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Offline Padre

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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2017, 08:09:20 AM »
I must have multiple personalities then!
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Offline Warlord

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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2017, 08:10:07 AM »
I think we all know that to be true!
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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #27 on: June 19, 2017, 08:28:15 AM »
I was just about to answer but then I turned into this personality and decided not to. Hang on ... doh!
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Offline White Knight

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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2017, 01:50:18 PM »
Several things which culminated over time in the hobby:
- visit to Waterloo as a kid, where I picked up some 1/72 plastic napoleonics that had instructions on the back to paint them. Proceeded to accumulate several more boxes and paint a good lot of them
- received the Hero Quest box and realised I could paint these too.
- bought more similar boardgames with 25mm fantasy figures, including Village of Fear, Legend of Zagor and Battlemasters and painted those too.
- found a white dwarf in a French newspaper shop in '93, bought it, read it from cover to cover (it had a great Empire vs Orcs and goblins battle report) and started dreaming of collecting them but didn't, at the time, know where to find some.
- bought some more white dwarfs whenever I found them.
- located a game store in '96 and made the plunge.

(- many thousands of figures later wished I didn't embark on that addictive path...)
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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2017, 06:34:30 PM »
Skaven players confirmed filth.

I started back in 98, pretty sure a year or two before that I picked up the little booklet ad they had at the time. It was really just a catalog with some pictures of different models in the midst of a battle, or just lined up. Blew my little kid mind and was hooked instantly.

Still fondly remember those first kits. The paint set with 6 Bret archers and a regiment of dwarf warriors. Gods above I put them together horribly, but it was one of the most enjoyable afternoons spent with my family that I can remember.

Now I could built a house out of the boxes of models I've accumulated. Every army (except tomb kings because my friend collected them and I didn't want to steal his ideas). Then in 50 years or so I should have painted a quarter or so...
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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2017, 07:10:50 PM »
Quote from: Gankom on June 20, 2017, 06:34:30 PM
Skaven players confirmed filth.

Destroy Kill the Manthing, fast quick!
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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #31 on: June 20, 2017, 07:19:27 PM »
Quote from: Warlord on June 19, 2017, 08:00:33 AM
I think people with that type of personality choose Skaven. That said, I think the armylist itself makes players like that too. So even those with innocent intentions become like that.

I am his Godfather too. Perhaps it had been better to drown him in the font, than to let him suffer such a fate...
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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #32 on: June 20, 2017, 08:51:30 PM »
Quote from: Fidelis von Sigmaringen on June 20, 2017, 07:19:27 PM
Quote from: Warlord on June 19, 2017, 08:00:33 AM
I think people with that type of personality choose Skaven. That said, I think the armylist itself makes players like that too. So even those with innocent intentions become like that.

I am his Godfather too. Perhaps it had been better to drown him in the font, than to let him suffer such a fate...

Ha! Ha! Ha! 👆
Damn that made me laugh.
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Re: How'd Folks Get Their Start in the Hobby?
« Reply #33 on: June 22, 2017, 11:25:48 PM »
I remember playing my first game not long after being introduced.
I played an Empire vs Bretonian game with my friend....who cheated....horribly. It didn't bother me too much as I had fun. Not long after I tried to assemble some Empire swordsmen and halberdiers in a closed space with humbrol oil paints
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