Nerding it up in Nottingham

Last weekend I made my way back up to Nottingham once more - those of you with long memories might remember that Dan, Nick and I wandered up that way in November last year, to visit the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem pub, and to partake of the ale therein.

This time though, it was business instead of pleasure. You see, Nottingham is also home to Games Workshop, the company that created the game of Warhammer, of which I am somewhat of a fan. At their office they maintain what is known as the Warhammer museum, which is basically a collection of various miniatures, which have been painted to the highest possible standard. All good stuff, for a Warhammer junkie like myself.

Not really much else to mention really - it's just a big collection of miniatures, and I spent most of a rainy and cold Saturday looking around them. Then went back to London.

So, how about some photos?

Let's start with the good guys first.


Here we have a random assembly of Empire heroes. These geezers represent one of the two human kingdoms, and are loosely based on the Teutonic kingdoms and the Holy Roman Empire of the medieval era.


Next up, we have the Bretonnians - again, this is another human kingdom, but one based moreso on France. They tend to focus on knights, knights and more knights, all on horseback. It's the sort of army for people who go all doe-eyed at the thought of a damsel in distress.


A very impressive terrain piece, namely the city of Minas Tirith. The model stands about 2 metres tall - it was very visually impressive. This is what Games Workshop is famous for - building the most obscenely excellent terrain pieces for gaming with.




An army of dwarfs, or stunties, as they are commonly known. Dwarfs tend to be the sort of army that doesn't do much moving once they've been placed on the board - they just stand and deliver, and defy any and all attempts to break them.

Now, for the bad guys.


First up, some Nurgle warriors. Nurgle is the Chaos God of death and disease, and so his soldiers always look like rotting diseased types, as shown here.


A Chaos Hellcannon. These, for lack of a better expression, are bloody unpleasant to have to fight against.


A few Orcses - everyone likes Orcses.


A Giant - the Orcs, for some reason, are particularly adept at getting these big bruisers to come and fight alongside them.

Now for a few random bits and pieces...


This is a Bloodbowl stadium - Bloodbowl is a rugby type game played on a game board. Obviously Games Workshop decided that a board wasn't good enough, and made a stadium to game in.


An enormous collection of Tyranid warriors. Think Alien.


The front of the Games Workshop office. The space marine is a bit of a giveaway as to what this company does for a quid.


Me with a friend.


And finally, the limited edition Bugman miniatures I picked up - one for me, one for Dan, and one for Justin.