First post blues

I have loved the wargaming hobby for about four years now. I enjoy the painting aspect of the hobby more than the gaming but I enjoy both about as much as I enjoy anything in this life. Most of my spare time is spent either thinking about a model I am painting or actually painting figures for games that I play. Pictured to the left are some figures from the Games Workshop line of miniatures that I painted a while back. They are from the Warhammer 40,000 universe and are known as Ultramarines.

The Ultramarines are the most well known chapter of marines in the 40K world. They are the foundation that all of the other chapters are built on and they form the basis around which most of the game material regarding space marines is centered on. I enjoy painting them and playing with them because to me they represent the last bastion of hope for humanity in a world that is being pressed on all sides by alien menace. They fight for humanity and everything that it stands for everytime they step onto a battlefield. They also have some of the coolest looking special characters in the game.

The Ultramarines however are not the only army that I paint. I actually paint a wider variety of armies in one of the other table top wargames that Games Workshop produces. Warhammer Fantasy has been a staple of the wargaming community for over 25 years. They sport some of the best looking and fun to paint miniatures in the wargaming world. I am currently painting figures from three different armies. They are dwarves, vampire counts and orcs. The orcs are currently getting most of my attention on the fantasy side. I like Orcs because of one of their main characters. Grimgor Ironhide is the baddest orc of them all. His statline (statistics for the game) are very imposing and make him one of the toughest models in the Warhammer Fantasy universe.

Well that's all I am going to post for this first blog post. I hope to be posting more soon and I hope that my journey in the hobby might find something for you to take interest in. Thanks and have a great night.