Warhammer 40K: Bits from our collection.

The Tiny Plastic Spacemen, Games Workshop's "plastic crack," toy soldiering for the dystopian-minded...all are true.

As is the fact that Warhammer 40,000 is the world's most popular tabletop miniatures game.

Here is very small sample from our building (in both senses of the word) collection.

I will spare you from a firehose introduction to the game's "lore," as that is a problem with all hobby enthusiasts.

But with 40K fans, it becomes an exercise in late-stage Scholasticism, with all of the exhaustive and exhausting possibilities that implies, so...yeah.

A Space Marine "Inceptor," which is essentially an orbital paratrooper. This one was a stone you-know-what to mount on its pedestal. But I am happy with the initial base coat of paint. My daughter Elizabeth did the bulk of the assembly, so give her the credit.

Roboute Guilliman, currently the central heroic figure of the setting. Revived after 8,000 plus years in stasis, he is the only loyal son of the Emperor currently active and one of the few fully-sane men in the Imperium of Man. Which, of course--Because Dystopia--is not necessarily the useful survival adaptation it is for us. However, he is both an operational genius and a 10 foot tall maelstrom of melee and firepower, so sanity is more of a daily annoyance than a peril. 

Louis and I built "Bobby G," but Louis deserves more credit. We have since put on a base coat, which is pretty decent but needs a bit of touch-up.

A "Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought." Essentially, when a Space Marine is too wounded for bodily repair, he volunteers to be put into a life support sarcophagus, which is then installed into this war beast here. He is kept in cold sleep until he is needed for battle, then he is unleashed on the foes of the Emperor.

This one was a joint effort of Louis and Dale III. Louis and I are debating which base coat to apply, as the videos suggest either "Ultramarine Blue" or "Abbadon Black." Since we are building an Ultramarine fighting force, the former makes more sense to me. But it is technically Louis' model.

More fun reveals to come.