LOL, I find this quite funny. I am an armor guy, but was home on leave for a month back stateside. My cousin's husband gave my 16 YO brother a small army of warhammer 40k ultra marines. some painted, some not.. I dont know exactly what they were, he mentioned a commander of the marines was one of them.. many were pewter or lead... an equal amount were plastic...
anyhow, I helped him put together a squad of Beakies and the guys at the game shop were shocked at how old they were.
I spent quality time with my brother who I rarely see by helping him paint his warhammer figures, normally I would tease the Sci-fi guys but those were really cool troops and I got a lot of practice in for figure painting.
took me two days to paint a sergeant, it took him that time to paint the beak squad.
if it werent so expensive I would start playing.
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