Jamiie
Vassal
In 1986 I started playing D&D then later that year one of my school friends invited me around to his house to play Warhammer - now Barry was the local rich kid - well he seemed that way to me single mum benefits - his dad was manager of the leisure centre. Barry had lots of solid base orcs, dwarfs and elves - not sure any of us really understood the rules it was more Barryhammer than anything you might recognise. - I was always Dwarfs. I could never really think at 13 of having my own army. For Christmas that year I got a subscription for White Dwarf - not a real one - one form the local news agent.
1987 I got my first dwarfs of my own - the white dwarf from issue 90 and the flame cannon when it came out in October and the gob lobber for Christmas plus a few packs of imperial dwarfs. The closest model shop was Southsea games and models - still there but a shadow of its old self. A trip there was a real treat. I dreamt of having a dwarf army and painting it but with just a few paints little skill and cheap brushes nothing was really up to scratch when I looked at eveymetal pages.
Then WH40k came out and Barry stopped playing fantasy and I got myself a few squats and a blood bowl dwarf team - the only thing I ever painted fully as a kid. GCSEs came and went and I left school and went off to college - most of my dwarfs and all my squats got left at Barrys house and never got collect.
I came back the hobby in my 30's but it was very scattergun - I purchased a huge number of dwarfs and other bits from eBay and Facebook and paid for them to be painted I ended up with a decent number of painted dwarfs but nothing that was a coherent army. Then in my 40s I realised I wanted an army I had painted and just models from pre 1992 the year I went to Unit. So lots of those pro painted models got sold and I put together a list based on the Stilman principles. I have 3000 point list and thats all the dwarfs I will own. I have it about half painted but first up my General - who else could it be but the white dwarf and the flame cannon more to follow. There is also the Wizard. The only mini from the 80's that I have that will be part of this is the gob lobber and the imperial dwarf who will be the army standard bearer
1987 I got my first dwarfs of my own - the white dwarf from issue 90 and the flame cannon when it came out in October and the gob lobber for Christmas plus a few packs of imperial dwarfs. The closest model shop was Southsea games and models - still there but a shadow of its old self. A trip there was a real treat. I dreamt of having a dwarf army and painting it but with just a few paints little skill and cheap brushes nothing was really up to scratch when I looked at eveymetal pages.
Then WH40k came out and Barry stopped playing fantasy and I got myself a few squats and a blood bowl dwarf team - the only thing I ever painted fully as a kid. GCSEs came and went and I left school and went off to college - most of my dwarfs and all my squats got left at Barrys house and never got collect.
I came back the hobby in my 30's but it was very scattergun - I purchased a huge number of dwarfs and other bits from eBay and Facebook and paid for them to be painted I ended up with a decent number of painted dwarfs but nothing that was a coherent army. Then in my 40s I realised I wanted an army I had painted and just models from pre 1992 the year I went to Unit. So lots of those pro painted models got sold and I put together a list based on the Stilman principles. I have 3000 point list and thats all the dwarfs I will own. I have it about half painted but first up my General - who else could it be but the white dwarf and the flame cannon more to follow. There is also the Wizard. The only mini from the 80's that I have that will be part of this is the gob lobber and the imperial dwarf who will be the army standard bearer
