Gotrek & Felix
March 25, 2024 was the day that I brainstormed a TON of blog topics. Those ideas are winding down. Note: Mild Gotrek and Felix spoilers ahead! I first became aware of Gotrek & Felix in 1992 or 1993 through White Dwarf magazine. I was already an old gate-keeping gamer at heart and I distinctly remember not liking named-characters in the universe. For some reason that rubbed me the wrong way and I wanted purity in unnamed denizens living, scraping, and dying in a merciless old world. Not sure why I was like that. But something piqued my interest in them a decade later when I used some birthday money to buy the G&F first omnibus in 2005. What spurred me to do that? No clue. I’d been out chasing cars and girls for years by then. I was living in a new city and maybe I was just looking for…
My Favorite Minis
All miniatures are pretty great, but some are greater than others. I really can’t start talking about my favorite minis without starting where it all began… Britains The classic toy soldiers are absolutely where my love for these little people started. A local specialty toy retailer stocked Britains and my brother and I spent lifetimes drooling over the catalogs and peering through the display cabinet glass. Debating about which figure to get. Cowboys? Soldiers? Knights? Space aliens???? Sadly, Britains have been gone for a while. But I still have most if not all of them. I’m pretty sure some mounted knights were lost to the ravages of childhood play. As much as that pains me a bit, that’s what they were designed to do. To be loved and potentially lost. These were the days that I pined for “Indian in the Cupboard” to be a true story. Playmobil The next…
I put a couple of models together
Not a ton of hobbying going on this summer, but I put a couple of models together: