Quote from: fsn on 19 June 2021, 09:24:49 AM
I think we should all go back to wearing boaters whilst gaming.

Sorry can't get one large enough ! 

Love the pics fsn.  Those were the days.   Curious how 30mm prevailed then among the pioneers [but airfix 1/72 for us improverished kids] and the 25-28-"heroic" moderns have now grown to match. 

Do any forum members still have a sand table?    My newbuild floors already groan under the 10mm mountain. 

Quote from: fsn on 19 June 2021, 09:24:49 AM
I hear it all the time from a friend of mine - he's a dairy farmer.

I think we should all go back to wearing boaters whilst gaming.

I'm all for hats: Preferably one that reflect the rank of the player's command.

FSN... ah yes! That book and others still there, somewhere. Used to salivate over the pics, while mucking about with Airfix...and flaking enamel paint! 
On 'nostalgia'... having picked up a few 'Callan' episodes from digital TV recently, have been re-watching my DVDs... including the film, with 'Gettysburg' battle.
Hinchcliffe figs arranged by Peter Gilder. Just wondering what happened to the 'film star' pieces and scenery? Anyone know?

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timeline2.html

"Hey, Children, gather round... no, not too close, Josh and Marek... right! Once... a very long time ago... there were things called 'Libraries'. Where you could borrow 'someone else's' books! Yes, I know... Yeuch!, Jodi, you DO know what a book is... like a Mag but bigger!
Those books had been sweated on, sneezed on. smoked on... and sometimes still had bits of sandwich in them!
But people loved them..."

Hm. Somewhere on here I posted that I was unimpressed with the movie 'The Last Of The Mohicans' when it came out. '92 ish. Maybe it was a pub closing time vid  'hire'... and I missed bits! But, having got a dvd to re-watch, it IS rather good.  
The only thing that 'jarred' was the premise of Fenimore Cooper's title... they were NOT the last of the Mohicans... but that's Bset Selling Authors for you...  

I'm pretty sure Edward Woodward bought the miniatures and possibly the terrain from the episode they featured in 'Callan' as he liked them so much.

Not heard that.

Recently bought some plastic figs from a Great Guy on another forum. had quite a chat. Edward Woodward,  (as 'Wicker Man' ), came up.
Gentleman worked in an Edinburgh Hotel while Edward Woodward was staying. Saw E W was 'working' on a RHA battery and struck up chat! Did errands for paint. On departure, E W called him to room and thanked him with Hotel Manager present.... and gave him a hand painted figure and a 'tip' for nearly 3 wks wages!

Always liked Edward Woodward in his roles as Callan and The Equaliser, etc. The Callan Film DVD has an interview which is refeshingly 'normal'. Seems like a really nice bloke!
RIP, Sir.

Hadn't heard about table and figs... rather 'hope' true!

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 20 June 2021, 02:39:06 PM
Recently bought some plastic figs from a Great Guy on another forum. had quite a chat. Edward Woodward,  (as 'Wicker Man' ), came up.
Gentleman worked in an Edinburgh Hotel while Edward Woodward was staying. Saw E W was 'working' on a RHA battery and struck up chat! Did errands for paint. On departure, E W called him to room and thanked him with Hotel Manager present.... and gave him a hand painted figure and a 'tip' for nearly 3 wks wages!

Always liked Edward Woodward in his roles as Callan and The Equaliser, etc. The Callan Film DVD has an interview which is refeshingly 'normal'. Seems like a really nice bloke!
RIP, Sir.

Hadn't heard about table and figs... rather 'hope' true!

Not to mention a cracking "cameo" in Hot Fuzz.

Two terrific movie performances in "The Whicker Man" and "Breaker Morant", otherwise a fine talent on TV.

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 21 June 2021, 09:12:41 AM
Not to mention a cracking "cameo" in Hot Fuzz.

Aye, that one as well!

The Greater Good!

Quote from: Raider4 on 21 June 2021, 10:21:17 AM
Two terrific movie performances in "The Whicker Man" and "Breaker Morant", otherwise a fine talent on TV.

Aye, that one as well!

The Greater Good!

I'm still involved in arguments about that.
I contend that Woodward's part in Hot Fuzz was a reverse-Homage to his Wicker Man role.
One of those glimpses that ahve you chuckling to yourself like Sigourney Weaver's appearance near the end of Paul

In my memory the greatest attribute by far of the Callan film was Catherine Schell 

Now I have to go watch "Moon-Zero-Two" again.

Quote from: petedavies on 21 June 2021, 11:54:11 PM
In my memory the greatest attribute by far of the Callan film was Catherine Schell  

Now I have to go watch "Moon-Zero-Two" again.

Catherine Schell WAS a very acceptable substitute! But very little screentime!  Lisa Langdon 'was' 'Liz' in TV series... had 'her own' episode... and 'even took her...'  ... but nothing to see... quite rightly! FAR too much of 'that sort of thing'  on TV, nowadays! lol!    I Must be getting Old!