Freezing Rain today - Newfoundland at its best...

[d_Guy]

Welcome Stewart, excellent introduction!

Some of my best armies are unpainted, the very best reside in my imagination.

My local wargaming community is non-existent.

The PF is my community and will become yours as well I suspect.

As a long time lurker you will know that PaulR should write a pamphlet on how vast armies can be painted with the simple discipline of spending 20 to 30 minutes a day 365 days a year (I think he takes leap day off but could be wrong)
His trick is to post his daily quota here on the forum - often without picture.

His advise is sound.

Incidentally, I think every lurker should get a ribbon badge on their first post with a star added for each year from forum registration to that first post.

I have ideas for other ribbons but that's another story.

[Shapur II]

Absolutely. You may be focussing on Marian legions, then Pendraken release a range for the Risorgimento and next thing you know you're pouring over maps of the Po and eating Garibaldi biscuits.

Yup, I'm in the presence of kindred spirits! I will point out that printed maps are dangerous things.  Invariably one will wonder what is just off the edge, investigate, then see a place name that seems vaguely familiar.  A quick google search reveals an obscure battle and voila! Another war and range of figures to obsess over. 

Thanks to all for the comments and suggestions.  It is easy to feel welcome here and I already have one new project planned.  Oh, and yes there has been progress I did prep 10 command bases worth of 1809 Bavarians for priming.   Now I'll put on the ancient history podcast...  No!   Not a good idea

Stu

[Shapur II]

Newfoundland you say?

This really is a different place.  I'm not from here originally. That honour goes to a place on the west coast of the North Sea some 3462km from here.  That will take some detective work.  Think Jute...

A place of strange accents and silly place names, like Blow me Down, Wreckhouse and Come by Chance. I once spotted a hitchhiker holding a cardboard sign that said Dildo.  We have vikings, 18th century battles and a few German torpedoes fired in anger.  Kind, hardy and funny people. Those who like hiking, rugged scenery or alcohol consumption should consider a visit.   Oh, and we are closer to French territory that anyone in the UK, excluding the Channel Islands

They did get the pronunciation of the Island correct, something the denizens of the place are quite protective of.  I will comment on the pronunciation of Toronto though.  The correct pronunciation is Trawna.

Stu

[pierre the shy]

Welcome to the forum Stewart

Newfoundland sounds like a great place - think I should consider a visit one day as I seem to qualify on all three grounds (not so much on the booze one purhaps ).

Mrs Shy is a great L.M. Montgomery fan so she's talked about going just down the road from you to Price Edward Island one day for many years, though we've never made it yet....We know a couple of Kiwis who have recently moved to Toronto as well.

Maybe when we can all travel a bit more freely....

Anyway look forward to seeing your 10mm Napoloenics in due course. 

Cheers
Peter
   

[Leon]

Hi Stewart, welcome to the Forum!

[T13A]

Hi Stewart

Welcome and it looks as if you will fit in here just right!

Back in the day I remember being in the cockpit of a VC-10 flying over Newfoundland at night (landing at Gander on the way to Calgary) and the view was simply spectacular, the moon shining on the lakes, the number of stars in the sky, one of those experiences that will remain with me forever.

Cheers Paul

[Shapur II]

Mrs Shy is a great L.M. Montgomery fan so she's talked about going just down the road from you to Price Edward Island one day for many years, though we've never made it yet....We know a couple of Kiwis who have recently moved to Toronto as well.

Mr and Mrs Shy.  Of course all are welcome,  I can recommend a few descent places to stay, imbibe and a restaurant or two.  But I must be sure that people are forewarned about distances here.  Of concern is "going just down the road" to PEI. 

As Tango one three Alpha can attest, things are a LOT further apart than one might think. His stop in Gander, enroute to Calgary, would be less than half way from the UK.  Said distances are a major reason why hobby resources are difficult to obtain. For example, St. John's, where I hang my hat, to the Port Aux Basques ferry terminal is 903 km.  Then there is an 8 and one half hour ferry crossing to Nova Scotia, followed by close to 6 hours to PEI.  One could fly of course, but PEI is not on the beaten path so it is 10.5 hours in flights through Halifax.

Trawna is 3100km by road and ferry from St John's. The aforementioned Calgary, where my step-son resides, is 6200km from here.

To those upside-down on the far side of the planet, who also have funny accents, and where the flora and fauna is lethal, as befits a prison colony, these distances will be familiar.  I've also heard rumours about sexual acts with spiders but I find them difficult to believe.  Surely my cousins, yes, they ran even further from home than we did, would not...

But I digress.

Thanks to all for the warm welcome, but I'm still ranked as a Cadet despite Leon having commented on this thread.  So much for my 12+ year shopping while lurking credit.

Stu