I’m selling some models. I went to put these guys into a box to ship them across the world, but while doing so I discovered I was feeling a little nostalgic.
I worked at GW when Inquisitor was released, and it was an exciting time. This brand new game, fresh out of Specialist after a long many years. 54mm models, continuation of the 40k storyline, some super crunchy rules, it was all amazing. I wrote a 6-scenario campaign while I waited for the game to be released – I have no idea what happened to those stories and ideas.
In the end, I played a single game.
“Crunchy” meant “way to bloody complicated to follow”. Shooting a gun was an exercise in accounting. My story was cool, but not cool enough to draw people to it. I remember one of the staff members (or maybe a particularly excited customer) built up a giant castle in the store with an inner courtyard and ladders and levels and it was all 54mm scale and huge and it was amazing.
I was still in love with Necromunda at the time, so my little band had to have a converted wyrd. I took the daemonhost torso and I think the guardsman legs and carefully cut and green stuffed them together. I gave him a punk rock look (because I loved punk as much as Necromunda) and a book of spells and claimed he was being trained by the Eisenhorn look-alike.
I don’t remember how it happened, but I ended up with these 4 models and I think 3 others in the end which I was less attached to and have sold a while back. Staff members did a draft pick of the models to see who got what, and I think I got a couple extra because I said I was totally willing to paint a million models to get more. I think I bought one or two as well, I had to have.
The nice thing about having a blog is that I can reminisce about the past like this. 🙂 Bye models, enjoy your new life!
P.S. While I have a tournament coming up, in a few weeks where I’m playing Antares, things got immeasurably slower and faster around here, as my wife unexpectedly gave birth last Wednesday! I mean, we knew we were having a baby, but baby is about 2 months early. >.> So while you may have come to expect a leisurely pace of posting around here, I’m afraid it may get even more leisurely from here on in!