Spotanaity = spending lots of money

So this past Saturday Kim and I went to Shreveport with our friends Wes, Abigail and Brad, to go to a gaming store to watch a Warhammer 40k tournament. Now I'm sure all of you reading this (Mark, since I think you're the only one aside from Kim) have no clue what Warhammer is, but that's ok. What the game boils down to is a strategic war game using miniatures.

Now I'm hooked. I was interested in the game before, and I've read the Warhammer books and played the videogames, but I've never really seen the actual game that started it all in action. Now I need more...but the darn things ain't cheep. These folks are as proud of their little minis as Lego is of their sets. But the miniatures are pretty damn detailed. But $35 for most sets is a bit steep in my book for plastic miniatures that you have to put together and paint yourself.

But I gotta get em.

So after coming back from Dallas...

I'll let that sink in for a moment.

Remember how I said we took a trip to Shreveport? Well we ended up going to Dallas that night to visit a Games Workshop store in Grapevine (Games Workshop is the company that makes the Warhammer game). No clothes to change into, no toothbrush, no fan...just us and a tank of gas.

I haven't been spontaneous in a while.

There I took the plunge and bought the starter set for the Warhammer Fantasy game. So now I have around 100 little miniatures of dwarves and goblins ready to paint and play. I am a little worried about my artistic skills though. I hope some of my dad's painting talent passed on to me.

So after coming back from Dallas, Ebay has become my new friend. I've never Ebayed (Ebaied?) before, so I don't know what I'm doing. Apparently, and luckily for me, Kim used to be a master Ebayer (Ebaier?), so she's been giving me tips. I think I'm catching on.

So finally I think I have something to Photoblog about. Progress from raw plastic mini on a spur, to full painted machine of war! Once we get a new camera that is since ours broke and died. I might can try some phone pics though. hmmm