Can you remember what got you into the world of Warhammer
40k? For me it's a long time ago, but I can still remember the hooks. It was
never one thing, more a series of things I loved combining.
The recent GW birthday party at Warhammer World Reminded me
one of the key ingredients that drew me into this world as I spent two great
hours with my son and Dave building a mini-diorama with Space Marine and Ork
sprues.
Creating an epic battle that had nothing to do with army
lists or allowable weapon combinations brought us back (aided by a 7 year old)
to the fun and excitement I felt when first starting the hobby and I really
want to have a go at a serious diorama, for entry into Golden Daemon.
It got me thinking about what inspired me aged 14 to pick up
the hobby. I grew up building and
painting airfix WW2 aircraft, my room was full of hurricanes, me109s, Heinkel
111s and my favourite the Mosquito bomber. I had got about as good as I could
at that stage- there was nowhere I could learn more and even though I enjoyed
the modelling and painting my models were just gathering dust once I had hung
them from the ceiling and after all that effort I wanted them to have more
purpose.
Around the same time my Dad bought this book.
Age 14, I loved modelling and painting, sci-fi novels, Elite
(computer game), and Tolkien. Imagine my amazement when looking at another kids
White Dwarf magazine and discovering someone had merged all of these into a
sci-fi, Middle earth in space, that required hobbying and painting, and after
all that "it was a game"?!! I couldn't believe my luck. My first WD
below...
I remember my first inspirations were to build dioramas of
the scenes I loved but that was out of reach financially and I had forgotten
this inspiration until we picked up the sprues at Warhammer World a couple of
weeks ago.
Over the past few years I have dabbled with dioramas but the
draw of building an army always won out. Below is a gun nest I built atop a
chimera - a small diorama if you like.
I really feel inspired again to try a diorama - but it's
gonna be a while before I am ready so I will target 2017 golden daemon unbound
category and see if I can at least get shortlisted.
I am off to do some research now on building a diorama, more
on this in the future...
The Emperor's Champion
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