I haven’t indulged in any serious
table-top gaming or figure painting in about 20 years now (seems crazy that it
is that long ago!) but thanks to the badgering of my good friend and old gaming
buddy Zrune Lord ( http://castrarunis.blogspot.co.uk/
) I have really have got the buzz again!
Back in the day when I lived in
Malta we had a great little group of gamers called The Caretakers of Insanity,
just a handful of us but we had some memorable campaigns and characters, a lot
of swearing, a lot of popcorn throwing and the ever threat of violence brewing
just under the boil mainly due to the heat of those Maltese summers and certain
players who were supposed to be umpiring but not watching the game…..yes, I’m looking at you, you know who you
are!! But when all is said and done the most important thing was we had
fun! Life moves on and sadly our little group is scattered to winds and 4
different countries, with only 2 of us in the same country (myself and my
brother but even that situation isn’t ideal as we are about a 2 to 3 hour car
journey apart).
Anyway, after all these years I
decided to get some 15mm figures mainly because of the cost and the saving in
shelve space over the larger 28mm figures but boy did I have a shock, 20 years
on my eyes were unfortunately 20 years older too and I have to admit I was
struggling and nearly knocked the whole idea of collecting figures again on the
head! One visit to the opticians later however and armed with a shiny pair of reading
spectacles I could see the damned things, got back to painting and was hooked!
I even started converting some of them (with much prodding from Zrune lord via
email) but more of that later in a post I will dedicate to the subject.
So here we are, I decided to
start this blog (again due to lots of prodding from Zrune lord) mainly for my
own enjoyment and to keep the old Caretakers up to date with what I am doing
but if anyone else stumbles upon my blog and finds it of interest all well and
good.
