The Modellers Nook aka The Dungeon

My first introduction to RPGS and Wargaming was through two places Toy Land in Belfast which had some amazing GW kits some of which I got and also The Modellers Nook in Gresham Street behind Castlecourt. The store was primarily about selling model kits planes, tanks etc but Joe the store owner also got in minis and rulebooks from various companies. Most of the minis I bought are from the shop. My first foray into his store was in 1986 and it was an amazing experience Joe's attitude was laid back easy to chat with and he would order stuff in or hold stuff over for you. Joe had a really bad heart attack two years ago and sold the business which was a horrible thing to happen. In the last few years he organized a twice yearly event called model fest I'll pop up some pictures from it. This was an opportunity for fellow gamers and modellers to show of their collections, throw participation games, eat food and chat. My wife and I who met through an advert in the store where the fantasy wargaming couple so we would run small scale scenarios and skirmishes in all a really great day out. Back to the 80's Joe decided to hire a sculptor to try and make a few inhouse minis which could be used with Rogue Trader or other generic settings. These minis also included a small tribe of furries and several large scale aliens including a couple which were inspired by Geiger's artwork. Sadly nothing came of these except for a few production casts to try out the moulds I think the moulds are in England somewhere any way here's the minis.

This isn't my first rodeo so to speak I have another blog dedicated to poetry and social matters however this is my first dedicated to gaming. Over the next few weeks and months I'll be sharing images anecdotes and gaming materials from my house rules.

To start us off however here are some pictures random for the most part :)

Adeptus Arbites Judge this guy's a spare sadly :)

My devastators 

I apologize for the camera quality my dog ate my super macro camera so I'm using a mobile.

Squad Huron any fans of White Dwarf will get the reference :)

This is my Blood Angels captain WIP using the old captains powerfist/digi weapon and grenade launcher fist. I had thought I'd lost the rest of the old mini so repurposed the fist.

And now for some tanks including my conversion of the Basilisk he makes a great tank hunter :)

My very first Leman Russ bought when GW finally released the kit.

Armoured Sentinal squad the autocannon go well with the Plasma Cannon

Feel free to leave comments. My next blog post will be a bit less random and look at some Fantasy mini.