The Loose Association of Wargamers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_r ... _standards if you want the detail. Suffice to say, the British did things differently from their Continental and American contemporaries.

That article too speaks in tongues.

I shall steer clear of toy trains, although I have wanted one since my childhood trainset was given away to the Children's hospital when we came to Aus.

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:42 am

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:41 am I blame myself for starting this thread and encouraging railway-modelling weirdos to out themselves... (Everyone needs someone to look down on - doubly so if you work for the railway)

Railway modellers have trainspotters to look down on too. There's a hierarchy for everything.

Funny thing is, trainspotters look down on napoleonic wargamers....

Now you're avin a giraffe!

I think I shall start a new scale called COTOTST. The toys will be 1:300, the figs 6mm, the track the logarithmic average of the various track gauges in use around the world.

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:26 am Suffice to say, the British did things differently from their Continental and American contemporaries.

Since we invented the concept of the railway (in terms of mass movement of goods and people over long distances), shouldn't we say that the foreigners did it differently?

And that they cut themselves off.

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:07 am

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:42 am

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:41 am I blame myself for starting this thread and encouraging railway-modelling weirdos to out themselves... (Everyone needs someone to look down on - doubly so if you work for the railway)

Railway modellers have trainspotters to look down on too. There's a hierarchy for everything.

Funny thing is, trainspotters look down on napoleonic wargamers....

You would NEVER say that if you were to meet my train-spotting (and railway modelling) colleague...

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:33 am

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:26 am Suffice to say, the British did things differently from their Continental and American contemporaries.

Since we invented the concept of the railway (in terms of mass movement of goods and people over long distances), shouldn't we say that the foreigners did it differently?

What did the Romans ever do for us?

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:03 am

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:07 am

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:42 am

Railway modellers have trainspotters to look down on too. There's a hierarchy for everything.

Funny thing is, trainspotters look down on napoleonic wargamers....

You would NEVER say that if you were to meet my train-spotting (and railway modelling) colleague...

Could be worse, could be an angler.....

RMD wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:41 am I blame myself for starting this thread and encouraging railway-modelling weirdos to out themselves... (Everyone needs someone to look down on - doubly so if you work for the railway)

I spent 5 years (part time) selling the stuff in a Winchester Model Shop