G'day All,
my name is Ian, and I hail from Victoria, Australia.
I purchased some Pendraken WW1 figures last year as a sample to see if I could paint them, being so much smaller than what I am used to, and didn't have too much problems with them, so now I hope to slowly put together an army for both sides of the Western Front to play the WW1 rules I downloaded here.
Setting up might be a slow process, as I have a limited budget, but I will post photos in the appropriate section when I have something to share.
Hi Ian, welcome to the Forum!
8)
Hi Ian, let me also say welcome to the forum.
I hope that, like me, you will enjoy the friendliness, wisdom, wit and frequent bouts of madness that characterise the place!
Hi Ian,
Welcome to the cool side!
Hi ian
Welcome to the forum. No madness here - Its just that we draw the line of sanity a little lower than most.
Howdy Ian,
Welcome, welcome!
Rob
Welcome on board Ian :)
Hi from me too, Ian.
Cheers - Phil
Welcome!
Hi, Ian, and welcome. I can't get over what a global village we've become.
Welcome Ian , hope you enjoy the forum
Quote from: Hertsblue on 18 August 2014, 08:16:25 AM
Hi, Ian, and welcome. I can't get over what a global village we've become.
I know HB its become like a subtitled version of Camberwick Green with FSN playing Windy Miller
Goodie! Goodie! Goodie! I can finally wear that smock!
... and hello Ian. Despite what you may have read, this is an erudite and cultured forum.
On Tuesdays.
When there's an "n" in the month.
Between 7 and 9.
GMT.
Quote from: fsn on 18 August 2014, 10:26:24 AM
Goodie! Goodie! Goodie! I can finally wear that smock!
.
I was thinking more of being slumped in the corner with a bottle of cider
Should I call the fire brigade.....
Hugh, Phew, Barny McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub.
Hi Ian
IanS
This is beginning to read like a meeting of AA with people saying Hi, my name is... and I'm a wargamer. :)
So I'll just join the rest and say welcome.
Yours is only the second time I've come across the name Shelldrake. The other was one of my English teachers from school in Southend.
Quote from: Subedai on 18 August 2014, 11:15:37 AM
Yours is only the second time I've come across the name Shelldrake. The other was one of my English teachers from school in Southend.
Interesting - I took the name from the military appointment title for artillery - which is a profession I have been doing for twenty two years now. I wonder if that teacher used to be in the army?
Whereabouts in Victoria are you?
Puckapunyal?
Based near Melbourne - about 2 hours away from Pucka
I used to live in Point Cook near the airbase
Quote from: Shelldrake on 18 August 2014, 12:07:30 PM
Interesting - I took the name from the military appointment title for artillery - which is a profession I have been doing for twenty two years now. I wonder if that teacher used to be in the army?
If he was it would have been in WW II, Korea or Malaya as he was getting on a bit when he taught us miscreants. If memory serves he was a bit of a stickler so maybe a corporal or even a sergeant.
I know our Deputy Head was in the Airborne at Arnhem.
By the time I got to secondary school Miscreants had been scrapped in favour of Latin.
No such luck here, Latin and Greek (Ancient) were part of the 'A' and 'B' stream syllabus. I was in what Connolly eloquently refers to as the 'Stupid but Saveables' of the 'C' stream.
Hello Shelldrake
Welcome to the forum from an ex-Victorian (now living on the north coast of NSW).
A great place to discuss things and people are willing to accept idiosyncrasies. I'm a case in point, been here for a while and no one has asked me to leave yet :D (usual response unfortunately to my inanities).
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Quote from: Subedai on 18 August 2014, 11:15:37 AM
Yours is only the second time I've come across the name Shelldrake. The other was one of my English teachers from school in Southend.
Wasn't that actually Shelly Drake who you had lots of fun behind the bike sheds with? :d
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 19 August 2014, 12:01:16 PM
Wasn't that actually Shelly Drake who you had lots of fun behind the bike sheds with? :d
;D ;D
If only, it was all boys school...although come to think of it, some of them were a bit...
Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 18 August 2014, 10:22:49 PM
A great place to discuss things and people are willing to accept idiosyncrasies. I'm a case in point, been here for a while and no one has asked me to leave yet :D (usual response unfortunately to my inanities).
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
As my old boss used to say, "English, Irish and Rubbish spoken here."
A man after my own heart.