THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BLOG CASTING SYSTEM
Welcome to my Blog.
"Bleeeeh." (*sound of me throwing up my inner-geek*)
What is this blog going to be about? Miniatures Gaming. Yup. Miniatures..... not the doll house type of miniatures, noy the little ceramic 'pin-types' I see when my gal scrolls through Etsy (not that she's buying that kind of stuff either)... nope... this is all about small scale pewter and plastic miniatures.
Canadian Infantry Company from 2010 Historican's Flames of War Tournament
(note: this is not my work, just a pic from Historicon)
Some of my best memories as a kid are of arranging plastic and metal figures around the floor of my bedroom or creating battlefields outside in the yard. When I entered the Geek-transforming Wonder years of teenage-dom I came across some RPGs.... and that was when I saw some oldschool Warhammer. I still have the first edition.... but I never played.
Soon after, I went off to college. And I left behind my childhood passion.
Almost 2 decades later I was sitting upstairs in the my newly finished second floor attic, alone, and sick with a fever. This was the first time in a few years that I was doing ... nothing. I had survived the financial trials of a divorce and was on my third year of holding down 3 jobs (teaching, milking cows, and handy-man on a large property). I did treat myself to a 'video-night' every Friday night (the one night I wasn't milking till 7PM)... woo hoo.
I realized I didn't ... have... any ... hobbies. In short.. I was a hard worker, but I had no life outside of work.
I needed a life.
To make a long story short: I trekked into Somerville, NJ only to find the old game store out of business and replaced with an antique shop .. but there was a new store down the block: The Only Game in Town.
And while there, I bought my first batch of Warhammer figures, glue, paint, .... the rest is history.
OK.... so some of you are asking, "Ummmm you really think that getting into Miniatures is getting a LIFE?!!?"
Well, "Yes." And if you don't get it, then this isn't the blog for you, huh?
Over the past 10 years I've moved from Warhammer into the various Historical games, card games, board games and the like. (I love zombie games... by the way... when and how DID zombies get to be so 'In'?)
But my real passion is miniatures. And this is where I'm going to write about the ideas and experiences I want to share while I navigate this hobby.
In the next post I'm going to write about re-organizing the Hobby room.... pics to follow as soon as my lovely assistant, my lovely fiance Mary Deluxe, helps me organize a photobucket account (yup ... there is hope out there for all you geeks!). I guess that means that I'm geek enough to paint 15 mm miniatures but not to create my own photobucket....
See you soon.
SGT
