I definitely wish I'd got into the hobby earlier than I did. I dabbled very briefly with some Evil Empire games as a kid, and again in my early 20s but never got beyond painting a few models from a starter set and I didn't really know historical wargaming was a thing (beyond Napoleonics, which didn't interest me at the time).

Having only properly taken it up the last few years, it definitely highlights the amount of free time I had when younger compared to now! I can only imagine how many different armies I'd have had to play with.

(And that's having grown up mostly with internet and TV)

Quote from: mmcv on 02 September 2020, 07:58:47 AM
I definitely wish I'd got into the hobby earlier than I did.

And you would have needed 10 x the storage space by now.

I made the mistake of letting Mrs Ocs up into my wargames loft on sunday, as I needed help getting a bedframe down for my daughter.  She said " knew you had a lot of stuff but..."

Need some way of giving her a mind wipe so she no longer remembers

Quote from: Orcs on 02 September 2020, 08:29:06 AM
And you would have needed 10 x the storage space by now.

I made the mistake of letting Mrs Ocs up into my wargames loft on sunday, as I needed help getting a bedframe down for my daughter.  She said " knew you had a lot of stuff but..."

Need some way of giving her a mind wipe so she no longer remembers

This is true. I'm going to have to start packing some of my hobby stuff away into the roofspace in the next little while as we look to sell the house as apparently it's not likely to be appealing to potential buyers. Who knew? On the plus side, hopefully in the new house I can have a proper dedicated hobby room rather than a corner of the junk/storage room. My wife is so far reasonably okay with my meager collection. We'll see if that changes a decade down the line when it expands...