Monday, November 28, 2016

The rise of the undead

I started building airplane models at the age of seven, from paper, cardboard and wood. At the age of 11 I started to paint using different techniques, and even won national competitions! Now, at 26, I combined those two to build and paint plastic figures.

I fell in love with Warhammer 40.000 when I first played the Dawn of War video game. I just loved to play with undead, mechanical, hyper advanced space zombie robots. Soon I found out about the tabletop game, but it seemed to overwhelming at the time.

In November 2014 I finally decided to take up this hobby. I ordered my tools, paints and a couple of kits to build some Necrons. After some research I found out about a LFGS, so I went there to check it out. Turns out, other people in the city where playing 40k! I began to collect Necrons, but I had to get a job, since at the time I was just another poor student. Got the job, got the minis, but eventually the unbalanced and unnecessarily complicated game system made me quit the game.

I the meantime I bought and tried other games, but never found the thing I craved for: building and painting miniatures!

After two disappointing years I finally conviced myself to pack away my 40k minis and have a fresh start. I ordered a Start Collecting! Skeleton Horde and some new paints. At first I just wanted to paint the minis for display, but I decided to give Age of Sigmar a try, since there's a point system now. I wanted to share this old and new experience with others, so I began to write this blog.

Now let's get some bones crafted!