White Nun

What a superb piece of model making! I absolutely love it.

Cool bananas! I really like that. Lovely attention to detail with all sorts of neat dials and valves and other steampunk essentials on display. IMHO Victorian Sci-Fi and Steampunk is much more fun that all that futuristic stuff.

Amusing though, - one vendor described this as being a 'Roman Battle Set with Cannon'!

Hey thanks for the info about these knock-offs. I somehow thought there was a common source for all these Chinese made sets as there seemed to be a lot of similarity of parts no matter what the brand name on the box happened to be. It might be heresy to say this, but for brick wargaming cheap is good and accuracy and quality of parts is not so much of an issue. I can see though that some of the other knock-off playsets where things are supposed to work and fit together properly for correct function could be a real trial when the quality control is poor.

The rules for Heroquest used to be available for download along with the dungeon tiles and other bits. I have the game and all the expansions packed away in a box somewhere, but I'm not sure just where they are at the moment. UPDATE! This website has just about everything you'd need to play the game available for download. My link Wow! the sight of all those Elves is seriously amazing Ed.

An importer here in New Zealand is selling playsets by Cogo that seem to be pretty much a Lego copy/clone. Has anyone heard of this company before?

Hey fellow Kiwis, I've got a plastic bagful of Lego bits I don't want (not that I know what they're for anyway) and I'd like to swap them for w.h.y. in the way of minifig bits. Don't want money, - I'd prefer to do a swap if at all possible. Edit update: Sorry it's no longer available I gave it to the Sally Army this morning.

Thankyou very much for the welcome everyone I'm already discovering what a pleasant and friendly website and forum this is. Wow Allan, - thankyou for sharing those links your models are wonderful.

No, I haven't seen it around before, but it does sound like it's useful stuff.

Makes note: 'No spraypaint.' Hey wow! Brick-Link is amazing. Sorry though it was just so amazing I bought it all and there's nuffing left Seriously though I did manage to find some really useful weapons and shields etc to stockpile for my soon to be recruited armies. After this I'll be looking for Castle fantasy minifigs and I'd really love to get a Troll and some Orcs. Being a wargamer it's armies first and then castles and scenic stuff second.

Welcome Toytoy

Hello Goomba welcome to EB. I'm new too and from what I've experienced so far you'll find this to be a very friendly and welcoming place.

No I use the glue just as it is without any dilution and smooth it on carefully. The brush I use is a nicely sized soft bristled brush intended for water colour painting. Afterwards I wash the brush really well in running water and it's as good as new.

For straight out MOC type building work such as say, - an abbey and a Medieval village, - is it better to be buying sets, or to simply hunt out bulk quantities of bricks in useful colours such as white, grey, dark grey and black? I often see job lot toy box clearout type sales on Trade Me, but am reluctant to bid because I don't want to end up with piles of brightly coloured bricks I can't use. Then on the other hand for a permanent model I could try building walls with job-lot yellow, red, blue & etc bricks and then spray paint them a nice masonry colour; - or is that a no-no that would get me banned from Lego forever? I live in a rural area and don't travel outside of the district much, - so who would be a good reliable mail order type trader to deal with?

Thankyou kindly

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.

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

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

I'm not really sure how he ended up looking sad, I used the printout with the stern expression too.

I'm very new to Fantasy wargaming with Lego minifigs and I was delighted to find your Elf decals almost by accident as it happens. I have ordered a new series III Elf, but there is absolutely no way that I would want to use him as the basis of an army at the prices that are wanted for these new minifigs here in New Zealand. I wargame with other 'toy' figures too and lacking a suitable minifig to experiment on I tried out the printouts on another brand of very cheap playset figure that I use a lot in my games. Please don't cast me out or throw things at me for this picture; - but I will say in my defense that the printouts do make him look awfully good. Oh and here's a tip, - I'm using ordinary A4 sticker paper, but I paint it with waterproof PVA to give it a durable surface.