[Closed] What's that fantasy figurine shop called?

Games Workshop...ahem...

Ahem... looking for a hobby that is the following things :

Laborious, time consuming and solitary with an end result of creating something.

I just want to glue bits to bits and paint those bits and put all the bits on a shelf. Ideally, this should take hours of concentration to complete.

I was thinking airfix but I'm not an engineery kinda guy.

Edit: How Much!? Obviously they're target market is also Audi driving Yeti buyers. cripes. Back to sorting my Magic The Gathering cards...

cfinnimore - Member
Sells little models for people to paint and roleplay with?

Usually full of middle aged beardy folk with dragon logo hoodies?

Edit: How Much!? Obviously they're target market is also Audi driving Yeti buyers. cripes. Back to sorting my Magic The Gathering cards...

Well back in the old days we did all that with Airfix soldiers and models and called it wargaming.

I was thinking airfix but I'm not an engineery kinda guy.

You might find Airfix models aren't as complicated as you think 🙂

Not the technical ability required, just the subject matter. Was just being facetious.

Is the Games Workshop stuff the "premium" model retailer? Is there a cheaper introduction to this?

What's that fantasy figurine shop called?

WWW.Fat-Fantasist-Freaks.com?, if you wan't a decent hobby buy a small hydroponics kit and grow your own herbs and exotic chillies/miniature veg etc, not all Hydroponic set-ups are used to grow weed, just most of them.

What's that fantasy figurine shop called?

[url= http://www.orcsnest.com ]Fat-Fantasist-Freaks.com[/url]?, if you wan't a decent hobby buy a small hydroponics kit and grow your own herbs and exotic chillies/miniature veg etc, not all Hydroponic set-ups are used to grow weed, just most of them.

Try this shop if you want to paint figures.....

[url= http://www.historexagents.com/shop/hxshop.php ]things to paint[/url]

Historex Agents! That takes me back to when my eyes were 20/20. Still got boxes of unmade figures up in the attic - never did get round to them. What we did before iPads..........lapses into reverie.

They used to do a game called Gorkamorka, which was brilliant for modelling- the game itself wasn't that good but making the ork buggies was great. And you didn't have to use their parts either, tons of scratchbuilts and modified model kits etc, and the boxed game came with all you ever really needed to play. So every so often you played a couple of games just so you had a reason to customize the van, like the A team, and could get back to sniffing glue fumes and accidentally stabbing yourself in the hands.

But I think they discontinued it because it wasn't making people spend £5 on inch high spiky dudes. I love Games Workshop shops though, games shops in general actually, totally unabashed alpha nerdery. "Why yes I am wearing a Three Wolf Moon shirt- what of it?"

But I don't go in the Edinburgh one in case I buy something.

While we're here... Has anyone ever actually [i]played[/i] Magic: The Gathering? I just like the pictures.

Laborious, time consuming and solitary with an end result of creating something.

Have you considered self abuse?

Laborious, time consuming and solitary with an end result of creating something.

Trail building?

cfinnimore

If you want miniatures to paint and build, try Wayland Games. [url= http://www.waylandgames.co.uk ]HERE[/url]

Lots more choice than just Games Workshop.

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Irregular miniatures.

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Try again 🙂

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I'd wait about a year and buy a 3D printer. Games workshop's days are numbered!

They'll make the shift to selling the CAD models, but I doubt it'll be as lucrative.

A friend of a friend used to work for them, they didn't even GAF about shoplifters, wasn't worth the loss of time to prevent it! They're making money hand over fist.

While we're here... Has anyone ever actually played Magic: The Gathering? I just like the pictures.

Me and a few mates do a regular weekly magic night, it's good fun and we don't really play to win (much) so there's very little nerd rage.

Your right, some of the artwork is fantastic.

If you want time consuming hobby, download the app deckedHD, I've spent countless hours on it designing the perfect magic deck.

Just go and ride your bike ffs 😉

cfinnimore - Member

While we're here... Has anyone ever actually played Magic: The Gathering? I just like the pictures.

Can't help but think there's cheaper ways to look at pictures 😯

I used to play a bit, it's alright. Had some very serious mates which kind of took the fun out of it, you'd be doing away and someone'd turn out to have 4 copies of the thermonuclear arsenal of the union of soviet socialist republics, or something.

Black Lion Games in Buccleuch Street is the place to go for this sort of thing, go and take in the heady scent of unwashed gamer.

Used to play AD&D years ago with a bunch of mates, there were often one or two beers consumed, too, which did nothing for the concentration...
One mate, who was usually DM, was particularly good at modding standard figures, doing all sorts of fine detail, and he was a whizz with the Milliputt, as well.
Not such a waste of time, either; his skill at shaping stuff and attention to detail got him a job as a goldsmith!
He's been doing it now for twenty-five years.