Ah, man, nice. This reminds me of Aerohobbies, the D&D shop I frequent.

I miss gameshops

Zulu army! :D

I love this picture. Reminds me of The Last Grenadier, a place I tend to not go so often because the owners were asinine and the prices sucked. Was a nice place to look around though.

Huh, I read Shadow of the Torturer just this past year. Also, http://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped.....gons-435135653

Naw, I've just gone through the first one so far. Right up to the point where he commits the crime for which he's exiled the book is pretty magical, and then it kinda gets confused and weird - like for a while I thought him wandering around the immense botanical garden was some sort of religious metaphor, and naw, an immense botanical garden subplot probably sounded cool.

Man, this brings back memories.

And not just recent ones from my stint at Legends.

Love that top shelf.

Thanks. :)

Yaaaay for the local gaming store!

Ours is down in a deep hole in the ground!

Literally?

Yes! You descend down basement steps in an old 1920's mall that was designed to look medieval!

I would totally dig seeing photos of the whole set up, if you have any or the place has an official site you can link!

http://www.tactics.net.au/

Not a good official video. Their steps have some cool gargoyle and demon heads on the route downstairs...

Oh wow, thanks for the link! Wikipedia turns out to have an article about the shopping center too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Court

Oh cool!

Ahhhh, nothing quite like a nice game store. I look for local game stores wherever I travel...

WHERE'S THE MAGIC! I NEED MAH MAGIC CAAAARDS!

Bah, I wish my local gaming shop wasn't only a miniatures shop now. I miss having a place to go.

O holy cave of wonders unimagined... :3

I once had a friendly local gaming store. Alas, I moved to another state and it closed four months later. :/

This is a great tribute to the FLGS. Very nice!

An entire Zulu army. There's a difference!

Like maybe enough to play out Roarke's Drift or Hlobane.

I like you little designs of the covers of the 1st edition AD&D books down at the bottom of the shelves there.

Thanks. Leads to the thought that a set of rulebook covers should be similar enough in design to be themed, but distinct enough that you instantly know what book you're grabbing.

Oh what a wonderful picture! It brings back so many memories. My favorite shop was (and still is) an inspiration place for fantasy worlds, cool characters and lot and lots of RPGing books that gave me worlds to “live in” for weeks and weeks.

Love the expressions and poses of the characters in this pic -- that was me and that was the shop owner.

Thanks, that was the idea! I mean we do everything else with furry art, why not do faux-Norman-Rockwell?

Part of the magic of being an artist is being able to cause a viewer to remember something from their past or perhaps imagine a better past.
Yeah, that was part of Norman Rockwell’s magic.

Ah the game shops of yor....

Games are easier to buy than ever, but the magic of cardboard boxes with colorful dice and black-and-white booklets for rulebooks is a bit lost. The resolution of our games grows but imagination chokes slowly between all the detail? Or perhaps just alters into a new shape I can't see any longer.

It'll be a while I think before online shopping parallels the experience of brick and mortar shops; I think having a physical space to explore and the greater likelihood of running into something you're not looking for but which is still interesting is what really makes retail shopping. A game shop full of all sorts of tabletop accoutrements suggests a greater community of nerds, geeks and misfits, and it's a little like a convention that way - the online equivalent would be if, somehow, gaming forums, CoolMiniOrNot, and RPGNow or whatever were the same site.

Yeah. What I personally thought of was that kind of air game shops had back in the 80s or 90s, with lots of shallow boxes and photocopy quality booklets. Still something that various boardgames and computer games didn't convey back in the day. Probably it's just something that's grown with my own grumphood and pessimism. |>

yeah this is practically me and my friends

man, this is like a picture of me every week or so. So many minis, so little time.

Faved because I can make out an Landraider from the Ultramarines :D
Great work!

Thanks! There's also a Falcon grav... er, I mean an Eldred Swift. And the really dorky thing is, I did a little bit of poking to check on how old Ral Partha and Citadel blister packs looked - the stuff on the back wall is very vaguely accurate.

This is awesome ^-^

Thanks! :)

*Happy sigh*
Reminds me of the times I got off work of my then-job during the day, once a week, and wandered to the nearby mall and happily spent an afternoon browsing all the interesting odds and ends, chatting and having a good time...sad all the local shops up and died. The only places even remotely like them just carry RC cars and model trains now.
Change sucks, sometimes.

Pretty awesome! XD

Thanks! I still like it. :)

I love that you even drew a basic version of the cover-art for the old AD&D Players Handbook and Fiend Folio