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Title: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Alxbates on 24 January 2009, 12:18:16 PM: Hello everybody!

I recognize a lot of familiar names here, from TMP and various other forums that I frequent.

Fore those who don't know me, I live in central Alaska. I'm 33 and I've been fiddling about with miniatures since I was 11 years old - my first figure was a Ral Partha "Ranger in Mail with Bow". I've played all sorts of games over the years, mostly fantasy or sci-fi: Battletech, Warhammer and 40K, Clan War, Inferno, Warcry and Battlelust, AD&D Battlesystem, and I've tried a couple of Napoleonic and WW2 games.

For the last few years I've mostly played Wargods of Aegyptus, with a little bit of Chronopia and Warmachine thrown in for spice.

Recently I've started my own miniatures company, "Forge of Ice", which is mostly a vanity project giving me an excuse to have a few figure ideas that I've had rattling around in my head finally made into real miniatures. I've been blogging my progress here:

http://forum54.oli.us/index.php?topic=5205.0

I'll be a bit all over the map with my releases, but overall most of my stuff will have a Pulp Fantasy/Lost World theme to it.

A few people have reccomended that I check in here, and I've been lurking for a bit, so I finally decided to sign up.

So... um... hello!

-Alex
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Drunkendwarf on 24 January 2009, 12:24:55 PM: Welcome on this forum, you are right: a lot of the same names are on different fora.

Last december I bought your tents and I like to say that they are gourgeous! (I haven't paint them yet ::))
I'm also playing Wargods (only 4 games uptill now), but its a really nice game.

DJ
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: marrony on 24 January 2009, 01:10:25 PM: Welcome aboard!
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: artshiraz on 24 January 2009, 01:13:38 PM: Greetings and hello.

Yes, I recognize your name from the Croc Forum (and a few others :D ) Small world it seems sometimes.
You'll have a lot of fun here I can tell you. Oh and the people are nice too, so welcome aboard
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Ramshackle_Curtis on 24 January 2009, 10:41:42 PM: I like the tents!

Are you from North Pole? Or Fairbanks? On google maps there is a huge cloud of smoke over the cities, coming from mount doom or something?!
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Alxbates on 25 January 2009, 02:21:39 AM: I'm in Fairbanks.

The cloud is just a temperature inversion, icefog.
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: matakishi on 25 January 2009, 09:54:12 AM: Hello Alex :)
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: argsilverson on 25 January 2009, 10:12:04 AM: Welcome aboard!

Nice job with these tents and peacocks!
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Geudens on 25 January 2009, 07:16:16 PM: Hi Alex,

Took you a while, didn't it?

Rudi
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 25 January 2009, 11:15:38 PM: Welcome. 8)
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Alxbates on 26 January 2009, 02:55:37 AM: Quote from: Geudens on 25 January 2009, 07:16:16 PM
Hi Alex,

Took you a while, didn't it?

Rudi

Well, I've been lurking for about two years... :)
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: fastolfrus on 26 January 2009, 06:08:47 PM: Evening Alex.
Welcome aboard.
(We play Wargods too)

Nice looking peafowl.
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Ruarigh on 26 January 2009, 08:26:01 PM: Welcome on board, Alex. Good to see you here.

Cheers,
Ruarigh
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Rhoderic on 07 March 2009, 04:13:23 PM: Belated welcomes from me too! Very cool to see you in this forum, Alex. On TMP I've often noticed that your gaming interests coincide with mine, especially on the whole pulp fantasy, swords and sorcery front. So, I hope you're finding LAF agreeable :)
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Alxbates on 08 March 2009, 09:04:47 AM: Quote from: Rhoderic on 07 March 2009, 04:13:23 PM
So, I hope you're finding LAF agreeable :)

Very much so - it's got the variety of TMP but with pictures added and politics removed, none of the crudeness of Frothers, and a lot of enthusiastic and distressingly talented people. I like it quite a bit!

-Alex
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Bako on 08 March 2009, 08:23:09 PM: I must'ave missed this one, but none the less. Hello, and welcome aboard!
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Wirelizard on 12 March 2009, 01:40:43 AM: Having had a look at the link in the OP, I might just need some peafowl, if only for the painting challenge of those magnificent tails!

Use them as an urban encounter during skirmish games: "A peacock screams right behind you. Pass a morale check to keep from crapping yourself!" lol

Alxbates, are the peafowl available in pewter now?
Title: Re: Greetings from Alaska!
Post by: Alxbates on 12 March 2009, 01:00:13 PM: Nope, sorry, the Peafowl aren't in metal yet - the only thing I've got for sale right now are the tents. The birds are finished and at the caster - I should have them in the mail in a week or ten days.

I'll be selling them by email till I get my online store set up, and I'll have final prices figured out by the time I get them in hand.

I'll post a notice here (and TMP, and probably even Frothers...)