I am currently rediscovering the world of Warhammer after resurrecting a pile of miniatures and paints left hiding away in boxes for almost 10 years. I first started playing 40k in my early teens during the 2nd edition era. I went through the standard induction/indoctrination process: a curious visit to the store, playing a game of 40k with single tactical squad versus a horde of orks and gretchin accompanied by a paper thin deadnought, painting a miniature at the painting table and so on.
Then I was told about the games night and wanted to go along and bring a unit to the table. What caught my eye was the Death Company boxed set which I picked up along with the back-issues of White Dwarf containing the rules. These guys were frenzied killing machines who wouldn't die! I put them together and painted them up knowing little of the advanced techniques I could be utilising, fortunately black is easy when you know nothing of highlights. The chosen of Sanguinius succumbed to the black rage and came along to the games night. I was hooked. Thus I began with the Blood Angels and soon I was expecting a dreadnought in my Christmas stocking.
I am pleased to see that the hobby has founded a community on the web since I abandoned it. Great painting, modelling, conversions, nostalgia, tactics, army lists and battle reports seem to be prevalent on blogs, forums and hobby sites. Hopefully these are things I will feel inspired enough about to post my own experiences of them on this blog. I've really loved digging out my old models and remembering when I got them, what made me buy them, the games they were involved in as well as the silly store politics to do with green bases and out-of-date miniatures. With that in mind I'll probably end up making a slew of nostalgic posts about the slow growth of my collection as well as my attempts to build it into a well-formed army before adapting it to the new codex.
Thank you for reading my initial ramblings.
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