| darebear | 07 Dec 2021 7:46 a.m. PST |
The story of my 15mm roller-coaster life.
Individual results may vary. link |
 Saber6   | 07 Dec 2021 10:21 a.m. PST |
Good tale. I started with Heritage and Minifig ACW and Napoleonics. Martian Metals for Traveller soon followed (1978+) |
John Leahy  | 08 Dec 2021 5:36 p.m. PST |
Interesting post! I am stunned you are pretty much done with buying and painting figs. I cannot see myself ever doing both. I started with Custom Cast Lord of the Rings figs in the mid 70's. Then it was ACW, Naps and Ancients. I also started to slide into 1866 and 1870. Good times! Thanks John |
| darebear | 08 Dec 2021 8:23 p.m. PST |
I have painted thousands upon thousands over the decades. Unless I can display them I just see no point in creating massive armies anymore. I already have eight massive fantasy armies painted and more 15mm sci fi than I ever thought possible. I will continue to paint the occasional piece for family members for Christmas gifts. The occasional diorama. They like that. |
| Thresher01 | 13 Dec 2021 6:52 a.m. PST |
Thanks for sharing your story. It is indeed interesting. |
| Capt Flash | 14 Dec 2021 3:09 p.m. PST |
That was a good read, and parallels my own experience. Thanks for sharing! |
| Logain | 14 Dec 2021 9:57 p.m. PST |
Parallels my experience as well. I was hugely inspired by tomorrow's war, space jacker, alien squad leader. But your painting and figure count are both leagues ahead of me. Maybe there is hope for my painting… |
| darebear | 15 Dec 2021 6:06 p.m. PST |
Thanks for reading fellas. There is always hope. When I started I sucked. I started to get better when I treated 15mm the same as 28mm. Results improved almost instantly. I am very focused when painting. Having a WIP pile bothers me greatly. It's a compulsion to get things done. Curiously, Spacejacker moved to Canada and now lives about an hour away from me. :-) |
| Logain | 16 Dec 2021 9:30 a.m. PST |
Hey that's cool, I went to read something again on Tiny Solitary Soldiers about a month ago, and the blog was removed by blogspot. It was sad to think all of that inspiration was lost. |
| darebear | 16 Dec 2021 1:51 p.m. PST |
Yeah. I would imagine you can use the Wayback Machine to access some of it possibly. The blog got infested with spam as well; SJ took it down himself I do believe. He sold or gave away most of his Collection to friends. He had a new blog but it is not really focused on 15mm it Sci fi. |
