Hello from North London

[senormeek]

Hi everyone

I thought I should probably introduce myself. I'm a returning wargamer, having been mostly away from the hobby for over 20 years. I started wargaming as a child with my Dad in the '80s, mostly Napoleonic but a bit of Ancients too, using his collection of old Minifig 15mm (although they don't have the detail of modern minis I'm still very fond of them) and Wargames Research Group rules. Always good fun. I then moved into Games Workshop, pretty much playing the full range, before falling out of the hobby in my teens. Twenty-odd years then passed without me collecting anything, although I'd still have a game of 15mm Naps with my Dad every few months. But fast approaching 40 I've now returned to the hobby, starting with Napoleonics, my first love and my Dad's obsession.

I initially wanted to do something different to him scalewise. I thought about 28mm as the figures are lovey but I just don't have the room to do this justice. I'm a firm believer in big units for Naps to give that mass effect and you need a lot of space (and cash) at 28mm. I decided on 6mm and bought a lot of Baccus, which are nice figures. But I'm just not enjoying painting them. Am finding them too small and fiddly. So I've bought some Pendraken as testers and think they're lovely! And I'm enjoying the painting much more. Am now planning getting a whole load more, with a view to playing the 1815 period. Going for 1:15 ratios I think. So 36 French and 40 British in line battalions. Should give a good look I think.

Anyway, enough rambling from me. I mostly wanted to say hi. I've been reading the forum for a while and it looks a friendly place!

Cheers

Mike

[Zippee]

Welcome,

This is probably the friendliest forum on the interweb - which to be fair is a fairly low bar 

Whereabouts in North London - I'm in Walthamstow?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hello and welcome!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Bloody suferners  - welcome

IanS

[d_Guy]

Hi Mr. meek. I welcomed you at another thread regarding Peninsular War figures but this is the official meet and greet - so welcome again!
It is a friendly place where even our most  curmudgeonly manage to struggle over the bar Zippee mentioned. As you have been reading the forum I need not warn you about some of the "elementals" that haunt the place - they are harmless tricksters and fun-loving spirits but forewarned is forearmed. 

[fsn]

What Ho, Senor Meek!

Welcome to the Forum. If you've lurked you will know we're a mixture of the strange, the wierd and the downright odd. However, the mind-mass is quite surprising in what it knows and the painting skills of some members are to be admired and hated in equal measure. (You know who you are!)

Glad to hear someone's doing some proper gaming, in a proper period. I agree that 10mm is superior to 6mm, especialy as you get a bit older and the eyes start to fail.

I've just re-re-relaunched my Napoleonics (did 20mm, 15mm and now 10mm) and agree on the big battalions. I'm looking to 1:10, with units of about 60 figures. Just readied the first bttn for painting and it's quite intimidating! I have skirmish forces of platoon strength smaller that this one bttn.!

Please put up some picture sof your work. It will be better than mine, which is the low-bar of the forum.

Welcome, enjoy and dive in!

[Leon]

Hi Mike, welcome to the Forum!  I've just packaged your paint order as well, so that'll be in the post this afternoon.

[DFlynSqrl]

Welcome!

[Techno]

Welcome, Mike.

Cheers - Phil.

[Subedai]

A big 'Wotcha' from Kent.

MickS

[PB]

Hello and welcome

[paulr]

Welcome

[Orcs]

Welcome Mr Meek.

Its good to have another person from North of the river.

Please ignore ianrs54, he has yet to realise that the world (or all of it that matters) ends at Watford Gap.

[Steve J]

Welcome on board

[senormeek]

Thanks folks - appreciate it!

Zippee - Am in Crouch End, so not too far away.

IanS - Actually I consider myself an Easterner: born in Lincolnshire of Norfolk stock (cue in-bred gags...)

fsn - I was doing 1:10 with my 6mm. I think 60 man units look brilliant. It's just a lot of models! I think I'll cut back at 10mm but it's still tempting... Will put some painted Pendrakens up as soon as my three-month old gives me enough time to finish them!

Leon - Thanks for the order update (just a few additions to the paintbox!) and for the response to my customer order email.

thanks again

[Norm]

Hi Mike, look forward to following your progress of getting back into napoleonics via 10mm.

[Sandinista]

Welcome Mike

- I'm in Walthamstow?

Lived there in the late 80s in Clifton Avenue by the Royal Standard, spent many a night getting drunk listening to music in that venue. Great memories. 

Cheers
Ian

[Westmarcher]

A howdy do from me, too. 

[FierceKitty]

Brace yourself for the discovery that Napoleonics have been replaced by SYW as the thinking gamer's horse-and-musket choice.

[fsn]

Never!