I've just recently started building a collection of models for the Games Workshop game Warhammer Quest. It's fun - you explore dungeons, kill monsters, complete quests, and get treasure. There's a roleplaying aspect to it as well if you want to be even more geeky about it (as if it's not geeky enough already)... Anyway, there's several tables detailing the monsters met on an encounter, determined by a roll of two six-sided dice. What my project entails is to collect and paint the models necessary to represent all the encounters. This means I get to collect and paint a wide variety of fun figures, and at the same time learn new appreciation for the extreme levels of my wife's patience.
Roll a 12 on the dice and the party encounters either one, two, or three brutish OGRES!
These models I've had for 20 years, and this is the third time I've painted them. I bought them from the Hammersmith Games Workshop store in London England (though I think that store might be gone now). These, and the whole line of ogres produced at the time, are long out of print, which is a real shame. Sculpted by Jes Goodwin, I think they're some of the best models ever produced. There were about 18 or so, of which I have 4. If my patient wife ever put the hammer down on my collecting, these would still be on the must-have-someday-list. These models have been moved to every house or apartment I've ever lived in!
Funny story about the one in the centre - it was totally stolen from me! I used it on a highschool diorama, and some punk ripped it off. Being pretty much irreplaceable, I left a note for the classes asking for it back. It was returned to the teacher's desk after a couple of days with the paintjob ruined - the kid shoved it in his pocket and rubbed all the paint off. I guess he figured, since it was ruined, he might as well return it.
I won't have long, boring stories for every entry - these guys just have a lot of history.
The full line these models come from can be viewed here:
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These guys have so much character. Much nicer than the ogre models they produce now :(.
