Strange places you meet other hobbiests ?

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**Listrel**

I was getting some more tattoo work done earlier this week and was chatting to the guy as he was working long story short he enters the UK golden demon every year and has been a finalist 6 out of the last 7 years sadly he was disqualified this year for some "none 40k graffiti " he had put on part of his entry. This got me thinking miniature painting and gaming while yes seams to be growing at a faster rate then ever is still a relatively small hobby so where is the strangest place you have meet a fellow painter, collector, and/or gamer ? Most people have friends that they went to school with that they game with or people they have meet at the local hobby centre or gaming store.

I found this picture of his entry this year http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JfW6uHltHes/UGgPsv9toVI/AAAAAAAACiI/oWHgj5vpq1E/s1600/P1050718.JPG

Found it on this site http://fromthefang.blogspot.co.uk

**Snrub**

Wait wait wait... his entry got banned for PART of a graf? (which looks great btw) That sucks for him.

I met one guy at the bus stop once. We were waiting for a bus (shock horror!) and he was writing an army list. I asked him what he was working on and we started talking.

I went to school with another kid who collected.

**Frazzled**

I almost never meet any adult interested in miniatures, EXCEPT:

on a jury one of them knew about 40K. SPAZZ MARIENZ HURR!

**hotsauceman1**

In the library or class, they are reading 40k books.
I always try to chat them up about it, but they snub me.

**Samus_aran115**

I saw a guy putting together a bloodthirster at a surplus store in Bethesda. I didn't talk to him, because he looked busy.

**Jihadin**

Afghanistan

**Leigen_Zero**

Started talking to a guy that owned a legion's worth of Space Wolves (bear in mind, this is back in 2006 before all the new plastic SW stuff, so it was pretty much all metal), while stuck on a train that was delayed due to a suicide on the line.

He initiated the conversation after reading my WD over my shoulder for about 10 minutes, kinda creepy to be honest...

**Mr. Burning**

In prison.

**Mr Nobody**

At a camera store, I was buying a macro camera lense for "model figures" and he automatically knew I was talking about war hammer. He used to take pictures at tournaments.

**Palindrome**

Jihadin wrote:
Afghanistan

It was Iraq in my case

Quite a few servicemen game, there are a few guys from my unit who have a weekly gaming session.

**aosol**

At a local biker bar. The bartender played and he knew about my work, I asked him if he had anything with him right now. He went would and retrieved a Chaos Space Marine all Khorned out. I promptly painted it for him in amazing detail with hyper blends and the whole nine for him under the beaming lights of the brightest beer signs. I never pay to drink that bar, ever.

**Orlanth**

Listrel wrote:

I found this picture of his entry this year

I never felt sorry for a grot before I saw this image. Poor grot.

**Ahtman**

The internet. It is a pretty strange place.

**Albatross**

Yes, yes it is.

**Jihadin**

Albatross....put that in a spoiler lol

**Samus_aran115**

Albatross wrote:
Yes, yes it is.

He looks really good in leggings and lingerie. I can, with great confidence, say that I am aroused. The flashing was unnecessary though. No one will take you as a serious musician if you show them your goods outright!

Great playing too.

**Ma55ter_fett**

Jihadin wrote:
Afghanistan

I’ve always been a fan of one word answers since it allows me to imagine that there is a greater story behind the post. Usually I keep a lid on my wondering mind, but this time I let my imagine run wild.

This is what I imagine the backstory of your post to be (note, in my imagination you keep a diary)

Jihadin's Diary wrote:

Dear Diary

Went on patrol today outside the green zone and got ambushed (imagine that!). I took cover in a nearby doorway. We were pinned down for awhile but it was nothing serious, the Taliban took pot shots at us and yelled abuse in their native tongue. The mean things they yelled were more bothersome than the bullets (MY MOTHER IS A SAINT YOU JERKS!) so I took the opportunity to light up a cigarette.

It was during this time that I realized that one of the Taliban was yelling “DAKKA DAKKA” and “WAAAARGH” with a heavy accent. I could hardly believe it, in this inhospitable land I had found another wargammer! And not just any wargammer, one who plays orks! Just like ME!

It really got me to thinking, even though I was on the other side of the world, and though he and I had different religions, languages, cultures, morals, beliefs, cloths, and music tastes, we weren’t that much different from one another. Just two guys called upon to kill other guys for our country, heck, in any other circumstances we probably would have been friends. Because at the end of the day aren’t we all just one species on a rock hurtling through space around a huge ball of gas?

Truly it was some profound thinking…

But the corps weren’t paying me by the hour, so I popped up and put three rounds in his chest and one in his head (so he couldn't come back as a zombie).

The End

**Jihadin**

Fett....I bow to you Sir and exalted

**dogma**

"Clear!"

Ork Warrior thrown out.

Shooting stops.