Warhammer (with the models and everything)

Gah.

Just spent 2 days tidying up my 'office' before an estate agent comes over to photograph the house prior to putting it on the market.

My lord I have a lot of toy soldiers.

I managed to condense 8 shelves of minis into my already full Kallax unit, took 3 shelf's worth of scenery down and put them in the attic, cleared all the paints and hid them in the wardrobe and then tried to clean all the paint off the desk and surrounding area - it's been a messy few years.

Anyway, mission accomplished, and it now looks like an actual office / 3rd bedroom. Admittedly with a big Kallax unit stuffed to the brim with toy soldiers, but still.

However, I think it's going to be a while before I can get the paint brushes out again, which sucks. I've also glimpsed just how awful the move process is going to be - just moving those figures from one shelf to another was bad enough, but actually having to securely transport them to a new house... Gah.

I need to seriously consider selling some of the stuff I've accumulated over the years - stuff still in cellophane after 12 months is probably a good sign that the project I thought they were going to inspire / complete isn't happening - but my natural inclination to to hang on to everything. Forever.

New place we're interested in does have a room I've earmarked as my 'office' should it all come off, the ideal would be a room large enough to have a game table so I could play some solo games if the mood caught me, but not sure that's going to be possible. I may also accidentally fill the entire house with boxes of toy soldiers and scenery on the first day.

I probably should have posted this in the First World Problems thread (wah, I have too much stuff it's so unfair), but I thought fellow wargamers would have a unique perspective on my woes!

I have all the Stormcast from the first age of sigmar magazine all still on sprues….they’ve just squatted pretty much the whole lot.

/facepalm

Will do. Although to be fair I’ll probably get round to them at some point….probably when I’ve retired looking at the rest of the room!

I don't mind Stormcast, and I liked Skaven..might use the new edition as a bit of motivation, and try and get everything I have painted by it's release.

Though the last things paint related I did were prime some stuff I 3d printed.

I thought Wayland had accidentally given me an extra Reikland FleshShade this week until I checked my order again and realised I'd accidentally added it to my basket twice.

Don't say I never do anything for you

Got the majority of these three done over last weekend and the couple of days after but then went for a wee break. Returned to them today and finished these three completely…





And the big squad with the Winged Prime. I’ve tried to give them all something a bit different in terms of loadout or pose…

Waiting for a bid on Ebay to end and happened across a 2nd edition Abaddon gone wrong



A pleasure to meet you too, Mr Despoiler

So I finished this as much as I can be bothered with.

I suppose this controversial change to Stormcast means there's some hope they'll do it to Marines as well.

As someone disinterested in both it always struck me as stupid that both ranges have a lot of variants of the same basic unit type. Just from maintaining the rules and the army books not being bloated.

A pretty spicy take IMO. If you’re disinterested in the factions I don’t think you ought to wish other people’s choices away, but even then the Sigmar move here is pretty astonishing.

I bought the Soul Wars box in the Covid lockdowns - that’s not long ago at all and the Stormcast in it were *all* Sacrosanct Chamber, which is now gone. I probably spent at least a hundred quid more on further Sacrosanct stuff, including stuff because Soul Wars contained incomplete units for matched play and I wanted a ‘legal’ army.

Now luckily for me I moved away from Soul Wars but if I hadn’t I’d be feeling really dejected right now. Worse still if I’d gone Beastmen, but they were at least neglected from the start and people weren’t actively encouraged to buy them - which they were with the Sacrosanct Chamber - they’ve literally been the AoS poster boys for the few years they’ve existed and have now been effectively deleted.

I assumed at first it was just a case of ‘doing a Primaris’ and changing the scale, but this isn’t what has happened and the models haven’t been replaced.

The remaining models which are getting a replacement shown so far (Liberators) are IMO getting significantly worse models too.

I’ll also say that the Ork Combat Patrol replacement is very uninspiring. I plan to collect Orks and have snagged the old good CP but am praying they don’t gradually get replaced by this Beast Snagga direction which is seemingly being pushed.

Also feel the Stompa box is a bit rubbish if you don’t want a Stompa. That could have had a battle wagon and a dread or Kanz instead.

I don’t know enough about Custodes to judge the army box and CP which have just been announced.

I’ve got him. Not in his box but I’ve got him.

That's late 2nd edition as he used to cost a fiver I'm sure.

I bet that's not 7 quid