Today in my series of photos from my travels: a collection of painted underwear-pervert miniatures on a game-dealer’s table at last year’s ComicCon in San Diego. I love painting miniatures — when I was a teenaged D&D player, it was my absolute top favorite part of the game. I ruined more shirts, tables and carpets with my hobby! There’s a great gaming shop in Covent Garden, The Orc’s Nest (awesome name, too!) where they always have a window-full of painted intricate miniatures, usually on sale for just a little more than the unassembled, unpainted versions (and charmingly, the finished ones are glued to tuppence coins as bases). I’ve never guessed, but I’ve always just assumed that the reason that these finished pieces — which must have hours of labour in them — are available for just a pound or two more than the unfinished ones is that the painter is an obsessive like I was, whose living and working space is completely jammed with painted minis, leaving quick sales as the only way to practice the hobby without drowning in figs.
Update Whoops! I stand corrected! These are “HeroClix” miniatures and they come pre-painted. Man — stop playing tabletop games for twenty years and they get all pre-packaged on ya!