Following Mongol Mania (which seemed to gather the momentum of the the South Sea Bubble), I was wondering if anyone has a unit (or army) addiction?
For me (fantasy gamer mainly) it's skellies: way too many units already but just ordered another 8. I just like to see them all lined up waiting to get trounced.
So come on guys: what's your poison?
In ancients it's light horse - got Huns in 15 and 6mm, with a fair few in 25mm as well. I'm Avoiding EAP at the moment - 25's only.
Modern - TANKS, TANKS and MORE Tanks......all scales.
1/600th Aircraft - Lightening's. - well maybe.
IanS
Considering using Mongols as Huns for 10mm.
Glad it's not just me then #:-S
What can I not stop buying??? .... toy soldiers and whisky :-[ :-[ :-[
Well yeah, alcohol is a given!
British Paratroopers and Churchill variants.
Which reminds me, we haven't got a Churchill I or Churchill II yet do we? :-\
I'm going to as Leon for commission on this ;D
Pretty much anything that takes my fancy :).
How's the pewter mountain Steve?
Centurions
Tanks? How many?
Loads of them :D
Actually I have bought some 3mm ones
Shiny, tanky goodness :D
Asiatic cavalry armies
Quote from: Fenton on 01 August 2013, 03:12:53 PM
Centurions
Some people on this forum can be so cruel.
1870 ranges.
Quote from: fsn on 01 August 2013, 05:40:28 PM
Some people on this forum can be so cruel.
In joke??? :-/
FSN has been whinging asking politely for a centurion tank in 10mm to be made, unfortunately it hasn't been produced yet so FSN hasn't shut up has been making the occasional inquiry of Leon about when it will be
It's zombies for me, I have a few hundred in 15mm right now, and I still can't resist getting more. Once I start on the Pendraken ones, I'll be doing the same again, just in 10mm.... :o
Late 19th century Prussians, Austrians, Saxons - oh, and mid-WW2 Soviet and German armour and infantry, yes, and Japanese WW2 along with 14th Army....
No wonder I'm always skint. :(
Quote from: Fenton on 01 August 2013, 06:40:59 PM
FSN has been whinging asking politely for a centurion tank in 10mm to be made, unfortunately it hasn't been produced yet so FSN hasn't shut up has been making the occasional inquiry of Leon about when it will be
Like it ;D
Evil, but funny.
Quote from: i_am_win on 01 August 2013, 06:49:01 PM
It's zombies for me, I have a few hundred in 15mm right now, and I still can't resist getting more. Once I start on the Pendraken ones, I'll be doing the same again, just in 10mm.... :o
Me too but in 10mm. I have 20 units of 3 bases each: five minis to a base. That's a lotta flesh :D
Quote from: get2grips on 01 August 2013, 07:08:54 PM
Like it ;D
Evil, but funny.
I don't know. You ask a few questions about a product and you get a reputation.
Quote from: fsn on 01 August 2013, 07:32:52 PM
I don't know. You ask a few questions about a product and you get a reputation.
A FEW questions... ;D
Well....
I for one will miss the banter.
Just hope fsn has his next 'want' lined up for when this particular item IS released.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 01 August 2013, 07:50:31 PM
Well....
I for one will miss the banter.
Just hope fsn has his next 'want' lined up for when this particular item IS released.
Cheers - Phil
Do I get commission... 8->
Do you know what he's after next.... already ! :o
Cheers - Phil
As if I'm some serial agitator! I'm just want the Centurion for the Korean War.
However, the T60 release has reminded me that the T35 is very much missing, and of course there are no Byzantines. Oh and some early chariot armies would be nice, and I've not put my foot into 10mm Napoleonics yet, but some rocket troops would be necessary ...
X_X
fsn wants Byzantines fro the Korean war? :-\ :-\
My weakness is women. Problem is their strength appears to be avoiding me. And my wife...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 August 2013, 08:28:54 PM
My weakness is women. Problem is their strength appears to be avoiding me. And my wife...
"To our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet!" :)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 August 2013, 08:28:54 PM
fsn wants Byzantines fro the Korean war? :-\ :-\
My weakness is women. Problem is their strength appears to be avoiding me. And my wife...
The thread is "stop buying". Are we talking mail order here???
Quote from: fsn on 01 August 2013, 08:08:51 PM
As if I'm some serial agitator! I'm just want the Centurion for the Korean War.
However, the T60 release has reminded me that the T35 is very much missing, and of course there are no Byzantines. Oh and some early chariot armies would be nice, and I've not put my foot into 10mm Napoleonics yet, but some rocket troops would be necessary ...
Sure you don't want any aztecs? :d
I for one always want more tanks; and bases, you always need more bases
Quote from: Ithoriel on 01 August 2013, 10:48:25 AM
What can I not stop buying??? .... toy soldiers and whisky :-[ :-[ :-[
Ditto 8)
ECW Armies.
At various times (and sometimes all at the same time :-[ ) I have owned matching ECW armies in 2mm, 6mm, 10mm, 15mm and 28mm...
at the moment its 6mm and 10mm, however I do have a desire for some 28's for Witchfinder General
Quote from: petercooman on 01 August 2013, 10:12:52 PM
Sure you don't want any aztecs? :d
I for one always want more tanks; and bases, you always need more bases
Bases don't count: you "need" them. Although there is something satisfying about seeing 200 or so bases stacked up.
Quote from: get2grips on 02 August 2013, 07:01:24 AM
Bases don't count: you "need" them. Although there is something satisfying about seeing 200 or so bases stacked up.
Thats my nightmare - it means I have to get all the basing material out and spend hours fiddling about which is wasted gaming time!
Quote from: Nosher on 02 August 2013, 08:15:35 AM
Thats my nightmare - it means I have to get all the basing material out and spend hours fiddling about which is wasted gaming time!
Nah, you don't have to actually use em, just see em piled up. I reckon everyone posting here has an embarrassingly large pewter pile :)
Quote from: get2grips on 02 August 2013, 08:22:32 AM
Nah, you don't have to actually use em, just see em piled up. I reckon everyone posting here has an embarrassingly large pewter pile :)
Come World War 3, when the bomb drops, I'll be safe behind my walls of lead while all these youngsters with their plastics and their resin figures will be down with radiation sickness <fade in "Always look on the bright side of life"> :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 02 August 2013, 09:07:01 AM
Come World War 3, when the bomb drops, I'll be safe behind my walls of lead while all these youngsters with their plastics and their resin figures will be down with radiation sickness <fade in "Always look on the bright side of life"> :)
Only if you're a retro gamer: the new ones don't contain lead. Unless Techno and Leon have been raiding church roofs :D
Quote from: get2grips on 02 August 2013, 09:15:05 AM
Only if you're a retro gamer: the new ones don't contain lead. Unless Techno and Leon have been raiding church roofs :D
I have "flats" in my collection bought in 1971 (and STILL not painted!!) so the lead content of much of my stuff is pretty high. So, I may be at more risk of lead poisoning than radiation poisoning :o
I'm a retro gamer 30 years under the belt :-B but what the hell are flats??? :-/
Miniatures with detail on only one side the other is 'flat'
Quote from: NTM on 02 August 2013, 09:30:26 AM
Miniatures with detail on only one side the other is 'flat'
Really, any chance of a piccy?
(http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/SteveW_04/Tercio_1005.jpg) (http://s625.photobucket.com/user/SteveW_04/media/Tercio_1005.jpg.html)
from
http://castlesoftin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/spanish-tercio-30mm-flats.html
Wow, they are brilliant but really, really odd. I suppose they were easier to cast.
I dont know a lot about them though I think they were stamped rather than moulded...you can still buy them but you have to paint in a lot of the details yourself freehand something I am crap at
Looking at the link all of those have details both sides so I may well have been 'misremembering'
Quote from: NTM on 02 August 2013, 09:59:33 AM
Looking at the link all of those have details both sides so I may well have been 'misremembering'
Yep detail both sides but effectively no depth to them - imagine a cardboard cut-out but cast in lead.
Somewhere in the shambles that is my house there is a cupboard within which lurk 6 Assyrian Archers, 2 Assyrian Pavise Bearers, a Slinger and an Assyrian King. They were produced in Germany and cost me three or four quid for the ten - at a time when I was earning £32 a week.
Sods Law. About a forthnight later I discovered Minifigs figures which were "round" not "flat" and a darn sight cheaper! So the Assyrians have languished ever since. As my first ever metal figures I am loath to get rid of them but as 40mm (iirc) flats I'm never going to use them.
Yes you are, monumental statues in a built up area!
Four times life size sounds about right for a Sumerian king!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 August 2013, 10:54:33 AM
Yes you are, monumental statues in a built up area!
Four times life size sounds about right for a Sumerian king!
I suspect any sculptor who produced flat statues of the king would be given a swift introduction to the insides of the sacred crocodiles, or equivalent!
Though suitably positioned as part of a wall they could perhaps do service as bas reliefs.
Quote from: get2grips on 02 August 2013, 09:15:05 AM
Only if you're a retro gamer: the new ones don't contain lead. Unless Techno and Leon have been raiding church roofs :D
There's still an element of lead in a lot of the figures on the market today, as well as the usual bismuth and antimony found in pewter alloys, as you need it for pliability. A 95% tin figure would be very brittle, and rifles/pikes/spears would snap rather than bend. I think our alloy is about 85% tin, 15% other metals.
As a fun test, try writing with your figures like a pencil. The easier it is to read what you've written, the more lead is likely to be in the metal.
Isn't that why we say "lead pencil"? They made drawing instruments (like silverpoint) out of bullet lead during Napoleon's expedition to Egypt.
<See, I can do more than moan about certain tracked beauties!>
"Lead" pencils are actually graphite, not lead.
I am old enough to remember writing on slate tablets with slate pencils at school, though.
Miniatures and all related items :-[
toy soldiers and whisky
Agreed!!!
For me its Austrians in every scale and period. I try to stay away from Austrians but some how I just find myself buying and painting them; 15mm WWI 10mm WWI 15mm 1920's, 6mm SYW, WAS, 10mm WSS, 10mm APW (APW after I wrote down plans to build a Danish army then ordered Austrians?), I don't know what it is maybe it has something to do with the letter A? Other day I started thinking about a Austrian early WWII army no idea why?
Wouldn't they be part of the Wehrmacht? I believe the 2nd Panzer Division was recruited mainly from Vienna and environs.
Nope. Würzburg and based in Vienna before the invasion of Poland.
CiC was Heinz Guderian ;) (Mr Tankwarfare)
Wine gums.
Quote from: Leon on 02 August 2013, 03:15:06 PM
As a fun test, try writing with your figures like a pencil. The easier it is to read what you've written, the more lead is likely to be in the metal.
A test we used at the Evil Empire to check whether the figure being painted was a master metal or a production figure, was to hold the figure close to your ear and tweak something relatively 'bendable' like a sword or spear....(We're talking '28'mm soldiers here.)
You could hear a very faint 'crackling' sound with a master metal....Nothing at all with a production model, which was made of a much 'softer' mix of metal.
This worked very well until the day that I swore the figure I was giving out to be painted was a master, only to be told the crackling noise I was hearing was the sound of my ciggy singeing my hair, as I held both model and ciggy up to my ear at the same time......Muppet !! :-[ :-[ :-[
Cheers - Phil (Who gave that habit up about 20 years ago,)
Quote from: Techno on 01 August 2013, 07:50:31 PM
Well....
I for one will miss the banter.
Just hope fsn has his next 'want' lined up for when this particular item IS released.
Cheers - Phil
You know when children whine and go on about something they want ie sweets , ice cream etc, - Its fatal and possibly bad parenting to let them have it as it just teaches them to whine more.
With this in mind I think Leon should refuse to sell centurions to FSN :d :d
Quote from: Ithoriel on 01 August 2013, 08:51:42 PM
"To our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet!" :)
I will second that :d
Quote from: get2grips on 02 August 2013, 08:22:32 AM
Nah, you don't have to actually use em, just see em piled up. I reckon everyone posting here has an embarrassingly large pewter pile :)
Surely you know the two wargamers rule of a long happy life
1 a Wargamer needs at least his own bodyweight in unpainted lead/ resin to be truely happy
2 When you paint your last unpainted figure - YOU DIE !
By these rules I am exceptionally happy and I should live to 183.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 August 2013, 06:40:21 AM
Surely you know the two wargamers rule of a long happy life
1 a Wargamer needs at least his own bodyweight in unpainted lead/ resin to be truely happy
2 When you paint your last unpainted figure - YOU DIE !
By these rules I am exceptionally happy and I should live to 183.
;D Could no more imagine painting my "last figure" than growing a third arm.
Has anyone here ever actually completed an army, i mean really COMPLETED; done, finished, no more (and that includes all those nagging command vignettes you promised yourself.
Quote from: get2grips on 03 August 2013, 07:25:44 AM
;D Could no more imagine painting my "last figure" than growing a third arm.
Has anyone here ever actually completed an army, i mean really COMPLETED; done, finished, no more (and that includes all those nagging command vignettes you promised yourself.
No - The completed army is an Urban Myth. Because
1. we all buy more lead for the army than we actually need
2. We get diverted before all of its painted
3 Even if we do get it all painted some pesky manufacturer brings out a new vehicle or unit we NEED, or just remodel the range.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 August 2013, 07:37:00 AM
No - The completed army is an Urban Myth. Because
1. we all buy more lead for the army than we actually need
2. We get diverted before all of its painted
3 Even if we do get it all painted some pesky manufacturer brings out a new vehicle or unit we NEED, or just remodel the range.
Good points well made. Why does my wife not understand that "NEED" :)
Or 4. With a couple more units I could have the entire brigade/division/corps/army/front (Delete as applicable.) ;)
Quote from: Hertsblue on 03 August 2013, 09:00:21 AM
Or 4. With a couple more units I could have the entire brigade/division/corps/army/front (Delete as applicable.) ;)
Yeah, that's the one. Completely movable feast.
I must be the odd one out then - I never go back to add to armies...I always work out the force I want, buy everything in one go - and paint them all in one go too...then they're done, and I'm on to the next one :)
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 August 2013, 09:35:55 AM
I must be the odd one out then - I never go back to add to armies...I always work out the force I want, buy everything in one go - and paint them all in one go too...then they're done, and I'm on to the next one :)
Yes but you paint 800 10mm figures including moustaches and eyes in between having tea and your daughters bedtime.
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 August 2013, 09:35:55 AM
I must be the odd one out then - I never go back to add to armies...I always work out the force I want, buy everything in one go - and paint them all in one go too...then they're done, and I'm on to the next one :)
... but then Pendraken add to their ranges and you can't leave the new loveliness unbought, can you? :-/ That just ain't natural!
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 03 August 2013, 09:54:53 AM
Yes but you paint 800 10mm figures including moustaches and eyes in between having tea and your daughters bedtime.
and while doing this, Nik can write on the forum with his other hand ! ;)
QuoteI must be the odd one out then - I never go back to add to armies...I always work out the force I want, buy everything in one go - and paint them all in one go too...then they're done, and I'm on to the next one
Freak... ;)
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 August 2013, 09:35:55 AM
I must be the odd one out then - I never go back to add to armies...I always work out the force I want, buy everything in one go - and paint them all in one go too...then they're done, and I'm on to the next one :)
I think we need to ask the forums man of the cloth Hugh (capthugeca) to pray for your wargaming soul,Nik
nikharwood IS Superman.
How can anybody be that focused, it must be a zen like state. Or perhaps The Force is with him.
Anyway did someone mention buying women or did i misread that. ;)
My own weakness is Matilda 2 tanks any scale, never to be used.
Quote from: howayman on 03 August 2013, 07:36:58 PM
Anyway did someone mention buying women or did i misread that. ;)
Yes it was Last Hussar "My weakness is women. Problem is their strength appears to be avoiding me. And my wife..."
While I have NEVER bought any woman I have offered him advice based on my own experiences in obtaining women (other than partner/wife) and he has decided that the Machiavellian ways needed, and the final cost implications are not for him
This is despite my explianing:-
Its not the cost you look at but the value.
You wouldn't want to drive the same car all your life
Newer models often have better bits to play with
Alternatively if you are not ready to trade your existing model in Its quite nice to have a "spare in the garage" to drive occasionally. ;)
...and that's when the fight started! ;D
Quote from: nikharwood on 03 August 2013, 09:35:55 AM
I must be the odd one out then - I never go back to add to armies...I always work out the force I want, buy everything in one go - and paint them all in one go too...then they're done, and I'm on to the next one :)
That's just twisted. Disciplined: yes. Sensible: yes. But seriously odd.
Kinda wish I could do it but can't resist new pewter loveliness.
Yep, if you work to an order of battle there's always one level up. And buying everything in one go - how soul-destroying is that?
Fair enough...I am clearly weird.
Next time, tell me something I don't know ;)
Nah, each to his own. And good luck with the move anyway.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 04 August 2013, 07:15:04 PM
Nah, each to his own. And good luck with the move anyway.
Thanks, Ray 8)
Quote from: nikharwood on 04 August 2013, 07:10:17 PM
Fair enough...I am clearly weird.
Next time, tell me something I don't know ;)
Nah, just REALLY disciplined =D>
I however...Hi, I'm Gareth and I have a pewter addiction...there...said it. Feel a whole lot better now :)
Finally found it.
Hi I'm Chris and i am also a pewter addict. You're right that does feel better :)
Quote from: howayman on 05 August 2013, 05:51:24 PM
Finally found it.
Hi I'm Chris and i am also a pewter addict. You're right that does feel better :)
;D
Come on people; testify!!!
Where can I find my local branch of Pewter Addicts Anonymous? :-[
Quote from: Hertsblue on 06 August 2013, 08:49:04 AM
Where can I find my local branch of Pewter Addicts Anonymous? :-[
Ray, lots or wargamers keep the fact they are wargamers, annonymous. ( I new one person who was married 3 years before breaking the news to his wife).
So your local wargames club isa full of annonymous petwer addicts. the problem with "Pewter Addicst Annonymous" or PAA as its known is that the members work completely opposite to other addiction groups.
At PAA you will be shown lots of shiney new pewter to drool over, Nicely painted pewter to covet and lots of encouragement to buy more pewter to enhance your collection, or even start one in a new scale or period. Members of PAA are proud of the amount of Pewter they have, particuarly the mint unpainted stuff and hoard it as a Dragon would hoard gold and jewels.
They will hold expiditions in to far away unknown lands inhabbited by barbarians to find lengendary places such as Smoggy Con or The Valley of "The Triples" where no addict has ever returned with anything more than small change in his wallet and vast quantiies of Pewter.
They will talk of the Dark Lords Leon and Dave, and wisper the name of the mythologial beasts such as the "Pendraken Centurion Tank" Darker Lords will even mention 10mm Aztecs or the evil empire. They may even get you to try the drug of Resin or even the new drug plastic. :d
So join if will, it will bring you great pleasure but wil do nothing to cure your addiction.
PS. I must have taken some of what FSN is on ;D
Thank you everyone for the attending the first official meeting of the PAA.
Later C19th stuff and Italian Wars.
Rulebooks
Quote from: GordonY on 06 August 2013, 07:58:45 PM
Rulebooks
Yeah, they are addictive. Not as shiny as pewter though :D
Oh god, don't talk about rule books. Do I really need 3 dedicated and 1 generic ACW sets?
Of course you do LH, you need as many as possible to fill up those shelves with, after all one set might give your favourite unit an extra edge in combat. The trouble is you dont know if it does until youve bought it skimmed through it quickly and bunged it onto the shelf.
Quote from: GordonY on 07 August 2013, 03:49:17 AM
Of course you do LH, you need as many as possible to fill up those shelves with, after all one set might give your favourite unit an extra edge in combat. The trouble is you dont know if it does until youve bought it skimmed through it quickly and bunged it onto the shelf.
Marry me :)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 07 August 2013, 01:00:40 AM
Oh god, don't talk about rule books. Do I really need 3 dedicated and 1 generic ACW sets?
Thanks nothing, I've probably got twice that number and have never actually played an ACW game!
Quote from: GordonY on 07 August 2013, 03:49:17 AM
Of course you do LH, you need as many as possible to fill up those shelves with, after all one set might give your favourite unit an extra edge in combat. The trouble is you dont know if it does until youve bought it skimmed through it quickly and bunged it onto the shelf.
Quote from: get2grips on 07 August 2013, 07:06:58 AM
Marry me :)
:D ;D :D