I imagine that the army-in-a-box thing definitely helps with pester power and stuff. I remember as a kid my first few times in there, and the penoid staff people being like “well, you’ll need to buy this, and this, definitely a Leman Russ or two” and my parents’ faces turning white and wallet disappearing. If it’s now just “get this and you’re done”, that’s fine, especially if that thing costs the same as the latest FIFA or CoD game.
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My residing memory of Games Workshop is going inside expecting cool video games, being completely bemused by the grown men buying nerdy action figures in there, and some bearded lad in his 30s explaining to me that there were, in fact, no games to be found in Games Workshop
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I find the shops really unpleasant. I nipped into the Cambridge one for some paintbrushes for something else and couldn’t get out without getting the whole “ALRIGHT MATE GOING TO BE PAINTING SOME DWARVES WITH THAT ARE WE OH YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED WARHAMMHER IN TWENTY YEARS WHY NOT MATE HOW ABOUT YOU COME INTO THE SHOP TOMORROW YEAH GET YOU BACK INTO IT NO OK WHAT ABOUT SPACE MARINES OR ORKS YEAH BUT OF THE OLD DAKKA-DAKKA WAAAAAARGH YEAH” sales pitch.
good work tidying up those sprues
Hobbycraft is your friend.
Is it fuck, the last time I went there we ended up with a yarn storage bin in the shape of an owl.
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speaking as a former working class nerd child: games workshop
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space marines and dark eldar, after buying the £50 starter box full of space marines and dark eldar. then ended up getting the £40 space marines starter box, followed by the £40 dark eldar starter box, and then youve got a decent army of each havent you. a lot of saving up, that
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It’s Magic: the Gathering that’s the real bread winner for penoid places. I can’t imagine the GW rates to third party sellers is particularly generous.
really wanted to get into inquisitor when that came out but it seems like it never really took off. i only ever bought the rulebook and never bought any of the models so im part of the problem i guess. but then i went off to uni and wasnt about to be playing with little dollies in halls
look at this fucking badboi tho
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my dads model shop pal used to manage the bolton games workshop but got really disillusioned with it about ten years ago now i guess, opened up his own shop. apparently he still gets good rates from gw tho
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yeah that one
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Jfc the price of the paints when you got 2 quid pocket money a week and 7 quid from a paper round 
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Not sure it was unpleasant as much as it was confusing
thats why i got my dad into it an all
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I can understand why GW is successful. Build-a-Bear is the real capitalism defying Workshop of our times.
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Was bang into 40K in my early teens. Even took to shoplifting to get more models as no-one had that kind of money in Clonmel in the late 90s. Had a pretty big army of Space Marines, probably around 3,500 points but no-one to play it with.
Eventually gave up when it became clear I could buy CDs/LPs or 40K but not both. Would have loved to play Inquisitor or Battlefleet Gothic but never had the chance. It’s the kind of thing I might get back into in my 40s.
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No way does clonmel have a GW does it?, does Cork?
(I only found the Dublin one the other day by accident, wasn’t looking for it, honest!)
I would be interested in some kind of online dis blood bowl league (using the pc game, costs about a tenner on steam I would guess, would run on most computers)
- I would
- I would not
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