Chaos War Shrine

During my summer holidays I had a road trip to visit the 'lead belt' of Nottingham. For those not in the know, Nottingham is host to an ensemble of games miniature businesses and creatives.  This is an inevitable result of the incredibly talented people employed by GW moving into business for themselves and/or pursuing their own projects.

I was able to check out Wargames Foundry, founded by Bryan Ansell who ran GW in the early 90's after leaving GW.  The cabinets there are full of painted minis, including what seemed to be most of the early citadel miniatures WFB and 40k minis used for box art and photography.

No trip to Nottingham is complete without a trip to Warhammer World. The guest display at the time was a selection of GW minis from the founding of the company to the present. It was inspiring to see so much of what impressed me as a child in two separate locations!

Warlord Games run an excellent tour on a Friday, showing off their excellent facilities.  The incredibly knowledgeable staff showed off how their minis go from concept to production.

After all this I picked up a Chaos Warshrine. To me it encapsulates the spirit of the weirdness of 'chaos' and the design incorporates aspects of the earliest days of GW.