Bluesking
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Just to get a discussion underway - What do you wish Santa would put in your stocking this Xmas? Keep it clean and hobby related please.
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Just to get a discussion underway - What do you wish Santa would put in your stocking this Xmas? Keep it clean and hobby related please.
simon1969
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oooh! good one!
where to start?............a few figures with a medieval, roman or ancient flavour!.....anything to get me away from WW2 stuff!!!
A comprehensive selection of vallejo acrylics (Used to really like painting with citadel acrylics, but their colour range is a bit restrictive)
A workbench!! (not the dining room table! :angry: )
A set of really expensive brushes
And so on and so forth
Oh, and not forgetting the bottomless wallet to pay for all this!!!
Simon
Oh, and Gino's already mentioned the Indy + BMW R75 combo!!!
where to start?............a few figures with a medieval, roman or ancient flavour!.....anything to get me away from WW2 stuff!!!
A comprehensive selection of vallejo acrylics (Used to really like painting with citadel acrylics, but their colour range is a bit restrictive)
A workbench!! (not the dining room table! :angry: )
A set of really expensive brushes
And so on and so forth
Oh, and not forgetting the bottomless wallet to pay for all this!!!
Simon
Oh, and Gino's already mentioned the Indy + BMW R75 combo!!!
mertenspeter
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I always wanted to by the big buste of "Robert The Bruce" from "fort duquesne"
But i think i ask bigger stockings first
Peter
But i think i ask bigger stockings first
Peter
Bluesking
A Fixture
OK guys - what about a figure that hasn't seen light of day yet? I would like a 120mm Polish Lancer at the charge a la Waterloo or any really spectacular Red Indian on a horse at full gallop ( I was lucky enough to get the Fort Duquense Wickiska Sioux 2 years ago)
simon1969
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Not quite a figure that's never seen the light of day, more one that's been absent for a long time.
When I was a lot younger, I "got into" the old Chota Sahib range of figures, sculpted by the late Sid Horton, and one of the ones I had but never really got round to painting properly was a figure of a modern french foreign legionaire, I would love to have another go at that one, but sadly, even though Sarum Soldiers seem to have some of the old moulds, they only seem to be releasing the British subjects
Never mind
Simon
gordy
A Fixture
A lot of the early Verlinden Napoleonics in 120mm was done by Sid Horton..Originally posted by simon1969@Oct 24 2003, 07:54 AM
Not quite a figure that's never seen the light of day, more one that's been absent for a long time.
When I was a lot younger, I "got into" the old Chota Sahib range of figures, sculpted by the late Sid Horton, and one of the ones I had but never really got round to painting properly was a figure of a modern french foreign legionaire, I would love to have another go at that one, but sadly, even though Sarum Soldiers seem to have some of the old moulds, they only seem to be releasing the British subjects
Never mind
Simon
BTW, I had the distinct pleasure of finishing the 200mmm Guards Grenadier full figure he was in the middle of working on when he passed away.. it was a tad eerie, but a highlight of my sculpting career nonetheless..
simon1969
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I'll bet it was eerie!
At least I know why I'm hanging around here now, I think I'm hoping that some of the vast collective talent present on these forums will rub off onto me by association
Cheers
Simon
quang
A Fixture
Hey Bluesking,
Watch your mail box. Santa may come earlier this year for you.
I know. I learned the truth at seventeen.
Quang
Watch your mail box. Santa may come earlier this year for you.
I know. I learned the truth at seventeen.
Quang
Bluesking
A Fixture
Quang, Santa always is good to me when travelling north from Europe.
What would I like to see in my stocking on Christmas morning? Something old and something new?
On the "old " front, I would like to try something like a large scale Polish Winged Hussar, for the new? I would ooze with pleasure if someone were to produce a 90mm or 120mm Siuox Eagle Dancer.
Try as I may I always come back to the Indians, in the end.
What would I like to see in my stocking on Christmas morning? Something old and something new?
On the "old " front, I would like to try something like a large scale Polish Winged Hussar, for the new? I would ooze with pleasure if someone were to produce a 90mm or 120mm Siuox Eagle Dancer.
Try as I may I always come back to the Indians, in the end.
garyjd
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poch mahone
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Time to do the backlog of figures I've amassed over the years.
Guy
A Fixture
Hi Poch,
I thought that collecting kits came with the hobby of painting figures. I don't know how long you have been in figures, but over 30 years I have ammassed quite a collection in my "grey army" and also in my "Tomb of the unfinished Soldier" I guess it kinda goes with the hobby huh?
Guy
I thought that collecting kits came with the hobby of painting figures. I don't know how long you have been in figures, but over 30 years I have ammassed quite a collection in my "grey army" and also in my "Tomb of the unfinished Soldier" I guess it kinda goes with the hobby huh?
Guy
poch mahone
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Hi Guy,
I've been collecting figures for over 30 years too maybe nearer 40. I rarely get time to build or paint them nowadays, although I help my son with his wargame figures,which is not the same.
Poch
I've been collecting figures for over 30 years too maybe nearer 40. I rarely get time to build or paint them nowadays, although I help my son with his wargame figures,which is not the same.
Poch
Guy
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Hey Poch,
It'd never too late to dive back into doing your own again. A little break is ok, but now maybe it's time, huh? The figures over the years since the first show at MFCA in 73 I went to have vastly improved in quality. Unfortunetly the price has gone up as well. I remember Jim Beaver selling kits in grab boxes under his booth for 2 dollars each. When I went to Jersey to visit my first miniature store, The Skirmish Line, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. whew.....if my wife ever found out how much I spent that day......I'm a dead duck. My wife now tells me I have enough inventory to open shop, but I keep telling her it's part of the hobby (right guys)..
Guy
It'd never too late to dive back into doing your own again. A little break is ok, but now maybe it's time, huh? The figures over the years since the first show at MFCA in 73 I went to have vastly improved in quality. Unfortunetly the price has gone up as well. I remember Jim Beaver selling kits in grab boxes under his booth for 2 dollars each. When I went to Jersey to visit my first miniature store, The Skirmish Line, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. whew.....if my wife ever found out how much I spent that day......I'm a dead duck. My wife now tells me I have enough inventory to open shop, but I keep telling her it's part of the hobby (right guys)..
Guy
Richard E
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Hi Guy
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who keeps exactly how much I spend on figures a secret from my wife
A friend of mine who makes aircraft kits, tells me that the secret is to buy the kits with the large boxes and hide the little ones inside it.
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who keeps exactly how much I spend on figures a secret from my wife
A friend of mine who makes aircraft kits, tells me that the secret is to buy the kits with the large boxes and hide the little ones inside it.
Guy
A Fixture
Hey Richard.......That'll work....better than keeping them in an old freezer huh?. My wife now is pretty understanding as she is a book collector and comes home with a book quite often. Now my ex.....a different story.
Guy
Guy
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