Been meaning to join up here for some time and the discussion lately regarding 10mm thought I should make the move. I've been told it's a friendly bunch in here ? <:-P
Hi Tarty
Welcome from another newbie.
Cheers
PB
G'Day, Mate!
Hello and welcome.
Watch the insanity, it's catching!
Hi Tarty,
a warm welcome to the forum from me too.
It is hard to find a forum on the net that combines the levels of welcome, wit, wisdom and weirdness as is found here :)
Enjoy!
Hello Tarty
Welcome from another Aussie. You've been warned about the insanity so I won't reiterate. Very friendly place here, don't be backward in coming forward to ask what might seem dumb questions. You'll be surprised at how much help and knowledge resides here.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Hi Sydney (Sorry someone had to do it )
Welcome to the forum :)
Two Aussies one after the other. Leon the filters you set don't seem to be working correctly ?? ;D
They gave us Patrick White and David Malouf. Must be something going right down there.
Moaning - and read signature.
IanS
Welcome on board.
Welcome on board, Tarty. :-h
Cheers - Phil
Welcome aboard Tarty. Ignore Ian, he's probably going to vote leave - not Europe, the World.
Good morning/afternoon ... erm ... Tarty.
We seem to have had quite an influx of Australians in the past few weeks, and welcome you all are.
Which periods grab your fancy?
Whichever, there will be someone who will emit three loud "Huzzahs!" at your choice - almost guaranteed to be me if an internal combustion engine is involved.
Anyway, dive in, enjoy the inanity and the insanity as much as the erudition and artistry.
(By the way, do you know my cousin? He lives in Australia.)
welcome to the forum Tarty.
There are a few of us based over the ditch here in NZ who play a fair bit of 10mm, mainly AWI and early WW1 currently.
Hi Tarty
Welcome to the mad house
Take care
Andy
Yep I can see myself settling in here quiet nicely hahaha....Cheers everyone.
Thinking of dipping the toe into 10mm I've been a fan for awhile. Have fallen in love with the LoA range as many others here have I'm sure. 28mm Ancients is my usual drink of choice but looking at doing something different. Maybe 30yw ? also tickles my fancy somewhat I must say.
And should you ever be bitten by that peculiar fantasy bug there's always the League of Ratsburg range.
Ancients work far better in the smaller scales. One needs big armies to do the exciting Cecil B. de Milles stuff.
"Ready when you are, Mr de Mille."
I wonder if the (a) cameraman really DID say that. (Great story, anyway.)
Cheers - Phil
"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr de Mille." That one isn't in doubt, at least.
Welcome to the forum Tardy! LoA - great range, great period.
G'Day Tarty old chap.
You'll find a lot of poms here, but mostly we don't whinge.
Always good to have more ANZACS on board of course. :)
10mm and 28mm are the only two scales worth the trouble, so you should fit in nicely.
Welcome to the toy box. What was that? Who said that? Mad? Mad they says. Oh no, not mad. Not so much as I don't know it.......
Hi Tarty, welcome to the Forum!
8)
Quote from: Luddite on 04 May 2016, 01:58:50 PM
You'll find a lot of poms here, but mostly we don't whinge.
What's the difference between a 747 Jet and a pom?
The jet stops whining when it gets to Sydney
We used to make that joke about ex-Rhodesians as they got off the 'plane at what was then Jan Smuts airport in Jo'burg.
Hello there =)
Morning all, I've just posted on another thread but this is a better one to introduce myself. I'm in Sydney too - although planning a move to Hobart. I do various periods in 6 and 10mm solo only. Mainly land but a bit of naval too .
Come on Prof. Spill the beans. Which periods?
Hello profjohn
What periods? In 6mm I do Napoleonics, ECW, AWI, FPW, GNW, Spanish Succession, Risorgimento, Sikh War, Sudan and Medieval; in 10mm Crimea, Ist Schleswig and I have ACW Intervention, Pacific War and 2nd Schleswig in the lead pile. In naval I do Napoleonics, Renaissance galleys (the wonderful Langton range) , and Pre-Dreadnoughts (Sino-Japanese war). I'm currently thinking about a big plunge into League of Augsburg - Sedgemoor, Boyne and Scanian War - as well as the '45 and a small collection for the Irish Rebellion. I have to say I am also tempted by the 15mm Anglo-Persian figures that Irregular do but I am trying to resist going into bigger scales - so if Pendraken fancy doing that war (British and Indian troops double for the Mutiny) I'll be first in the queue. there is something about camel mounted artillery that can't be beat!
I had a break of over 40 years from wargaming and had sold all my soldiers except my collection of flats when I moved to Australia. My wife pointed out - accurately - about three years ago that I did little else except work and drink and needed a hobby. I had a muse on that and discovered that since I'd stopped wargaming (when only 20 and 25 were really available unless you had really deep pockets and could afford 30mm Staddens) the smaller scales had appeared and also the most wonderful proliferation of models. So not only could I assemble large armies and at reasonable cost and store them without having to colonize the whole house I could also do all the wars that I was interested in years ago (from books like Kannik) but for which nobody made the figures. In many ways the research and painting interests me more than the gaming itself but I do put all my armies through their paces from time to time using Black Powder and variants thereof - and that's me.
all the best from a rainy Sydney.
All that in 3 years!
Dear Professor, I take my hat off to you.
Like I say, it's nice to have some class. I'll even forgive you the Siren pull of the LoA range. It seems to be very popular for some reason unknown to me. The new generals do seem to be nice sculpts though.
I think they're still expanding the range. "Grenadiers realising that perhaps they should have gone before joining the line" are in pre-production and the "Dragoons debating the results of the previous night's cockfighting" are a wonderful vignette, if perhaps niche market. Of course, the "doleful gunners contemplating a switch in religion" is a pure vanity piece.
Still, we (the stunned insects in the Pendraken bug zapper) are always pleased to see an expansion in the range.
X_X
Have you taken the green pills, instead of the pink ones, this morning, Nobby. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Welcome Prof! I had a similar large gap in my wargaming career and took up 10mm when I retired also. I plan to do Sedgemoor when I turn 85. The problem with 10mm and Pendraken in particular is you can dabble in so many periods with out breaking the bank or hiring a U-Store-It. Start posting pictures :)
You have now met Nobby (fsn) who is an institution here - or maybe an institute - or - shoot, what did they tell me - institutionalized! That's the word.
Brilliant discriptions as always, M'Lord Runicorn
Thanks for all the kind words gentlemen. I must say that one of the things I've enjoyed as I get back into our wonderful hobby is the supportive environment of these forums and how helpful people are with information and how positively people always respond to other people's work. A real pleasure to meet you all.
Quote from: profjohn on 09 May 2016, 12:42:35 PM
Thanks for all the kind words gentlemen. I must say that one of the things I've enjoyed as I get back into our wonderful hobby is the supportive environment of these forums and how helpful people are with information and how positively people always respond to other people's work. A real pleasure to meet you all.
NOT a member of TFM, I see.
Quote from: profjohn on 09 May 2016, 12:42:35 PM
Thanks for all the kind words gentlemen. I must say that one of the things I've enjoyed as I get back into our wonderful hobby is the supportive environment of these forums and how helpful people are with information and how positively people always respond to other people's work. A real pleasure to meet you all.
Just be prepared for the frequent bouts of utter lunacy, Prof. ;)
Cheers - Phil
And a warm welcome from me too. :-h
Welcome profjohn. Looks like you've had the 'particularly little people' bug a lot longer than I have this is my first project. Put an oder in for two ECW armies last week was also very tempted by the LoA range but I have got this in 28s already. Didn't stop me thinking seriously about it though .....and still tempted hahaha.
No rain in Sydney today <)
No - nice here today. I've been swimming in fact. Then basing up some 1:3000 pre dreadnoughts for a what if? Anglo-French confrontation off Indo-China c 1895.
Wuz drr swumming to test the ships to if dey iz watter proof ?
Eccles