Love/Hate

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

For reasons I won't go into, I'm not keen on women inflicting violence on me (nor me on them, but still more so the other way around).

[grizzlymc]

It's ok, we've all done the Nazi uniforms bit.

[Norman D. Landings]

There are those situations where - if you get caught - “Eeeerr.... SS re-enactment?” Is actually a less embarrassing explanation than what you were really up to.

[Tim Hall]

My love/hate feelings have changed many times over the 50+ years I have been pursuing this silly hobby. As I have got older I've boiled it down to this:-

Love: playing with nicely painted toy soldiers with nice, open minded people who enjoy the aesthetic and the social aspect of the play and are happy to try most things without judging it beforehand.

Hate: Wargaming arseholes with closed minds who are obsessed with rivet counting, rule sets, and winning at all costs and then gloating about it, or being bad losers and blaming everything other than their own inability.

I think that about sums it up.

[Jeremy]

Good answer BvR and Tim. To a difference question. My question was PAINTING

[World2dave]

6mm wellingtonics - pointy stick stuff.

I paint my 6mms with a pointy stick.

[World2dave]

Love painting horse and musket Heroics & Ros 6mm, and 15mm fantasy.

Hate painting big regiments of identical 28mm 18th century (but love the period, figures and having the units!)

[Zenbadger]

Well, for painting I love 15mm Ancients, 6mm Napoleonics & SYW, 15mm & 6mm Sci Fi, 42mm shinies any period, 10mm WW2.
And I loathe 28mm horse & musket, to be honest I'm not keen on painting anything in 28mm - too many years of having to churn it out to make a bit of cash.

[Subedai]

i will gladly paint anything in 6 or 10mm and maybe the odd 15mm: anything larger apart from maybe skirmish chaps then forget it. Life is now too short to be spending a second or even third mortgage and months of dedicated time collecting and painting large numbers of 25mm or bigger. (Plus my table isn't big enough to take them and make it look anything). Fortunately I can cover all major periods in history with what I have in the smaller scales.

Horses, never liked painting them at all. So why Mongols you may ask? Not a bl**din clue is the honest answer. Rebasing...not as long as you have a hole in your fundament, mate. Absolutely detest rebasing with a passion. I simply don't buy rules with specific base sizes.

[Jeremy]

iRebasing...not as long as you have a hole in your fundament, mate.

There are obviously LAW members* who then clearly have several holes in their fundament as they enjoy rebasing and do it multiple times in a variety of unusual shapes.

*Names have been withheld to protect the innocent