tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post7214003828687417232..comments2024-03-28T11:28:58.010-07:00Comments on JJ's Wargames: Waterloo 200 - The Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo,18th June 1815, "Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound the longest"carojonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11826580638291659193noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-44238669123538143182015-06-30T23:07:57.204-07:002015-06-30T23:07:57.204-07:00Hi Carlo, thank you, much appreciated. I always en...Hi Carlo, thank you, much appreciated. I always enjoy hearing people talk about their "back story", the thing or event that caused them to get a bug for this mad but very enjoyable hobby.<br />The one thing I find they all tend to have in common is, as I describe it, the passion that drives the individual to find out more, to play those certain games, to develop their painting and modelling, and something that keeps people coming back to the hobby even after years of not being involved in it.<br />I guess there is a certain amount of Peter Pan in the whole thing, but I quite like getting in touch with the boy who first got enthused by some beautifully painted figures.<br />Cheers<br />JJcarojonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826580638291659193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-14157149340848871282015-06-30T21:04:48.493-07:002015-06-30T21:04:48.493-07:00Hi JJ,
What a great post mate. For me it was bei...Hi JJ,<br /><br />What a great post mate. For me it was being laid up in hospital for two weeks with fluid on teh lungs and Mum and Dad buying me an Airfix Catalogue in 1976. Still have it as well. Great photographs of the battlefield from 40 years ago and realy well put together. Carlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17002425294986020268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-34559985753190993202015-06-20T15:30:46.582-07:002015-06-20T15:30:46.582-07:00Hi Vince,
Ha kids today hey, brought up in their s...Hi Vince,<br />Ha kids today hey, brought up in their spotlessly clean houses with central heating developing food allergies, they don't know they're born. I had the measles about age 5 or 6 as well. I reckon we're both lucky to be here at all.<br /><br />I think Victor and Commando have a lot to answer for when you see how many blokes of a certain age turn up at conventions.carojonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826580638291659193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-82044070291211512792015-06-20T13:59:40.103-07:002015-06-20T13:59:40.103-07:00Hi JJ,
Well things you never knew. I have a simil...Hi JJ,<br /><br />Well things you never knew. I have a similar story, except the disease was measles (a killer in its time) and the magazines and annuals were the Victor and Commando. Having read those I was there ! With titles like "Knife for a Nazi" and "The Death Dealers" what six year old wouldn't have been ?<br /><br />VinceVincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691369848035290908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-49194346931557933502015-06-20T06:22:13.611-07:002015-06-20T06:22:13.611-07:00Hi Jeremy, thanks mate, I really appreciate your c...Hi Jeremy, thanks mate, I really appreciate your comment. <br /><br />Well as the header at the top alludes, I have a passion for the hobby, and I guess that implies an emotion and with all the fun and great times I've had with it and because of it, I hope to pass that passion on to others. I think we are really blessed with how the hobby has developed and spoilt with the great products it can now offer. I think one of the best things to come out of playing with toy soldiers is both the boys gained an education in British history time-lined like they used to teach it, instead of the modular methods today. I am pleased to say that if stopped in the street by the BBC they could talk about Roman, Dark Age, Tudor, Restoration and Napoleonic history with a sense of when things happened.<br /><br />I hadn't heard that about Belle Alliance and what a lovely story. We have an ex pat driving us around the area next week so I will see if he has any local gems to share. More anon.<br /><br />Cheers<br />JJcarojonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826580638291659193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-92116391094837927082015-06-20T04:57:38.351-07:002015-06-20T04:57:38.351-07:00This is possibly your finest and most personal pos...This is possibly your finest and most personal post to date, very moving and possibly therapeutic I imagine. You write very differently to me so it's hard to conceive of me pulling this off quite so authentically, I admire that.<br />I've come back from a long weekend in Brussels and Waterloo going over the battlefield and various WW1 sites too. My companions were not wargamers but I did learn something new from one of them, apparently Belle Alliance refers to the farmer's joy at his child's marriage to a person of a higher social status so bridging the class divide in a "beautiful alliance". This happened way before the battle, which over turned my assumptions completely! Possibly everyone else here knows except me! <br />Have a great trip, <br />JeremyJ warpaintjjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08997436342156047352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-33528239240302013142015-06-19T23:17:23.008-07:002015-06-19T23:17:23.008-07:00Hi Nigel, thank you sir, that's very kind of y...Hi Nigel, thank you sir, that's very kind of you.<br /><br />The Talavera project progresses with the 24th Ligne finished and then, trips to Waterloo permitting, we are off to look at Marshall Victor's "Dawn Attack". Vive l'Empereur, en avant!carojonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826580638291659193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-86503232766748486932015-06-19T16:52:33.676-07:002015-06-19T16:52:33.676-07:00JJ
You are fine writer sir!
Your childhood story w...JJ<br />You are fine writer sir!<br />Your childhood story was especially moving!<br />Please keep up the good work - personally looking forward very much to the next Talavera scenario.....<br />NigelAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13313182841564184307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-53306932362278488122015-06-18T14:06:22.147-07:002015-06-18T14:06:22.147-07:00Hi Chaps, thank you very much for taking the time ...Hi Chaps, thank you very much for taking the time to leave your comments. I'm really pleased with the response and feedback I've had to this week's little excursion away from the painting and the toys. <br /><br />As you can see my back story into the hobby is as a signed up member of the pre-Games Workshop generation who fell in love with the history as much as the hobby. When you reread the history and get out into the battlefields it just rekindles the imagination to model it on the table. I can see a few 18mm, 100 Days Campaign figures ending up in the collection at some time.<br /><br />Anyway, the 3/24th Ligne are nearing completion and once all this Waterloo stuff is done, its on to rolling out another Talavera scenario.<br /><br />Cheers all<br />JJcarojonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826580638291659193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-81412110804488414972015-06-18T13:01:06.062-07:002015-06-18T13:01:06.062-07:00Great stuff!Great stuff!Mark Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13243898818240953423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-8911303221563470332015-06-18T12:00:20.466-07:002015-06-18T12:00:20.466-07:00Keep up the good work Jonathan this is a great rea...Keep up the good work Jonathan this is a great read .<br />Regards Furphy .Furphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07325958767410758206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-62911559662811906112015-06-18T07:18:03.394-07:002015-06-18T07:18:03.394-07:00Tatty and the spine missing - as all well-loved bo...Tatty and the spine missing - as all well-loved books should be!<br />Thanks for this, Jonothan. I really appreciate the work you go through to pull this blog together - it's inspirational. Bill Slavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056237500818603134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-91690814710108248352015-06-18T01:57:55.885-07:002015-06-18T01:57:55.885-07:00Love the old polaroid photos, look very atmospheri...Love the old polaroid photos, look very atmospheric , Tony The Good Soldier Svjekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749564052124659180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2591229843590982581.post-34562932715319728432015-06-18T00:12:32.568-07:002015-06-18T00:12:32.568-07:00Great write-up JJ which brought back some happy me...Great write-up JJ which brought back some happy memories. For me it was a Patterson Blick transfer book and a packet of Airfix Waterloo British Hussars my father bought for me when I was seven or eight on a trip to Wales. I have tried to get to Waterloo on no less than four occasions now, even having physically been in Belgium on two of them. I hope you and the family have a good trip there next week.<br /><br />LawrenceLawrence Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11626386564817082992noreply@blogger.com