Warhammer 40k figurines

[highlander]

Not sure if this is the right section but anyway, does anyone here collect them? I'm thinking about starting , is it worth it though? i wouldn't mind getting a new hobby, painting them and such. What do you people think of of them?


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just realized i spelled warhammer wrong... oh well.

 

[Danimal]

Fixed.

 

[knut]

It's worth it if you've got the money. Prepare to spend alot if you go into proper collecting, unless you buy off eBay which I really do recommend. But yes, it's a great hobby. If I had the money I'd still collect. Not play, but collect, make/convert/customize and paint.

 

[highlander]

ah okay, thank's Danimal

 

[Docm30]

Dammit! they're models not figurines!

If you enjoy painting and war-games, then they're worth it. The prices can be pretty steep, but if you just buy a few models here and there, it's not so bad.

 

[IchI]

Hmmm, they are fairly expensive. Never collected them myself. I think they are kind of cool but I typically like spending my money on DVD's and Games, I pride myself on them instead. I also wouldn't like to see the look on a girls face if she came into your room and it was full of Warhammer Although saying that most girls I know would probably not think much of it.

Anyway ye, they are cool. But the people who play the board game are weird. They look funny.

 

[Robert-]

I collected the Lord Of The Rings ones a while ago. I stopped due to lack of popularity and money. I found no point in collecting if I had nobody to battle against.

 

[Shift]

I did for about a month ages ago before I couldn't be bothered with it anymore. The game on the board is boring and rubbish.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Quite expensive for a pieces of plastic, which I could easily form in my local college engineering workshops.

Though I do miss painting them from when I was young, I might have a go with a small box from my local gameworkshop during my week long holiday at the end of the month

I guess the easiest to paint and play with would be the Tau race, though this was after my time, only really know their tactics from playing Dark Crusade

 

[Sui]

I think it's worth giving it a go if you're really interested in customising your own army. Building, organising and painting a force can be well worth the price, providing you have a few friends to play with and you genuinely enjoy it.

However, if you're not that interested in painting your models you might get bored of it pretty quickly. Spending hundreds of pounds on plastic figures which mean nothing to you is not a good idea.

 

[comoxer]

I collect and paint them, read into the whole background of 40k but I have never once played the tabletop game Word of warning though, if you intend on buying do not go directly too the stores, you will leave poorer than the bum you passed on the way there Buy online!

 

[knut]

Painting was actually the part that interested me the least, mainly because I was quite impatient. The best part for me was customizing stuff, and as it stands I still go attack models with the pliers to swap things around. I modified a Tau Devilfish APC into a Cadian Imperial Guard dropship; filled the interior with troopers, had two guys out the side hatches manning those chain guns the Tau had like on Black Hawk's, completly re-did the cockpit to house two pilots... Looked awesome.

Playing the games was amazing though. I visited the HQ in Nottingham a few times and they've got an entire hall full of detailed tabletops ranging from ruined cities to dense jungles and barran, desert wastelands. Four of us were allowed to put three industrial urban boards together (which are actually made to go together, but come apart into squares for smaller games) and it was fantastic. Imperial Guardsmen taking cover in buildings, columns of armoured vehicles rolling down the strafed and bombed roads, gunships circling overhead, snipers hanging back on the roofs of half-shelled apartment blocks, flanking attacks on fixed positions... I've got some developed photos from it, gonna go find them now. Might see if I can scan 'em or something.

 

[Ennui]

used to play/collect 40k, painting is awesome fun, but christ is it expensive

antipop, that's awesome.

 

[Sui]

That does sound incredibly cool.

 

[knut]

These aren't pictures from my trip several years ago, but they are from the exact same few boards that we played a game on.

http://www.calibanhomeworld.com/News/images/WarhammerWorld07a.jpg

http://www.calibanhomeworld.com/News/images/WarhammerWorld08a.jpg

 

[Robert-]

Wow. The scenery on some game boards are AMAZING. I remember seeing a LOTR game board of Gondor and Helms Deep, f***ing win.

 

[knut]

Yeah, some of the stuff is ridiculously impressive. They use to have a tour around the building which went through this one room with about 4/5 large - and I mean huge - scale dioramas laid out. An entire Space Marine army of about 600 soldiers, 50 tanks and other such large numbers of other models (hell even those aren't exact. A piece called 'Seige of the Emperors Palace' which was, again, a vast amount of figures set up. Chaos forces attacking the palace, and for a true sense of scale it involved two human-sized Titans aswell. There was another which was set around the classic fantasy Warhammer which was a Empire city under attack from the undead - that table must of had about three seperate battles going on, including a galleon flagship out at sea - and another 40k one of Orks vs. Guardsmen, and I think there was upwards of 100 Imperial armoured vehicles on the desert. Don't quote me on that though haha, was a while ago. Very impressive though.

Unfortunatly, last I heard, they were taken down, put on eBay and later destroyed if not brought. An utter shame. I saw some of the LOTR stuff aswell, but when I went only Fellowship had been released, so the Helms Deep table hadn't beego visit again. The Warhammer community is really something, I've played a few games there with people I've never spoke to before, and going around the many battletops and talking to other people about their models/game is fantastic.

Some pics from the net:
http://www.sodemons.com/gwmuseum/vengeance/stuttburg.htm
http://www.sodemons.com/gwmuseum/orksdrift/orksdrift.htm
http://www.sodemons.com/gwmuseum/horus/index.htm

Curse my lack of a job! /shakes fist

 

[Bob_Marley]

40K man myself. Dark Angels are my main army, but I've got quite a few others

Got a fantasy army as well but it never grabbed me as much. Ah well, real men don't shoot arrows .

The HQ up in Nottingham is fantastic. Or at least is was when I went a few years back. Those old gamesday dioramas are truely awesome sights. I did particularly like the Siege of the Emperor's place with the 28mm scale Warlord Titans (so yeah, about human sized).

Also cool were the 1:1 scale Space Marines (ie 7 feet tall) they had there, including the one which survived an IRA bomb attack.

Didn't play there when I went, but it was a fun experience none the less.

I don't play as much as I would like to these days. And that was really the main thing for me, due to my utter ineptitude with painting and modeling.