30th Anniversary Dwarf
One of my oldest and favourite miniatures was the Dwarf on Stilts which I believe was a special edition. Quite a few of my early painting attempts were of dwarves, I think because Citadel had just introduced the plastic variety and I probably could afford them at the time. So I was annoyed to see in White Dwarf online that Games Workshop were pressing an anniversary dwarf to celebrate 30 years of itself. I nearly resisted until they sent me another email saying free postage. Now it was £15, but you did get 3 dwarves, The white one, Grombrindall being born by Josef Bugman and Gotrek Gurnisson. When I showed Roo he spotted that Mr Gurnisson was a Slayer and that was about it. Ordered. And it was only available for the weekend. But Alas! Tuesday morning a letter arrived from GW which I thought was saying that there were none left, but when I opened it it just said there was a problem with my payment card – probably due to the speed in which I typed the number in. So I phoned them up. Very happy with the service from these guys. Never spoken to anyone so happy in a call centre either. He told me I was one of the first to get an internet order in as well. So there you go. So today it arrived and it was a problem! The problem was the picture above. The box looked so excellent that I want to keep it unopened as a collector thing. Wonder how long I'll last?