Anyone pissed off about their dried out paints - please do have a read of this little explanatory rant.

Pah, GW became a money hungry whore when White Dwarf became a GW In House magazine circa 1990, this is very old news.

Except what this guy is saying has NOTHING to do with my paints being all dried up. As much as I hate to defend GW...

They weren't as bad as they are now, mind. Inflation really can't account for all of the difference in price between now and 15 years ago. You used to be able to get ace boxes of multi-part orks, Imperial Guard and Mk 6 Space marines containing 30 troops for 9.99. It's now, what, a tenner for 5 plastic multi part marines? Alright, they're better quality, but once you've got the moulds made that's your work done.

I used to go to this comics shop called Comicville, run by a really nice couple, in Huddersfield. They also had a Leeds branch. This was about twelve years ago. Anyway, they had the timmerity to stock non GW figures as well, and rival tabletop gaming brands. GW sent a bloke over who told them that if they kept selling rival products, they'd stop selling them stock. At the time GW accounted for half the floorspace. Happily, the lovely couple told them to fuck off and turned the floor space over to yet more comics, second and first hand vinyl records, awesome t-shirts and clothes, strange doo-hickeys and Mexican Day of the Dead junk.

I miss Comicville. Once Paul Daniels went in with Debbie McGee, and he started griping constantly about this practical jokes line ripping off his ideas. Complete wanker, but Debbie was very funny.

Scissor Sisters used to go there too. Nice people.

I agree that the minis are overpriced, but it's not really fair to compare the new plastics to the old (fucking rubbish) plastics.

I think we're all missing the most obvious point here: We need a venue for the inaugural BETEO twenty-a-side skirmishathon.

With beer.

Beards optional.

Ooooooh.

Just saw this.

This is a very, very good idea.

I have a bunch of unused 40k stuff I can break out and paint up for this. [/nerdgasm]

Or a very good time, Mali, depending on one's perspective.

5 by 2 1/2 is a bit small though - can you fit a 6 by 4 up there? Missus, etc.

Zardoz - you're never going to have spare money again, mate, so now's the time to make the most of it - and your window of opportunity is shrinking by the day.....

I intended to get round that at my parents place by using two trestle tables and then having six 2 by 2 sectional board pieces on top - this also means you can have some fixed scenery on the boards and still get variation in set-up.

Zardoz - you're never going to have spare money again, mate, so now's the time to make the most of it - and your window of opportunity is shrinking by the day.....

Now, I can't believe that running your kits off of a more detailed mould triples the cost of the kits. Once you've had the mould made, all you're doing is pouring in plastic. Revell aeroplane kits, for instance, have several sprues of much better quality, far more detailed plastic pieces than GW make, and cost less for a decent sized plane than GW charge for 5 plastic marines.

(though some models do take the piss).

It's got to fit through the attic door, so that's off. Soz.

Oh, Oh, Oh...was that in the victorian Arcade near the train station? If so that was rather splendid...now there is only the very small Wargames Emporium on one of the upper floors.

Infuckingdeed: Space Marine Commander £10

You're missing the point, yes, I know that the new plastics don't cost more to make, but that surely is irrelevant.

It used to be that the desirable army is one that is all metal (because the plastics were shite), but now that is not the case. The plastics have replaced pretty much all the troop models, and there are a few blister packs in each store. The only bad thing with that, is that there's no newcomer's option anymore.

If you compare the cost of the new plastics with the old metal, the prices haven't increased that much, at least for the basic troopers.

Its pretty funny how this topic came up while FLIS and myself were in Manchester last week. As we walked by a Games-Workshop (we don't have them over here) we both had a bit of a chuckle about what kind of nerdy, sunlight avoiding, beardy, snorting type of people actually play these games.

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