With the passing of another member of Sheffield Wargames Society, in the form of David 'Rabid' Ranson, the long time treasurer of that club, I am once again being made aware of the lights in my night sky blinking out, with the knock on effect that I get depressed and begin considering my own mortality and the stupidity of that old chestnut that, 'You can't die whilst you have unpainted figures." Well, I wish someone had told Pete 'Greblord' Armstrong that because he's dead and had thousands of unpainted figures...  I also generally get to looking at my life and thinking that sure-fire 'trigger', 'Have I wasted the majority of my life playing with toy solders and games of let's pretend?'  The answer is that in the big picture, I probably have, but there again, games have been how I have made my living for around 30 of my ears on this planet, and along the way I've worked for and with some of the founders of the hobby who figurati...