"Playing With Toy Soldiers" Topic
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Tango01  | 05 Aug 2025 4:26 p.m. PST |
"As everyone knows, recreational wargaming with toy soldiers (or ‘miniatures' are they are euphemistically known)has been around for at least a couple of centuries, and arguably much longer. It has been the rise of Warhammer, created in 1983 by Bryan Ansell, Richard Halliwell, and Rick Priestley, that has gradually brought the practice close and closer to the status of a mainstream recreational activity – and not just one played by socially-awkward pre-teen boys. Film stars and influencers now often openly admit to a fascination with painting and playing with colourful toy soldiers in the now well-developed fantasy setting. Over a slightly longer period than this, Dungeons & Dragons has similarly come into the light in a huge resurgence both in playing and in public awareness. And again, role playing with toy soldiers is the attraction…"
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| Dadster | 05 Aug 2025 8:37 p.m. PST |
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| Shagnasty | 06 Aug 2025 9:00 a.m. PST |
I hate that our hobby owes any debt to Warhammer and D & D.
My knowledge and interest date to a "Readers Digest" article from my college days. It showed two English gentlemen in ties and jumpers moving their Britain's whilst sipping cognac and smoking pipes. This is still the ideal to which I aspire but do not achieve. |
| arthur1815 | 06 Aug 2025 10:14 a.m. PST |
Agreed! Especially the discussion of painting. |
 piper909 | 08 Aug 2025 9:06 p.m. PST |
H.G. Wells and those comic book ads for wargames from the "Helen of Toy Co." remain my earliest influences. Plus I was always painting my plastic toy soldiers (American Revolutionary War sets from comic book ads; Marx "Fort Apache" and other playsets) long before I knew there was a hobby dedicated to doing the same. |
| Tango01 | 09 Aug 2025 4:12 p.m. PST |
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 Bobgnar | 09 Aug 2025 11:39 p.m. PST |
That illustration is a nice AI job. There were no "toy soldiers" as show at the time of those fashions, unless they are current day Role Players. |
| Tango01 | 07 Sep 2025 10:23 p.m. PST |
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begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
