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I got a bunch of stuff this year! This is all the stuff I got from both my parents and extended family:

5 rolls of P3200 TMax Film
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
The Gargoyle (novel)
The Sounds of Star Wars
National Geographic: The Ultimate Field Guide to Photography
Krieger "Krash" Thrax model (to be turned into a killer Ork Warboss)
A box of Ork Burnas/Lootas
Liber Chaotica
Scott Pilgrim vs The World DVD
Predators DVD
Boxers
Socks
Noise Canceling Headphones
$125 total in B&H Photographic Supply gift cards
$25 Calumet Photo gift card
$500 from my Grandmother (WHAT THE HELL GRANDMA YOU'RE NUTS )
and a 1-year subscription to PDN Magazine.

Probably one of the best and most useful Christmases I've had.

I got a First class trip to the Philippines two shirts and $50 from the family. A tool box and The Ultramarine movie from my self. Gaming stuff will be bought after I get my holiday checks.

I got:
A new pair of tims
Roughly 50 dollars from my sister in dimes and other assorted change (a little joke)
a IG battleforce,
A cidatel paints set
And a star trek bottle opener (COMPLETELY seroius,)

I got Space wolves army box and a box of wolf termies from my Girlfriend ... and from our parents we got about 1000$ cash which is going to be going into buying a new bedroom set !!

1 Leman Russ Demolisher (From my parents)
3 brushes (as if I need more) (From my brother
1 Pair of plastic clippers (From my brother)
And some money, which will probably find itself in the hands of Maelstrom Games very soon...

I got the promise of a US Paratroopers Army (Flames of War) in the mail from my grandparents

Non-hobby related is an Iphone 4 from my fiance and some new hockey jerseys from my parents!

The love of my wife, and a set of BOSE earbuds from my Employer. everything else is still in the mail. (if you think the normal postal system sucks, try using the navy's. I once got a package that had been sent over a year prior)

I got 30 pounds in online store vouchers for GW and some monies. It has already been spent ordering a dwarf battalion, some miners, Grudge thrower and some characters to bulk out my Battle for skull pass dwarfs that have been waiting for some company . I also got a lovely hand done oil painting of a dragon a friend did for me, The crazies on DVD, Some zombie based horror books and enough chocolate to make a diabetics foot drop off.

Da Boss wrote:I got-
Chaos Warhounds, Chaos Marauder Horsemen (both just to paint and play around with) from my little sister
Batman Arkham Asylum for the X Box from my brother.
Some socks and deodorant and so on from my other sister.
Beer, a thermal vest, chocolate and "Quantum Mechanics: A New Introduction" from my parents, which is nice. I bet I'll be cursing them as I struggle through it and force myself to relearn all the calculus I'll need for it, though

Great! Parents buy you a physics book.

ChrisWWII wrote:A Warhound Titan

FUUUUU-

As for me:

Whole mess of DH/RT/DW books.

Airbrush.

Dredd Case Files 02 and IDW Transformers Collection 2 (highly recommend).

Chaos in the Old World.

The missus bought me a random model this year: Keeper of Secrets. Suitably romantic!

War games relayed I baged

A chaos terminator lord
A demon prince
A chaos marine battle force
Box of chaos marines
Box of chaos terminators
A chaos land raider
Box of raptors
A chaos marines codex

Hobby related I got

A paint station
A cutting mat
A paint pallet
A brush water pot thingie

And I got a a load of gift vouchers for GW so now I need to work out what way to take the army i'm thinking more raptors and some bikes bring on the night lords

10 Plague Bearers (Command inculded)
10 Horrors
10 Dark Eldar Warriors
1 Ravager
1 Raider
3 Reaver Jetbikes
3 Blood Crushers
3 Flamers of Tzeentch
12 Chaos Warriors
5 Chaos Knights
Warhammmer Armies: Warriors of Chaos
Dawn of War the Complet Collection
15£ Itunes Card
Skull Candy ear phones
Australian Scarf
Complet book of Drawing
Lego the Visual Dictonary
Halo-Reach
Thats from my Parrents , my two grans , my grandad and my uncle

A Brettonian Battalion

Enough money to bag two more battalions and round off the army list to 2250.

Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson (It's part one of three... 888 pages. Christ.)

A $15 voucher for a store that doesn't stock anything but keychains for less than $20.

Good christmas, felt like it came too fast this year though.

Stomach flu, socks and dried fruit.

lord_blackfang wrote:Stomach flu, socks and dried fruit.

Truely the gratest gifts ever given love that dried fruit.

I'm going to pre-order DC Universe Online with the 45 dollars I received, as it looks incredibly awesome (even though I hate DC comics), and it's out in about two weeks.

Other than that, the only thing I got for Christmas was a pack of light cigarettes (I normally smoke full flavor or filterless). Ugh.

Some boxers.

Tin Bitz, Shining Gold, Ogryn Flesh Wash and Bleached Bone paint from my best friend.

$50 from my mother-in-law (Going toward conversion bitz or a new comp, havent decided what yet)

A mini-mickey of Jack Daniels

Hopefully some Forge World goodies. (My Wife is on her way over to London today...)

Leman Russ Demolisher
Valkyrie
Money for another Russ
Assault Marines
The Sanguinor
The Schwarzeneger Collection
A nice Shirt
A WoW Calendar (don't play it, someone got warcraft and warhammer mixed up I think)

Some other stuff somewhere

40K wise I got the Enforcer onmibus and bought myself the second Ciaphes Cain omnibus.

Oh and I won £20 on a scratchcard so I'll probably buy a chimera.

I got some other stuff but it's not wargames related.

Not sure yet. Christmas is waiting until I return home sometime in early January. I know my wife got me a few Skaven items, but I'll also be buying a Skaven battalion, and a lot of painting supplies.

I got a box of cadian shock troops, $25 gift certificate to my flgs, a sham-wow, and some LEGOs.

Better than last year, when I got SPAM in my stocking...

Lots of Dark Eldar Hellions, a Raider, and a Ravager.

More is to come on Thursday, my uncle promised to get me something at the FLGS.

Other than wargaming stuff I got a pair of red boxers for New Years (Italian tradition), Knack T-shirts, lottery tickets, and a random assortment of Hershey's brand candy.

I got a Sabol Motor Pool bag with extra foam trays, Flamers of Tzeentch, a plastic Daemon Prince, and the Omnibuses The Founding and The Saint.
Non-wargaming; a box set of DVDs about WW2, a book on major battles in history, another book on military history, and assorted candy.

Edit:
Almost forgot; money, a book on WW2, and ELO's album TIME.

So far...

2 Space Marine Librarians
1 Assault Squad

Dominion and Settlers of Catan w/ some expansions.

Muse - The Origin of Symmetry.

That's a Fortress of Redemption, an Imperial Sector, an Imperial Strongpoint, 2 Honored Imperiums, 2 Moonscapes, 2 sets of Urban Barricades, a Citadel Wood, a Battle Missions book, and of course, a skeleton yard Gnome!

And I got tickets to Monday Night Raw in January! Plus assorted gift cards and such, including an actual stun gun of all things!

Nothing war gaming related, although a sizable portion of the checks I got are probably going towards my habit. I did, however, get:

A heated mattress pad.
A mattress to put said heated mattress pad on.
A new set of sheets and comforter to put on said mattress.
A rather nice cast iron Japanese tea set.
Mulling spices.
A bottle of Sangria to put said mulling spices in.
A slow cooker to properly mull said Sangria.
A vacuum to clean up the inevitable mess I make trying to mull wine.
A lamp.
A 21.5" 1080p monitor.

I got very little in terms of "War gaming related" presents this year,basically due to the fact that the Missus couldn't readily pop into the FLGS and find Praetorians...so...in Games related items I got.

2 Commissars
A Cadian Command Squad (which will be converted heavily into a Praetorian Company Command)
A new set of brushes,which I desperately needed.
..and,best of all the "green light" to order more Praetorian minis.

I also got a new amp for my Bass guitars.
A new Pair of boots.
a gak ton of DvDs (mostly old horror films).
A Hickory Farms basket...most of which has been consumed.
A Bottle of Crown Royal...ditto.
And a new Jacket (Black MA-1 Flight)

I also "got" a HUGE amount of leftovers,despite having a half dozen of My Missus' Family dining with us,and each of them leaving with arm loads of foil wrapped goodies,we still have a refrigerator FULL of various tasty leftovers,including 3 gallons of Gumbo,half a Ham,several batches of Fudge and such and 2 Sweet Potato pies...life is good.

FITZZ wrote:

I also "got" a HUGE amount of leftovers,despite having a half dozen of My Missus' Family dining with us,and each of them leaving with arm loads of foil wrapped goodies,we still have a refrigerator FULL of various tasty leftovers,including 3 gallons of Gumbo,half a Ham,several batches of Fudge and such and 2 Sweet Potato pies...life is good.

If it wasnt a 12-16 hour drive, I'd be on my way over to raid your fridge. :-)

The only hobby-related things I got were from myself:

60 1/4" x 1/8" rare earth magnets, plus some magnetic rubber for basing (with this I can finish magnetising my orc boys' bases and movement trays, thus making all my rank and file models are easy to transport - my night goblin horde and black orcs are already so-arranged).

Army Painter plate mail primer spray, quickshade soft tone and anti-shine spray, for my just-starting Gondorian army. Have just tried dipping my first model, and am not sure what I think of the results just yet; very happy with the sprays, though.

A unit of Warriors of Minas Tirith, and a unit of Gondorian Rangers - the first units of my aforementioned Gondorian army.

£30 of the above was paid for via relatives' Christmas money, and that's it for hobby stuff.

Otherwise, I received:

A bottle of Bombay Sapphire
Earphones from my wonderful girlfriend
And that's about it!

Dreadstone Blight - which is a lot bigger than I thought it was, nice detail (though overflowing with skulls of course) and quite easy to put together
Walls and Fences - sounds boring, but actually quite dynamic terrain pieces and also handy for soaking up the ridiculous amount of scenery (D6 + 4 pieces) you have to put on the table these days

EDIT - Got some Hobbycraft vouchers from the father-in-law so we can add Dwarf Warriors to the list (Hobbycraft doesn't sell Skaven )