"You know you’re an old timer when..." Topic

When you remember a brand new range consisted of one foot archer, one light cavalry figure and a Zenobia personality figure.
Hinchliffe Palmyran range.
There was much rejoicing. Also quite a few "What's Palmyra?"

Oh, I thought is was when having a BM became more important than having an o…….. :)

When Peter Liang 15mm were cutting edge

Or spending hours converting an Airfix Stug III into a Panzer III after reading an article on how to do it in Airfix Magazine!

When you remember the release of the Airfix 1/72 Romans…complete with chariot!

You remember Gencon as a small, regional historical minis convention.

If I cut my neighbor's corner lot for $10 USD, I could buy two packs of Napoleonettes.

My brother made a canister cone and a bounce stick for some Charles Grant rules. I was beyond impressed.

When you remember the release of the Airfix 1/72 Romans…complete with chariot!

I still have mine.

When you remember a brand new range consisted of one foot archer, one light cavalry figure and a Zenobia personality figure.

I have the light cavalry figure on my desk now.

When Peter Liang 15mm were cutting edge

I still have mine.

I guess I must be an old timer then.

When you remember sticking thumb tacks into Airfix 25mm ancients to make them count as "shielded" for WRG 3rd ed. Ancients rules.

Expecting to wait 28 days for delivery of your order, using postal orders and handwritten order letters with alternatives if something was out of stock.

For a teenager that wait was eternal. Fortunately many orders came sooner.

Re-positioning arms on the Airfix Romans so that the shields were held properly. Based on an article in Military Modelling, don't recall the author, but he had a regular feature about Airfix.

Oh, yes. The catalog that might have a few hand drawn illustrations. Drop postal money orders and international reply coupons in the mail, and see what shows up in a couple of months.

Seeing Minfigs huge range of pretty much everything in identical posses and thinking how great they were (for that matter any historical sculpts from the early 70s.)

When you were admiring your Scruby figs for their exquisite sculpting. Plus talking about those brand new rules from Featherstone.

+1 Basytubits beat me to it.

You remember seeing the magazine adverts for SPI and The 5 and 10 store carried AH.

Remember seeing an ad in S&T for a Roco Minitank Sherman tank selling for 25 cents along with an article for gaming a WWII action with miniatures.

"You know you're an old timer when…"

…you had the money to buy the stuff back then.

I know I'm an old timer every time I get out of bed or try to stand up after sitting too long in a chair …

…you don't remember why you are visiting this forum.

… when you remember ordering Avalon Hill games from the Sears & Roebuck Christmas catalog.

"Hey you kids, get off my damn lawn!"

When you dreamed of buying the armies listed on the back page of comic books.
Or going to Wolworths to buy Airfix minis with your hard earned allowance.

Oh, I thought is was when having a BM became more important than having an o…….. :)

BINGO!!!!

+10 USAFpilot

"When you dreamed of buying the armies listed on the back page of comic books.
Or going to Wolworths to buy Airfix minis with your hard earned allowance."

D__n! I did both of those, but I'm sure I'm only 10 years old ;-). … and finding the Marx hard plastic ACW soldiers loose in a bin at Woolworth's.

Your Franco-Prussian armies consisted of Airfix Union infantry (French) and WWI Germans (Prussians)

Visalia, California – the Mecca of wargame miniatures (Jack Scruby).
And my only Napoleonic game against Mike Frank and David Rusk.

When you're surrounded by kids. The definitive sign of being too darn old is looking around and seeing nothing but kids.

When I started "serious adult" miniatures gaming, I was surrounded by old people in their late 30's or early 40's. Now I go to conventions--when there were conventions--and the tables are full of kids in their late 40's or early 50's.

I realize how much of a MOOF I am when I browse
long-stored figures and see figures from makers
who went out of business over 60 years ago…

When you wake, get out of bed and don't have to drag a comb across your head.

At a convention you couldn't resist the urge to correct the "kids" playing a historical wargame … of a battle in which you fought.

When you can remember saving your pennies in hopes of buying that 204 piece Revolutionary War (or Alamo, or Civil War or WWII) set of plastic soldiers advertised in the back of your Sgt. Rock comic book. As in: link

When Mini-Figs shipped their figures buried in saw dust.

I loved those home made Minifigs cardboard boxes Dan! I still have one as my dice box

I was a very poor college student at the time, and was able to order sight unseen (just a listing) some 25mm Norman mounted knights (which were one piece heavy figures with lots of casting issues) and some "Norman" footmen that were a century off in design, but I loved them when they showed up. Up to then I only had some of Jack Scruby's (who was a great guy to know) 20mm ancients. Shortly after that I met Don Lowry (who is on this site) and started to collect, paint and play 9mm Napoleonics and ACW using his "Grand Armee" rules.

Adverts in wargame magazines where the illustration was a line drawing (no shading or colour) and said either the size of the figure, or the price, but never, for some reason, both fir the same range.

When you need to get up more than once during the night to pee! Whew, so far just once during the night.

NOT OVER THE HILL YET, WOOHOO!!!