Quote from: Nosher on 12 April 2013, 03:15:26 PM
My dad had a stash of magazines too which were looked at over and over and over and over and over again

Hahaha - Happy Friday Night, Nosher mate 

Quote from: nikharwood on 12 April 2013, 04:12:42 PM
Hahaha - Happy Friday Night, Nosher mate 

No worries mate

The rather weird thing (which is probably too much info) is that I was helping him have a clear out recently when he moved to his new flat and the stash was still in situ. We had a few giggles about 'secret stashes' and agreed that a bit like smokers who think their partner doesn't know they are still smoking, the wife invariably knows and turns a blind eye or issues you with divorce papers!

What did make us LOL though was the amount of 'hair' ladies had in those days compared with today.

Not that I'd know a I dont have a stash...

This comes to mind, once again  

Are we getting into the realm of too much information at the moment ?
Cheers - Phil.

No, that classes as a public service announcement! 

 

These complaints about too much choice are uncomfortably like the arguments used by religious fundamentalists everywhere.

At the risk of getting too analytical, I think we may be mixing internal and external factors in a lot of this analysis.  I remember with great fondness when I came across wargames in the mid-late sixties. I was young, enthusiastic, full of excitement for something new. It was a great time, and with not much money the lack of choice did not seem to matter to me. There was always more out there than I could afford, and so there was always something new to discover. Looking back it seems a golden age, but that was the time of life when almost everything was exciting.  Today, I am older (much), but still enthusiastic.  There is now a vastly greater amount out there, and I have the disposable income to access it. The Internet has revolutionised the hobby, and created a critical mass for the hobby which the isolated groups of wargamers  of my youth never could..  The net has allowed me to make contacts and friends who share my enthusiasm all over the world, and to research into almost anything, no matter how esoteric it seems!  Manufacturers listen to customers (some more than others) and the quality of products is nothing short of magnificent.  The wargames world is, in my opinion, clearly in a Golden Age today, and we have nothing of any significance to complain about. It is brilliant!  But I will retain that nostalgia fuelled affection for the late sixties and early seventies.

Mollinary

Quote from: mollinary on 13 April 2013, 07:45:46 AM
At the risk of getting too analytical, I think we may be mixing internal and external factors in a lot of this analysis.  I remember with great fondness when I came across wargames in the mid-late sixties. I was young, enthusiastic, full of excitement for something new. It was a great time, and with not much money the lack of choice did not seem to matter to me. There was always more out there than I could afford, and so there was always something new to discover. Looking back it seems a golden age, but that was the time of life when almost everything was exciting.  Today, I am older (much), but still enthusiastic.  There is now a vastly greater amount out there, and I have the disposable income to access it. The Internet has revolutionised the hobby, and created a critical mass for the hobby which the isolated groups of wargamers  of my youth never could..  The net has allowed me to make contacts and friends who share my enthusiasm all over the world, and to research into almost anything, no matter how esoteric it seems!  Manufacturers listen to customers (some more than others) and the quality of products is nothing short of magnificent.  The wargames world is, in my opinion, clearly in a Golden Age today, and we have nothing of any significance to complain about. It is brilliant!  But I will retain that nostalgia fuelled affection for the late sixties and early seventies.

Mollinary

Except the lack of 10mm Mexicaans.

But that is what I said, FK, "we have nothing of any significance to complain about"!   

Mollinary

Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 April 2013, 09:05:08 AM
Except the lack of 10mm Mexicaans.

Are they related to the Afrikaans? 

Mmm, I'm clearly reverting to my Boer stock.

How many Boers have you got sitting in that 'Got to be painted box' then FK ?
Cheers - Phil

Finished them ages ago. You don't want huge numbers of such dull troops (sorry, Granny!).

Hi all
       From my own perspective I think we are now in the golden age of wargaming, there's an abundance of products out there far more than any one of us could use in one lifetime and it just seems to be getting better every year.

Take care

Andy

My golden age was 1979-1980. I had Peter Laing miniatures by the hundreds, and and 8x4 table that seemed never to be down. I had the Peninsula in 15mm and Waterloo in 20mm; Platea in 15mm and Arnhem in 20mm; no cares, a gorgeous fiancee and money coming in. All in all, a happy bunny.

I remember getting very excited by HaT industries. They offered a sweet shop of 20mm loveliness, and their ready made vehicles were a godsend to someone who always gets more glue on himself than on the model.

I have to say that for variety of figures, today is pretty golden, but I haven't found a commercial set of rules that I like for any period. I want Featherstone simplicity with added subtlety. I remember being quite surprised that a trio of Shermans could quite easily handle a trio of Panthers.

So, I would say that the age of innocence has passed (who else remembers Airfix figures with Plasticene headgear, pine cone trees and chalk roads?) and we have moved to a time of plentiful information, figures and rulesets. It's not better, just different. 

Now, or the five minutes when my old club went from playing 7th to DBA en masse in an evening! 

Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 April 2013, 01:36:52 PM
Now, or the five minutes when my old club went from playing 7th to DBA en masse in an evening! 

That's a jump up the evolutionary ladder!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 April 2013, 03:26:51 AM
That's a jump up the evolutionary ladder!

Several links missing, I'd say.