My buddy Magoo is at a gaming convention right now and I was sharing a memory with him. I used to love table top war games, including Warhammer and Warhammer 40K.
I played, years ago. Tyranids. Or Bugs, if you know your lingo.
I will tell you a story that I told him, with pictures. I don’t have rights to the images on these links and they aren’t my pieces, but they will show you what I am talking about.
I love to play the bad guy in games. In the case of WH40: Bugs. This link will take you to front line gaming. About a third to a quarter down the page, you will see a picture for Carnifex. This is an old school carnifex. What I had when I played.
If you look closely, you will see that Carnifex has an open mouth with teeth.
One day, I was at my local Hobby Store, playing a massive meat-grinder game. I had a carnifex on the table and my mental glitterbombs went off. I don’t know how or why, but they did.
I said- “He looks sad. He looks hungry. That he needed a ham sandwich. Carnie needs a ham sandwich.”
This, of course, broke up my table mates into hysterical laughter.
That night, I went home and painted the inner claws with glitter paint. And later on, I found a little doll plate that had 2 slices of bread and an apple on it. So he could have an appetizer before he ate through the marine army I was used to playing against.
“Carnie wants a ham sandwich” became my battle cry. Complete with glitter and …
Well. Chuckles… good times. Good memories.