My LGS just started a new Warhammer 40k league and I was torn on which army I should play. I've been in love with "assemble painting" lately and I've been disassembling models to paint the individual parts and reassemble them when I'm done. I have been carefully removing guns and backpacks, riders, and turrets so that I have an easier time of getting a nice even coat of paint and washes on the model. This process has also left new models, like my Ad Mech Skitarii, just sitting in piles waiting to get painted; and unfortunately unplayable. When I started playing miniature games, I would literally buy models the same day I was going to play them. I had a pair of needle-nosed pliers in my army/tackle box to bend the tabs on metal models and plastic models were mostly one or two pieces and I would slap them together minutes before I played. With so many of my armies just in components, I didn't have a lot of options on what I could play in the league. I watc

Another, perhaps bigger, hobby of mine is comic book collecting. As a by-product of that hobby, I tend to collect things like memorabilia, t-shirts, hats, toys and even costumes. Today, I was asked to help with a Make-A-Wish child's visit to our offices in my Spider-Man costume. We were also filming a promo for an upcoming convention so I did a little goofing off and made a quick video of Spider-Man enjoying casual Friday.