Girl Talk: The Female Perspective on Miniature Wargaming

A few days ago I mentioned that one of my players discovered the collecting and painting side of the miniature wargaming hobby for herself. She recently asked me if I would post a few blog entries about her progress on painting and stuff. But since I'm always behind my own posting schedule and usually in a chronic shortage of time I decided to give her her own corner on my blog so that she can write her own blog entries. That said I give the floor word to Gamergrrrl:

Gamergrrrl’s Corner or How it began: Ogrrrs!!!

Ogres

From now on there’ll be a little space for the female perspective on miniature wargaming on the Dark Prophet Chronicles blog. Thanks to Kronos! :)

As one of Kronos’ longtime players (“Lucrezia von der Rhein” for followers of the Battle Reports) I’ve always shared his love for gaming, especially pen & paper roleplaying games and I also enjoy the “skirmish part” of tabletop gaming.

But my enthusiasm for miniature painting began just a few weeks ago. It was kind of a sudden thing. Actually I tried to paint a mini for the first time about 9 or 10 years ago, the same time Kronos started. At that time I didn’t really enjoy it, though – on the contrary, I really hated it (and didn’t even finish the first miniature), with all this tiny little stuff and patience really not being one of my most outstanding virtues… 

Ogre Kingdoms Ironguts

But apparently I’ve changed for the better over the last decade, at least regarding the patience thing. When I went to a Games Workshop store a few weeks ago (to pick up a nifty little birthday present for Kronos) I rediscovered my interest for painting. 

I can’t really explain why. I guess it was more one of these emotional gut decisions (now don’t give me that Venus/Mars crap, please) but suddenly I longed to paint miniatures. And (as Kronos reported earlier) I immediately fell in love with a Warhammer army. No elves, fairies or cute golden unicorns here, guys. Hate to disappoint you but I loooove my big bad Ogrrr boys (and girl – GW even got ONE (yeah, 1, as in less than 2) ogrette (with a fake beard, my gosh) - the sexist bastards). And I won’t give them pink glitter Hello Kitty outfits, either.
Up to now I’ve got myself those guys shown above and these gruesome combatants:

Ogre Kingdoms Leadbelchers

Ogre Kingdoms Tyrant

Bragg the Gutsman

More to come in the near future when I’ve successfully painted at least a part of my army. At the moment I’m still busy with paint job no. 1 (the Tyrant) and assembling of the first Ogre unit. Guess that will take a while… But good news is: now I really enjoy it. Painting those tiny things is almost like meditation. Except when I’m frustrated because I’ve ruined a part. Than it’s more like an advanced anger management seminar. ;)

On the Worktable: The Assembly of many Things

I have assembled and cleaned a few miniatures in the last few days:

The Jokers really look awesome on these new bases

My new Death Korps Commissar

There can't be a Cyberpunk Setting without some hookers...

...or without some maids. Stuff needs to be cleaned and it cannot all be done by robots, right?

This guy is Mad to the Max ;)

Building and assembling stuff with Girlz
The player of Lukretzia came by again and we continued to work on our projects. She assembled a few more Ogres while I was building new terrain pieces (pictures of the terrain will follow in a few days).

I especially like the guy on the right. Because wielding just one freaking big club would be silly, wouldn't it? :)

Tomorrow we will visit the SPIEL Fair in Essen, Germany. It will be the first time in years that we can visit the SPIEL without having our own booth there. That's going to be pretty relaxing&fun and we are really looking foreward to it.

YAY!!! GAMES, MINIATURES AND STUFF!!!!

With some kind of supernatural clairvoyance I predict that the day tomorrow will hurt my wallet. I also predict that when I wake up on Sunday and go into the living room to see all my new stuff this will be my  reaction:

On the Worktable: Demons and Ogres

I've met with one of my gamer girlz recently, a long time D&D player who just discovered the joy of painting herself and who loathes the assembly and cleaning of the miniatures just as much as I do. So to split the suffering we decided to get together and assemble some miniatures. I worked on my Demon Project while she worked on her new miniatures. Funny thing, she actually is a somewhat typical gamer girl who likes fairies and elves and such. So the logical army choice for her: High Elves Ogres. Because Ogres are awesome (and have the tiny little sweet Gnoblars, of course). She got a sweet army deal in one of our Games Workshop stores and is very eager to get some paint done. But that will take a while, because there is the oh so dreaded assembly and cleaning first.

So...you're going to be big scary Ogres some day, aren't you?

We actually managed to get one Ogre standing:

Bragg the Gutsman

and three of my new demons:

Daemon Champion  U'zhul the Skulltaker  Chaos Sorcerer Lord

So far so good. We will meet again sometime this month to assemble & clean more miniatures. I will post our progress as we go along. :)