Well, this video of yours has certainly confirmed my practice of buying miniatures when they are available and putting them in the lead mountain, possibly to sit there for decades. I recently became enthused about a new era/project and only then discovered Aventine Miniatures; they were completely unknown to me before then. The point was that they were the only company I could find that produced a range of figures suitable for my project. Luckily my lack of restraint in purchasing everything I needed in one go has delivered dividends as I have avoided the panic buying which it seems has swamped Aventine. I'm sort of in shock as in my mind Aventine are a young company just getting going and not a veteran on the cusp of retirement which they turn out to be.
I was shocked myself, they only recently came onto the scene (recently being very elastic here). At any rate, I will be putting in some purchases myself, just need to solidify that shopping list, and scrape the pennies together. I was very pleased to see your last video, the one with the Khazars. I am of the same mind, I don't mind buying stuff in advance, but I don't do so due to marketing compulsion. Back when I played GW games, you sort of had to do that, because stuff would come out in very limited quantities and then be either unavailable forever, or be released later in a less value-for-money deal. So there was this ongoing spend of around 100 quid every month for the latest, just in case I might need it one day. All powered by FOMO, fear-of-missing-out. This is why I avoid Warlord these days, they are very good at drumming up that faddish tide, as you mention, only for it to peter out shortly after. As I have grown older, I couldn't keep pace with GW, and their constant changing of editions, etc. So I have jacked all that in. I am sitting on some rare stuff as a result, which will be going to eBay. I have no use for that anymore, perhaps someone else can benefit from my "foresight".
Hi Ralph and David, I would like to use this opportunity to thank you both for your contributions to the community. Love your videos - they are my favorite thing to listen to while doing hobby, working etc. I really like your calm and measured demeanor and the topics you bring up never fail to be interesting. Best of luck in your future endeavors gentlemen!
Lovely to hear from you again David, that was an impressive haul for forty bucks. Iberians and North Africans, seems you have a plan😉 the books with their typeface remind me of the newsletter Don Featherstone produced many years ago, it has a charm of its own. I do agree with your opinion of how YT has changed over the past decade, I always did, and still do, make videos as a type of journal/diary, if others enjoy watching, so much the better. I have never monetised my channel, and never will. But YT have taken the liberty of putting commercials on my video anyway. I produce videos about my numerous interests, they are primarily for me, but I am happy to share. I have had a fair few negative comments over the years, but unless it is blatantly abusive, I just let it sit there, it really doesn’t bother me one jot. I have cut down on the number of videos I upload of late, but that is basically due to a lack of interesting content, as I do so many other things now. They will start again when I have something worth sharing or talking about.
I am always pleased to see a video from you Ian. I'm not too precious about comments, but the insulting ones get cut, don't have to tolerate abuse. Club and I have been doing some planning around Marian Romans, hence the interest in North Africa and Spain. I have been thinking a Jugurthine scenario might be interesting, but we shall see.
Do you know if copplestone scales well with Perry miniatures? At some point I want to make a bunch of "A-historicals". I plan to buy an bunch of historical minis from ancient miniatures to medieval and kit-bash a bunch of fantasy miniatures that feel more "realistic". Like a history that could have existed. Great haul.
Well, this video of yours has certainly confirmed my practice of buying miniatures when they are available and putting them in the lead mountain, possibly to sit there for decades. I recently became enthused about a new era/project and only then discovered Aventine Miniatures; they were completely unknown to me before then. The point was that they were the only company I could find that produced a range of figures suitable for my project. Luckily my lack of restraint in purchasing everything I needed in one go has delivered dividends as I have avoided the panic buying which it seems has swamped Aventine. I'm sort of in shock as in my mind Aventine are a young company just getting going and not a veteran on the cusp of retirement which they turn out to be.
I was shocked myself, they only recently came onto the scene (recently being very elastic here). At any rate, I will be putting in some purchases myself, just need to solidify that shopping list, and scrape the pennies together.
I was very pleased to see your last video, the one with the Khazars. I am of the same mind, I don't mind buying stuff in advance, but I don't do so due to marketing compulsion. Back when I played GW games, you sort of had to do that, because stuff would come out in very limited quantities and then be either unavailable forever, or be released later in a less value-for-money deal. So there was this ongoing spend of around 100 quid every month for the latest, just in case I might need it one day. All powered by FOMO, fear-of-missing-out. This is why I avoid Warlord these days, they are very good at drumming up that faddish tide, as you mention, only for it to peter out shortly after.
As I have grown older, I couldn't keep pace with GW, and their constant changing of editions, etc. So I have jacked all that in. I am sitting on some rare stuff as a result, which will be going to eBay. I have no use for that anymore, perhaps someone else can benefit from my "foresight".
Hi Ralph and David, I would like to use this opportunity to thank you both for your contributions to the community. Love your videos - they are my favorite thing to listen to while doing hobby, working etc. I really like your calm and measured demeanor and the topics you bring up never fail to be interesting. Best of luck in your future endeavors gentlemen!
Very interesting vid 👍
Thank you VK. I am enjoying your Italian Wars videos very much.
Lovely to hear from you again David, that was an impressive haul for forty bucks. Iberians and North Africans, seems you have a plan😉 the books with their typeface remind me of the newsletter Don Featherstone produced many years ago, it has a charm of its own.
I do agree with your opinion of how YT has changed over the past decade, I always did, and still do, make videos as a type of journal/diary, if others enjoy watching, so much the better. I have never monetised my channel, and never will. But YT have taken the liberty of putting commercials on my video anyway.
I produce videos about my numerous interests, they are primarily for me, but I am happy to share. I have had a fair few negative comments over the years, but unless it is blatantly abusive, I just let it sit there, it really doesn’t bother me one jot.
I have cut down on the number of videos I upload of late, but that is basically due to a lack of interesting content, as I do so many other things now. They will start again when I have something worth sharing or talking about.
I am always pleased to see a video from you Ian.
I'm not too precious about comments, but the insulting ones get cut, don't have to tolerate abuse.
Club and I have been doing some planning around Marian Romans, hence the interest in North Africa and Spain. I have been thinking a Jugurthine scenario might be interesting, but we shall see.
Do you know if copplestone scales well with Perry miniatures? At some point I want to make a bunch of "A-historicals". I plan to buy an bunch of historical minis from ancient miniatures to medieval and kit-bash a bunch of fantasy miniatures that feel more "realistic". Like a history that could have existed. Great haul.
I can check for you. Standby.
Made a quick and dirty video on my phone and uploaded it for you.