Mr Grumpy I owe you a beer or two!

Those links were exactly what I was looking for....not read all of it but just right. I have never seen them before!

I am a big fan of the Hopkirk books but as I game solo 28MM (though lovely) is out of both my pocket and my time frame but now with 10mm and those links........

Thank you again this is a surprise and wonderful reading!

Welcome. You've arrived at an auspicious time, when some long-overdue ranges are just about to be released.

Quote from: CarlLeyland on 30 March 2016, 08:14:59 PM
Thanks Chaps, it's a long time since I was a cadet!

Don't I know that feeling! But rank here has no discernible privilege - it is a wounderous silly place, with folks interested (and highly knowledgeable) in - well - just about everything! So welcome to the forum 1800Carl!  Consider that those sixty 10mm's have the surface area of maybe 7 28mm's and get stuck in when they arrive!

Oh - you may receive a welcome from an entity calling itself "fsn" - my advice - embrace the horror!

Quote from: d_Guy on 30 March 2016, 11:53:44 PM
Oh - you may receive a welcome from an entity calling itself "fsn" - my advice - embrace the horror!

You, sir, are fitting in remarkably, or perhaps I should say disturbingly, well.

Quote from: d_Guy on 30 March 2016, 11:53:44 PM

Oh - you may receive a welcome from an entity calling itself "fsn" - my advice - embrace the horror!

FSN does not have much human contact, and will be very excited if you embrace him, so I suggest you have a tissue handy 

Moaning.

IanS

Hello and welcome.
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4715.0.html
Are my 10mm Later Romans, great range! You will love them!
60 is nothing, if you don't try to paint individually!
Pop down to Costa/Starbucks/MaccyDs, help yourself to a few coffee stirrers, glue 10 or so along the stirrer.
But I do batches of 100 at a time these days!

Good morning Mr Leyland, and welcome to the forum.

There are many erudite and knowledgeable people here who as they have already demonstrated are quite capable of giving you a seemingly well reasoned response to your queries. It is true that most of them have reasonably lucid moments but my advice would be to take nothing at face value. One trick I have noted is that they remodel Pendraken miniatures in 54mm or even larger, then paint them which is a feat so simple that an 8 year old child wearing an eye patch and with its major muscle groups linked to a apparatus designed to deliver small electric shocks at random intervals (happy days) could still make a reasonable fist of it. These cunning members then photograph these 54mm creations and pass them off as 10mm. It's the only logical explanation.

You've just missed the annual painting competition. There's a few 54mm (and one I think may actually be a full size mannequin) that are winners, and that and the obvious bias within the judging panel towards those that they describe as having "talent" makes it a foregone conclusion about the winners, but there is a veneer of bonhomie that frankly is as brittle as the rictus grin on the "Little Miss Cute Oregon" runner up - there's a four year old with a budding personality disorder.

Anyway, welcome. I've been 10mm for about 4 years, and have everything from ancient Greeks to SF. No chariot armies though. Pendraken don't do chariot armies. Being of a mathematical bent, I compared the market and Pendraken seemed to be the best place for a 10mm one-stop shop. This they have proved to be, and the Dark Lord and his casting dwarves are very friendly and efficient.

So late Romans eh? You'll like Centurions then.





I've just had a thought. Do you think my painting would get better if I didn't wear the eye patch and electric shock apparatus?

Quote from: CarlLeyland on 30 March 2016, 08:14:59 PM
Thanks Chaps, it's a long time since I was a cadet! Just reading through the forum and it seems some people skirmish in 10MM? Wow!

Also what rules would be best for 1900-1930's? Pretty much where the Black Powder set ends?

Hi Carl. I'm also in the NW (Formby). I use groups of 10mm late Romans based on pennies for the Lardies' Dux Britanniarum.

 

Hello and welcome

Hi Carl,
Welcome aboard,
Late Romans? try Dux Bellorum and Impetus

Welcome to the forum - enjoy your journey into 10mm.

Thanks for being so welcoming, it's nice to have such an active forum. I am already a little stunned by the sheer scale (!) of everything here. Painting in batches of 100  also the quality of the Late Romans in that pic is amazing, I am certainly looking forward to getting started on my own figures now.

The extensive catalogue is a fun read in itself....army lists are starting to be written as I browse through it!

Thanks again for the help and warm welcome.

Quote from: CarlLeyland on 31 March 2016, 09:29:27 AM
I am already a little stunned by the sheer scale (!) of everything here.

I found the volume of traffic on this forum very daunting when I first joined, and actually I stayed away for a bit because I couldn't find anything that I was looking for.

One thing I now just do is use the "Show unread posts since last visit" button at the top left of the forum page. Its the only way to keep sane when trying to navigate the forum (though I've now dived straight in, and also contribute to the silliness - in the appropriate places of the forum - so I've become acclimatised to the place).

I have to say this is the most friendly and helpful forum that I use.   

Welcome aboard!