Saturday I walked to the Dragon's Den to pick up the new Tzeentch stuff on release day. It was -41°C windchill when I woke up and wondered if I really should... but I'd had a week off and barely left the house so I decided I needed exercise and bundled up for the 4.5 Km hike to the store (9Km round trip) through the snow. I got there and discovered they had not received their order from Games Workshop that week!? So I turned around and hiked back home, empty-handed...
Well, not entirely empty-handed... I bought last month's White Dwarf with the bonus Warhammer Quest character cards for running a Flesh-Eater Courts retinue and some Green Stuff!
I got a note yesterday saying the stuff arrived, but they'd been shorted the Warfare Cavalcade Battleforce...
I had been a little worried about that... Warhammer.com and a few of the other stores I look at online were sold out of it already... luckily 401 Games in Toronto had a few in stock, so I ordered one from them and it should be here next week.
I did go pick up the Battletome from Dragon's Den and while I was there grabbed the Argent Shards (new faction terrain for Disciples of Tzeentch) and the new White Dwarf (with the bonus character cards for a Lumineth Realmlords adventuring party!)
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Sounds like lots of running around, glad you got the kit anyway!
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Ha-ha! For sure. I don't mind the walking. I do need excercise and I find it so hard to motivate myself to just go out and walk for the sake of walking... but if I even the slimmest excuse to GO someplace, I can get myself walking there!? Thanks Iain!
Deleteuh, wow, that is cold.
ReplyDeleteI will be curious to see how big the Shards are when you get them built! They look like some great and thematic terrain.
It gets colder... it's kind of fucking nuts that people live here, really... at least a dozen times each winter I will hear Amanda exclaim "WHY DO WE EVEN LIVE HERE". People told her when she moved here that she'd get used to it. It's been thirty years... She is still not used to it!
DeleteThe shards are not going to be as big as I imagined they would be from looking at pictures online... of even from looking at the size of the box! (Did they purposely not post pictures with them next to miniatures to fool us all into thinking they were massive?!) They do still look super rad, though. Also, looking at the assembly instructions, there are actually icons that indicate YOU PROBABLY WANT TO PAINT THIS PART BEFORE ASSEMBLING! which I have not seen before...
Generally speaking... I HATE painting subassemblies... especially teeny-tiny, hard to hold and easy to lose bits! But there have been many models I've assembled in the last few years that, after assembling, realized WOW this is going to be a pain in the ass to paint, I probably should have painted some of these bits before assembling... For some reason, I just can't seem to envision these problems until they are assembled and have literally wished that they'd point out in the instructions PAINT THIS BEFORE PROCEEDING, IDIOT! because there have been at least two occasions where I literally had to break apart a mini to paint, and then reassemble!
Yeah, I won't mention that our high lately has been 25C...
DeleteAnd yes, I DID notice that there were no Shard next to miniature pictures... I wish all companies would have standard measuring figure or SOMETHING so you have any idea what size it is before you buy. (Reaper used to have the super helpful measuring points in the photos)
You are much more aware/observant than I! I totally DIDN'T notice until I opened it up and looked at the parts on the frame and thought "Oh, wow! I somehow imagined they were a LOT bigger...!? How did that happen!?" and THEN looked back at the few pics I'd seen of them...
DeleteI confess there have been times I started to go out for a walk and decided to go back inside when it was only just above freezing or so here. I'm not used to really freezing weather.
ReplyDeleteAs for painting hard to reach spots on minis, and breaking minis apart, I "had" to break apart some minis I bought secondhand to reach some spots, because they came assembled. I might not have bothered, but in this case the spots were too visible, just hard to get at with a brush. It's different if it's parts of the mini you can't really see.
YES! It used to be, if I can't get at it with a paintbrush, no one's ever going to see it... but with these newer plastic minis things are so slight and dynamic and detailed, it is very easy to end up with spots that are GLARINGLY visible, but IMPOSSIBLE to reach with any sort of paint brush!!
DeleteFinally a use for those old brushes with a hooked tip!
DeleteHa-ha! I guess!
Delete(so glad to know I'm not the only one that keeps them!?)