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General => Announcements and forum stuff => Introductions => Topic started by: AlyMorrison on 17 March 2013, 02:51:04 PM
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Hello
My name is Aly Morrison and I am a wargames butterfly...
There I've said it...
I don't need any help I like being this way, just show me lots of pretty things to flutter around.
All the best. Aly
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Let's face it that's not a particularly rare disease around here, I have a pretty chronic case myself.
Welcome :)
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Welcome to the LAF. You're not Aly Morrison of Marauder Miniatures fame are you? :D
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Bzooooot!
(welcome to laf 8) )
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Yes Elk101
you are one of the few people old enough to remember...
I am the Aly Morrison of Marauder Miniatures...
I'm not so sure about the fame though :)
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Nice to 'meet' you Aly! I was always a fan, especially of your orcs. I'm not so much old as I started young :D
What are you up to at the moment, besides Great War miniatures, which I have been eyeing up lately?
Cheers, Steve
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I remember, too. Happy to meet you here, Aly (or was it Alaistar? :)), always loved your work for Marauder and Citadel.
welcome and hope you don't flutter away :)
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Hi guys
I am still doing Great War Miniatures, although Dave and I have had a bit of a rest , the Alma game last year nearly broke us ,it's not our day job and we are not as young as we used to be.
I have also added some new stuff to my Shiny Toy Soldier range , a sub range called Little Britons.
I still work for Citadel (GW) but you probably won't see me posting on any fantasy/sci-fi topics, when I leave work at night I leave it both physically and emotionally , I prefer to war game the 19th and 20th century with a smattering of 15th,16th,17th, and 18th thrown in (I told you I was a butterfly).
People who visit my house are often surprised to find absolutely no fantasy figures what so ever...just a collection of miniatures covering every obscure war you can think of ..most "just started" or "nearly finished" plus lot of shiny traditional toy soldiers and a collection of model cars from the Tintin comics ( one day I will get them into a wargame ). ;D
Only my my mother calls me Alastair(and my girlfriend when I am in trouble) ;)
All the best. Aly
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I prefer to war game the 19th and 20th century with a smattering of 15th,16th,17th, and 18th thrown in (I told you I was a butterfly).
Pft, that's only about half a millenium, there's so much more history to get distracted by. ;)
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Welcome to LAF.
I really liked your work with marauder miniatures.
Glad to have you here with us.
Best wishes.
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Hi Aly,
Welcome aboard.
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Hi Aly and welcome.
Unfortunately one of my unfinished projects consists of your wonderful 1914 Germans. Hey ho, one day I'll have done enough to face them off against my Russian horde ::)
Regards,
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Welcome Aly
I understand the thing with the fantasy miniatures
one has to draw the line somewhere between work and home
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Pft, that's only about half a millenium, there's so much more history to get distracted by. ;)
I put everything pre 15th century in the shed...
Then got into Prince August home casting...
Same lead different shape :?
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Welcome and I'm old enough to remember Marauder Miniatures.
Tony
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Wow! This is indeed a blast from the past. Welcome! :D
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Hi Aly! Some if your miniatures were amongst the first I ever painted! Nice to meet you!
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Welcome Aly. Marauder sounds rather familiar to me too, although I can´t put a face to your name. However somehow the LAF is a beach where every flotsam and jetsam from the entire wargaming community is to be found one day.
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Yes Elk101
you are one of the few people old enough to remember...
I am the Aly Morrison of Marauder Miniatures...
I'm not so sure about the fame though :)
I think you'll find that there's a lot of us that remember your work for Citadel. Marauder? Unfortunately after my time, really...
Otherwise, what everyone else said. Welcome.
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Welcome! I adore those Marauder minis, and the Citadel ones, as well.
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Welcome to LAF 8)
I remember seeing your name on occasion in my early wargames days. I really like your Great War Miniatures WWI range… despite it’s obvious gaps ::)
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Hi Calimero
What gaps.......? ::)
Actually David and I were talking about revisiting WW1 .
We thought we would get something out for the centenary next year .
I make no promises as I have the Crimean French to get started and some Shiny Toy Soldiers to finish.
Unfortunatly life keeps getting in the way and stealing all my time :?
All the best. Aly
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Welcome aboard!
With such a variety of interests, this place should keep you busy, and out of trouble, for a long time.
Once word gets around the Fantasy board that you on here, however, you will probably be inundated with requests to make more of your old stuff (which I have very fond memories of :D).
Good luck!
lol
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Wow, welcome, I remember the old Citadel and Marauder days too.
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WELCOME ABOARD! May your stay be LONG & MERRY!
I think you'll find that you have quite a following here...including moi. From your appearances in the older White Dwarf, aside from being wildly creative, you came across as being a genuinely likable Guy...SO well met, Amigo!
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Wow Aly Morrison! Welcome!
In my best memories playing AD&D (when i was a teen) I use one of your miniatures for my character :-)
Sadly that was a long time ago :-(
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Hi Aly, and welcome to the forum.
I teach history for a living, and I think that is one reason I have generally avoided painting historical miniatures in the past - too close an association with the work day (although I really enjoy my job, but still...). I mainly collect and paint fantasy with a smattering of SciFi for variety. Of late though I have started collecting some historicals - had a blast playing some historical games at Historicons - and I have just actually finished painting some. Really my first "military" historical figures (I have done a few odd cowboys and Pulp figures that could be historical, in the right light).
-Michael
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@Aly
… a French 75mm gun would be nice for the early war period. Also some late war French infantry and cavalry. What about a pack of specialist too? Sniper, nettoyeur de tranchés, etc. The French army did have some tireurs d’élite in WWI and some of them were equipped with the first model of semi-automatic rifles…
But I’m as focused as you are so Crimean War French would be nice too… ;)
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Hi Michael
I think one of the joys of our hobby is that it is such a broad church...
you may like Cowboys ,Dwarves or Goblins, I like Grenadiers, Hussars and Tanks,
but we are both still playing with toy soldiers and having fun.
I didn't know there was an Edinburgh in Texas ...
I come from the Edinburgh in Scotland :)
Calimero...
I know...
Dave and I always try and make and release enough troop types to allow someone (and ourselves ) to have a reasonable game from the start , sadly we never seem to have the time to do everything we want or what everyone else would like , but we will try our best ( oh for an other 12 hours in the day)
All the best Aly
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Well met sir!! I'm a huge fan of your work with Marauder...My favorite figures of all time are from Marauder....in particular the dwarfs. There is a character and charm to those figures that no one else has been able to capture with the same flair.
If you have any interest in revisiting those day please have a look around my blog (http://bluesmarauders.blogspot.com/) which is mostly dedicated to documenting my painting of some of those wonderful figures.
Welcome to the forum...we all look forward to your input!
Cheers,
Blue
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Wow! Blue
You've got some crazy old stuff there.
There are people I work with who weren't born when I sculpted some of those :)
Great to see them again
All the best. Aly
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You've got quite a fan base here Aly!
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Yes Elk101
you are one of the few people old enough to remember...
I am the Aly Morrison of Marauder Miniatures...
I'm not so sure about the fame though :)
Very happy to have you among us, Aly. Among us there is surely some fame to have been involved in Marauder and Great War Miniatures. I have several of your dark elves in my lead pile. I am not sure which GWM you made but I have many of those to. Stonking stuff.
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Yes Elk101
you are one of the few people old enough to remember...
I am the Aly Morrison of Marauder Miniatures...
I'm not so sure about the fame though :)
No there are plenty of us here! And a fair few still trying to tack down your work....
Welcome aboard!
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An old school master amongst us - we are not worthy! - seriously though Aly welcome aboard.
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Wow! Blue
You've got some crazy old stuff there.
There are people I work with who weren't born when I sculpted some of those :)
Great to see them again
All the best. Aly
thanks Aly...yeah alot of those I've had since they were first released...others I've been able to track down recently thanks to the internet and better cash flow! :D
So...they are old....but I'm getting to be that way myself...and they have always been my favorites.
Cheers,
Blue
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Welcome, Aly! My first wargames purchase was a pack of Marauder dwarves, long gone now but, like Blue in vt, a regular wage and ebay mean I can scratch that itch from time to time :D
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Just flciking through my old WDs to find a picture of and old Citadel Fight and guess what I saw one of your photoshoots, key FLASHBACK music!
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Hi thebinmann
I bet I was about 40pounds lighter and had a resonably full head of hair...
They don't tell you that when you reach fifty all your bad behaviour catches up with you....
Over night :'(
All the best. Aly
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I can't remember exaclty but I can say you didn't have as much hair as some of the other WD crew... lol
Still I guess it must be strange for you to see pics like that...
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Supposedly our Edinburg is named after your Edinburgh, but with fewer letters and no castle and a lot more sun (we were chatting with some of our Brummie and London friends yesterday, and they were complaining about the snow... it was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit/38 degrees Celsius here at the time).
We are next to a larger city named McAllen - apparently he is the reason Edinburg is named after Edinburgh.
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We are next to a larger city named McAllen - apparently he is the reason Edinburg is named after Edinburgh.
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Well thats the Scots for you...
Wandering the world and calling things names :D
All the best. Aly
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Hello and welcome!
I have no idea who you are! But I'm probably to young and absent minded to know! lol