Hi guys,
I?ve been lurking here for a few days now admiring the pictures in the Epic Painting and Modelling section.
I used to play Space Marine years ago. I stopped playing for a while when I moved away from my gaming group. Then sometime in the 90?s I walked into a GW store and there was Epic 40K. I bought it and was subsequently really disappointed with the game, as far as I was concerned GW had spoiled a perfectly good game by making it unrecognisable from the Epic I used to play and love. I promptly put all the stuff in storage and thought I would never play it again.
A year or two later I was in GW again and they were selling off all their epic stuff at half price. So I bought boxes of the stuff. I always hoped that I would be able to play Space Marine again sometime in the future with my old gaming buddies. All these went into storage as well. At this time I didn?t have internet access and I had no idea that there was an online Epic community.
Then the other day I found myself on the Specialist Games sight and they had a new version of Epic called Epic Armageddon (well it?s new to me anyway). I downloaded it and I was pleasantly surprised with the rules. In addition I have found Netepic as well and that looks really good to boot.
Finding EA and Netepic happens to coincide with me hooking up with a couple of my old Space Marine gaming group, we?ve all moved back into the same area. So it looks like Epic is back on for us
Things aren?t all rosy though. Over the years I have given away or sold most of my collection. I sold about 4KG of epic stuff on eBay a few years back. On top of that I seem to have misplaced all of my painted stuff. Epic has always been one of my favourite games, and I only sold my unpainted collection because I really needed the money at the time. I?m really, really regretting it now ?
Finding such a great internet community that supports the game is just brilliant and so far I?ve really enjoyed reading the posts on this forum. So I decided that I should contribute as this is what makes this place so good. So I had a good dig around my miniatures collection and I managed to lay my hands on a few unpainted pieces that I still had tucked away and my first Epic eBay purchase (40 old style Battlewagons) just arrived.
So here it is, the beginning of a new Epic era for me ?
Everything is unpainted as I have literally just started this army with the scraps I had left over. I?m converting all of the old battlewagons, so it will take some time to complete this lot. I thought I would take pictures and post my progress on this thread so you all can see how things develop.
The start of the Waaagh!
Da Boyz, some are looking the wrong way ?
The Warboss and the Nobz and the first of many converted battlewagons.
So there you have it. The start of my Waaagh! I hope to update this post often with progress reports
Regards
TG
your army has a lot of character. I'm looking forward to seeing it come together!