I
didn't order Space Hulk in the end and I'm pretty much writing this
post because the last week rather suggested I would end up building,
painting and reviewing the thing. Well, I'm not and the only
interesting thing to say about that is a short digression on the
notion of post-purchase value:
Most
Games Workshop miniatures I buy are for practical purposes. I buy the
odd character model just for the pleasure of painting them but the
vast majority of them are bought for the express purpose of using
them in games. I'll drop a tenner on a character I just think looks
cool but £75 for admittedly cool Terminators I probably won't use,
Genestealers I never will and a bunch of other stuff that is no use
to me since no one I know wants to play Space Hulk...?
I
might even have still gone for it if not for the fact a better deal
came my way:
Big
Finish does a lot of weekend deals and this weekend they were
offering the season season of their Fourth Doctor Adventures for a
grand total of £38.50 and I will get far more pleasure out of those
seven stories that I can confidently assume I'll list to a couple of
times a piece than out of twelve Terminators I will paint, put in a
draw and forget about.
And
if I'm honest, now that I have professionally shot 'Eavy Metal images
to look at again, my memories of those Terminators was a bit
rose-tinted. I think they are better than Wolf Guard Terminators but
I'm not now convinced that they beat out Deathwing Knights and I have
a nascent Guardians Of The Covenant army I'd rather expand than start
a Blood Angels army I'm not too invested in.
Yeah,
I said this wasn't going to be interesting, right?
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