was particularly excited about my trip to Westfield, because two years ago I went Christmas shopping there and was refused a free sample of alcohol in Marks & Spencer because I looked too young. Result!!! That wasn't just a good boost to my day, that was an M&S good boost to my day!

For the purposes of December Westfield has been twinned with Purgatory and represents the second busiest place you can go shopping in Central London, unfortunately to get there I have to change tubes at Oxford Circus, the first busiest place you can go shopping in Central London. Surprisingly enough this didn't go well, and so I have put together a list of the 10 most frustrating things about my Christmas shopping experience, in the hope that this will give you some insight and tips and allow you to avoid the pitfalls I've succumbed to. At the very least it will allow me to vent my rage and get these things off my chest.

1. Bags. Invariably you will want to do all your Christmas shopping in one go to avoid countless trips to hell and back, which means at some point you will end up with thousands of carrier bags. What you don't want is you're bloody carrier bag to split:



This results in countless stops as you slump in the fire exit, whilst you rearrange all your shopping like some decrepit bag lady. Then you have to go into Next and demand that they give you 8 extra large carrier bags, even though you've bought a box of cufflinks, to re-triple bag your shopping before all your bags explode all over Westfield in a shit, very unfunny version of Buckaroo. And let's be honest Buckaroo wasn't fun to start with.

2. Picky Relatives. Some relatives can be picky, I shan't name names just in case they are reading, but they lay down ground rules for getting them Christmas gifts: No clothes (I have no room in my wardrobe), no toiletries (the bathroom is full), no food (I'm on a diet), no gift vouchers (they're not personal enough), no alcohol (I'm a recovering alcoholic and it would be inappropriate) – that last one might be a lie. Then when you ask what you can get them they say "Oh don't worry you don't need to get me anything". Fine I won't. That should go down about as well as a Christmas card from Wikileaks at the White House. So instead for peace I navigate Westfield for all eternity (or the time it takes Louis Walsh to answer the question "In one word who do you want to send home from the X Factor tonight?" – depending on your chosen measurement of time), looking for a gift that like Piers Morgan's charisma doesn't actually exist. Best I could find is a Reindeer that pooes chocolate covered raisins – any good?

3. People. Christmas shopping would be bearable if it weren't for the fact that other people are there. Apparently it's too much to ask for Westfield to be cleared for my visit, because all these other selfish people are busy buying gifts for their loved ones – gits. The main problem is stored are laid out such that one medium wasted person can easily pass between the racks of merchandise, this policy breaks down when you try to pass down the aisle with 84 bags of shopping whilst coming the other way is a woman armed with a double buggy and an arse the size of a badly parked Vauxhall Vectra.

4. Buying for Yourself. The fatal pitfall of Christmas shopping is buying for yourself, understandable when everyone else is so difficult to get for, but still you must resist that pair of jean, DVD, computer games console or new car. As a rule of thumb if you've bought yourself an entirely new wardrobe, and all you've bought for other people is one packet of gift tags – that shopping trip is generally not considered to be Christmas shopping.

5. Sunday Closing. Many years ago when I was young, sometime around the Bronze Age, Sunday opening was very rare. You had to go a big town to find shops that opened on a Sunday and then it was only big department stores. Now everywhere is open on a Sunday regardless of whether you want it to be or not, and as society we can't live without it. Hence my annoyance that one store is Westfield proclaims itself to be "Keeping Sunday Special" by not opening an Sundays, this is not helpful, I have come shopping on Sunday because I work during the week. What about "Keep Wednesday Special" I've never got time to go shopping then, its Apprentice night after all. Moral high grounds are all good, but don't let them inconvenience me.

6. Decorations. Shopping centres and town centres at this time of you attempt to display a selection of festive decorations in order to calm you down and make you feel festive during the shopping period. For example at Westfield:



As you can see Westfield have gone for decorating their trees such that they appear to have survived the aftermath of Chernobyl, this is not making me cheerful. Quite frankly given that I'm so stressed during shopping that even the presence of scantly clad models handing out vodka and crisp fifty pound notes will do nothing to calm my nerves, you can imagine how I feel about snowman suspended from the ceiling like Ann Widdicombe on Strictly Come Dancing. Not calming at all.

7. Christmas Music. I would say my tolerance for Christmas music is higher than most, I am in fact listening to some now as I rant about my shopping experience. Though one particular year when I spent October having a Pizza Hut meal with a friend and was forced to listen to the same Christmas CD on loop for two hours, I did have a different opinion to Christmas music. However, the general rule is, it's all about appropriateness. It wouldn't have been appropriate to begin the allied Shock & Awe assault on Baghdad to the soundtrack of Lady Gaga's Poker Face. Similarly the sound of children screaming, valuable crockery smashing, and people rowing in Westfield is not best rounded off by a rendition of Cliff Richard's Mistletoe & Wine.

8. Receipts. Over recent years I have noticed a disturbing trend to receipts, they either handed to you with a pile of paperwork consisting of a series of vouchers that I don't want – do I look like I want half price children's books or £5 of my No 7 purchase? I don't think so. Alternatively they are printed on ridiculously long pieces of paper, recently I went to Hamleys to buy some toys – no I've not become a paedophile, they were comedy gifts for a friend! I only purchased two items, but because of the promotional blurb and an offer for money off at Leeds castle printed at the bottom of the receipt, I was a presented with a receipt that was a foot long – genuinely I measured it (god I need to get a partner, my life is dull). What if I had children and bought a stocking full of toys, I'd probably have been present with a receipt long enough to embalm myself in, or at the very least form a noose and end it all – which in fairness in Hamleys at Christmas time may be the only option. The upshot of all this is my wallet is now filled with enough receipts and money off vouchers that I could beat a whale to death with it, it's larger than the Argos catalogue. And the one solitary fiver in there as spontaneously combusted due to being compacted in with so much paper.

9. Shops that make you Queue Outside. At Westfield there is a number of desirable designer shops that wish to make them seem more aspirational than they really are, to this end they make people queue up outside in a roped off area. I'm sorry but f**k off, you aren't the log flume at Chessington World of Adventures, why on earth do you think I'd want to queue up to see all the things I can't afford in the shop that you don't have in my size. I think you'll find I'll be doing my Christmas shopping in good old unfashionable M&S where everyone is welcome. Admittedly everyone will think their gifts are unfashionable, but at least they'll stop being my friends and I won't have to go Christmas shopping for them again.

10. Shop Assistants. Now I have been a shop assistant, in fact I once sold Sir Trevor McDonald some underwear and socks – and that's a true story. So I do know the pressure some shop assistants are under, and many of them are very good. However many of them complete troglodytes, shambling around the store like a disembodied Margaret Beckett – not sure how that would look actually. Case in point, I spent thirty minutes in Boots, the world's most impossible store to navigate (every aisle's bloody bottles), being sent repeatedly upstairs and downstairs by different shop assistants who hadn't a clue where the item I wanted was. Still it's better than in shoe shops, where there's no one to serve you, you grab the one shoe on display then wander round like sodding Prince Charming looking for Cinderella to see if she's got the other crystal slipper in a size 11.

11. Inappropriate Drinks. To ease the pain of Westfield shopping I arranged to meet a friend at Costa for a drink and a chat / moan about our tedious lives. Feeling rather festive I decided to order a Frosted Mint Hot Chocolate – how something can be Frosted and Hot at the same time I'm not quite sure, but it was on the Christmas menu nonetheless. I was then asked if I wanted chocolate sprinkles on it, to which I said yes and then was presented with this:



I'm sorry what the bloody hell is this?! As a terminally single man, I don't want to be presented with a beverage that's had more romantic existence than me. Why not just rub it in and present me with a chocolate muffin shagging an apple turnover, or a cheese and ham baguette surrounded by hundreds of other cheese and ham baguettes having a wonderful birthday. F**k you! It is not helping, it ranks up there with people snogging on the escalators of the London Underground, don't do it I will push you to your deaths – you have been warned.

Sorry it was a bad day ok, yes I may have issues, many issues but we should move on... here's This Week in Pictures...

Monday
 
Bad news, all last week's Lindor have gone.



Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll just have to rock in the corner like a madman now. More chocolates, more chocolates.

Tuesday
 
As you may have already seen, I finished Wizbit the mage, here's the final stage of painting:

Stage 4 - Wizbit, the Mage



Sorry probably should have tidied away those chocolate wrappers, here's attempt two:









Base: Drybrushed Bleached Bone, flocked with Static Grass
Whispy Tendrils of Magic: Washed in recesses with Leviathan Purple, overall washed with Mithril Silver
Leather: *NO CHANGE*
Robes: Highlighted with Skull White in central areas only
Silver Metal: *NO CHANGE*
Gold Metal: Fine Highlight of Mithril Silver
Flesh: Fine Highlight of Bleached Bone
Yellow Trim: Washed with watered down Ogryn Flesh and layered with 1:1 Sunburst Yellow : Bad Moon Yellow, highlighted with pure Bad Moon Yellow.
Blue Robe: Mixed intermediate shades of blue across bands on cloak as was needed to smooth transition.
Hair: Highlighted with Skull White
Details: See Below.

So this gives me a 600 point army which looks like this:



Or on paper like this:



Which you can't fail to notice is actually legal for the first time in the whole blog! Horray!

And I haven't forgotten Alith Anar, because if I had he would be a forgotten Special Character and would be in The Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves: Forgotten Special Characters Advent Calendar. See what I've done there? Do you get it? Now that's funny! Laugh god damn you, laugh.

Stage 4 - Alith Anar













Base: Drybrushed Bleached Bone, flocked with Static Grass
Stone: *NO CHANGE*
Leather: *NO CHANGE*
Robes: Highlighted with Skull White in central areas only
Cloak: Washed with Badab Black
High Elf Silver Metal: *NO CHANGE*
High Elf Gold Metal: Fine Highlight of Mithril Silver
Flesh: Highlighted with Bleached Bone
Dark Elf Silver Metal: *NO CHANGE*
Dark Elf Gold Metal: Fine Highlight of Mithril Silver
Hair: Lightly Drybrush with Vomit Brown
Yellow Trim: Washed with watered down Ogryn Flesh and layered with 1:1 Sunburst Yellow : Bad Moon Yellow, highlighted with pure Bad Moon Yellow.
Blue Trim: *NO CHANGE*
Wood: *NO CHANGE*
Details: See Below.

High Elf Details

Now for about the last 3 months I've promised to talk about gems, faces, details and other bits and pieces, so here goes:

Generally it's always worth a bit of effort on the details for character models, if you can be arsed and as obviously they will be your most looked at models and have more details sculpted on them. High Elves in particular are worth looking at, as even the lowest Spearmen will have a selection of gems.

Gems:

First paint out the gem in Chaos Black, it has almost certainly got messy at some point:



Then painted a large swirl of your darker colour at the base of the gem, personally I tend not to worry about light source direction, it all gets a bit complicated and my painting skills aren't really up to it. For a red gem like here I'd use Scab Red (for a yellow gem Iyanden Dark Sun and for a blue gem Necron Abyss)



Then paint a second layer of a lighter colour over most of the base colour bar the upper most portion, for the Red gem it was Red Gore (Yellow – Golden Yellow, Blue – Regal Blue).



Sorry poor picture I know! Repeat the process again with Blood Red for the Red gem (Yellow – Sunburst Yellow, Blue – Ultramarines Blue)



And once more with Blazing Orange for the Red gem (Yellow – Bad Moon Yellow, Blue – Enchanted Blue)



Then dot across the black area with a small dot of Skull White to show the reflection:



Here's the completed blue and yellow gems:





All three would benefit from gloss varnish.

Eyes:

I always paint eyes on all my models but for character models it's definitely worth it. But it does require a steady hand, and I'd always have your base flesh colour to hand for tidying up afterwards.

Paint the eyes in Chaos Black:



Then dot in tiny dots of Skull White in each corner for the eyes, if you look in the mirror at your own eyes you'll see the pupil/iris fills up most of the eye and you don't normally see a single black dot in a see of white – unless you're going for a surprised or frenzied look.



Same picture as above I know, it's being economical!!

Whilst talking about eyes, for horses you'll never see the white of their eyes unless they are startled so, just paint them pure Chaos Black.

Orbs:

The orb is very similar to the gems, I started with a Chaos Black undercoat:



I wanted mine red so undercoated it in Scab Red:



Then highlighted most of that with Red Gore:



Then painted random blobs of Blood Red on in no particular pattern, you want it to look like a swirling ball of colour in the end:



Blazing Orange was then added to similar effect:



And then a single white dot was painted for the reflection:



And hey presto it looks like a Lindor ball – yum! You can if you like use washes on this to mix the colour, I didn't as I find Baal Red can make red go a bit pinky, but I definitely would have for a blue gem (with Asuryman Blue).

Vials:

This is based on a guide in White Dwarf 362, for painting an hourglass – mine doesn't look as good I'll tell you now!

Starting with a Chaos Black undercoat, first paint the liquid in a dark shade of the final colour, I've chosen Orkhide shade – make sure the level of the liquid is parallel to the ground in cases where the vial is held at an angle. I've then painted most of the visible part of the glass in Shadow Grey leaving Black at the edges. Note again I'm not too fussed about lighting directions, this will appear to be lit from the point of view of the camera.



Next highlight the centre of the liquid, with the next shade up Dark Angels Green in this case, and the glass with Space Wolves Grey, pay particular care to edges and rims that will catch the light more. In both cases leave the original colour at the extremities.



Repeat the process with the next colour Snot Green in this case, and Shadow Grey mixed with Bleached Bone for the glass. The cork is painted Clathan Brown



And one final highlight with Scorpion Green and spots of Skull White on the glass.



Here's a red one done with the same colours for the glass as above, and the same reds as the gems.



Other Details:

As mentioned above on large areas like this cloak, I added mixes of the various blues in as appropriate where I felt the transition between the layers needed softening, a watered down mix of Asuryman Blue was applied to help blend the colours:



The swirling energy field had already been painted up to Skull White, but note from Deneb Stone not Astronomacian Grey to give distinction between the white robes and the field. For more definition Leviathan Purple was washed into the recesses, then a watered down Mithril Silver was washed across the field to give it an unnatural shimmer:



The blood on the neck of the Dark Elf was painted by layering from Scab Red through Red Gore to Blood Red, a gloss varnish will have make it look liquidy. I'd be careful to avoid too many blood stains though, in my opinion it can be a bit cheesy.



Lastly the sword details were painted using the details for a crystalline surface in White Dwarf 362 as a basis, though I wasn't going for crystal more glowing runes. The runes were basecoated in 1:1 Hawk Turquoise and Space Wolves Grey. Regal Blue was added to darken the base of the runes and more Space Wolves Grey to lighten the top of the runes, this was done with two highlights even on the small surface to give a good flow:



I find in cases like this it's quite good to mix the base colour in the palette and lighten one part and darken the other so you can see the three colours together before you start painting!



Enough details, back to This Week in Pictures..., hope you can follow my random musings and drivel!

Wednesday

The whole of the nation's current affairs programmes and newspapers can be summarised in one picture:



Please don't send in your snow pictures to me, unlike every newsgathering organisation in the country, I'm not interested. Though this does give me a chance to introduce you to the latest addition to my household, it's our new plant Wagner.



What's all that white powder around you Wagner? Have you been hanging out with Amy Winehouse again, oh no it's just snow!

Thursday

In a desperate bid to embarrass them Wikileaks releases a series of controversial internal communiqués about Games Workshop that they've gained from an as yet unnamed source. Mounting international is placed on Wikileaks to close the site. The latest internal Games Workshop communiqués published by the whistle blowing site include:
"Don't tell anyone but OG Games is up to 15% cheaper than we are. Don't let on."
"A couple of our army books could probably do with a bit of balancing, but that's not important"
"Please buy our things"
"We missed out #342 when numbering issues of The White Dwarf, how could that have happened"
"Shit we forgot we had an army called Ogre Kingdoms"
"Plans to bring back Man O'War have stalled when we accidentally brought back the Christ Tarrant presented gameshow Man O'Man."

Friday

This month's What's In The Box was been drawn, sadly due to me accidentally deleting this blog once already, I don't have time to rewrite it now, so it will roll over to next week. I realise many of you may not be able to sleep on such cruel tenterhooks, but I'm a nasty man!

Sunday

The first 600 points of my High Elves are getting ready for their first battles, in a round robin event with the other OG Gamers. It was at this point I realised the foam holes weren't big enough for the horses:



The round robin batters were to be hosted at the Spread Eagle Pub in Wandsworth, however due to a BBC Panorama documentary the tournament will now be played in Russia .

And so there you go that was Sunday's blog entry, two days late, was it worth waiting for - probably not?! What could be funnier than rewritten jokes with topical gags that are no longer topical?! Sigh! Hopefully normal service will be reassumed this weekend. In the meantime do enjoy The Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves: Forgotten Special Characters Advent Calendar

[cunningmatt]

Thursday 9th December - Forgotten Special Characters Advent Calendar

Hope you enjoyed the late arrival of Sunday's blog entry yesterday, apologies for the length, bad language, ranting, inappropriate jokes and out of focus photos.

Another suggestion by Lee for today's "The Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves: Forgotten Special Characters Advent Calendar" – if you have a suggestion do PM, particularly looking for ideas for Skaven, Wood Elves, Dark Elves and Lizardmen. Here's Day 9:

[spoiler]
December 9th: Nagash



This is honestly not a picture from the Games Workshop website, honest, Gov!

Name: Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead and founding member of the Tufty Road Safety Club

Original Points Cost: 750 points

Background: Nagash is a powerful human being who was transformed into a 15ft tall monster by use of warpstone (judging by the model it's not a beauty treatment) His right arm was cut of by King Alcadizaar after a struggle for power in Nehekhara and then he got deported from the UK for preaching religious hatred – or maybe I'm thinking of someone else. He also has one of the Nine Books of Nagash and is hoping to pick up the other 8 on eBay to complete his collection.

Original Appearance: Warhammer Armies: Undead – 4th Edition.



Last Appearance: Warhammer Armies: Undead – 4th Edition. However he's mentioned throughout Warhammer Armies: Tomb Kings – 6th Edition as the individual who destroyed Nehekhara turning it into the land of Undead, creating all Undead creations and giving Games Workshop another army to sell. Noted as one of the most evil men in history, just behind Piers Morgan.



Special Rules: His immense stat line is bolstered by the following special rules: Level 4 Necromantic Wizard, who may cast each spell multiple times a turn, Immune to Psychology, causes Terror. Plus the following Magic Items: Black Armour of Nagash – 4+ Armour Save, that may always be taken and is never modified (a ward save to you and me). Mortis, The Great Blade of Death - +1 Strength, any Wounds caused by this recover Nagash one lost wound up to his starting value. Book of Nagash – Increase magic level (and number of spells known) by 1. Staff of Power – Store 4 magic cards each turn (except Total Power and Drain Magic), randomly starts battle with one stored card.





My Memories of the Character: I don't especially remember Nagash's model being quite so comical as it appears now. He genuinely seemed like one of the most evil monsters in the game, and would have been considered for my very, very short-lived Undead army (I bought the book!). When Undead split up into Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings it gave Nagash's background a massive chance to expand but curiously he was lost somewhere in the transition – maybe he will return at some point... probably not though?

Person(s) most Reminds Me Of: Janet Street-Porter, go on tell me you don't see it?!

Inclusion in 8th Edition: Who came up with this stupid category? It's far too hard to work out in 15 minutes before work. Yes you could include him, if you worked out some rules.
[/spoiler]

[Meals]

Loved the rant, Matt, it got me through the morning  And I especially agree with pushing the kissing people down escalators  how dare they be happy!!!!

God, Nagash was an awful model, but those were the days where everything was more innocent and all the models were made to look like bad cartoons.

[maelzch]

an ongoing challenge that I've set myself is to attempt to paint the Nagash model so it looks much less arse! I haven't got the drive to get going yet, I've just done a scenic base instead!

[Mike]

I have put together a list of the 10 most frustrating things about my Christmas shopping experience, in the hope that this will give you some insight and tips and allow you to avoid the pitfalls I've succumbed to. At the very least it will allow me to vent my rage and get these things off my chest.

11. Inappropriate Drinks. To ease the pain of Westfield shopping I arranged to meet a friend at Costa for a drink and a chat / moan about our tedious lives. Feeling rather festive I decided to order a Frosted Mint Hot Chocolate – how something can be Frosted and Hot at the same time I'm not quite sure, but it was on the Christmas menu nonetheless. I was then asked if I wanted chocolate sprinkles on it, to which I said yes and then was presented with this:



I'm sorry what the bloody hell is this?! As a terminally single man, I don't want to be presented with a beverage that's had more romantic existence than me. Why not just rub it in and present me with a chocolate muffin shagging an apple turnover, or a cheese and ham baguette surrounded by hundreds of other cheese and ham baguettes having a wonderful birthday. F**k you! It is not helping, it ranks up there with people snogging on the escalators of the London Underground, don't do it I will push you to your deaths – you have been warned.

Thats 11 things.

*runs and hides*

[The Trampoline]

The smiling skull face doesn't help to make people take the model seriously either.

[fatolaf]

Excellent buddy, your shopping rant was read by me and then me wifey after she heard me sniggering about bagel shagging...
I stick with box 17 by the way...

[cunningmatt]

Cheers for the comments guys (would have replied earlier but had to actually do work at work today - the cheek of it), will try and answer them all!

Loved the rant, Matt, it got me through the morning  And I especially agree with pushing the kissing people down escalators  how dare they be happy!!!!

Cheers mate, glad my pain bought someone some joy, and that I'm not the only one who hates escalator kissing!

God, Nagash was an awful model, but those were the days where everything was more innocent and all the models were made to look like bad cartoons.

And...

an ongoing challenge that I've set myself is to attempt to paint the Nagash model so it looks much less arse! I haven't got the drive to get going yet, I've just done a scenic base instead!

And...

The smiling skull face doesn't help to make people take the model seriously either.

Totally agree now looks rather daft, but at the time it had some charm. As I said about Gorfang Rotgut I do have a soft spot for the old Orcs & Goblins with their goofy smiles, which (compared to the newer breed) probably look naff to today's 12 year olds.

Thats 11 things.

*runs and hides*

Mike - you found me out! Though I made a different mistake to the one you think. In the original post I wrote, and then deleted on Sunday, there was Item 12 which was "People who go on ranting when they've promised they'd stop and can't keep to their original promises", which unfortunately I neglected to add in my rewrite - dam waste of a good gag! 

Excellent buddy, your shopping rant was read by me and then me wifey after she heard me sniggering about bagel shagging...
I stick with box 17 by the way...

Glad you and wifey enjoyed, I meant every word about the Costa Coffee incident! The drawer has already been drawn - so to speak, so you'll have to see if you were lucky this weekend/next week/month when I get round to uploading the pics!