I have to say I'm an active member of a few war gaming/miniatures forums and I have to say (and I mean it in a good way) that theses forums seem to contain the highest percentage of people who are a little 'out there' in a good way of course :D
So...the question is; Does 10mm attract the crazies? or you have to be a little mad to collect & paint 10mm?
At any rate I'm having a blast going through the older posts. Keep up the crazy.
Yes, to all!
:O)
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We are the normal ones. Some people do 28mm mass combat games.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 February 2015, 12:11:33 AM
We are the normal ones. Some people do 28mm mass combat games.
Are you saying myself and Sunjester are not normal.
I dont think there is anything odd about having 2500 28mm figures on the table
I resemble that remark and so do I :d
"Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood."
― Weihui Zhou
And that's the story me and FSN are sticking to :O) 8-} <:-P <:-P 8-} :O) 8-} :-B
For me it's the medication.
Well, it's a very friendly (and supportive) place and you can't say that about everywhere on the internet and I don't paint eyes on 10mm and the Pendraken people are really nice people to deal with, so I am OK if any of that is crazy.
You've got to be a little weird to wargame in the first place, but at least 10mm, 6mm and 2mm gamers get their stuff painted and in action quicker and in a space that doesn't destroy your back. 2500 28mm figs - I ask you!!! ???
Smaller the better !!!!!
IanS
Quote from: Leman on 03 February 2015, 09:27:33 AM
You've got to be a little weird to wargame in the first place
Agreed :)
Quote from: Leman on 03 February 2015, 09:27:33 AM
at least 10mm, 6mm and 2mm gamers get their stuff painted and in action quicker and in a space that doesn't destroy your back. 2500 28mm figs - I ask you!!! ???
Been there, done that. :o
I like to sniff the paint. :)
10mm seems like plain common sense. Rather than attracting 'crazies' it attracts those who appreciate value for money, good service, good product and have a wide interest in the various facets of the hobby. Accountants, bankers, telephone sanitizers, etc. :-X
Quote from: SV52 on 03 February 2015, 10:14:42 AM
Accountants, bankers, telephone sanitizers, etc. :-X
Ark B; yep, that's us ;)
Quote from: fsn on 03 February 2015, 08:24:09 AM
For me it's the medication.
That reminds me, I must get some more dried frog pills. :)
I think it's a combination of everything. I assume that others here also game in other scales so I wouldn't say that being a 'nutter' is exclusive to 10mm wargamers, although some of them are their own type of crazy...but all in a good way. My personal opinion is that people gravitate to their own kind so here we all are.
From the outside you have to be crazy to be a wargamer and from the inside you have to be crazy not to.
What is normal...discuss.
"Everybody is somebody's weirdo!" :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 February 2015, 10:43:48 AM
"Everybody is somebody's weirdo!" :)
Well Thanks...I am now terrified to leave the house as there is someone out there Nobby thinks is weird
Quote from: Fenton on 03 February 2015, 10:46:55 AM
Well Thanks...I am now terrified to leave the house as there is someone out there Nobby thinks is weird
Had a dreadful thought. What if its me! :o
Quote from: Fenton on 03 February 2015, 10:50:27 AM
Had a dreadful thought. What if its me! :o
It probably isn't :-[
I think you're all weird. It's the ones who I don't think are weird that need to worry, Techno.
Quote from: fsn on 03 February 2015, 12:58:04 PM
I think you're all weird. It's the ones who I don't think are weird that need to worry, Techno.
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: fsn on 03 February 2015, 12:58:04 PM
I think you're all weird. It's the ones who I don't think are weird that need to worry, Techno.
ME ?..........(You OIK !!) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
See, we have shouters as well, but it usually fal on deaf ears :D
Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 February 2015, 10:04:03 AM
Smaller the better !!!!!
IanS
She's lying to you, mate.
Quote from: fsn on 03 February 2015, 08:24:09 AM
For me it's the medication.
For me it's the single malt.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 03 February 2015, 10:14:29 AM
I like to sniff the paint. :)
I like to eat the paint.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 February 2015, 10:43:48 AM
"Everybody is somebody's weirdo!" :)
I'm everybody's weirdo. Especially Phil's 8-} <)
We can't be crazy, how would we paint with those straigthjackets on?
Unless we have some guys here who paint with there toes.
I'm more of a brush in mouth type of painter.
Actually i'm typing this with my nose..
Damn long sleeves..
:O) :O) :O) :O) :O) <:-P <:-P =P~ =P~ =P~ =P~ =P~ =P~ =P~ =P~
Quote from: Leman on 03 February 2015, 09:27:33 AM
You've got to be a little weird to wargame in the first place...
:o ??? ??? :-X :-\ :-\ :-S :-S @-) @-)
I never really thought about that.
Are we weird?
I've always thought it was the other people...you know...those weirdos who
don't game that were weird.
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 February 2015, 04:07:05 PM
I like to eat the paint.
Last night I went to brush my teeth and when I looked in the mirror I realised I had black paint in two lovely lines on my top and bottom lips where I had licked the brush to a point.
I lick the windows.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 February 2015, 12:43:26 AM
Are you saying myself and Sunjester are not normal.
I dont think there is anything odd about having 2500 28mm figures on the table
M'lud, the case for the prosecution rests.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 February 2015, 10:04:03 AM
Smaller the better !!!!!
IanS
Hope you other half agrees with that comment ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Luddite on 03 February 2015, 04:35:25 PM
I never really thought about that.
Are we weird?
I've always thought it was the other people...you know...those weirdos who don't game that were weird.
Mrs Orcs thinks so.
I reply I think its weird :-
Spending 4 hours hitting a small white ball into a hole.
Watching 22 men none of whom have any affiliation with the geographical area they represent chase an inflated pigs bladder round a field.
Watching stuff like big brother, or soaps on the telly
Reading gossip about people you don't actually know in magazines like Hello etc
I could go on .........
Quote from: Fenton on 03 February 2015, 10:46:55 AM
Well Thanks...I am now terrified to leave the house as there is someone out there Nobby thinks is weird
Be even worse if their was/is someone out thier that FSN thinks is weird ;D
What is weird is that we all get excited about getting promoted on the Forum !!! - WHY ?
6 more to go for me !!!!! :-bd
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 February 2015, 07:35:36 PM
Be even worse if their was/is someone out thier that FSN thinks is weird ;D
FSN is Nobby :P
I'm Nobby, and so's my wife!
So to surmise this thread so far;
- You're crazy if you don't do 10mm
- Most here self medicate by alcohol, ingesting paint in some form or other, or use other substances
- Lots of other weird stuff
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 February 2015, 04:07:05 PM
For me it's the single malt.
Yes, that's my medication too.
I've never seen a married malt. :o
I'll admit to being a 10mm nutter
Take care
Andy
Quote from: petercooman on 03 February 2015, 08:14:00 PM
FSN is Nobby :P
Yes I know.
For some reason I read Nobby and my addled brain translated that to Nosher! :-[ :-[
Sincere apologies Nosher.
Quote from: Dave Fielder link=topic=11350.msg145586#marry the right one... date=1422999844
I've never seen a married malt. :o
I'd marry Old Pulteney 25 years...
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 February 2015, 11:13:17 PM
I'd marry Old Pulteney 25 years...
What's the difference between a malt and a wife?
A malt always goes down smoothly. ( I've literally just finished my glass of old pultney)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 February 2015, 11:44:57 PM
What's the difference between a malt and a wife?
A malt always goes down smoothly. ( I've literally just finished my glass of old pultney)
Not a problem I recognise, but I don't have a wife so thats probably why :d
Why does a bride always smile when she walks down the aisle?
She has given her last B**w J*b
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 February 2015, 10:56:22 PM
For some reason I read Nobby and my addled brain translated that to Nosher! :-[ :-[
Wot? Am I Nosher now as well?
OK. Happy to oblige
FSN Nobby Nosher
Quote from: fsn on 04 February 2015, 07:17:11 AM
Wot? Am I Nosher now as well?
OK. Happy to oblige
FSN Nobby Nosher
You forgot Oik :D
Quote from: fsn on 04 February 2015, 07:17:11 AM
Wot? Am I Nosher now as well?
OK. Happy to oblige
FSN Nobby Nosher
Gon't forget, you've been me, as well. :D
Shears - Fill.
Quote from: fsn on 04 February 2015, 07:17:11 AM
Wot? Am I Nosher now as well?
OK. Happy to oblige
FSN Nobby Nosher
There's only one Nosher.... except when I'm playing with myself :-[
Quote from: Nosher on 04 February 2015, 08:29:40 AM
There's only one Nosher.... except when I'm playing with myself :-[
Weird...I thought you would have gone blind rather than seeing double ;)
Quote from: nikharwood on 04 February 2015, 09:33:12 AM
Weird...I thought you would have gone blind rather than seeing double ;)
Who the feck said that.... ;)
Blimey, this has stirred up a hornets' nest. It was only posted on the 2nd and it's already four pages long! :o :o :o
Sounds like it should now transfer to the barfight thread.
Quote from: Nosher on 04 February 2015, 08:29:40 AM
There's only one Nosher.... except when I'm playing with myself :-[
Did I post that? I think I may need a lie down.
Where Mrs Snugglepillow? - FSN
Quote from: fsn on 04 February 2015, 03:01:31 PM
Did I post that? I think I may need a lie down.
Where Mrs Snugglepillow? - FSN
;D =O ;D
Quote from: fsn on 04 February 2015, 03:01:31 PM
Did I post that? I think I may need a lie down.
Where Mrs Snugglepillow? - FSN
Too old for that sort of thing anymore. Or is that just mine?
Quote from: Hertsblue on 04 February 2015, 01:17:12 PM
Blimey, this has stirred up a hornets' nest. It was only posted on the 2nd and it's already four pages long! :o :o :o
Which for me justifies the original premise of the thread. ;D
Quote from: Upgraydd on 04 February 2015, 08:52:09 PM
Which for me justifies the original premise of the thread. ;D
True, although we did about six pages on the word Beau! Think that's about all the proof you need :D
I was discussing this with Chinua Achebeson, who is half norwegian and half Nigerian, the son of Chinua Achebe and a direct descedant of Harald Hardrada, king of Norway. He said 10mm gamers are the sanest people he's ever met. He was all striped like a zebra, except pink and brown instead of balck and white.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 04 February 2015, 08:30:05 PM
Too old for that sort of thing anymore. Or is that just mine?
You haven't met Mrs Snugglepillow!
Quote from: Dunnadd on 05 February 2015, 07:00:28 PM
I was discussing this with Chinua Achebeson, who is half norwegian and half Nigerian, the son of Chinua Achebe and a direct descedant of Harald Hardrada, king of Norway. He said 10mm gamers are the sanest people he's ever met. He was all striped like a zebra, except pink and brown instead of balck and white.
Whatever Dunnadd's getting is WAAAY stronger than what my man can prescribe.
Quote from: Dunnadd on 05 February 2015, 07:00:28 PM
I was discussing this with Chinua Achebeson, who is half norwegian and half Nigerian, the son of Chinua Achebe and a direct descedant of Harald Hardrada, king of Norway. He said 10mm gamers are the sanest people he's ever met. He was all striped like a zebra, except pink and brown instead of balck and white.
He is married to a lovely Chinese lady, The children are a delightful shade of yellow,pink and black squares
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 05 February 2015, 08:59:28 PM
He is married to a lovely Chinese lady, The children are a delightful shade of yellow,pink and black squares
I think I teach them :D
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 05 February 2015, 08:59:28 PM
He is married to a lovely Chinese lady, The children are a delightful shade of yellow,pink and black squares
Really? I thought those were the Battenbergs!
Also .... I am NOT a complete nutter! .... there are still bits missing :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 February 2015, 11:10:29 PM
Really? I thought those were the Battenbergs!
No the Battenbergs are that family that cost the country a fortune for very little return. :d
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 06 February 2015, 12:04:40 AM
No the Battenbergs are that family that cost the country a fortune for very little return. :d
Oh, they own a bank then.
And they make exceedingly good cakes.
Only if you like almonds. :-&
I'm definitely with you, regarding almonds, Ray !!!........YUK !! :-&
Cheers - Phil
Raw almonds with breakfast every morning - yum!
Love anything almond flavoured :)
Even Nobles 808 Plastic Explosive - or Cyanide ?
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 February 2015, 11:52:14 AM
Even Nobles 808 Plastic Explosive - or Cyanide ?
IanS
Especially them...begs the question; how do you know they taste of almond? (FSN would).
Quote from: Techno on 06 February 2015, 12:13:05 PM
NO !!!
YES
Taste = Smell well frequently. Both REEK of almonds.
IanS
Quote from: Fenton on 06 February 2015, 01:49:11 PM
Even Cyanide?
Well yes, I'm told that minute quantities of it create the almond taste. ;)
Well I'm still here. I developed a taste for them when we used to get sugared almonds for Christmas in the 50s.
Sugared almonds, almond cake, fruit cake with almond topping, North African and Asian food with almonds in...With me it's a bit like cheese and cakes, I've spent nearly 60 years trying to find one I don't like and only ever found one -a Madeira type cake with pieces of meat in on the breakfast table in an Italian hotel. Cheeses...still looking.
Quote from: Subedai on 06 February 2015, 06:02:21 PM
Sugared almonds, almond cake, fruit cake with almond topping, North African and Asian food with almonds in...With me it's a bit like cheese and cakes, I've spent nearly 60 years trying to find one I don't like and only ever found one -a Madeira type cake with pieces of meat in on the breakfast table in an Italian hotel. Cheeses...still looking.
I tend to like food which wants to kill me: high fat/sugar/salt.
Not a great lover of salty foods, probably accounts for the fact that I was chuffed when they brought out the DIY salt bags in crisps -the first time. Apart from that, if it's high sugar or fat, I'm all over it. Example: my favourite supper -usually about four times a week- is 4 slices of dry bread, a chunk of mature cheddar and a mug of tea. The rest of the time it's fruit cake especially stollen, Christmas or Dundee. Mind you, to compensate, I don't drive so walking is the done thing and Kent is rather hilly so I get enough exercise.
Your bread and cheese combo is crying out for a glass of wine!
Please gentlemen, I would now kill for a glass of Good Red wine or real Ale and some Cheese and biscuits or a nice piece of stollen with a coffee. Unfortunately I am at work so all of this is unavailiable
Quote from: getagrip on 06 February 2015, 06:08:58 PM
I tend to like food which wants to kill me: high fat/sugar/salt.
;D =D>
Mmmm stollen ! Unfortunately not in shops now only at Xmas time in Bavaria.
Lovely with a nice cuppa or even gluwhein.
I'm not mad but the voices tell me it helps to be with this lot🙈🙉🙊😃😃
Mmm...gluwhein. YUM!
Quote from: getagrip on 06 February 2015, 08:07:54 PM
Your bread and cheese combo is crying out for a glass of wine!
Bread and Cheddar and tea go together well but Brie or Camembert and French bread and red wine are a match made in heaven on a warm, balmy day in the garden. Add a good book to the mix and that's me set up for the afternoon.
Many happy hours spent in France eating bread, cheese and drinking wine :)
I like eating some cheese, drinking some wine, catching some rays and driving a pink tank.
Also playing with railways ?
too a sound track ??
IanS
Crumbs everywhere, no matter how you translate it...
I am certainly not crazy! In fact, I am the only sane person I know! ;D ;D ;D
They have a saying in the north of England: "Everyone's mad but thee and me - and I'm none too sure about thee!" :D
I'm not crazy and neither am I :D
Hope I am crazy, if not it means I'm mad! :-\
First Cow: I'm really worried about this mad cow disease.
Second cow: Not me!
First Cow: How come?
Second Cow: I'm a tractor!
:D =D>
(missed that one yesterday)
Just looked at the title of this thread again...
How big would a 10mm squirrel be? :-\
Approximately 150th to 160th of the size of a real one. :-\
Red or Grey squirrel?
Quote from: fsn on 14 February 2015, 08:31:39 PM
Red or Grey squirrel?
Depends how accurate you are with a shotgun :D
Laden or unladen squirrel?
If you were a king, you'd know these things.
Better perhaps - Red or Grey ?
IanS ;)
Probably green until it's undercoated.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 February 2015, 01:04:47 AM
If you were a king, you'd know these things.
How do you know he's a King ?
ianS
ps - answers on a postcard to Leon.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 15 February 2015, 09:25:16 AM
How do you know he's a King ?
Cos he's not all covered in green stuff!
Does that make Techno a king?
Quote from: Hertsblue on 16 February 2015, 10:09:15 AM
Does that make Techno a king?
Just means he needs to buy more handkerchiefs
Mrs Techno would go spare if I used a handkerchief to get the greenstuff off my fingers. :o
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 16 February 2015, 10:45:12 AM
Mrs Techno would go spare if I used a handkerchief to get the greenstuff off my fingers. :o
Cheers - Phil
Oh dear Lord...sarcasm overload...must resist...must resist...this is a serious forum :D
Quote from: getagrip on 16 February 2015, 10:48:18 AM
.....this is a serious forum :D
Had to check the web address, for a moment I thought I had logged onto the wrong forum! :)
Quote from: Techno on 16 February 2015, 10:45:12 AM
Mrs Techno would go spare if I used a handkerchief to get the greenstuff off my fingers. :o
Cheers - Phil
Least your not sculpting snotlings
They'd have to be RTV'd, if I did. :D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 16 February 2015, 11:13:11 AM
They'd have to be RTV'd, if I did. :D
Cheers - Phil
Your wide boy city street slang means nothing to me
What is RTV'd?
Room Temperature Vulcanizing, Steve.
Basically, making a mould from silicon rubber......Which means you don't have to worry about the 'original' being squished/flattened in the press.
In a way...If you can get the metal to flow through the 'set' mould, you could make a perfect metal copy of something like ....I dunno.....A real dragonfly's leg....If you really wanted to ! ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Sounds about as easy to achieve as perpetual motion. ;)
Quote from: Techno on 16 February 2015, 12:14:55 PM
Room Temperature Vulcanizing, Steve.
Basically, making a mould from silicon rubber......Which means you don't have to worry about the 'original' being squished/flattened in the press.
In a way...If you can get the metal to flow through the 'set' mould, you could make a perfect metal copy of something like ....I dunno.....A real dragonfly's leg....If you really wanted to ! ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Sorry you were saying silicon.....dragonfly....squished?....Must have dozed off...Sorry
Quote from: Fenton on 16 February 2015, 12:39:10 PM
Sorry you were saying silicon.....dragonfly....squished?....Must have dozed off...Sorry
;D =O ;D
Harsh, but very funny :D
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 February 2015, 04:07:05 PM
I like to eat the paint.
just playing catch up and saw this....
......so the question I have is - am I the only one to lick their paint brush and end up with stripes on their tongue?
My mum used to get furious about it, telling me it would rot my brain. (She was probably right with the old airfix enamels - but it doesn't seem to have done (much) damage).
My wife doesn't seem to mind (suspect its the life insurance)
Quote from: Vamboozle on 16 February 2015, 09:38:03 PM
just playing catch up and saw this....
......so the question I have is - am I the only one to lick their paint brush and end up with stripes on their tongue
Nope, pretty much a nightly occurance for me!
Also, anyone else get a multicoloured thumb from using it as a pallete?
Used to use the thumbnail...But it was a pain to get the stuff off sometimes !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 17 February 2015, 07:49:53 AM
Used to use the thumbnail...But it was a pain to get the stuff off sometimes !
Cheers - Phil
Can you remember that tips guide in White Dwarf that recommended black lining and using your thumb as a palate? At the next Games' Day about half the people there had black thumbs :D
Vaguely.
I'm sure there was one 'Eavy Metal where using your thumbnail as a pallete was mentioned.
May even have been one of the ones I ended up writing. :-\.....But that would seen results at a Golden Demon, rather than a Games Day. :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Vamboozle on 16 February 2015, 09:38:03 PM
just playing catch up and saw this....
......so the question I have is - am I the only one to lick their paint brush and end up with stripes on their tongue?
My mum used to get furious about it, telling me it would rot my brain. (She was probably right with the old airfix enamels - but it doesn't seem to have done (much) damage).
My wife doesn't seem to mind (suspect its the life insurance)
Only way to get a sharp point on the thing.
Quote from: Techno on 17 February 2015, 09:37:02 AM
Vaguely.
I'm sure there was one 'Eavy Metal where using your thumbnail as a pallete was mentioned.
May even have been one of the ones I ended up writing. :-\.....But that would seen results at a Golden Demon, rather than a Games Day. :-\
Cheers - Phil.
YOU MEAN YOU CAN WRIT....
IanS :P :P
Quote from: Techno on 17 February 2015, 09:37:02 AM
Vaguely.
I'm sure there was one 'Eavy Metal where using your thumbnail as a pallete was mentioned.
May even have been one of the ones I ended up writing. :-\.....But that would seen results at a Golden Demon, rather than a Games Day. :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Yeah, that was it: Golden Demon ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 17 February 2015, 09:39:02 AM
YOU MEAN YOU CAN WRIT....IanS :P :P
There
was an editor.....He had to decipher 'wot I rote.' (Poor bloke.) ;)
Cheers - Phil
I have been known to dip my brush inadvertently in a cup of tea.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 February 2015, 11:58:56 AM
I have been known to dip my brush inadvertently in a cup of tea.
Done that; it's when you go to drink your brush water you've got a real problem :-&
Quote from: getagrip on 17 February 2015, 12:01:52 PM
Done that; it's when you go to drink your brush water you've got a real problem :-&
Just to be on the safe side I only wash my brushes in vodka now
I did that once when I was russian.
Quote from: getagrip on 17 February 2015, 12:01:52 PM
it's when you go to drink your brush water you've got a real problem
Is that a euphemism?
Quote from: getagrip on 17 February 2015, 12:01:52 PM
Done that; it's when you go to drink your brush water you've got a real problem :-&
Dehydration, I'd guess. :)