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Offline Philotep

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Hello from Lyon
« on: December 22, 2022, 01:20:21 AM »
Good evening everybody!

I've been invited to discover this venerable forum a few days ago, as one of its eminent members, Mystery Machine, left a comment on my blog with a link to his gallery (very nice Orcs). I had to reactivate the account I made a few months ago, and here we are.

I'm Philotep from Lyon, France. I'm 54, and discovered metal minis in the mid 80s while playing my first sessions of AD&D with school friends. So the first figures I bought back then were Citadel Orcs... I still have them in my collection  :)
At the same period, I was also interested in history, particularly Ancient period and Napoleonic wars, and began to use 1/72 toy soldiers to build several armies, mostly Airfix and Atlantic, then ESCI and Revell.

Airfix peasants from Robin Hood set, painted then (left, Humbrol paints) and a few years ago (right, acrylic paints).


Nowadays, after several years of Golden Age for the one true scale addicts, I have built up several 1/72 historical armies for DBA: Gauls, Republican Rome, Carthaginians, Early Germans, Imperial Rome, Late Imperial Rome, Achaemenid Persians, Late Crusaders and Aztecs. But many more are being prepared (too many I guess)  ;)
I should soon have the opportunity to play a few games with another ruleset, l'Art de la Guerre. The basing system is very close to DBA, except that you need to double the number of figures to represent Middle and Heavy Infantry, some more men on the workbench.


More recently, I have been painting some 28mm Fantasy figures (metal and plastic) to play wargames or skirmishes with my children, using systems such as Confrontation, Warhammer and Kings of War.


From time to time, I also try to paint minis for the boardgames of the house, mainly Mansions of Madness and Empire Assault.


Last but not least, the recent growth in 1/72 Fantasy sets gives us the opportunity to use small plastic soldiers for large Fantasy games - all the more if you also use historical figures to represent Fantasy armies, such as this Empire army based on 16th century soldiers.


Thanks for reading so far. I'm happy to join this community, to discover many wonderful minis, to find some help to improve my painting, and to display my projects from times to times.

Phil.
« Last Edit: December 22, 2022, 07:48:30 AM by Philotep »

Offline Kourtchatovium104

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2022, 01:34:27 PM »
Great collection you have, welcome aboard!  :)

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2022, 02:48:21 PM »
Welcome aboard, matey! ⛵️
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Offline sir_shvantselot

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2022, 03:40:17 PM »
Beautiful collection. I hadn’t realised that one/72 was a thing I remember collecting Airfix and Esci when I was a child.

Offline DivisMal

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2022, 06:04:41 PM »
Welcome! 1/72 is certainly a thing and you show us some beautiful stuff! I’m always tempted by the modern sets - truly a golden age as you say.

Offline fred

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2022, 07:34:01 PM »
Salut Philoptep!

Lots of great looking figures you have, looking forward to seeing more in the future.

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2022, 12:06:32 AM »
Welcome to the LAF!  Lovely work on your figures!
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Offline Philotep

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2022, 07:57:31 AM »
Thank you very much for your warm welcome! As a newbie lurker, I have been lurking around and saw that the level of painting is incredible here, which is simultaneously nice and discouraging at first, but then I thought: Ok, I must do better, and that's exactly why forums like this exist  :)
So thank you again for the onboarding, the incredible quantity of wonderful stuff and the motivation to achieve my own projects!

Offline jambo1

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2022, 12:08:13 PM »
Welcome, lovely work and it's great to see some 1/72 on show. :)

Offline MaleGriffin

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2023, 12:50:09 AM »
Welcome! Fantastic figures!
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Offline FreakyFenton

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2023, 07:58:18 PM »
Salut! And welcome aboard! 
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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2023, 10:22:26 PM »
Welcome  :)

Offline verd

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2023, 04:12:41 PM »
I have been a follower of your Blog for a long time. Happy to see you here!!

Offline Philotep

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Re: Hello from Lyon
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2023, 12:41:32 PM »
Thank you all for your messages, once again, very nice of you to take time to welcome the newcomers.

@verd: Oh yes, I too visited your blog, and especially this:



Since I stole your idea for one of my first conversions:



So thank you very much  :D

 

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