Moral dilema of wargaming and what I did today.

When I started this post I started talking about the moral dilema of wargaming and decided that perhaps that subject would not work well in a simple blog like mine so I pushed the text on that subject down to the end of the post. If you want to read my thoughts on it you can scroll down otherwise you can just read the section on what I did today for the hobby.

I painted the armor and purity seals onto three more tactical marines today. I use dwarf bronze, shining gold, and a mix of mithril silver and shining gold to top it off. I base all of my marines black. I like the black undercoat because if you miss something it is not as noticable unless you happen to be taking pictures of your minis. The squad is coming around nicely. I have three fully painted and based squads since I started painting and each squad saw me taking another step in learning how to paint them. I love the fact that in this art form, as with many others I suppose, I am always learning how to do new things to make my models look better than they did before. I am probably going to go back and retouch all of my previous marines at some point so they all look uniform but for now I just want to get this squad done.

I finished painting a Marneus Calgar the other day and will try to post a picture of him in a post later in the week or even tomorrow. I am really proud of how he came out. I really like how his face turned out. I wish the armor had turned out a bit better than it did. I had an accident with the model before I got him based. I acidently dumped some glue on one of his arms and could not get it all off of the mini. I did my best to hide it but if you look really close you will be able to see what happened. I also lost the sword bit for him. I made a cheap green stuff replacement but I am looking for the real bit and hope to find it somewhere at some point. If you have the bit please let me know.

Well that's it for today. I have to sleep tonight. Remember if you want to read my opinion on the moral dilema of wargaming read on but if you don't have a great evening.

When I first started the hobby I actually thought about what it would be to play a war game when so many people around the world are actually fighting for their lives everyday. I hate war in the real world. It does far to much damage to the people involved in it and most of that damage is taken by innocent bystanders to the conflict. But after really thinking about it I thought it was silly and perhaps even wrong to even compare the two.

Wargaming is a game based on a medieval or science fiction fantasy of what you think war in that environment would be like. It is hardly a real representation of the struggles that real warriors and the bystanders that live with them put up with on a daily basis. Comparing the two in any way is almost wrong in my opinion. Moving around toy soldiers just isn't on the radar of most soldiers today. There are far to many people that do things to downgrade the efforts of our fighting men and women. Wargamers are the least of their concerns.