#16 - Requesting help: looking for a particular model

No update on my hobby progress, sadly. I am however reaching out to the blogging community here as I am searching for this particular model:

Painted by Andrew King of Miniature Miscellany

I have scoured various parts of the Web, looking for this model, but so far no success. If anyone has one of these lying around and wouldn't mind parting with it, please contact me ASAP via e-mail at questing (dot) artificer (at) gmail (dot) com.

Thank you for looking!

Cheers,

- Q.

#8 - New GW tools: pricing issues

Games Workshop have released a new line of tools, "precision engineered to be the best hobby tools in the world" (quoted from their website).

Funnily enough, I recently came across a blog post showing how much you save if you do not buy your tools directly from GW and instead buy the same type of tools on Amazon...

... turns out that you can save a whopping 50% and you end up with more tools (this depends on where and what you buy, of course). Of course, the quality of these tools may not be on the same level as those from Games Workshop, but for a hobbyist starting out or someone who doesn't need such high quality tools, this is just ridiculous. I've got the feeling that GW is trying to milk the metaphorical cow as much as possible and that the company is taking advantage of the fact that most of their customers, being kids with spending parents, aren't familiar with alternative brands who offer similar tools for much less.

Ah well, hopefully the pricing team will learn their lesson before everything goes belly-up. Whatever happens, this is the end of my little rant. Normal posting service will be back shortly.