Ha, it´s always nice when this specific scenario happens:
You - the board game buff - have set up some heavy, optically appealing game to learn the rules while playing against yourself.
A friend comes over.
Friend: "Hey, thanks for xyz, I just wanted to-OHHHH! What´s THAT!? *walks over to table, takes a look at the miniatures* Is that...?"
Me: Yep, the thing I told you about the other day.
Friend: It´s smaller than I thought overall...
Me: Yeah but that means we can play it on your table too
Fiend: Oh, cool! You gotta teach me sometime!
That´s how it´s supposed to go