One Era Gamers

[FifteensAway]

"As soon as I've managed to paint a gang to my satisfaction, Lead Adventure will be the first to know about it! (So, not likely any time soon, sorry)."

Sorry, and no disrespect intended, but hang that mind set out to dry! 

Some of the best painters around are frequent posters here on LAF and that is great - until it gets in the way of "lesser mortals" enjoying their own efforts. 

We cannot all be great painters and some may only ever manage just barely respectable paint jobs or, like me, settle for 'good enough' is just that, good enough. 

What should matter more is having fun with the hobby. 

Sure, if a great paint job is the only way to enjoy the hobby by all means pursue that goal. 

But I strongly urge you to simply get on with it and watch your skills develop over time to whatever level pushes you forward.  Sharing your work here might just lead to others offering guidance to help you get to whatever your goal is.  I'm pretty sure the collective response will be positive and helpful.  So fear not showing your work!  Or so says I.

[manchesterreg]

I am going to quickly throw in my own standard on painting, I no longer do paint my figures, I used too, I also had people paint them for me (at cost) I no longer paint, it is now hard to hold a paintbrush due to arthritis. So I play with unpainted figures, and get just as much enjoyment as I did with painted, being a solo gamer though lets me get away with gasps of shock and heresy. Gaming should be about enjoying the game.

[Cholmondely Percival IV]

The shame, the shame…!

[eilif]

I manage mostly to keep it to 28mm fantasy and sci Fi.
I have a good bit of post apoc 28mm, but that often mixes with sci Fi anyway.  28mm WWW2 is a small sideline but of could argue that is just more Sci Fi and Fantasy.

My one real deviation is 10mm Sci Fi but that's mostly rebased Mechwarrior Clix so it doesn't take too much hobby time.

[syrinx0]

The one true scale is 28mm. Though 6 & 10 mm have been tempting... so far I have resisted their siren call.  History, pulp, science fiction, horror... don't seem to have much focus there yet. 

[has.been]

The one true scale is 28mm.

I would like to stick with 28mm, no need to duplicate hedges, hills, trees etc, BUT
I am like Oscar Wilde, who said he could resist anything but temptation.
I hear the Sirens call all too easily.

[Khusru2]

I was solely an historical player from '78 until around 2018. Mostly those years were filled with army level games for ancients, ECW/Renaissance and Napoleonics. Them in 2015 it was Ronin, followed by F&IW in 2018. Soon skirmish games were the thing. Frostgrave. Sell Swords and Spell Slingers. Lots of fantasy figures, mostly older GW figures with some DnD. I picked up some Vietnam 20mm and H&R WW2 along the way. Some Stargrave and other figures for Five Parsecs and Zona Alfa. The latest is Witches for Witchin'Hour.
The thing is,does it interest you? Does it bring some excitement to start something new. Will you continue playing it?
I think, after limiting myself to what I originally started gaming with, I became like a man in the desert, thirsty for something even though I never knew it. When it came a dam burst. I hope it will now settle down with such a varied selection of skirmish games to play. But, you never know.

[Inkpaduta]

Nope. I am all over the place. Many eras of history and even do some fantasy. I have 2mm, 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 20mm, 28mm and 40mm.
I am attracted to shiny things and will jump into something very quickly.