The Eldar March On...

 Well, I'm rediscovering my interest in 40K, despite not having played it since 1st edition.

I popped into town yesterday and because it was the easiest to reach, I went back to Element Games - you remember my last visit to try and get a paint set - to grab some rules, a codex and paints I needed for the day job.

It didn't go well...

We arrived just as the store was opening, having indulged in a traditional breakfast down a dingy alleyway - 'Sarnies', down an alley off High Street - and I was having flashbacks to the days in the early 80s when I was found sometimes in cold weather stuck to the glass of Games Workshop, but the person involved this time was probably 40 years old and frothing in a way that would make an old school Limpet blush.

Inadvertently I exclaimed aloud , 'GEEKS!' causing the memsahib to both splutter with laughter and give me a look of censure.

Anyway, I went to the counter and noted that there was no mention of the Warfront paint set they were supposedly ordering three weeks ago... A mark was made in the mental 'little red book'.

Now, they stock a lot of paints, including Army Painter, so I asked if they had the washes from same. 

The same pillock who served me last time, gave a pained look and did the 'sucking of the teeth' in concert with 'It's not something we get asked for a lot' (really?) followed by 'It's something we may have to look into in future.' (Why pray tell, if you don;t get much call for them?)

The memsahib swore that from where she was sitting, fifteen feet away that she saw my hackles rise...

I gritted my teeth.

 It went like this:

'Are you new to Eldar or coming back?' 

'I've not played since 1st ed, so sort of coming back.'

'First edition? We don't have many people of that vintage.'

*GRINDING OF STUMPS*

I swear that had I not held myself at this point, the memsahib would have staged an intervention.

 But, I just paid for the books and few potsSo in the end I had to trudge up to Wargames Emporium, where the ever-attentive Erik supplied me with the paints I needed and some good Eldar banter.

However, when I got home, I came across another Iyanden army, which I placed an offer on and was victorious. It's nice and is outrageous... 4 Wraithknights for starters:












I'll be matting it down but leaving everything else 'as is' because I don't get anal about basing.

Now, to find some opposition for it.


TTFN



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