A Gem in Miles City

The other day I decided to wander around Miles City, Mt. Ya know, get a feel for the place where I will be stuck for the next 2-3 months. To my suprise there was a game shop, which was unfortunatly closed on the day of my adventure. However I went back the next day, just to see if there was ANYONE in this town that played 40k. The initial answer was no, yet I spent the next 3 and a half hours talking with the store owner, Tom, about how much he wanted to get Warhammer into his store.

Now this is what I love about the gaming community, they are some of the most friendly people you will ever meet. In the first 3 hours of meeting Tom he offered me a permenant place to paint my models, since I have no place to do it at my uncles. This includes a safe place to store all my paints, models, modeling supplies, etc.

I went back yesterday, models in hand, back to T&J games. I arrived at about 2:30 p.m and was there until close. I swear to god this has to be the coolest gaming store I've ever been to. I got to show off my models, in which the reply was always "Holy shit, I could never do this." In which I would have to respond, "Its not that hard, I just spend way too much fucking time on my models!" And after talking with Tom for an hour about the Horus Heresy, and all the Primarchs (this guy doesn't own a single 40k model, but has read a rediculous amount of Black Library material) he walked me thourgh all the things he wants to do with the store when he gets some 40k and Fantasy stuff in. He's even talked about buying an Epic scale Dread and have ME paint it.

Now this is all speculation and hope, but he has talked to a distributor. And if this all pans out I'll be doing game demos there 3 days a week, and painting workshops, the whole 9 yards.

I know this isn't really that important, as this isn't about tactics or anything, but I just had to share the awesomeness of being a founding member of the first wave of 40k in a new gaming community.