Shadowgirls

I'm not really gaming at the moment… my cash vanishes as fast as it arrives and there's a lot of family stuff going on right now that takes up a lot of spare time. Wanted to indulge in the hardware-torture that is Crysis 2, but no spare moolah for it. And Portal 2… <sigh>

Anyroad, I will say this. Long ago, when the continents were a different shape and dinosaurs ruled the Earth, I worked for Games Workshop. What I was exposed to as "training" made me dislike their asses so much I kicked back against their in-store policies until they found an excuse to let me go one summer. As much as I liked the hobby, the way it was sold killed all passion I ever had for it… used car salesmen have more integrity than your average indoctrinated sales-stooge in one of their stores. They might be different now, but I doubt it. I wonder what kind of production costs mark-up they're selling their models at now…

How much is a Land Raider these days?

Well, back in the day, we got a wonderful staff discount – all metal we bought by weight, and it added up to about £8 per lb of metal, and for plastics we payed cost – 5 pence per sprue regardless of sprue complexity or size. Land Raiders used to come on six sprues. You do the math there. I remember one time I bought, just for the hell of painting them, eight different dragons and all the greater demons. Cost me about £16 for what was close to £180 pounds in the shop. After a few months the novelty of it wore off, and the plain unfairness of it settled on my shoulders.