White Nun Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Hello everyone, I've only just discovered Eurobricks Forums and I thought it would be a good idea to sign up. For some years I was a fairly serious fantasy wargamer and I would play many a battle against my two teenaged children. Strange as it might seem we weren't using LEGO because we were 'serious' and all our finely crafted model figures weren't toys, but 'proper' serious models. As it happens my children grew up into huge adults and went off to university and studied important serious grown up things and no longer had the time to play at wargaming with me anymore I did go to a wargaming club for a while, but as the only woman in what was very much a 'man cave' I never felt especially welcome. And besides with rule edition upgrades and the cost of the model figures and all the hours of painting it was all becoming not a great deal of fun. THEN I discovered toy playsets, more specifically knights and castle type toy playsets and something went 'click' inside my head and I decided I'd had enuff of serious wargaming and I was going to have fun. There was a partcular cheap generic type Chinese made playset around that I purchased several sets of just to get the little men and other useful bits and I still use these little chaps quite a lot. I also purchased some Playmobil knights and men at arms (Am I allowed to say 'Playmobil' here?) and the little men would get used as Hobbits and Dwarves. As time when along I purchased various job lots from toy box clearouts from children who were now 'too grown up' for toy soldiers (the fools!). It was through such job lot purchases I first discovered LEGO, - though I will hasten to add some of it was Mega Blocks only I didn't know it. (Am I allowed to say Mega Blocks?) One of my armies...... The one thing I was having problems with though was castles. Most of the Chinese playset ones were horrid and I gave them all away except for the one in the picture which was about the best out of a bad lot. I did have a lot of Imaginext castle parts from the toy box job lots (I use the Imaginext knights as Chaos warriors), but the castle sections don't have a great deal of flexibility if you want to build anything else apart from the picture on the box. So after being shown some seriously impressive pictures of huge castles and villages built from LEGO just recently I began to see the way I should go in the future. I'm very excited about the new Elf minifig and I hope he will prove to be a portent for the future. I'm still not sure about the difference between LEGO bits and Mega Block bits & etc when found in the wild, so I hope you will all forgive me should I put my foot in it. So that's me, sorry about the essay Quote
Dragonator Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Welcome to EuroBricks White Nun! It's great to have another fellow Kiwi on the boards, I think you might be our first Lady from this far down under as well, so that's pretty cool. I enjoyed reading your essay, and although you will find some people who would rip you apart for even thinking the word MegaBloks, we do in fact have a few around here who love it equally as much as Lego, so don't feel bad about that. Although we all know Lego is far, far superior. Castles and Elves, you have to be my favourite new member! And there is a dragon in your picture, so that helps matters a lot too (even if it isn't a Lego one). We have plenty of very talented castle builders who frequent our site, so make sure you check out the history forum here for inspiration. Also, since you have a background in games, you might like to check out our gaming forum. That's my department, you might say. We have a very popular series of Mafia games going, there are some war games floating around, and if you stick around you might even see an RPG later this year. Lastly, if you're looking for tips on finding Lego in NZ, you definitely need to check out this thread. Lots of the locals hang out there, we're a friendly bunch, so feel free to drop by any time. Very nice to meet you, I hope you enjoy your time on our site. Quote
White Nun Posted February 9, 2011 Author Posted February 9, 2011 Thankyou very much for the welcome Dragonator. It's going to take me a little time to settle in and get used to everything which makes me very pleased that you provided those helpful links. This seems to be a very big website and forum and I'm sure I'm going to get myself lost a few times before I'm done. The dragon is by Papo and for wargaming they would have to be about the cheapest and most durable dragons available that still manage to look good on the battlefield. Have you actually seen the price of a Games Workshop dragon these days? - and then you still have to assemble it and paint it! I do have a slightly down on its luck Mega Blocks dragon, but I can't say that I'm especially fond of it. Mafia games? - what is that? Is it a gaming system of some kind? Something tells me that I'm going to find out soon enough though Quote
BrickArtist Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Hi there! Welcome to EB, I'm sure the more you explore lego, the more it will become a hobby of yours. I hope you get into MOCing, maybe we can see some MOCs based off of these wargames. Quote
White Nun Posted February 9, 2011 Author Posted February 9, 2011 Hi there! Welcome to EB, I'm sure the more you explore lego, the more it will become a hobby of yours. I hope you get into MOCing, maybe we can see some MOCs based off of these wargames. I'm so embarased, - I had to go and look up what MOCing was Thanks for the greeting and yes I would very much like to get into wargame type MOCing. Quote
Dragonator Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Thankyou very much for the welcome Dragonator. It's going to take me a little time to settle in and get used to everything which makes me very pleased that you provided those helpful links. This seems to be a very big website and forum and I'm sure I'm going to get myself lost a few times before I'm done. We've grown a lot, but we're still a friendly bunch, so if you're ever in doubt or can't find something, give one of the staff a shout and we'd be happy to help. There's always new things to discover looking around, and lots of great people to talk to about them. The dragon is by Papo and for wargaming they would have to be about the cheapest and most durable dragons available that still manage to look good on the battlefield. Have you actually seen the price of a Games Workshop dragon these days? - and then you still have to assemble it and paint it! I do have a slightly down on its luck Mega Blocks dragon, but I can't say that I'm especially fond of it. I hadn't heard of Papo, just looked a few up on Amazon and they don't look too bad. I've never really looked too much at Games Workshop, I figure one expensive hobby is more than enough, but they do make some wonderful figures. Mafia games? - what is that? Is it a gaming system of some kind? Something tells me that I'm going to find out soon enough though Mafia is a hell of a lot of fun. We are going to be running a game for beginners when the current game finishes (in about a month and a half I would say), so if you're interested now is definitely a good time to be starting out. It's a great way to get to know other members in the community, and it's fun getting to kill a few of them too. You may have found it already, but the Mafia Index contains all the links to past games if you ever want to take a look and see what it is about. Quote
White Nun Posted February 9, 2011 Author Posted February 9, 2011 Welcome aboard, White Nun. Thankyou kindly Quote
CommanderFox Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Welcome to EB White Nun! As Draggy said you are our first NZ Lady here! So hope you have a wonderful time here, and I look forward to seeing you round the forums! CF Quote
Nikkiwi Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Welcome aboard White Nun, I'm another ex wargamer (both board and Games Workshop), ex RPG player and recently renewed LEGO fan of castle and viking LEGO. Looking forward to seeing you round the forums too. Cheers Nick Quote
WhiteFang Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Welcome White Nun. We are pleased to have a FFOL in our community. The introduction was great and it gave us a little bit more insight about you. Saying the word, Playmobil is fine. In fact, we got an EB Staff among us who are also a fan of this hobby. See you around and enjoy your stay with us. WhiteFang Quote
buddy Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Welcome to Eurobricks White Nun! ~buddy~ Quote
AllanSmith Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Welcome from another Kiwi. You will enjoy it here. A friendly and helpful forum. LEGO is addictive, I started over 25 years ago when my children were infants, now they are working adults. Started as a collector (link) but now also MOC [build My Own Creations](link) and do public displays . Quote
RileyC Posted February 11, 2011 Posted February 11, 2011 Welcome! Its always great to have more NZers on the site and especially ladies! Draggy has shown you the ropes for us NZers so I guess there's nothing else left to do for a bit of an introduction to EB! Just have a look round and I hope you enjoy! Quote
White Nun Posted February 12, 2011 Author Posted February 12, 2011 Thankyou very much for the welcome everyone I'm already discovering what a pleasant and friendly website and forum this is. Welcome from another Kiwi. You will enjoy it here. A friendly and helpful forum. LEGO is addictive, I started over 25 years ago when my children were infants, now they are working adults. Started as a collector (link) but now also MOC [build My Own Creations](link) and do public displays . Wow Allan, - thankyou for sharing those links your models are wonderful. Quote
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