Hi from Cumbria

[Chrissy]

Hi all,

Firstly, I should say a great big thank you to the Pendraken team, and especially Leon and Dave.  I placed my first ever order with Pendraken about 5.30pm  on Wednesday (an ECW Royalist Army Pack) and it arrived about 25 mins ago.  From ordering to delivery was just 42 hours!  Damn marvellous.  Thank you guys, I really appreciate it.  (Yes, of course I realise that they would have the army packs ready made - but that is just brilliant service.)

Well from the title you will guess I am in Cumbria, a far flung corner of the war gaming world!  

I used to paint an awful lot, concentrating mainly on 6mm and 15mm, the 25/28mm never seemed to work for me personally as although there was the weight and money value on the table the figures never seemed to 'represent' anything above a platoon or at most a company unit.  I like an army to at least look like an army, and it is a lot easier when there seems to be a lot of figures on the table.

I doubt I shall actually be gaming much, I guess I am coming back now mainly for the painting and of course hopefully attending the odd show, where no doubt I will hopefully show off at some stage my uncanny knack of rolling exactly the wrong dice roll.    

I am starting off with ECW, a period I love, and having seen the figures just now (and having seen some photo's of other peoples work on this forum when I used to skulk about as a guest) I am sure they will not disappoint (whether my painting skills will do them justice is another thing though).

So my plan of action is to complete the ECW figure collection in January with the Parliamentary and Scottish army packs and probably a few add-ons.  If these go to plan and my painting produces fairly adequate looking armies then I shall start looking at other periods as follows (although not necessarily in order).



Anything from Ancients through to Napoleonic !!!  


(I might even throw in some Colonials, WW1 and WW2, and others as well, who knows.    )


Although I am semi-retired now I have been itching to get back into painting and wargaming for a few years, so at long last here I am folks.  I will put up some pictures in the New Year and let you all have a good laugh and realise that there IS someone who is a worse painter than you ever imagined.  

Now time to go and drool over a little blister of shiny bits of metal.  (Again thank you Dave and Leon.)

[Techno]

Welcome Chrissy !
We don't laugh at peoples' efforts here.
It's all encouragement.
The friendliest miniatures forum around.
Enjoy !

Cheers - Phil.

[Orcs]

The friendliest miniatures forum around.
Enjoy !

Cheers - Phil.

And the maddest.

Welcome Chrissy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hello there.
Use to live in Clappersgate, where abouts are you?

[Chrissy]

Thanks for the welcome guys.

Mad Lemmey, I am in Milnthorpe, basically half way between Lancaster and Kendal.  Lovely place, very few tourists, about a mile from the sea and open countryside a few hundred yards from my front door.

[Techno]

And the maddest.

Ooops...Yep....I forgot that bit !

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Oh lovely!

[Steve J]

Welcome on board Chrissy.

[Leon]

Hi Chrissy, welcome to the Forum!  Glad to hear the army pack arrived OK as well, we grabbed that one off the show racks, so it's all shiny and nice!

[nikharwood]

Welcome Chrissy - they're right - no mocking here (well, some, but usually in the Forum Barfight thread  ) and a really friendly place to be...

Looking forward to seeing your progress on the ECW: it's one of my favourite periods as well & (I think) the second load of figures I bought from Pendraken many, many years ago!

Oh - and I'm going to ask (seeing as how no-one else has...) are you a Male or Female Chrissy?    No worries either way (duh...) but we do have some female compadres here & it'd be good to see some more 

[Chrissy]

Hi Nik,

Well it is a long story, I picked up the nickname 'Chrissy' about 30 years ago, it actually is my wife's name.  At the time we were newly weds and we worked conflicting shifts so when I used to 'go out' I always used to phone home if my wife was about to leave for work or had just got in from work, so everyone started calling me 'Chrissy' as a pee-take as that is what they heard me call my wife on the phone.        Since then the nickname has just seemed to have stuck, and now when I am doing something, like this, as recreation and fun I quite often and without thinking about it just use my nickname.

My name is 'Bill', just coming up to my 54th birthday, way overweight, my hairline decided long ago that retreating was fashionable, and my voice is about as gravelly and monotonously deep as you could get!  But for some reason 'Chris' has so-far decided that the cost of paying divorce lawyers isn't quite worth it!   

Sorry for the confusion caused, it was done without any forethought, 'Chrissy' is just a nickname I am now used to.   

[nikharwood]

Nah - no worries 

We can cope with all kinds of nicknames around here...have a trawl & you'll see 

I know what you mean about the price of lawyers - I think that, plus a natural dis-inclination to "train a new one", are the major factors in my 16 years (and counting) marriage 

[FierceKitty]

With my nickname I'm often taken for a woman online.

[Luddite]

With my nickname I'm often taken for a woman online.

Bet that makes your eyes water.

[Nosher]

Welcome to the madhouse Bill

Lovely neck of the woods you're fortunate to live in. Lots of happy memories of camping, hiking, fishing and canoeing in the area as a younger man...