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Post by teophrastusbombastus on Jul 23, 2022 19:41:28 GMT
FineScale Modeler magazine reports on a painted miniature figures contest and show at the Military Miniatures Society of Illinois in 2021.
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Post by jeff on Aug 8, 2022 13:55:17 GMT
Sometimes I miss miniature gaming. But, it was a LOT of work. My Grandson is old enuff now for me to drag the miniatures out. (When he was very small he liked to
pop heads off army men. Saying 'Head POP off !'.
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Post by teophrastusbombastus on Aug 8, 2022 20:55:20 GMT
Sometimes I miss miniature gaming. But, it was a LOT of work. My Grandson is old enuff now for me to drag the miniatures out. (When he was very small he liked to pop heads off army men. Saying 'Head POP off !'. Age of rough experimentation. In my case, between that phase and 1/72 wargame complete with rulebook there was the intermediate knocking each other's box (the content) of Airfix 1/32 figurines, using marbles... each time we knocked an "enemy" we could advance one of ours one palm and if the guy survived return "fire" next round we could "shoot" from a closer position... Once in a while there were "multiplayer" games of that, I mean more than two players at once... which sometimes resulted in "friendly fire"... marble went past the "enemy" and knocked down a figure or two of our "ally"... The only thing that surpassed the feeling of "betrayal" in those occasions were some episodes of the much later matches of Diplomacy, the card board version played at someone's house with actual people, not the PC AI versions. Those Diplomacy matches were almost a return to the "pop head off" era... |
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