The Loose Association of Wargamers

Actually, I generally embrace change, welcoming the challenge. But there are limits!

The LHS (once brilliant but nearly useless, now; however, still stocking a lot of terrain items such as scatter, sand etc & paint) are phasing out their extensive range of Vallejo paint for the Army Painter brand.

I just don't really like the AP runny paints. And the names of the colours betray a fantasy bent that beings me no comfort.

I guess I'll be ordering from Hearns in Melbourne. The difference in cost from mail order to the exorbitant off-the-shelf prices is minor but it was convenient to drop by (8 minutes down the road) & pick up a couple of bottles.

Change: bah! Humbug!!

donald

There is an LHS 12km away which I first patronised in 1972. On Wednesday, I phoned them up to order three tins of humbrol paint, some clump foliage and some varnish. Arrived on Friday. Change? Why bother?

If you can't get it from Hearns; Military Hobbies, down the road from me, carries Vallejo and a lot of other brands. They'll be happy to do mail order too. https://militaryhobbies.com.au/

ochoin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 9:58 am The LHS ...

The left hand side what?

Local Hobby Shop.

Acronyms can be alienating: apologies.

donald

ACBA, TNTUT, ICP.

Try working in Aviation. MTTYCPSA*

*More TLA** Than You Can Poke a Stick At

** Three Letter Acronym.

Us old sweats on the Buccaneer force reckoned that the longest part of the Tornado maintenance course was teaching people the acronyms.

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:56 am If you can't get it from Hearns; Military Hobbies, down the road from me, carries Vallejo and a lot of other brands. They'll be happy to do mail order too. https://militaryhobbies.com.au/

Are there not the same issues Royal Mail now has about posting more than three bottles (I think) in a package?

ochoin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:45 pm Local Hobby Shop.

Acronyms can be alienating: apologies.

donald

I was wondering why you were buying paint at La Haie Sainte...