On the hobby front, I'm now half-way through the Space Marine Command Squad. It really should have been finished by now, but I've not been painting as much as I'd like due to different things.
I got both the Plasma Pistol/Power Fist and Plasma Gun marines done fairly quickly, but then hit a hiatus on the Apothecary due to a lack of actual white paint. This has now been rectified, and I have now made a start on getting this one done as well and am currently about half way through.
Once the Apothecary is done, I just have to do the Standard Bearer and the Company Champion, then that's the whole Command Squad completed and it's time to move on to the two Commander models!
On a different subject, last week I attended GamesDay 2011 at the Birmingham NEC Area for the first time since 2007. Overall it was a good day, but I couldn't help thinking that it wasn't as busy as the previous two that I've been to. Not sure if this is because they have moved to two larger halls instead of three smaller ones, so people are more spread out, or if the attendance was lower than previous visits. Maybe a combination of both? There also seemed to be a pronounced lack of free marketing material sloshing around than there has been previously. No free t-shirts being thrown at me, or posters or much of anything else either. must be the economy.
Sadly didn't get near the GW Retail or Forgeworld Sales stands as they appear to have been very badly placed and demand much underestimated. The queues were a least 2 or 3 hours long for most of the day and the staff were only letting in a set amount at a time. This is a far cry from 2006/07 when the retail sales were in their own hall and much more accessible. In fact the problems that they had have actually led Tom Kirby to send out an email apologising for the mis-handling of the sales area and promising that lessons will be learned for the next time. I'm quite impressed at this as it's not often that GW publicly apologise for many things.
The Licensee stands were however, far more accessible and I picked up a copy of the Deathwatch RPG core rule book and a pre-release copy of Blood Bowl Team Manager from Fantasy Flight Games.
Most of the other stuff that happened at the event has been publicised elsewhere on the internet and I'm not going to bother repeating them here; except to say that according to the man at the top Forgeworld do want to make a Warlord Titan, but they may not do it for another few years as they can only do models of that size every 2 or 3 years due to the amount of time it takes.
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