Hello folks,
I have gravitated from a lurker to a member, and just working on my first order to send of to Pendraken.
This forum is sure a great resource for LOA and WSS.
Cheers Bryan
Hello and welcome
What ho! Rupert!
Always nice to see someone of the officer class lifting the quality of this rabble, though, I would question your direction of travel - lurker to member? This is a slope that goes down, Sir, and irredeemably.
Take Westmarcher for example. He was a kind father, nice to animals, gave to charity - a respected pillar of the community. Then he joined the forum. Now he locks himself away in a darkened room and mumbles about base sizes and impetus factors. He doesn't recognise his children unless they dress as Grenadiers of Savoy, and has a police records for badger molesting. To be fair, his favourite brush had just given up the ghost and he had some dragoons requiring harness painted.
Lemmey is another sad case. Gave many years in the teaching profession, then decided to introduce wargames as part of a history lesson. Sent home after reducing an 11 year old girl to tears for inappropriate use of recce troops. Took the Renaissance in a big way and now spends his time nailing pages from BKCII onto church doors.
Me? Oh, it's a less glamorous story. I moved to Runcorn - think the worst of Dickens with tasers - and there's been a slow decline. Partly due to the chemicals from the local factory in the air, and the odd taste of the water.
Still, in the forum, I and many like us have found a network of the like minded, a support group if you will.
Welcome.
Welcome to the forum as an "active" member.....I'm sure you know us all a little already.
If you are round the Hutt Club or the Wellington Warlords you will probably have seen Paul R myself and a few others pushing our various 10mm armies round the table.....we are not hard to spot....please do come and say hello ;)
We're putting on a Early WW1 game on at Call to Arms in August using 10mm Pendraken figures.....based on the action at Elouges on the Second day of the battle of Mons........"The Cavalry will charge - yeah right!"
Cheers
Peter
Welcome.
A very warm welcome, Bryan.
Cheers - Phil
Welcome on board Bryan.
Hi - how are the sheep ?
Welcome, Bryan. If LoA and WSS are your area of interest, you have come to the right company and the right forum.
Enjoy!
Mollinary
Welcome to the active forum, Brian who is called Rupert.
As a former lurker you will require no warnings concerning the eccentricities of the place - it is both glorious and insane.
One point - fsn is actually the offspring of an Atari game system and a TRS-80 (with expansion interface) which achieved sentience in a Runcornian scrap heap in early 1989 (although some debate the date). It/he/her apparently imprinted on a tractor tread and broken drainpipe and has been obsessed with AFV's of WW2 since "birth".
I cite as my reference "The Proceedings of the Spontaneous Intelligence Society" [Vol 2: pp 14 - 17, Spring, 1992].
It is behind a paywall but well worth the read.
=O =O =O =D>
Welcome Rupert.
I will refrain from calling you Bryan lest the rest of the forum all start to claim " I am Brian" or suggest that your not the messiah but " A very naughty boy"
I can recommend the WSS figures they are good sculpts and easy to paint. especially for me as my painting looks like I use a 1 inch brush.
Cheers
Orcs
Welcome Rupert :-h
Orcs, I really do use a one inch brush, but only for the final dry brush
Hello Bryan
If you are ever up in the Bay of Islands give me a shout, LoA is a great period :-)
Whangerei is the nearest club to me and there are a couple of us 10mm bods about.
Cheers
Ian
Hi Bryan, welcome to the Forum!
8)
Rupert? When I was in Belfast (Northern Ireland) last year, according to the woman at the market stall, I think that was selling for something like £1.50 a pound (roughly half a kilogram).
Anyway. Welcome, Brian. :-h
btw: Badger bristles for yer brushes are worth the effort to get them (so I am told by fsn). I've still to find out (have you ever tried painting with heavily bandaged fingers?*)
* I'm sure Techno would back me up on this.
Thanks for the warm welcome guys.
Ian, I have drooled over your collection, but alas sunny Northland is a long way from here.
Why ever did you move to such a remote spot? :)
Peter, I have seen your WWI collection and I will have closer look at Call to Arms in August.
Ianrs54: there are so many sheep here you are bound to get a pretty one,
Cheers again,
Bryan aka Rupert of Hentzau ( he is the baddie from the prisoner of Zenda)
Quote from: Orcs on 28 May 2017, 07:26:53 PM
Welcome Rupert.
I will refrain from calling you Bryan lest the rest of the forum all start to claim " I am Brian" or suggest that your not the messiah but " A very naughty boy"
If he ever visits us, he'll become Rupert the Bare.
Quote from: Rupert of hentzau on 29 May 2017, 01:11:58 AMWhy ever did you move to such a remote spot? :)
I got a job up here :D
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 May 2017, 01:41:39 AM
If he ever visits us, he'll become Rupert the Bare.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/17/article-0-16FE1D4D000005DC-615_306x505.jpg?w=200)
This guy!?
Oh - wait - I thought you said bear.
Quote from: Rupert of hentzau on 29 May 2017, 01:11:58 AM
Why ever did you move to such a remote spot? :)
But what a lovely place to be.
Welcome Rupert. What's white and wears yellow checked trousers?............Rupert the Fridge.
Welcome!
I just got my first batch of WSS figures over the weekend. They are quite lovely!
I thought the standard forum response was, "Here's your coat!"
I was too slow, Andy !! ;)
Cheers - Phil.
;) Indeed you were.
It be old age, and drugs !
Flibble, wurble, flarp. @-)
Cheers - Phil
Another (belated) welcome from me.
MickS
A belated welcome from Tasmania!