Vengeance will be mine!

Like a lot of veteran players I quit GW and their “hobby” after many a happy year playing both 40K and WFB. 6th Ed.40K had just been launched and I was in possesion of the Ltd. edition Dark Vengeance starter set complete with the extra Interrogator Chaplain. I had even started to paint the keepers of Lion El’Johnsons secrets.

Then the purge happened. Painted armies sold off complete and piecemeal on eBay, stuff dropped into storage boxes to sit unloved in the garage until a 2nd round of selling got rid of everything.

Beasts of War then opened On Table Top as a store and members venue and I got up close and personal with the “plastic crack” again and my juices began to flow. My 5yo son (It’s his, honest.) came home with the getting started in 40K book/magazine thing and I assembled the attached Space Marine. That night found me browsing the GW website and the next day I was ordering the beginnings of a new army via the Pro-Store at On Table Top. (That will be another project.)

Then my memory started to work, I still had some figures in the garage, at least a dirty Vindicator resplendant in BlackTemplar colours black and wasn’t there some part painted Dark Angel tactical marines as well? So armed with a torch and a sense of adventure (If you’ve seen my garage you would agree on the latter.) I set about recovering the lost band of battle brothers. But alas they couldn’t be retrieved…..but what’s this, a load of sprues with a lot of bits still attached? Can it be? Turns out I didn’t quite sell everything and have the contents of the box set minus the cultists and tactical marines. No bases though but that can be sorted. I now have something to paint while waiting for my recent purchases to arrive and for those of you that are piqued by my rambling you will have to wait until my next post to see what I’m going to be painting. (Spoiler. Terminators.)