About this time last year I was looking for a new hobby. I was sick of spending all my free time gazing at a PC screen playing The Lord of the Rings Online- a game that requires a lot of your time. I wanted to do something more hands on and creative. I was reading G.R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series at the time and was lurking about on one of the many associated forums on the subject when I noticed a link to Dark Sword Miniatures who make 28mm miniatures modeled on the characters from the books. I had a look and liked what I saw mainly due to as a youth I collected similar miniatures by a company called Citadel. I had a little insight as to what was involved as the miniatures require some assembly and painting- perfect I thought- this could well be my new hobby! I sent of to Germany for some of the Game of Thrones figures and visited my local Games Workshop (who own Citadel miniatures) and bought some paints and basic equipment. While in the store and chatting with the manager I quickly grew an interest in the grim dark universe of Warhammer 40,000 and began building an army to play in the tabletop game and reading the Games Workshop books from their own publishing house Black Library. I find it an all round hobby being creative, modeling and painting my army of Space Marines doing some socialising playing the game at my local Games Workshop and local friendly gaming store Coliseum Rex and now at home with new friends. Inbetween all this I am currently reading The Horus Heresy series of books - there are a lot! Anyone else share my passion for all things 40K?
