It's my Birthday. Yay.
ShootyMcShootyface 20 Feb 20 10:08
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So, yeah. 

Getting old, M7s.

If you were so inclined, and without obligating any of you to actually do it, what would you get me for a gift, and why?

Wow. Here was me expecting "a 48 hour Common Purpose indoctrination session" etc.

Instead, I'm feeling the love! 

for the record, I have had: a new wallet from shooty Jnr (was expecting him to get me some Warahmmer stuff that he actually wanted), jelly beans from Shootette, and some clothes from Mrs Shooty, including a pair of slim fit jeans, as apparently I keep choosing baggy jeans. Or have skinny legs. Or something. I'm wearing them now. They're very nice. Not skinny fit, no no no, just slim fit.

Probably should have washed them first. May well have blue legs by now. Will let you know.

(I'm fantastically difficult to buy things for, having lost the urge to accumulate material possessions for the same of it at  some point in the last 10 years. Except lego. And Guitars).

Shooty - with regards to warhammer stuff, what flavour of that is your interest?  

Reason for asking is that I possess shit-tons of the stuff that I can’t use at all.  Not talking about the painted things but unpainted, still sealed blister packs and boxes.

FWIW I am basically talking about Space Marines, some imperial guard tanks, a load of high elves including cavalry and actually an unpainted teclis (heh) and some bombardiers and halbard dudes - Sorry can’t remember what everyone is called.

Got about three smallish crates which I can’t be bothered to sell.  Interested?

Cake: possibly when I get home. Not clear. Last year, Shootette was responsible for a unicorn festooned rainbow monstrosity. I'm a not-so-closet My Little Pony cartoon fan (Rainbow Dash FTW). Shooty Jnr attempted to make it a bit more masculine by putting Blood Angels space marines on top, among all the rice paper unicorns and what appeared to be rainbow-icing turds of said unicorns. It was a pretty strange cake.

Whiskey: Why, thank you. I am partial to whiskey. And gin. And tequilla.

Warhammer: I used to collect. I gifted all my metal terminators, eldars, grey knights, etc, to a colleague in Bolton when I was at the place that starts with a K. His kid was just getting into it. Shooty Jnr was very young at that point, I was depressed and thought he would never get into warhammer, so I gave it away. All of it. For free. Oh, god, even the harlequins. I was so proud of that paint job. WHY? WHY DID IT DO THAT? Oh, yeah, coz I try to be a nice person.

Sigh. Yeah, so, anyway, Shooty Jnr has a load of Blood Angels, but has now moved to Eldar, and fields a mixed bag of Dark and Normal in the same army. It's a bit odd, but he's quite good. We have a very good local warhammer shop. He was there for about 6 hours yesterday, helping out and playing the manager. He's 13. 

Sorry, where was I? Wow. Yeah, might be happy to take it off your hands. What's the deal?

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Oh, yeah, should have mentioned: I treated myself to some Thousand Sons.

Jnr got me ahriman for birthday last year. Haven't paited him yet. Getting my skills back up to scratch.

I also bought a hellbrute at the national Warhammer con coz I've always wanted one.

I should have gone Death Guard, maybe. Way more fun to paint.

Heh urgh at death guard.  Anyway the deal is that it’s for free.  Anyway I’ll do a check on what I have in the way of marines and email you.  I’ve got an airbrush and about a billion paints too, can’t use it, wretched tremor in my hand etc so I’ll do an audit and let you know once I’ve got a clue what is here.  Got a bunch of old womble sprues as well as the more modern stuff so some of it could be pretty cool to show off with.