Another Lurker comes in from the cold

[pauld]

A quick intro from me....this site has given me lots of pleasurable reading for many months now so it's time to join up and participate

I blame it all on Airfix - I first noticed plastic crack in the 60's when it came in poly bags topped off with a colourful header card or in little boxes with 48 little plastic soldiers inside. 

2/6d (12.5p to you young uns) would buy me a model which was instantly prised off the sprue and stuck together with great globs of polystyrene cement.  Slap the decals on (if they weren't too fiddly) and I was finished.

Then the Spitfire, Sherman or whatever model I had bought that week, would attack the Airfix troops laid out on the living room floor and battle would commence.

Later I would paint the models and read the Airfix Magazine and play simple wargames with simple terrian and go to the library and borrow books about the Napoleonic Wars and the World Wars of the 20th century.

So began my life long love of history and enjoyment of a creative hobby that still gives me immense pleasure today (even in my dotage when I am forced to wear 2.5 magnifying glasses to paint a barn door)

Like everybody else I had distractions - beer, girls, cars, marriage, children, career, children through college, etc. 

But I returned to the fold some time back seduced while passing a Games Workshop store some 15 years (or more) ago.

I now have a sizeable lead mountain, rules by the score (pdf publishing make rulesets irrestible for those of us with little or no willpower)

and a man cave! (no the kids can't come back home). 

My butterfly nature takes me across all periods and genres but I am currently enamoured of .....

Gothic Horror - painting up some Westwind minis and have purchased, read and made plans for playing Savage Worlds Horror Wars, Chaos in Carpathia or BASH Fantasy but can't decide which

Supers - I also love comics and have a large box full of Heroclix waiting to be rebased and tarted up (BASH or Supersytem3)

Pulp is cool - I want to do Dinosaur Hunts with hunters, native tribes, giant spiders and snakes, jungle ruins, the odd screaming female bait and maybe a large and somewhat narked ape (does that sound familiar?) - perhaps I should set it on undiscovered island set in a mist shrouded sea.

Conan - REH and the 70's B+W Savage Sword Comics.  Such a fertile background for a low powered magic fantasy setting

WW1 air (Bag the Hun and others) and WW2 skirmish (Battlefield Evolution)

and all the others - Warmaster, Space Hulk, Dungeons of various sorts

I have them all and can occaisionally (but not often) pressgang an opponent

I also like boardgames as long as they are conflict based (and they are easier to find a group for)

It's an addiction ... and like Alcoholics Anonymous I need fellow suffers around me for support

[stands up]

My name is pauld ..... and I'm a miniatureholic

[Bako]

...and maybe a large and somewhat narked ape (does that sound familiar?)

A fifty-foot... lady?

It's an addiction ... and like Alcoholics Anonymous I need fellow suffers around me for support

And I believe others will back me in this, but if I am correct, it is more fun to wallow in it than resort to group therapy.

Welcome aboard, by the way!

[Hauptgefreiter]

Welcome to the LAF, Pauld!  
Leave your wet boots with the Butlerbot and have the Orderly bring you a Scotch. It seems you know your way around here, so the standard tour is skipped and you can proceed directly to the briefing room  

[former user]

welcome

[HerbyF]

Welcome aboard, your storey sounds alot like mine. I too started my addiction with AirFix figures & models.

[Captain Blood]

Yes, mine too - except you missed off the bit where, having tired of / slightly broken said Spitfire or Sherman, one put it down the end of one's garden and shot it to pieces with one's air rifle 

Good God - Airfix Magazine... I'd forgotten all about that one... Classic articles like 'How to convert the HO/OO Robin Hood set into dervishes using only pins and Das modelling clay' 

Anyway - welcome. Leave your zombies at the door, and don't go near the VSF enthusiasts. They're all bonkers.

 

[joroas]

Welcome.......

I blame it all on Airfix - I first noticed plastic crack in the 60's when it came in poly bags topped off with a colourful header card or in little boxes with 48 little plastic soldiers inside. 

2/6d (12.5p to you young uns) would buy me a model which was instantly prised off the sprue and stuck together with great globs of polystyrene cement.  Slap the decals on (if they weren't too fiddly) and I was finished.

Then the Spitfire, Sherman or whatever model I had bought that week, would attack the Airfix troops laid out on the living room floor and battle would commence.

Later I would paint the models and read the Airfix Magazine and play simple wargames with simple terrian and go to the library and borrow books about the Napoleonic Wars and the World Wars of the 20th century.

So began my life long love of history and enjoyment of a creative hobby that still gives me immense pleasure today (even in my dotage when I am forced to wear 2.5 magnifying glasses to paint a barn door)

Me too, slowly moving from 15 to 28mm as well.

[keeper]

Welcome aboard!! Your story sounds hauntingly familiar!!

[Calimero]

My name is pauld ..... and I'm a miniatureholic

Hi pauld!

...and welcome on the LAF

[pauld]

Thank you one and all for the kind welcome .... It is much much appreciated

You are, without doubt, a very civilized bunch

I'm off for a spot of Tiffin before my daily perusal of the boards

So I'll catch you later

[fastolfrus]

Be careful talking about "tiffin" - Sir Sydney Rough-Diamond and the VSF crowd might get the wrong mental image :~}

[Mors]

Nothing wrong wiv a bit of tiffin.

Welcome anyway

[capthugeca]

Welcome Pauld,

A man cave - how I long for one of them...still waiting for the fledglings to fly the nest!

[archangel1]

...Good God - Airfix Magazine... I'd forgotten all about that one... Classic articles like 'How to convert the HO/OO Robin Hood set into dervishes using only pins and Das modelling clay'  ...

Like this one? 

[pauld]

I'll read that later - thanks

I seem to remember some mods were to be done with a razor blade, plasticine and banana oil to harden it

Banana oil

I could never find it then - I'm sure they were taking the proverbial