Thanks. Thank you so much again, Alex,
for taking your time today to come and to come and jump on the
chronic command, right, and tell us your story about how you got
into the hobby and everything. Yeah, no, it's great to be here.
Thanks to the invite. So yeah, I guess background
wise, so I, I guess originally came in like a lot of people did
with Hero Quest and sort of the Space Crusade.
So that would have been early 90s some point.
I couldn't say exactly when. So I would have been, I don't
know, 7 or so 8, something like that when I was playing those.
And then I got into 40K second edition at the end of 94.
That was, you know, a Christmas present.
I can't say exactly. I think we just ended up being
on holiday at some point, you know, going into either a Games
Workshop or a similar sort of, you know, local hobby shop,
wherever we were. And obviously you see all the
shiny stuff and convince your parents you want to get into
that kind of thing. And then basically I sort of
stuck with that pretty much all the time.
I didn't have a massive breakout, so I sort of followed,
I guess as they've changed additions and all that kind of
stuff. Originally it was just 40K, but
then you know, Warhammer 5th edition, various other bits and
bobs, things like Warren Mcquest and that kind of stuff around
that time. And then branched out into a few
of the other things. And then I got into historicals
as well, probably 2000, early 2000, something like that.
And then obviously you go off to university, you meet people, Me
being a complete nerd and doing physics, I was with other people
that were interested in this sort of stuff.
So I didn't have that sort of break that some people had,
which was quite nice. And then yeah, it's it's just
been mainly staying with the hobby as it is until, I don't
know, fairly recently I started, I suppose going back into my old
collections or picking up old stuff online.
I don't know, maybe 10 years or so back.
We played quite a bit of net epic.
So rather than, you know, second edition space, I mean the, the,
the sort of slightly modified version and a bit of 5th edition
Warhammer. And then in the last sort of
couple of years or so, it's it's got back into sort of 2nd
edition 40K in quite a big way. So yeah, that's I guess the
short version. Right, so that's good, mate.
Yeah, I'm just looking at your YouTube channel.
That's how we sort of discovered yourself.
And of course you joined the Patreon.
So thank you again also for your for your support and patronage,
Alex. But I saw your profile thumbnail
and then I saw another video, I think LinkedIn, that Discord and
I thought, hey, that looks similar and I'm looking at it.
Now, yes, yeah, yeah, I. Think it's an orc?
Is it from the man Mangler? Yeah, it's one of the old.
I think it's the man Mangler. It's one of the old catapults,
definitely. Yeah.
Painted with watermelon rather than the The Rock I.
Was looking at the thing that looks like a watermelon.
You know, that's really funny. Yeah, well, he's, he was in a
slightly odd pose, I think, and I was encouraged to paint it
that way. And we'll leave it at that,
maybe. That's yeah, it looks like you
started your channel about a couple of weeks ago and it's one
of these wonderful, you know, old Hammer second edition themed
miniatures and stuff like that and some great narration.
Well, we'll talk a little bit about that later, but I just
noticed on the back of your game shelf there, I can see here it
is. So maybe that's your original,
original box, yeah. That one is, yes.
You might be able to see the space crew.
So nearer the top, I don't know. That's the space crew, isn't
that's the more recent one of it's one of these things where
some stuff got rescued from my parents attic and I think some
stuff vanished at some point. And then, you know, you have
several house moves later and various bits disappear, don't
they? Yeah.
But I'm pretty sure that's the original one that we had when I
was, I don't know, 6-7 ish or whatever it would have been.
Yeah, that's wonderful. Do you ever break it out and
play it with the I presume? You have occasionally.
I don't have any kids, no. So it's just me and the the
missus basically occasionally, yeah.
We haven't played it for quite a long time.
I did get the the newer version that they did.
There's not really much difference.
I mean, as far as I'm aware, the newer ones sort of the American
version effectively rather than the slightly different rules and
that. But, and I think that just ended
up seeing a bit more play because it was, well, just
downstairs and easier to access, if that makes sense.
But yeah, it's, it's, I don't know.
I prefer the models in the old one, to be honest.
I can't get away with that. Yeah, I mean, there's quite a
lot of boxes on top of that here, request box.
So I hope it's OK and it's not getting crushed.
No, it's fine. It's fine.
There's yeah, there's some of those that are quite delicate.
They tend to end up near the top.
The Warhammer Quest 1 is somewhat worse for wear, but
that's because it's effectively got 22 copies of it in one box.
So yeah, sort of bursting a bit. Yeah.
I'm afraid that they've, they've had to go through multiple moves
and stuff, and they're not anywhere near as pristine as the
nice ones I see on your walls in your videos.
I don't know how you've managed to keep everything so nice, but
yeah. Well, I think I think a lot of
those boxes, well the the one the 5th edition one especially I
bought that like brand new sealed and the got you.
Yeah. And some of those boxes are seat
like they were sealed when they got them.
So that was really lucky. I got into it I.
Got into it just before it went crazy, so thank thankfully.
And yeah, other stuff sent to me by people or people just
donating their their old boxes, they well, they have got a
second box. They don't need the other boxes
slightly damaged. Yeah, a lot of, and I think now
you, you can actually print a lot of these boxes too.
A lot of creators are finding scans and they're scanning them
in. So OK.
Print them out. Which was really nice because
I'd love to get a an advance here request box set printed for
example, you know? Yeah, that would be really nice.
Yeah, unfortunately, that's the one that that passed me by.
I think I was slightly too young at the time with the hobby and
then never got round to picking one up later on.
And as you said, now it's just absolutely crazy what that kind
of stuff goes for. Unless you, you know, happen
across 1A car boot sale or something.
It's yeah. But it looks like you have quite
a wealth of different kind kinds of board games and other type of
systems you play just looking. I'm just sort of interested in
looking at the background and see what kind of, I don't know
if that's like a rate more recent version.
Of Telesbury 4th edition one, I think, I think it's the 4th
edition, but I think Fantasy Flight might have done that one
off the top of my head. Yeah, a lot of these,
unfortunately, we haven't had them out for a few years.
So we moved about three years back where where we were
previously. We had a nice gaming group that
would meet up and play mainly board games, but occasionally
stuff like Warhammer, you know, pretty much every week.
And then, you know, you move for work or whatever.
And so they just sit there on the shelf gathering dust at the
minute, unfortunately. But there you go.
Yeah. Can I ask in what county or what
what area you're inmate in the UK?
So I'm in Sheffield, so in in Yorkshire, so pretty much bang
in the centre I suppose of the UK.
I before I was up in Lancaster for for 18 years or so.
So basically I'm, I'm from Sheffield originally.
I went up to Lancaster for university, stuck around there
for work and then moved back here three years ago basically
when my boss moved and then asked me to come with him.
So yeah. Right, so you you're familiar
with the lead and steel event? It's one that I've missed.
I didn't realise it was, I think I saw a thing for it a couple of
years ago because they've done what, three of two or three of
them now. I I think managed to miss her.
I know it's like in about a week or so though, so I'm intending
to, to go, go along. No, it's sadly one of those ones
that somehow it's, it's slipped me by.
But, you know, that kind of thing happens somehow, you know,
even it's just, you know, a couple of miles away.
Yeah, well, I don't think it's really openly advertised or
something. I think, you know, I had to sort
of fight or someone had to tell me about it or I don't know even
how I found about it, found out about it.
So yeah, but it's good that they have something there that's sort
of an alternate to like alternate date and alternate
alternate season to bring out your lead, which they're still
trying to find a date for as well at the moment, but.
Yeah, it's. Good, good that these little
events are popping up so little games days that people can come
come along and obviously meet other people and say hey, you
know, I live in this area, you live there, you like this game
system. So do why?
How would we get together and play or find a club or something
to get to go to and meet up regularly which is.
Nice. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
I think it's just been one of those things that since we moved
it's just been a bit manic of work and that that I've just not
got round to to actually joining a local club, which is more on
me. You know, you get home and
you're pretty exhausted sort of thing.
So yeah. Well, I mean, how did how did
Somewhere Deep Amongst Ancient Stars your YouTube channel,
which is an interesting name. It's a bit long winded, isn't
it? Yeah, well the the name was on
on on the blog. I, I, I started, which itself is
not a particularly old when it's only, I don't know, 5 or 6
months old. That particular blog I have, I
had tried to do blogs before, you know, you inevitably get to
the point of, you know, you either keep with it or it drifts
off sort of thing. And I had a couple like that
before. But basically when I was getting
back into some of the second edition stuff, I thought I'll
start another blog, mainly because, well, partly because it
means I can actually keep a track of what I'm painting and
how I'm painting it, you know, that kind of stuff.
It's a good place to, to put the things I don't have to find a
book that I've put notes in, that kind of stuff.
And, you know, you get a bit of interaction as well.
And then I joined Ed from Minnesota's sort of Patreon and
his Discord and that kind of stuff.
And he, he was running an event down in, in, in Bristol that I
went down to. So that was basically the start
of this month. And as you know, sort of the
build up to that kind of stuff. I've been writing some bits of
fluff and this kind of thing for my, the army that was taken
down. And I just sort of felt, you
know what, it might be fun just to do a recording of this
because, you know, I, I dabbled a bit for, for work purposes,
putting clips of, of things together and that kind of thing
and found it quite interesting, enjoyable to do that kind of
thing. So, yeah, it was to some extent,
it was a bit of a spur of the moment thing to actually just
start it. I didn't really, you know, it's
not something that I planned for years and years and years or, or
anything. And yeah, it's, it's more the,
the writing, little bits of fiction, I suppose, and then
thinking, you know what, I can try and take some OK ish quality
photos with them. And string them together and see
if there's any engagement off it.
And the fact that people seem to like it is, you know, always
it's really good. I'd probably keep sticking
things up anyway, even if I didn't get a lot of interaction
at the minute. So I mean, as you said, it's,
it's sort of early days. I mean, it's only been up about,
I don't know, three weeks or something like that.
I'll just have to see how it goes.
But I mean, at the minute I'm, you know, really enjoying it.
It's nice to be able to just write these little bits and
bobs. It's nice to be able to, I guess
it gives me a bit of enthusiasm or a bit more motivation for
sort of stringing games that we have together.
If if that makes sense as well. So we don't really have a, a
specific overarching set of campaign rules or anything, but
it's just nice to be able to go actually, I'm just going to
string this along into a storyline and and work from that
point of view. So, so that's basically where
it's, it's come from, right? OK, that's, that's interesting.
I'm just looking at your blog as well.
And a lot of those photos, images correlate to the videos
you posted up. I've got to say I'm in love with
the first, like the Mark 1 Thunder Hawk gunship you've got
here for the old. Yeah, it's lovely where they're
from. So the, it's a 3D print.
So if there's a chat, well, I say chap might not be a chap.
I shouldn't say that, should I? I think the name is MK Giro.
I've I've put the, the name in the video descriptions for, for
when the the various, you know, prints that I've done.
So, you know, there's a lot of Doctor Sport ones, for example,
if I've had prints in them, I thought, you know what, I'll put
a a note in the in the video. So this person, yeah, they seem
to be quite prolific in terms of designing old stuff.
This I think a lot of it's probably designed for a resin
printer. I've got one of the filament
ones. So, you know, some stuff I
wouldn't be able to do. So, you know, they've like
designed like versions of like the, you know, the oak Artillery
and, you know, even just things like heavy weapons and all that,
that I think you need the the high fidelity type stuff for.
But for the for the larger things, yeah.
I mean, it seems to be to be really good.
Part of the motivation for that one was we'd printed one of the
big landing pads that Doctor Spock had done.
And I know that for the event that Ed from Minnesota was
running, he was going to basically have his landing pad.
So we took a bunch of terrain down as well to sort of help
with the with the set up. And I just sort of felt you have
to have something that goes on it because otherwise it just
looks, you know, wrong. You know, we've got to put
something on there. But you know, all the other
Thunderhawk things, they're like, you know, huge, the modern
sort of ones. There was one of the someone's
done one of the the sort of one that came out in second edition,
you know, the lead one that needs to fall, fall apart that I
think they've basically recreated all all the components
for that. So I was tempted by that, but it
looks like an absolute nightmare to put together.
So I thought that's that's not, you know, I'm not doing that.
So yeah, it was nice to find this this old epic style one as
well. But no, I mean here this this
person has done other things. So I mean, one that's that's
recent is I've got a an old drop pod as well.
So yeah. So that's on the on the thing to
sort of do with it's fabulous. Sort of.
Oh wow, that's cool. Yeah.
So yeah, I mean, it's it's nice having the printer.
It means that we can just do, you know, all sorts of train
stuff and, you know, various tanks and that kind of stuff as
well. So that's just AI guess a side
thing. I mean, I, I wouldn't go in for
printing as a separate hobby because I mean, you can get
really obsessive about it, but it's just nice to have one that
you can just go actually, I fancy one of these things, for
instance. Yeah, now that's nice.
I see a lot of sport terrain here, which is wonderful to see,
and I know that would adorn many of these classic 40K tables.
You're actually painting the same thing.
I've got that on my table at the moment, sort of filming.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, big. Refinery kind of thing.
Yeah, which is I'm hoping, I'm hoping he does the other one,
you know, the one with the vertical towers as well.
Yes, at some point, yeah. Yeah, I, I think it's probably
on the list mate. I think for for Callum to do
that and. Someone else probably.
Is he? Is he going to do the Storm of
Vengeance one? I said mate, I'm sure that's on
the list as well. So he's going through and
ticking them off as he goes along and when he can do it.
So that's great. So I'm really happy that it's
been really a successful venture for him.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, now you see like a lot of
eye candy here mate, in the photographs that I'm seeing on
your blog. So that's a nice one.
I'll add that to the the podcast description here.
So, people. Can brilliant.
Thanks. Yeah, along with the YouTube, I
have to say I can't take credit for the painting of most of the
train. So my partner Katie, she does a
lot of the train painting, whereas I tend to do a lot of
the models. So stuff like the fun dog and
that and the tanks. That's that's me.
But pretty much all the the terrain, that stuff that she
does, she seems to enjoy doing that.
I can't stand painting terrain. You know, I've looked out there,
you know, not only having a partner that plays games, but
also wants to paint the bits that I really don't like doing.
So. Yeah.
Wonderful. Well that's great you're doing
it together mate. So I'm I'm assuming that you're
actually playing the second edition games that you have
featured here with your wife. Yes, Yeah, yeah, basically,
yeah, yeah. So she got into it some point
during the 3rd edition and then drifted out again.
And then when we met in the university, sort of got back
into it again. And I guess we've going back and
and and reintroducing her to 2nd.
I mean, actually what we did was we played a game of third
edition and a game of 2nd and I, I, it was a case of, well, which
one do you prefer? And it was nice that she was
keener on 2nd having not played it before.
So it's just like, you know, OK, brilliant, good.
I mean, we, we, you know, she, she's, she's happy to play all
sorts of stuff. Realistically, she's got lots of
sort of interests in, you know, sort of history stuff and that
kind of thing as well. So it's, it's nice having
someone that lives in your house that you can just play these
games with rather than having someone that sort of just goes
what you're spending your money on.
I mean, that there is that side of it though, because I mean, if
you're both into it, I mean, it's, it's, it's a bit more
difficult to say, oh, can I justify this or not?
Or should I justify this or not? Yeah, at least you can go halves
of it, then you can justify that.
Yeah, yeah. It's for, it's for us, not just
for me, it's for us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's great mate. I've, I know my mate Todd in
Australia, he games with his wife and he's been doing that
since the 90s, which is wonderful.
So you know, that's really nice to hear that, you know, people
do have a partner in their life that they can game with.
My wife, she actually said the other day she liked board games.
And so I said, OK, well, I've been looking for something that
we can all play together and maybe maybe do here requests
with her one day with my son and a couple other people.
Maybe I might try that and see if she likes it.
But yeah, if it it does help, it would help a lot if you have a
partner who's sort of at least halfway there with you in terms
of what you're doing that that makes it much easier.
And and I think you can have a lot of fun.
We do have fun with card games. I think there's Dungeon Mayhem,
which is something I'll bring up a lot, a lot because Made of
mine or an acquaintance of mine introduced me to that game.
I bought it and she, she enjoys playing that with me and my son.
It's really nice. It's nice, fun, easy, quick game
you can play. Yeah.
It's like it's from Dungeons and Dragons basically.
So you have characters that you that you use these cards and
basically you're trying to eliminate the other party
members in the group. So it's like a, you know, PvP
type thing. So they've all got special
abilities and, and different cards within their deck.
And yeah, it's, it's fun and easy.
It's, it's, it's just something you can play, you know, and not
get too, too involved with it. But I, I introduced loads of
kids to that and they all loved it.
So it's been really nice. Oh, brilliant.
But that's great, mate. I'm I'm glad that you know,
you've you've found a found a little thing, something that's
sort of, you know, that you can do aside to your hobby and tell
stories and stuff like that. So I was going to ask you about
that because that's all that's a skill in itself, isn't it, to do
all this sort of narration and write everything, all the
scripts and stuff. I do that for my videos as well,
which takes an awful lot of time.
Is that something that you sort of developed from the big like
from an earlier age that you like an early sorry when you're
younger, if I can speak properly when you're younger?
No, no, I know. I know what you mean.
I think it's something that I did bits of, I would say over
the last, I don't know, 1520 years or so.
I mean, well, maybe a bit longer.
So I used to do a lot of DM ING for what I'm a fantasy role
play. So I guess from that point of
view, you know, back when I was in uni, being the person that's
happened to be the, you know, happy to be the games master or
dungeon master or whatever you want to call.
You know, you end up doing little bits, don't you improvise
things, you write little bits down to sort of tie between
whatever's in your, you know, adventure book or, or, or
something like that. So I, I think it's, yeah, I used
to enjoy doing that kind of stuff quite a lot.
And then, yeah, I think just old snippets here and there.
I think it's one of the things that threw me into the hobby
though, you know, all those little snippets of text that you
used to get in White Dwarf, you know, the bit before the battle
report or the, the various little stories that you get in
the, you know, your army book or your codecs.
It's like quarter of a page or half a page or whatever, that
kind of thing. I, I'm not very good at writing
longer bits, I will say. So if it's, you know, a couple
of pages of stuff, that's fine in the sort of an essential
idea, that kind of thing. Actually writing a much longer
story or something like that, I think I would quickly lose
interest in in in doing that. Or, you know, there's not
normally a lot of planning that goes on in advance.
It's more a case of this idea just comes up and I go, oh, OK,
well, I can, you know, that one might make sense for something.
So, you know, for the background for, you know, the various chaos
stuff for the for Krulks war band on on the videos.
You know, it's a couple of paragraphs, you know, and I'm
just there going on. I'm just make up some names.
Let's just think about some kind of stuff that might fit to, you
know, some kind of depraved chaos character.
That's fine. You know, for the most recent
thing that I put up with these orcs, little bit longer, but you
sort of know how orcs are supposed to behave.
So one or two central sort of themes around that.
That's fine. But if I was, you know, asked to
write a full length novella, I'd just be like, God, I have
nowhere, no idea where to start. I have no idea where I'm going.
So, so that side of stuff I, I enjoy doing those little bits,
which sort of ties into doing this for the, the one battle
report that's up. That's a bit trickier.
I've tried to do that kind of stuff a little bit in the past
on social media. So on Twitter or blue sky, you
know, sort of you take the picture, you say this thing's
happening, you take the next picture when the next thing
happens. I did that a couple of times.
I mean, once with a historical thing about a year ago, which
was quite fun to do, but it is trickier because you know, it's,
it's how do you take the notes? How do you do, you know when do
you want to do photos? When do you want to write down
what you think is going on? So I'm not sure I've got exactly
the best way to do it at the the minute that the most recent way
of doing it is I just have a notebook.
I scribble down roughly what's what's happening, take a few
photos and then come back at the end of the game and set some
lights up and that kind of stuff and, and try and take some
prettier ones. I think on that front with, with
battle reports at the minute, the, the aim is maybe once a
month, the might I, I will try to do a battle report.
We probably play two or three games a month.
You know, most, most weekends we might, you know, play a game or
do some other kind of hobby type stuff.
So we wouldn't want to do every single one because it then it
becomes a bit, I think of a chore because it is a bit more
effort around, you know, you have to interrupt stuff, don't
you, If you're sort of trying to record what's going on with the
with the game. So my aim is maybe trying to do
11 the month or so I've got sort of the ideas for a few that I
want to do that would fit with sort of narrative hooks and that
kind of stuff. Obviously most of them will be
second hand 40K. There'll probably be an epic one
at some point. I need to do sort of 1
beforehand with the, the Chaos and the Eldar stuff because the
only factions I've got painted for for epic at the minute are
Chaos and Eldar. So sort of do a small thing and
then do a, you know, epic one after that probably.
But yeah, that's I think the battle report side is a bit
trickier. It's, it's, it's, I enjoyed
doing it. It's just, it's more, it's
definitely more effort, I would say than just, you know, yeah, 3
paragraphs or, you know, up to a page and a half of, of narrative
stuff. Nice mate, yeah I'll have to see
some epic battles as well in your.
Channel yes yeah, yeah, I mean it it'll probably be net epic
just I, I mean I, I have you know, like the rule books and
that kind of stuff for for 2nd edition Space Marine.
I just don't have all the cards and that kind of stuff and the
forces are designed, you know, the the composition fits the the
net epic stuff. So it's slightly different
because they went around the nerfed things like the wind
rider hosts and and and whatever.
So less jet bikes for your points.
OK. Gotcha.
Yeah, yeah. Nice, mate.
Well, that's good. Yeah, we're about to sort of
embark on our own campaign. I think we're going to play
Titan Legions, which is sort of the 1.5 version of Space Marine
because that is a couple extra things, but it's almost exactly
the same. I haven't really dabbled in the
net epic. I know it exists obviously, I
just haven't really got into it but.
I think my main not really having played Space Marine, but
you know, having having read the book and, and, and that kind of
stuff, and obviously, you know, various reports or, or, you
know, watching your videos or other people's videos.
I think the main change is the activation in the movement, I
think is slightly different, but aside from that, it's pretty
much the same game. And then they made some changes
to sort of the Army building basically.
And, you know, whatever your unit cards would be, I guess
they feel for balance purposes. But you know, it's.
Yeah, but it's, it's pretty much the same thing.
The sort of profiles are pretty much exactly the same.
The way you, you, you know, the way you move the what things you
need to roll is, is is pretty much identical.
Yeah. Well.
Cool. Well, that's good.
I'm glad, I'm just glad people are still playing Epic, and I
know a lot of people do play yes as an.
Alternative, yeah, I mean, I mean that was the main reason.
And now it's, I mean, I could print off all the cards, to be
honest. I mean, that would be the way of
doing it because I mean, finding them online for a reasonable
price is a bit tricky these days, I would say.
I did try, as you might notice up there as well, there's the
Legions, Imperialis. I did try Games Workshop's newer
version, which is sort of inspired by Space Marine.
I would say it's OK. It's just because it's mainly
just Space Marines versus Space Marines.
It's a bit dry, I suppose. And, you know, has all that very
technical writing for how you you write your rule book that
they have with all their games these days, which is a bit of a
turn off. But, you know, I'm sure some
people much prefer it, you know, very clear rules.
But you know, you feel like you have to be a lawyer sometimes
to, to read it. Right.
OK, yeah. Oh, well, that's good that
they've made an attempt to at least reach back into Epic.
Yeah, in that sort of scale. So that's nice.
So what what's planned mate, for the future, for your blog or for
your YouTube channel? Can you give us some insights
into that? Yeah, so I mean, at the minute,
I guess there's a few sort of plot hooks.
So we have the the the battle report with the Space Wolves and
the Slanesh Chaos stuff. The idea is they have their sort
of separate things. So we'll have the Space Wolves
being attacked by the orcs, which is the the video that I
put up well, earlier my today your yesterday, I guess at this
point. So sort of that there'll be that
sort of plot element. So we'll have probably it'll be
maybe 1000 points. I've got to paint a couple of
units or finish painting a couple of units for the orcs for
that one. And then the chaos.
I have a sort of, well, I want to get to this epic thing.
So I, I have an idea about sort of doing a small raid and then
depending on the which way that one will go, there'll be some
kind of war portal or something, you know, sort of web weight
gate thing that people are fighting over.
Whoever wins that one, I'm sure we can then engineer that into
an epic sort of scale clash, you know, afterwards.
And then I've got a sort of separate thing with the the
small neck run force that I painted up over Christmas.
They're going to be sort of Raiders.
So they'll probably a fight between those and some sisters
because Katie's got a sister's army that she actually painted
for a more recent edition, although it's all the old, the
old metal models. So they've basically just been
rebased green recently. So yes.
Yeah. Well, I thought there was a bit
of, well, they don't really fit in with the new ones.
They're half the height. So.
So if we brace all those green then yeah.
So, so we'll probably do that. And then at some point I've got
some sort of Rogue Trader era Ultramarines that are sort of
sat around on the desk at the moment that will make an
appearance. And there's various other stuff.
I mean, I, I've got bits for most factions knocking around.
It's just when, as and when I get things painted up, we may
introduce things. I've got the one that sat on my
desk that's going to take a very long time to paint is the 2000
points of Harlequins just sat there staring at me.
So that's going to take a long time to paint because I'm not
batch painting those. I'll go mad if I batch paint
those. No, no, it's just yeah.
So that's going to be a, you know, you paint one in between
a, a unit of one thing or, or whatever else.
So I mean, in a way it's it's to have a, you know, a nice amount
of different factions so I don't get bored doing stuff.
I mean, quite happy to play with, you know, just one faction
for quite a lot. But it's nice to vary it up
because in second edition they are very different.
It's not just, you know, cookie cut the space Marine, that space
Marine, that thing's basically a space Marine, you know, sort of
thing. So yeah, so that's that's
broadly the idea. As I said, it'll probably be a
case of trying to do 1 battle report about a month and several
bits of fiction. I suspect it'll be a case of
about one video a week ish. Occasionally if I get really
inspired by something that might be an extra 1, but but broadly
that's that's probably what I'm aiming for at the minute.
I say that though because as I said, I I started it just sort
of on a whim, so who knows, it might just go mad all.
Right. Well, it's wonderful.
I'm glad that you've got some plans there.
You've got an army there that have Harlequins to paint and and
pull your hair out. Over, I'm sure.
Yeah, probably. But it's wonderful that you come
on today. I really appreciate your time
today, Alex, in your evening, my morning and I'll have the guys
come and check out your blog or your YouTube channel and follow
along with we've got Krotz and we've got Warboss Nozbach.
So, yeah, yeah. You can follow along that and
and keep in touch with with how that sort of grows and develops
for you mates. So appreciate your time.
Thank you very much again, Alex. And we'll maybe have you back on
for a splatter nada sometime in the future.
Yeah, very happy to and, and, and thanks for inviting me on.
It's been nice to chat, particularly, as I said, because
it was only about 3 weeks ago I started it.
So it's been a bit like, oh, I found you instantly.
Yeah. So I mean I I just wanted to say
it's lovely how you, you do highlight, you know, all these
little bits, everyone you find as well.
It's really nice that you've set that community up and, and, and
that you do shine a light on these little corners that are
running. Through I like those yeah I
really do I do appreciate those so thanks again Alex cheers mate
take care and catch you again next time.
Thank you. All right.
Thanks again.