John Blanche

We were supposed to have a pretty different post today, but unfortunately, the news has happened. For those not sure what this is about, legendary Games Workshop Art Director, John Blanche passed away very recently. There are going to be lots of far better eulogies written and posted, so I’ll just talk about my earliest personal connections with a man who never know of my existence. As people who read this blog know by now, I paint a lot more than I play. There are a couple of people to blame for this, aside from the fact that I was always a “drawer” from my early kiddie days. One is my departed brother, who is the one responsible for all this in the first place, introducing me to RPGs via reading the Tunnels & Trolls solo adventures to me when I was a little’un, and equally influential – his collection of fantasy and medieval Minifigs which he later passed onto me along with a collection of Humbrol Oil paints. My first miniatures! One of the others in a roundabout way was John…