Wiking wrote:I am positive surprised how many BFF member are 30 and younger.
Susofrick wrote:I am the same age as Peter (a few months older actually), 57 in May. All started with Airfix. Every era since they had a lot of eras. Favourites Wild West and Napoleonics. Mom never liked the hobby so when I bought the Waterloo British infantry in 1975 I promised that was the last. Never painted then, just played. Kept my promise and found other interests. Missed Atlanttic and Matchbox. Then in 1984 I saw some wonderful boxes from a company called ESCI and I was hooked again. But now I started to paint. Very bad at the start, now a little bit better. Mom sighed and realised that is who I am, a minaturefigurecollector.Now I have a missus and a dog that keeps me occupied with other things. But whenever I find the time I sit down at my painting table and add some paint to a couple of figures. It keeps me happy.
And when I finish something I show it here.
Bluefalchion wrote:
Gunnar, may I ask why your mother disliked the hobby? If it was because it glorified war, you could have switched to peaceful subjects like our dear Remco enjoys. Almost as much as the envelope ice cream I send him quarterly.
Bluefalchion wrote:Gunnar, may I ask why your mother disliked the hobby? If it was because it glorified war, you could have switched to peaceful subjects like our dear Remco enjoys. Almost as much as the envelope ice cream I send him quarterly.
Susofrick wrote:Happy to hear I'm not the only one that sends him icecream!Yup, it was the war stuff! And I wasn't interested in the other figures at the time. Don't remember if we even had Asterix-figures like that. We had factory-painted comic figures, but in my memory they weren't cheap. So I switched to literature and music and later guitar. Buried myself in old blues for some 20 years.