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Eldar and High Elves. Couldn't paint for cack and never really played the game either, I have no idea tbh.
 
Used to collect/play with Ultramarines in 40k, never got into it seriously but I probably did it on and off for a couple of years
 
I used to collect and occasionally attempt to play 40k back when I was at school, it was pretty expensive, also seemed more of a chore to play than just to paint the figures...

I went into a Games Workshop over Christmas to pick up a couple of Chaos Marines for a friend. Didn't take long for the staff to pounce on me, I managed to bluff some knowledge, so I was left to my own devices...
Can't believe how expensive it is in there now, for a couple of chunks of unpainted metal... Madness! I was also disheartened at how the shop just seemed to be all about Lord of the Rings, what's with that?
 
mangobreeder said:
comming from a guy with over 3000 posts in a computer overclocking forum. :)
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Prepare for thousands of posts from people telling you why having over 3000 posts in a computer overclocking forum... doesn't make you a nerd :p This is the first by the way :p

I've never tried the games from that store, it's never really appealed to me =\
 
mangobreeder said:
comming from a guy with over 3000 posts in a computer overclocking forum. :)
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Because it isn't a computer overclocking forum. If you try the wheel button on your mouse you will see that the first section is related to pc hardware etc, then there is a whole host of software, hi-fi, photography, general discussion, motors, sports.

:p
 
Yep, used to collect and play 40k :D

Started with Space Marines (Ultramarines)
Then got some Legion of Doom
Then got a load of Necrons
Then bought some more Legion of Doom (nobody at the local hall I used to go to each weekend had heard of them so I felt good having them ;))
Then, finally, bought a shed load of Orks

Orks were the best imo as I sucked at painting so just splashed a load of green and brown on them and chopped the vehicles to bits - some turned out pretty cool if I don't say so myself, others not so good


Used to play some sort of game where you had to go around the board (as Orks) and collect scrap metal etc and you'd write down after every match how many people had died, how much metal you collected, how many points you had gained and then the next match you would start from scratch and use the points/scrap metal to determine how many units you could use. Can't remember the name though but it was proper fun! (Armageddon springs to mind, probably wrong though...)
 
I bought a box when I was about 13/14, spray-painted it and played with them about 3 times. After that they fell apart in a box under my bed.
 
*looks guiltily at the fresh painted bloodletters, and half painted daemonettes in front of his keyboard*

I have fond memories of reading the Rogue Trader rules/book when I was about 13, a friend at the time was very much into Rogue Trader and Bloodbowl at the time, and that got me interested.

I play it occasionally, mainly with a bunch of friends over the space of a long weekend (I think the youngest of us is about 25), I like the "fluff" and the painting is relaxing when it's going well (and a sure way to raise blood pressure when it isn't:p).

I've actually got about 1200 points of (badly) painted tau, about 2000* points of unpainted tau, a largely unpainted Empire army and i'm currently painting a Daemon spearhead (the large box with the soulgrinder etc in it).

I'm actually finding that I'm able to do more with the models now than when I was young (I bought my first army [orcs] when i was about 15), but now have the time, space, money and transport options to actually play with friends.
I think that's very much true for the guys I play with, 3 of them have been playing together for years (and have a huge collection of models/books), but most of the others have either just started or restarted in the past few years.
Funnily enough most of us met due to PC gaming, most of them were in the same Counterstrike Clan as my brother circa 2000-02


*I tend to buy the models in the army/spearhead boxes due to the insane savings - iirc the £100rrp Tau army box had £140 worth of models, I bought two of those (the second one for about £80), same sort of thing with a Tau rapid insertion force set (needed more crisis suits and that worked out cheapest), and the Daemon big box, and empire box.
 
Used to collect when I was a kid.

Had a small Space Marine force.
A huge Chaos force.

Used to enjoy painting and modeling the most.

I used to run a little club at school (for about 3 years) and all the other kids could come and play, I used to sit and paint, and as I was regarded as one of the "harder" kids at the school nobody ever said anything to the people who came in.

Not always a nerdy thing, I found painting them relaxing.
 
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