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Title: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 17, 2013, 02:51:04 PM: 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
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Bugsda on March 17, 2013, 04:39:56 PM: 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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Post by: Elk101 on March 17, 2013, 06:33:15 PM: Welcome to the LAF. You're not Aly Morrison of Marauder Miniatures fame are you? :D
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Post by: Sangennaru on March 17, 2013, 06:49:19 PM: Bzooooot!

(welcome to laf 8) )
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 17, 2013, 09:25:00 PM: 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 :)
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Elk101 on March 17, 2013, 09:48:33 PM: 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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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on March 17, 2013, 09:50:40 PM: 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 :)
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 17, 2013, 11:52:10 PM: 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
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: voltan on March 18, 2013, 12:02:10 AM: Quote from: AlyMorrison on March 17, 2013, 11:52:10 PM
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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Post by: magokiron on March 18, 2013, 01:09:03 AM: Welcome to LAF.

I really liked your work with marauder miniatures.

Glad to have you here with us.

Best wishes.
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Post by: Phil Robinson on March 18, 2013, 01:30:31 AM: Hi Aly,

Welcome aboard.
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Post by: janner on March 18, 2013, 07:01:55 AM: 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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Post by: former user on March 18, 2013, 07:06:41 AM: Welcome Aly
I understand the thing with the fantasy miniatures
one has to draw the line somewhere between work and home
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 18, 2013, 08:21:35 AM: Quote from: voltan on March 18, 2013, 12:02:10 AM
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 :?
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: dampfpanzerwagon on March 18, 2013, 08:27:25 AM: Welcome and I'm old enough to remember Marauder Miniatures.

Tony
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Post by: joroas on March 18, 2013, 08:37:50 AM: Wow! This is indeed a blast from the past. Welcome! :D
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Post by: Ace From Outer Space on March 18, 2013, 07:38:36 PM: Hi Aly! Some if your miniatures were amongst the first I ever painted! Nice to meet you!
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Post by: Michi on March 18, 2013, 07:48:41 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Red Orc on March 18, 2013, 08:08:33 PM: Quote from: AlyMorrison on March 17, 2013, 09:25:00 PM
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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Post by: Neotacha on March 18, 2013, 10:41:35 PM: Welcome! I adore those Marauder minis, and the Citadel ones, as well.
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Post by: Calimero on March 18, 2013, 11:24:34 PM: 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 ::)
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 18, 2013, 11:46:29 PM: 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
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Mason on March 19, 2013, 08:08:37 AM: 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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Post by: Vanvlak on March 19, 2013, 08:40:20 AM: Wow, welcome, I remember the old Citadel and Marauder days too.
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Post by: DeafNala on March 19, 2013, 01:25:43 PM: 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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Post by: Donpimpom on March 19, 2013, 02:59:16 PM: 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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Post by: mweaver on March 19, 2013, 10:58:02 PM: 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
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Calimero on March 20, 2013, 10:32:12 AM: @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… ;)
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 20, 2013, 02:07:26 PM: 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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Post by: Blue in vt on March 20, 2013, 02:39:16 PM: 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
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 20, 2013, 02:59:50 PM: 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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Post by: Elk101 on March 20, 2013, 03:10:21 PM: You've got quite a fan base here Aly!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Hammers on March 20, 2013, 03:13:54 PM: Quote from: AlyMorrison on March 17, 2013, 09:25:00 PM
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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Post by: thebinmann on March 20, 2013, 03:19:28 PM: Quote from: AlyMorrison on March 17, 2013, 09:25:00 PM
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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Post by: sukhe_bator on March 20, 2013, 03:23:12 PM: An old school master amongst us - we are not worthy! - seriously though Aly welcome aboard.
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Blue in vt on March 20, 2013, 03:25:06 PM: Quote from: AlyMorrison on March 20, 2013, 02:59:50 PM
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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Post by: Mister Rab on March 20, 2013, 04:09:10 PM: 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
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: thebinmann on March 20, 2013, 09:16:28 PM: 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!
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: AlyMorrison on March 20, 2013, 10:24:25 PM: 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
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: thebinmann on March 20, 2013, 10:27:34 PM: 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...
Title: Re: Hello
Post by: mweaver on March 24, 2013, 02:52:28 PM: 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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Post by: AlyMorrison on March 25, 2013, 12:25:20 AM: 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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Post by: Dr. The Viking on March 25, 2013, 07:35:46 PM: Hello and welcome!

I have no idea who you are! But I'm probably to young and absent minded to know! lol