To hide upstairs Mnetting while ds waits for me in the kitchen to paint Warhammer figures with him

[CybilLiberty]

I've told him I've got some 'washing to sort out'

We have a rule in this house: DS can spend money on gnomes, he can go to gnomewars at school and at GW at weekends but on no account is he to talk to me about it.

It is mind numbingly boring to those of us who are not Orks or Dorks.

Cargirl, BloodBowl is now available as a computer game !
I occassionally feel a bit cross with warhammer as DH and the three DS's enjoy it so much and i can feel odd one out (tried it once years ago, highly tedious, took all day, most of that arguing about the rules).
However, painting figures is the perfect rainy Sunday activity (I get to Mumsnet or read) and as I have feigned total ignorance they hover by the door and ambush DH as he comes in with the orc questions.
Minus point, DH has spent more time creating pretend landscapes than he has doing real gardening.
DH also claims that the role-playing games club helped him survive high school (geek refuge!).

BloodBowl on line apparantly is cr*p (his words not mine) living close enough to go into London he gets to play in the best league in the country - apparantly league and tournament playing is different.

It gets him out of the house, it's relatively cheap and he actually socialises with other people too.

ALthough he is a pro painter he's not anything as good as the naturally artistic ones who are jut amazing bt he can paint to a decent enough standard quickly.

Even better BB only takes up a small amount of space to play so we've been able to ditch the 3 1x2 metre boards we used to have to store

wigglybreezer definitely a geek refuge. There was also the benefit for me of being the one of the very few girls about. As I was quite fat and unattractive at school age, it was very nice to be treated so very very well by all the geeky boys.

I even married one of them and as we grew up and the others got married I had some work to do in my own head at these women marrying "my" boys .

There are more girls around at Cons and stuff these days, which is a good thing (well it is now that I am old and married and don't have to get annoyed at the competition!).

Being a warhammerer myself I say YABU !!!! o

Morloth, we may be two of the rarest females in the world - Girl Warhammerers. When I went to buy my first bits and pieces the bloke behind the till said "are they for your husband" and when I said no, for me, he almost wet himself with excitement !

What army/ies do you collect ? I've not been doing it for long, do Chaos Daemons (not 40k), am lucky that we have a GW shop/club about 2 minutes from my house

Not U at all. I can only imagine how minding numbing that conversation must be

So far I have just been asked who would win in a war between superman & spiderman. I had to fight not to say 'who cares??'

Sounds liek agood hobby for your boy tho

well no warhammer here but if it makes you feel better i have just spent 30 mins eating a cheese sandwich in the promise that when i finish i will read stories.... i NEVER want to finish this sandwich

so i'm a bad mother too, even my dd is telling me to 'eat up now mummy'

Superman would definitely win.

Fibilou I don't actually play Warhammer, do DnD, Dragonquest (yes I really am that old!), and tabletop wargamming but not under the actually warhammer brand - have also dabbled with Rolemaster, but it is just so unweildy. Haven't done any table top for years.

We mostly play WoW these days as obviously getting together around a table with people in Australia is a bit of a stretch.

Painting's quite therpeutic you know. I spend way too much time in GW, ds is an addict, I help him paint the more tricky models and I keep getting roped into painting by the staff

My son was very into this age 9-12 when he sadly went off it because going to the warhammer club at school was classed as nerdy by his friends.
I enjoyed painting the figures with him. I wouldn't do them for him but I saw it as a social thing we could do together and chat whilst doing it. I also helped teach him about spray painting, whilst he taught me how to dry brush. It really improved his fine motor skills as he wasn't in to ordinary painting or drawing and is a poor writer.

Erm... also a girl.

Apologies for the rant! T'was more venting frustration at a specific and ongoing sit. than a general warhammer thing.

I love the hobby but it does involve accumulating an awful lot of s**t about the house.