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General => Announcements and forum stuff => Introductions => Topic started by: IDeeDee on 11 January 2017, 07:10:46 AM
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New member as of today, but forum stalker (sorry: Guest) for about a year now...
Am UK-based chap, and have picked up the paintbrush & dice after an absence of the best part of 30 years (work, life, acting, PC games and hitting people with lumps of metal got in the way for a while); partly inspired by more time on my hands, some of the excellent figures now available, teddy-bear fur, some excellent blogs and the general brilliance of the Internet (perhaps only those of the magazine & photo-stat catalogue "gosh, those figures sound interesting - if only I had the faintest idea of what they might look like" days will truly get that.... :) ).
My interests, in theory, lie in a mix of RPG, board games and "traditional" wargaming (nowadays mainly of the "skirmish" variety), but I'm basically a toy-whore..
I am presently working on a medieval skirmish project based around the Robin Hood stories in 1/72 scale (Working title "Shaft Practice". Yes.... I know....) which seems to have grown into a monster way beyond my intentions ("Curse you Zvezda, Strelets and Hat"), a "Not Serenity" project and a "Buffy and the girls of St Finians" team for Zombicide.
My eyes n' cunning of hand have deteriorate since my salad (Airfix & Minifigs) days but I'm still dabbing away in my ol' kack-handed way.....
Anyhoo, thanks for having me aboard....
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Welcome.
You describe the days of my youth! lol How well I remember sending off a sae for a manfacturer's "catalogue" (or worse sending a fax!), only to receive a stack of photocopied pages with barely half a dozen blurry b/w photos to illustrate the whole range, or else some crappy line drawings of the figures (apparantly drawn by the designer's 5-year-old daughter).
Kids today, they don't know their born! ;)
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Hello and welcome to the forum 8)
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Welcome to the forum, good memories too about ordering form really bad line drawn figures in catalogues. :)
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Greetings from another Southerner!
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Welcome and glad to have you. enjoyed what you wrote... brought some memories to mind.
Best of luck, and I hope you jump back into the hobby with both feet! :)
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Welcome, and I also remember the thrill of sending off pocket money buying "blind" not knowing what would come through the post in a weeks time....the nervous excitement of the wait, and then sometimes it was great, sometimes a huge disappointment .