How did YOU start?

[Sunstreaker]

Gooooood thread DP!


I was working as a key-timer at Games Workshop - my Old man had recently passed away, and I'd quit my job managing a London based ART shop (like Athena... but not as iconic!) come back to Essex and was trying to work out what I was going to do next with my life. Games Workshop Lakeside at that time was stuffed with 'Grizzled Vets', people that had either been managers, or had been effectively managing other stores, had left the company and come back as 'grunts'. Meant that we were making money with our eyes closed, and we didn't have any sort of area management breathing down our necks. It was like the good ol' days where we could just mess about and enjoy the hobby.

We'd been sent an FNG from Bluewater to 'Learn from the Masters' and basically do all the cleaning stuff that we couldn't be bothered to do, named Richard, and Richard and I were sat by the till painting Space Marines and generally being quite chilled...

... at which point Starscreams Ghost walked in, flanked by henchmen (two chaps called Russell and Ben).

Richard did the FNG thing of leaping over the counter and trying to sell them a 40K box and a paint set, which I seem to recall Ghosty elegantly cutting dead.

At some point in the conversation, it became apparent that SSG had just come from the entertainer, and had just purchased a RID Prowl.

Richard had an Orgasm right then and there in the shop (He also looked a little like Choda-Boy, which is why I think Ghosty started referring to him as 'Orgazmo' from that point on...).

I took a lunch break and went to the Entertainer. Picked me up a Prowl, X-Brawn and a Sideburn...

It was around that sort of time that I was forming 'John's Club', and Ghosty, Russ and Ben became key members. SSG would bring toys every week, and I would blow the profits from the club on Gen1 toys, RID imports and pizza. The rest is history!