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4th Hussar
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Toy Soldier Chat is a great little forum
Njja
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No I belong to it and I'm from Jersey.
Mark
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Hey you from Joisey? I'm from Joisey!
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Spitfrnd
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Actually I think the yanks outnumber the Canadians there.do you have to be canadian to join the forum?
seriously, do you?
It is a pleasant, truly international, place with some of the same folks that are here and some others who are not.
theBaron
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There are a couple of them out there:
Hobby Bunker's forum:
http://www.hobbybunker.com/forum/
"Toy Soldier & Model Figure" magazine's forum (run by the publisher, Ashdown Publishing):
http://mycommunity.ashdown.co.uk/tt.asp?forumid=4
"Toy Soldier Collector" magazine's forum:
http://www.toysoldiercollector.com/forum
Hobby Bunker's forum has some activity, and some Treefroggers are members there (your humble narrator included). When you access the magazines' forums, though, you can hear the e-crickets chirping, they're dead.
I only know the Canadian site by word-of-mouth, I've never visited it, but apparently, it's got some good traffic volume. Those of you who are members there can speak better to that point.
Basically, Treefrog got here firstest with the mostest, again, excepting the Canadian site, because I don't know it. But the other sites seem to have started later, and it's my observation that once you join a website and post a lot of your material there, it becomes difficult to transfer to another site, as a user, or to start a competing site. Unless something really drastic happens, people tend not to move to another site. And because the head start is so great, it's almost not worth it to start a new site. And then factor in usability and other technical factors, and again, it's not really worth it to move or start a new one.
Prost!
Brad
Hobby Bunker's forum:
http://www.hobbybunker.com/forum/
"Toy Soldier & Model Figure" magazine's forum (run by the publisher, Ashdown Publishing):
http://mycommunity.ashdown.co.uk/tt.asp?forumid=4
"Toy Soldier Collector" magazine's forum:
http://www.toysoldiercollector.com/forum
Hobby Bunker's forum has some activity, and some Treefroggers are members there (your humble narrator included). When you access the magazines' forums, though, you can hear the e-crickets chirping, they're dead.
I only know the Canadian site by word-of-mouth, I've never visited it, but apparently, it's got some good traffic volume. Those of you who are members there can speak better to that point.
Basically, Treefrog got here firstest with the mostest, again, excepting the Canadian site, because I don't know it. But the other sites seem to have started later, and it's my observation that once you join a website and post a lot of your material there, it becomes difficult to transfer to another site, as a user, or to start a competing site. Unless something really drastic happens, people tend not to move to another site. And because the head start is so great, it's almost not worth it to start a new site. And then factor in usability and other technical factors, and again, it's not really worth it to move or start a new one.
Prost!
Brad
marco55
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The Canadian forum crashed a couple of months ago but Nick who ran it started another one from scratch and you had to rejoin.The last time I looked the were 48 members and more than half belong to this forum too. I belong to Toy Soldier Chat but they are a different type of guys then here.There are a few there who also belong to this one.I have only been on Hobby Bunker's very rarely so I can't speak much of that one.I also belong to Timelines and Planet but they are mostly guys who paint miniatures.I enjoy these too also as there are some really talented guys on there.
Mark
Mark