Imagine how big is his pile of shame.

Making and Painting all your own lead troops: Now that's soldering.

I need to order a vest

I love the subtle but brutal riposte "It could be worse. We could be at the pub." I might have added ". . . getting drunk and watching someone else play a game on TV."

This is my future. My 40k armies will endure lol

The days before the internet but after the atom was split. Quite an interesting part of history really.

Absolutely marvellous and nice to see Iain Dickie in it too.

Talk about making things difficult for yourself.

Wow the respect that is shown in this is telling of its age. Imagine if an interview like this was done on prime time news today

"Looking quite magnificent" is really nice! Nobody ever says that about my models 😂

We used to get this news programme in Reading, Berks but it NEVER mentioned us for years. Even when RFC got good they just snubbed us. It was always about Southampton or Portsmouth or Winchester. Reading was too common for them I guess.

the games were much better then. Simultaneous moves and no command and control nonsense

No female custodes there.

God, even then they got a what’s your other half make of it jab. Somethings never change. 😂

News guys are assholes

I remember when a pack of 'miniatures' came with blobs of metal to melt down, some molds for the soldiers, clips, and a weird clamp tool. For some trivia: this 15mm scale was the official Napoleonic scale. This is also where the D&D and AD&D scale of 1"=10' comes from.

"we could be down the pub" lol. nope , as a wargamer, i can confirm that i dont have the spare revenue to afford alcohol ! lol

The gaming part is great, sure - but I love the painting part too. I played Warhammer 40k during 9th edition, and I found that the process of painting was quite pleasurable. I've even bought models from games other than 40k just because they look fun to paint. Sadly, the models can be super expensive, and my budget is non-existant these days...

And then one day, you find yourself in the grim darkness of the far flung future, where there is only war.

That was amazing.

I thought this was going to be a snippet from a comedy sketch when I saw the thumbnail, not an actual news story. 😂😂

I wish the news was still like that

Last year, I bought 40lbs of 15mm Napoleonics for $140, most of them MiniFigs. Seeing them made is a beautiful thing.

I really miss... Nah, 43 this year and don't care about how the news was. People who complain about how the news was are the same people who say "keep politics out of my hobby". All the while preaching their politics proudly to everyone else in the comments section.

I like that they used Pink Floyd in the background

Ah, the good old days. Ruined by leftist politics in the US...banning lead minis...

They had me with the Pink Floyd interstitial for a small news piece. Good matchup too.

back when men were men, and minis were lead

So cool

👍👍👍

YOU NEED TO BE ATTUNED TO YOUR WIVES, AS WELL Introverts weren't even understood back then.

The days when the news wasn't packed with politically correct agenda, virtue signalling and messaging.

and then...D&D.

While i marvel at the makers skill isnt working in close contact with lead without PPE injuring to your health?

this is the birth of wh40k, aos, lord of the rings, fucking wild man, humanity is so fucking cool, i wish i could live to be a thousand years old :/

Both of those times this man has heard of somebody punching somebody were both peachy in a car park.

That guy was amazing. The patience & steady hand for that scale is exceptional. His skill with that soldering iron was fantastic.

Classy wargamers

So this is the birth of the STC.

Everyone saying they miss when the news was just facts is a pretty naive opinion tbh. Choosing what facts to report on and what to leave out is itself a decision based on opinion, so the news will never truly be just facts unless it reports on everything, which is not practical for a half hour TV segment.

What a bunch of nerds

Painful, high-pitched whine in the audio. Neat footage though, I enjoyed seeing the casting.

Simpler times.

From the thumbnail, i mistook this as a kids in the hall sketch

Awesome 🤘

Is that a Pink Floys instrumentals playing in the background? It sounds like something from "Delicate Sound of Thunder".

Good old toy soldiers. Some of my favorite memories from childhood involved playing with my dad's old set of army men and tanks and cannons and such. He had one set that was based on the Napoleonic Wars (Redcoats and the Grand Armée) and another that was based on World War II with British troops painted in green pitted against German troops, half of which were painted grey and the other half were painted tan, like the Afrika Korps. He even had a V2 rocket on a rocket launcher platform, a few armored cars of various designs I am unable to find the names of, and what I am pretty sure was meant to be a Centurion tank with its gun broken off. They were all from when my father was a kid in the 50s. The soldiers were plastic but all of the tanks and cannons were metal and the cannons had little latches on them you could pull back and that would prime a spring inside the barrel of the cannon, allowing you to launch nails out of the cannons by sliding them into the barrels backwards. The nails would fly out head-first so it was relatively safe, but they would never allow toy designers to make toy cannons like that nowadays. Hell, it's hard to even find toys that are still made with metal. The tanks, armored cars and cannons were so lovingly created, with metal bodies and real rubber for the treads or wheels and real functionality for the cannons combined with a level of realism that you would be hard-pressed to find in toys for kids nowadays. Now, the only places marketing high quality toy soldiers are marketing them to adults, more or less. I mean, adult men have always been involved in wargaming from its inception, but I feel like you don't see kids playing with army men like they used to do. Video games seem to have supplanted the role toy soldiers played for me as a child. As long as kids have something to bond over with their fathers, I am happy, but I feel like most kids playing video games aren't really playing them with their dads. I am saddened by the thought of little boys missing out on that all-important male bonding time. Another thing that brought my father and I closer was watching war documentaries. We had two whole shelves of war documentaries on VHS in our movie collection and I think my dad and I watched them all together, learning about the World Wars in great detail.

"What does your wives make of this sort of behavior" Implying that there is something wrong with this. We really have come a long way since "the old days".

Nurrrrds.

God bless those that came before us to blaze the trail and light the way,