Meeting new colletors. (1 Viewer)

[Simpson & his donkey.]

Hi I had the good furtune of meeting Waynepoo today at my house and had a bit of a chat with him . He has only been collecting for just

over six months and shows all the signs of a true collector. What a great bloke to meet and this is what the hobby is all about. Funny thing

is he lives in the next suburb to me five minutes drive away. It is great to see toy soldier collecting growing in your home town. Have any

collectors have had that same experience. Simmo.

 

[Obee]

Simmo,

similar sort of meeting with Wayne, who lives 5 minutes away. Its great to meet up, share a beer and talk about toy soldiers and others on the Forum (in a nice way ) and to show off the collection.

I've also met up with Todd (Rethymno) who I've done lots of repairs for and the occasional painting job, he's got a great collection of 8th Army and AK, so its always a pleasure to catch up with him.

John

 

[larso]

Well, my friend Jack, who himself only came on board last month, is busy organising something for Brisbane-ites next week. I'm keen to go, I just have to wait for my wife to get home from her pilates class..... I should start a new thread - 'Obstacles to meeting new collectors'!

What even are pilates???

 

[Jack]

Well, my friend Jack, who himself only came on board last month, is busy organising something for Brisbane-ites next week. I'm keen to go, I just have to wait for my wife to get home from her pilates class..... I should start a new thread - 'Obstacles to meeting new collectors'!

What even are pilates???

Any other Brisbane collectors who have some influence with their wives interested?

 

[Simpson & his donkey.]

Any other Brisbane collectors who have some influence with their wives interested?

She who must be listen to makes every man bite there lip at times. Simmo.{sm3}

 

[waynepoo]

Simmo,
Thanks mate, you made me most welcome and I'm sure we will catch up again soon as I will have to take some of those FW figures off your hands when the budget allows.{sm4}{bravo}}
Poo.

 

[johnnybach]

I think that when you live "Out in the Sticks" a bit - like I do - this Forum is where I meet up with other like-minded people, so I don't miss the company of others quite so much. The nice thing for me is often to imagine just what and where it's like for the others I "talk to" on this little magic machine that I'm getting more and more fond of - as I find out what it can do.

At different times of the day, Im frequently chatting to someone in the USA - or OZ - or even back home in the UK - and sharing ideas and opinions on what's going on. This is after about twelve years of plodding along with my hobby (painting) without ever knowing anyone else at all who was doing what I was doing - so I will be eternally grateful to the folks at the Treefrog Organisation for the opportunity to meet and get to know my many other friends now - even though - it is at arms length. johnnybach

 

[Jack]

I think that when you live "Out in the Sticks" a bit - like I do - this Forum is where I meet up with other like-minded people, so I don't miss the company of others quite so much. The nice thing for me is often to imagine just what and where it's like for the others I "talk to" on this little magic machine that I'm getting more and more fond of - as I find out what it can do.

At different times of the day, Im frequently chatting to someone in the USA - or OZ - or even back home in the UK - and sharing ideas and opinions on what's going on. This is after about twelve years of plodding along with my hobby (painting) without ever knowing anyone else at all who was doing what I was doing - so I will be eternally grateful to the folks at the Treefrog Organisation for the opportunity to meet and get to know my many other friends now - even though - it is at arms length. johnnybach

Beautifully written. It is really pleasing to read such a heartfelt statement about both the hobby and the forum.

 

[johnnybach]

Well, hi Jack - and thankyou - but see what I mean? Little did you know, that you have recently joined a Worldwide brotherhood of people with perhaps differing tastes and views on this hobby - but are joined by one passion - Toy Soldiers. Welcome to the Club. Glad to have you as one of my friends too. Johnnybach

 

[Jack]

Well, hi Jack - and thankyou - but see what I mean? Little did you know, that you have recently joined a Worldwide brotherhood of people with perhaps differing tastes and views on this hobby - but are joined by one passion - Toy Soldiers. Welcome to the Club. Glad to have you as one of my friends too. Johnnybach

Too my shame I spent some time deriding my good friend Larso about toy soldiers and the silliness of collecting them. He took me to the local shop and one look at the French Imperial Guard and I was gone. In seven weeks I think I have had more fun on this forum and in the toy soldier shop than I would like to admit. Bad day at work, no worries, stop and buy some King and Country. Good day at work, stop and celebrate with some King and Country! It is a great hobby - I'm back reading some history and also planning my next trip to London to coincide with a toy soldier show. To make it even better, my wife is a big fan of the hobby and actually began a conversation over breakfast this morning by saying 'This Andy fellow in Hong Kong...'

Thanks for the welcome!

 

[larso]

Jack and I are teachers. The school holidays are long and Jack came along on my pre-Christmas visit to give himself something to do. I picked up some French artillery and another piece or two and was quite happy with myself. Though he'd been there before, he walked out with a newly reflective look and said to me, 'Some of those figures are just fantastic but I just know that if I started I'd get in deep very quickly - very deep'. I brushed this off and said something along the lines of, that he could buy a couple and just see how it went. Well the next week, he got all the Imperial Guards! He next got all the first round of Line infantry and the Black Watch. Despite having a pact where we agreed to always go in together to keep purchases at a modest level, he went in the next week and got all the Scots Greys and any Curiassiers he could find! It was one of the highlights of my year when he came straight over to set them all up on my dining room table. I've since been getting figures for him on ebay and he's about to pass me in collection numbers. In seven weeks he's also made more posts than I have in almost 4 years! (Though he shouldn't be allowed to count 'ditto' posts.) When we ring each other it's not to whinge about bad days on the job, it's to talk toy soldiers. It's been a lot of fun!

 

[Jack]

Jack and I are teachers. The school holidays are long and Jack came along on my pre-Christmas visit to give himself something to do. I picked up some French artillery and another piece or two and was quite happy with myself. Though he'd been there before, he walked out with a newly reflective look and said to me, 'Some of those figures are just fantastic but I just know that if I started I'd get in deep very quickly - very deep'. I brushed this off and said something along the lines of, that he could buy a couple and just see how it went. Well the next week, he got all the Imperial Guards! He next got all the first round of Line infantry and the Black Watch. Despite having a pact where we agreed to always go in together to keep purchases at a modest level, he went in the next week and got all the Scots Greys and any Curiassiers he could find! It was one of the highlights of my year when he came straight over to set them all up on my dining room table. I've since been getting figures for him on ebay and he's about to pass me in collection numbers. In seven weeks he's also made more posts than I have in almost 4 years! (Though he shouldn't be allowed to count 'ditto' posts.) When we ring each other it's not to whinge about bad days on the job, it's to talk toy soldiers. It's been a lot of fun!

Larso's stories are not delivered under oath, nor are they reflective of my rather overt masculinity. I do not teach much any more - I have been promoted out of the classroom, and not a moment too soon. I also do some lecturing at University in history and education, so clearly in our friendship I am the Alpha male and he is the side kick.

 

[Ragnar]

I think that when you live "Out in the Sticks" a bit - like I do - this Forum is where I meet up with other like-minded people, so I don't miss the company of others quite so much. The nice thing for me is often to imagine just what and where it's like for the others I "talk to" on this little magic machine that I'm getting more and more fond of - as I find out what it can do.

At different times of the day, Im frequently chatting to someone in the USA - or OZ - or even back home in the UK - and sharing ideas and opinions on what's going on. This is after about twelve years of plodding along with my hobby (painting) without ever knowing anyone else at all who was doing what I was doing - so I will be eternally grateful to the folks at the Treefrog Organisation for the opportunity to meet and get to know my many other friends now - even though - it is at arms length. johnnybach

I here ya "painting" brother well said {bravo}}

 

[kogu]

I think that when you live "Out in the Sticks" a bit - like I do - this Forum is where I meet up with other like-minded people, so I don't miss the company of others quite so much. The nice thing for me is often to imagine just what and where it's like for the others I "talk to" on this little magic machine that I'm getting more and more fond of - as I find out what it can do.

At different times of the day, Im frequently chatting to someone in the USA - or OZ - or even back home in the UK - and sharing ideas and opinions on what's going on. This is after about twelve years of plodding along with my hobby (painting) without ever knowing anyone else at all who was doing what I was doing - so I will be eternally grateful to the folks at the Treefrog Organisation for the opportunity to meet and get to know my many other friends now - even though - it is at arms length. johnnybach

Hi johnnybach,

this is a very good post of yours and I am sure that it depicts the exact situation of many fellow forum members. There are only a few who have the luxury of a good Toy Soldier shop near by or some like-minded collectors in the neighborhood. A lot of us are somewhat "alone" with this hobby in their surroundings, be it family, friends or the fellow workers at the job.
Having the opportunity here to share our common passion with people from all around the globe with pictures, show reports, how-to's, questions and answers, is just great.
After all, how much is a collection worth if it can't be shared with other people who can appreciate it?
So, Cheers to our hosts for providing a fun place to hang out :wink2:

Konrad

 

[waynepoo]

I have had great fun on this forum since I joined and hopefully Jack and Larso will shortly have the dubious pleasure of meeting up with me and our local T/S Dealer and I beleive a local lady collector which is fantasic.:smile2:{sm4}{bravo}}
Poo.

 

[ucla1967]

I think that when you live "Out in the Sticks" a bit - like I do - this Forum is where I meet up with other like-minded people, so I don't miss the company of others quite so much. The nice thing for me is often to imagine just what and where it's like for the others I "talk to" on this little magic machine that I'm getting more and more fond of - as I find out what it can do.

At different times of the day, Im frequently chatting to someone in the USA - or OZ - or even back home in the UK - and sharing ideas and opinions on what's going on. This is after about twelve years of plodding along with my hobby (painting) without ever knowing anyone else at all who was doing what I was doing - so I will be eternally grateful to the folks at the Treefrog Organisation for the opportunity to meet and get to know my many other friends now - even though - it is at arms length. johnnybach

Nicely put JB. We all owe Pete and Shannon a big thank you for their efforts in running this forum which enables us to talk with other collectors from all over the world.

I am fortunate to live in an area that not only has a couple of toy soldier shops nearby, but also has the West Coaster Show each year where I have met and talked with hundreds of collectors over the last 20 years. Even this wasn't enough, so about seven years ago, I founded the Southern California Toy Soldier Collectors Society which is a small group (about two dozen collectors) that meets four to six times a year at different collector's homes to see their collections and talk toy soldiers. Our diverse group includes business owners, university professors, physicians, school teachers, retirees, police officers, etc., who all have in common our love of toy soldiers.

 

[theBaron]

That's great, Simmo!

We're a little more spread out around here, generally speaking, so we tend to see each other more at the shows.

The forum is good for this, though, of course, to network and meet collectors who live close by but whom we'd never even known of before.

Prost collector friendship!
Brad

 

[OzDigger]

After an extended break I have got the collecting bug again, albeit in a minor form, and I look forward to meeting the new (and old) collectors at some stage. I live on the Sunshine Coast in Qld, so I'm not far from Brisbane.

Matt

 

[johnnybach]

I have had great fun on this forum since I joined and hopefully Jack and Larso will shortly have the dubious pleasure of meeting up with me and our local T/S Dealer and I beleive a local lady collector which is fantasic.:smile2:{sm4}{bravo}}
Poo.

It's not "Sheila" - I trust - Bruce?

 

[Jack]

It's not "Sheila" - I trust - Bruce?

Hey Cobber,

Stone the flamin' crows mate, what a cliched view of the land down under. Nearly knocked me kero lamp over when I read your post 'bout Bruce and Sheila. Scared me sheep half to death (I bring them indoors when it rains). I've kicked me ugg boots off, put on me wellies and am off to the backyard to use the dunny - no indoor plumbin' for us!

Bruce