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Gift wise not so much. A new set of hobby knives, a few accessories for a particular firearm I have and a few DVDs.

Materialistic stuff is no match versus spending time with folks and enjoying home cooking and good ol' Christmas time southern comforts.

Nothing wargaming related this year, this T shirt is the closest thing that I got.

Wifey got me some cool 1980's Starcom sets!

Battlefield 4 and 10 packs of Jaffa cakes were the most interesting presents of mine.

War gaming wise:
SoH command squad
WFB Chaos Lord
CSM squad
Necron Tiarch Stalker
Empire Flagellants
Killa Kans
Canoptek Wraiths
Conquest of Gaul by Warlord games

I also got some DVDs and books along with some smaller items and some money.

Second thought, forget I said anything.

no hobby love for me...
no presents at all, actually, since i live a long way away from family, in a little village that barely gets mail...

i got solid 6-8 foot surf!!!
then a lazy day around the house with the animals, and ending with an evening of rallying around the village in a golf cart, and falafel dinner, with the woman i love...
lots of love from everyone on Facebook...

finished the night watching The Love Guru, and converting an Iron Hands Captain...

it was a good day...

now i'm off to surf again!!!

cheers
jah

SBG wrote:
An Eldar codex, yay! Also, Fire Emblem!


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 Khorneball wrote:
I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.

Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.

Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.

Merry Christmas to those of you who got it right.

Surely, 'a nice shirt and jeans' made from ethical free trade cotton, and slippers made from only the highest quality hand woven hemp. The Chianti, good sir, I'm sure is from a particular winery that I 'probably haven't heard of'.

First kid? Good for you, champ! :p

[\feedingtrolls]

Have a Christmas Exalt! Merry Christmas a day late, haha.

Nothing

The Old Lady got me Forces of Warmachine: Convergence of Cyriss and a new work bag that I needed(it's leather, so it must be worth at least 2.5 of the Witchfire Trilogies I wanted!)

Of course, I had purchased (but not read) that very CoC book, so I returned it and got myself:
Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex
Optifex Directive
2 GW paints (one is the new verdigris effect).

Not a bad haul. Now to continue painting...

No "hobby" stuff, but I got a new monitor, AFOQT study books, a $70 Fry's electronics gift card, clothes, some games from my aunt (including one for a console I don't own) and a $20 steam gift card.

Oh, and flight lessons.

Lysander
Typhus
Paint brushes

Tau Firebase Support Cadre

Lucarikx

1 Chaos Space Marines box
3 Thousand Sons upgrade kits
1 Abadon Black paint pot
1 Auric Gold paint pot

+ some of the cash I got will likely be turned into 40k stuff (thinking Warp Talons at the moment).

I've got:
- Chaos Raptors
- Limited Edition Chaos Dice Cube
- 2 Chaos Space Marines boxes

I also have enough leftover money to fund some more once my birthday comes (in about 3 weeks).

A couple of Mantic's Christmas Crazy box, and

Some infinity stuff! I think I'll need some more for building proper lists, but that's a really nice start.

Also got enough steam monies to cover BG2:EE, so there's that too.

Oooh, and everyone managed to show up too which was nice. We were going to be missing a couple of prominent family members due to various circumstances, but everyone managed to make an appearance, so yay!

Hobby Wise:

High Elves Battalion
Flamspyre Phoenix
LotR Great Eagles (or in other words two HE great eagles)
Screamers of Tzeentch

Gamer wise:
Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen
Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Classics HD!

Along with Tales from Earthsea and Pom Poko!

A few shirts, screwdrivers and a couple of other things too - all in all great year!

Over 55 Ferrero Rochers, now down to less than 30.

A 2 terabytes hardrive.

I got my first lot of Warhammer Fantasy. Seekers of Slaanesh, Daemon Prince and a lizardmen stegadon. Great detail but am I right in thinking Fantasy are generally smaller than 40K?

DarkHero wrote:
I got my first lot of Warhammer Fantasy. Seekers of Slaanesh, Daemon Prince and a lizardmen stegadon. Great detail but am I right in thinking Fantasy are generally smaller than 40K?

In army size? No. Hilariously no. Some armies have so many models you'd be able to fit multiple 40k army model counts in them. My Vampire Counts have more models in a 250pt unit of Skeletons than I field in a 1500pt game with my Tyranids.

I mean model size. For example one of my space wolves thunderwolf cavalry is 3/4 the size of the new stegadon I have got.

Woa, some of you got so many gifts

Well, I got a new cellphone from my parents (ok, ok, I'll never admit it, but I was in dire need of a new one ) boots and a new shirt. All things I was needing.

Then I bought some gifts for me: A whole lot of Space Marines (some of them are gonna take a while to arrive), 3 decks from a japanese TCG (Weiss Schwarz) and a freakin' Zaku II! Char's edition!



The last 2 a friend sent me from Japan It's gonna take a few days until I have my goodies

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Woa, some of you got so many gifts

Well, I got a new cellphone from my parents (ok, ok, I'll never admit it, but I was in dire need of a new one ) boots and a new shirt. All things I was needing.

Then I bought some gifts for me: A whole lot of Space Marines (some of them are gonna take a while to arrive), 3 decks from a japanese TCG (Weiss Schwarz) and a freakin' Zaku II! Char's edition!

Spoiler:

The last 2 a friend sent me from Japan It's gonna take a few days until I have my goodies

Sweet Zaku and a to the Weiss Schwarz (they are going to be coming out with Kill la Kill by the way, if you didn't already know).

 Ironwill13791 wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Woa, some of you got so many gifts

Well, I got a new cellphone from my parents (ok, ok, I'll never admit it, but I was in dire need of a new one ) boots and a new shirt. All things I was needing.

Then I bought some gifts for me: A whole lot of Space Marines (some of them are gonna take a while to arrive), 3 decks from a japanese TCG (Weiss Schwarz) and a freakin' Zaku II! Char's edition!

Spoiler:

The last 2 a friend sent me from Japan It's gonna take a few days until I have my goodies

Sweet Zaku and a to the Weiss Schwarz (they are going to be coming out with Kill la Kill by the way, if you didn't already know).

This is me once that Kill la Kill set I didn't know about is released:

As mentioned in my earlier post I got far more than I ever could have expected this year. I also have decent "Inlaws" that I am currently spending time at. The inlaws is in quotations because I am not married just in a relationship.

On a personal note this christmas was very disappointing to me not because of what I have but because of what I couldn't give. I got a great job this year and had plans to spoil my family (they have never been very well off and I wanted to treat them.) Sadly a head injury has left me out of work with no money coming in so some of my plans had to go on hold. Maybe next year.

Chrissy_J wrote:
I got an online voucher worth £25 for Games Workshop ... what'll that get me? Half a box of Cadians?

I really don't want to sound ungrateful (it was a gift from my partner who knows nowt about this sort of thing) but I'd rather have had the cash to spend with other manufacturers...

Pick up a load of paint mate.

Khorneball wrote:
I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.

Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.

Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.

Merry Christmas to those of you who got it right.

Because being judgemental is what christmas is all about.

DarkHero wrote:
I mean model size. For example one of my space wolves thunderwolf cavalry is 3/4 the size of the new stegadon I have got.

Yes, Warhammer Fantasy models tend to be proportioned a lot better than 40k. Models in general are smaller and more detailed, but it depends on the age of the sculpt. Anything in the last 5-6 or so years is smaller, better proprtioned and more detailed (though not bling cluttered like 40k). Anything older is a crap shoot - could be good, but could be pumpkinhead Tomb Kings skeletons.

Some of you must work very hard to afford all of these neat things. Hopefully some day I can spend more than a single hundo!

Hobby wise I picked up my new SM codex ( Been waiting ages to get that)
A terminator librarian (because I actually want a reason to read the psychic powers part of the rule book. )
A new fine brush and a pair of paints.

Not a bad trade for a Benjamin. Lots of enjoyment on the way.

Cheers to all.

FM Argos

Hobbywise
AOBR
Gretchin
Blood for the blud Gawd,Typhus corrosion,ryza rust,zandri dust and skarsnick green.
Fine detail and standard GW brush.
Not telling you about the rest.I got 90 euro though..IA 8 looks nice...

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Happy (late) Christmas.

I am ready to drop some money too. Once I recoup from the holidays backlash.

Forge World Stuff:
Death Korps of Krieg Mars Alpha Pattern Leman Russ Demolisher!

Artemia Pattern Hellhound

Chimera Armoured Skirts

Vanaheim Pattern Basilisk Gun Shield

Games Workshop Stuff:
Aegies Defence Wall

Leman Russ Battle Tank

Hell yeah! Reinforcements!