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July 1998
DATE: Thursday, 2 July 98 06:27:29
obs FROM: alan@poulter.demon.co.uk CC: grognard@grognard.com I hope the link from Web-Grognards brings
you plenty of visitors. You have an excellent
site! Alan Poulter DATE: Wednesday, 1 July1998 02:04:27 EDT
and DATE: Sunday, 28 June 1998 14:55:31
EDT FROM: WJHupp@aol.com Great Site!! Love your use of Playmobil. Will be back
to your site often. My kids really enjoyed the pictures.
They spend 2-3 hours everyday playing with their Playmobil
figures. I have a copy of Little Wars that was
reprinted a few years ago. I am very interested in making the
cannons fire and even more interested in info on the figure
conversions. Any suggestions on doing Roark's
Drift? Bill Hupp DATE: Tuesday, 23 June 1998 09:19:57
PDT FROM: "Charles
Christy" <cwcii@hotmail.com> I'm real curious how you got those nifty
sun helmets... headgear is always the hardest item to come
by... and the kerchiefs for your naval brigade. Also a
decent fire arm... the bearskinned guardsmen from the
Guardbox set have lovely mausers, but they are few and far
between... the musket like things in the gun crew /pirate
set is not real impressive, but at least have nice socket
bayonets.... but I'm always interested in some source for
headgear and weapons of a more martial nature. I made a
lancer or two out of some medieval types from their earliest
set, but need sun helmets to finish them off
properly... best, Charles DATE: Monday, 08 June 1998 23:45:11
+0200 FROM: "Phil Dutre"
Philip.Dutre@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Hi, I really like your site about Garden
Wargaming, especially the use of Playmobil figures. I almost
want to throw out all my lead and dig up my old
toys. Anyway, here's another site that also
uses Playmobil for wargaming (or maybe you knew about this
already):
http://www.gamecabinet.com/editorials/EditorialMay98.html Philip.Dutre@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~philipd/ Computer Graphics Research Group; Dept.
of Computer Science; K.U.Leuven DATE: Wednesday, 3 June 1998 23:53:43
EDT FROM:"Adrian"
AMandzy@aol.com Great site - keep up the good work. I
always knew Macintosh people were always making cool things
and this proves it. Adrian DATE: Wednesday, 27 May 1998 16:36:07
+0000 FROM: "Nick Nascati"
NNascati@aol.com Richard; This is getting dangerous. Where exactly
do you get the sort of Playmobil figures you use? I get
Jamie Delson's Toy Soldier Company Catalog, but have never
noticed any extensive line of military sets in his Playmobil
pages. Nick Nascati DATE: Monday, 25 May 1998 23:59:21
-0400 FROM: Jim Regan "Geraldine Toland"
tamura@voicenet.com Dear Richard [if you will allow the
informality]; I am tremendously interested in your
ideas and have about a thousand questions. I will resist
bombarding you with nine hundred and ninety nine at the
moment and confine myself to just one. How in the heck do
you make those little Playmobil guys into Highlanders,
gunners, Hodson`s Horse etc.? I have just received a flash
from the Foreign Secretary at Whitehall "Richard is to put
the rest of his life on hold and work exclusively on his
web-site. stop. The future of the Empire could well depend
upon it, stop. There could be a KCB in his future if he
plays the game. Best Salaams to Richard and the memsahib,
stop." There it is Richard, the rest is up to you. Thanks
for the kind and courteous reply to my signal of recent
date. Jim [Tamura] Regan DATE: Friday, 15 May 1998 05:09:31
-0400 FROM: Jim Regan "Geraldine Toland"
tamura@voicenet.com Dear Sir and Madam: I can`t express how
charmed I was to find your clever, imaginative and
completely captivating web site. I can`t wait to learn
how to create those really original
little figures and to finally try my hand
at H.G.`s "Little Wars". I have owned and
loved the book these many years and I
must admit I could use a change from the "sophisticated" and
rather humourless modern wargame.
........ I long to return to.... the pleasant land of
make-believe sprawled on the floor (or grass) surrounded by
my stalwart red-coats in a "square that broke". Please, keep
up this important work. Best Regards, Jim Regan DATE: Monday, 04 May 1998 12:29:09
-0400 FROM: Holly Henry-Pilkington
hollyhp@one.net What a wonderful idea. I found your
website through the
Major General's website. I am
just astonished. I have heard of Playmobil but never
realised they made toy soldiers. Of course I realize you are
converting some of them, but still, just wonderful. I look
forward to seeing your site grow. Take care and I'll be
stopping back often. Best, Gary R. Pilkington DATE: Thursday, 30 Apr 1998 10:00:08
PDT FROM: "Dennis George Lennox II"
dlennox@hotmail.com It's nice..... Need more pictures (a
little bigger too). Also you should put a counter and
guestbook on the page. Free guestbook at: www.guestworld.com
Maybe even Background sound would make it a good site.
Besides that, bravo! Denny DATE: Thursday, 30 Apr 1998 07:23:10
PDT FROM: "jon paulson" jepaulson@hotmail.com Keep up the great work! With playmobil
figures, you could pretty much play any era. 1/32 is a good
scale for the garden, too! Lots of cool British trains and
such. I'd love updates. We haven't put in a garden RR since
we live in Minnesota (and its 6 week outdoor RR season), but
the large scale is neat, especially after being confined to
4X8 tables all winter. Thanks again DATE: Thursday, 30 Apr 1998 09:38:33
+0200 FROM: "Stallwitz" stallwitz@playmobil.com
Hi Richard, Lets communicate in English. We will
integrate a Fan-link-site in our
PLAYMOBIL-web-site. Our site
relaunch is ready in fall. So - we will use your
link. Freundliche Grüße / Kind
Regards Silke Stallwitz PLAYMOBIL DATE: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1998 16:58:03
-0600 FROM: "James D. (Jim) Parmenter"
jasdpar@rmii.com Richard, I was hoping that maybe early-on you
could give some examples of the kind of scales that might be
suitable from your smallest on up. I know that it has to
stop somewhere short of the "pink flamingo" lawn decoration
or "servant boy" horse hitching post size. Best regards, Jim DATE: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1998 07:28:21
-0400 FROM: saj@kali.psyc.virginia.edu
(Steve Jacquot) Pretty cool. I've heard about Little
Wars, but never read it. I always assumed it was probably ok
for 19th Century rules, but outdated by modern technology.
Do you adapt it for modern rules (tanks and planes and
helicopters and rockets and whatnot) or do you just do
classical battles? I've bookmarked the page. As you update
it, I'd appreciate a notification. Also, I forwarded the
mountie picture you sent me on to Gail Meagher, a Canadian
r.t.l regular who is into mounties in a big way. She might
be getting in touch with you for more info. Steve DATE: Monday, 13 Apr 1998 17:21:53
-0600 FROM: James D. "Jim" Parmenter
jasdpar@rmii.com Hi, Now I've got to get into figures. As soon
as I can figure out the scale, I can start the landscaping.
If I can't get to Waterloo, Waterloo can come to me.
Northern Italy will be hard to fit in, I'm afraid. My wife
is looking over my shoulder and wants to know where's the
terrain? All the little trees, the bushes (boccage?), walls
around the fields, roads, streams, - eh? With best regards, Jim "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I
said something." - Last words of Pancho Villa. DATE: Monday, 13 Apr 1998 21:34:59
EDT FROM: "Gordon" Spcglider Spcglider@aol.com Cool! I just heard that Playmobil Germany
is going to be releasing a set of"adventurer" stuff. It is
like an Indiana Jones theme with a Mayan
temple and all! Gotta fly! Talk later! -G DATE: Sunday, 5 Apr 1998 11:05:58
-0700 FROM: "Barry L. Geipel" bgeipel@primenet.com Very nice! Do you know where I can get a
copy of Little Wars? I have not built my pull tool yet
because I do not have any extra figures right now (Patrick
would notice one being missing...) I am planning on heading
down to the store that carries them sometime this week. Just
in case you had not seen my pages: http://www.primenet.com/~bgeipel/cdmailer.html Barry DATE: Saturday, 28 Mar 1998 19:43:55
+0100 FROM: "The Oyerbides" oyerbides@wiesbaden.netsurf.de I am interested in the Playmobil
wargaming idea. I am living in Germany right now and I see
the figures everywhere but never thought about gaming with
them. John DATE: Friday, 27 Mar 1998 15:54:17
-0500 FROM: beattie@umich.edu
("Bob Beattie") Ann Arbor Historical Miniatures Gaming
Group I got into Lego gaming with pirates
before I saw the beautiful Playmobil sets available for
about the same price. Thanks Bob DATE: Friday, 27 Mar 1998 FROM: John Marron jmarron@care.health.ufl.edu Project Care, UF Dept of
Pediatrics Richard, I've often considered doing a miniatures
project with Playmobil figures. I have a recent catalog from
the company, but did not see any Victorian figures. No shops
in my area carry the figures, so I have little idea of their
cost, availability, etc. I'm also interested in what rules
you use with them. In short, I'm a convert waiting to
happen! I'd appreciate any info you'd care to
share. Thanks, John Marron DATE: Thursday, 26 Mar 1998 23:32:17
-0800 FROM: "Barry L. Geipel" bgeipel@primenet.com Great! Thanks for the info. I could not
get the whole thing apart, so I will make one of your pull
tools. Patrick (my boy) and I will head down to the toy
store on Saturday and I will pick up a few "extras" to play
with myself. I love spoiling my kids! Barry DATE: Thursday, 26 Mar 1998 16:33:22
-0800 FROM: "Barry L. Geipel" bgeipel@primenet.com I have been casting my own 20mm WWII
stuff and I have thought about making some playmobil
compatable pieces as well. Could you send me some info?
Also, have you tried to take a figure apart? Are they hard
to put back together? I want to do some head swapping (I
don't want all the archers to have eye patches :) Barry DATE: Monday, 29 Dec 1997 19:15:08
+0000 FROM: "James D. (Jim) Parmenter"
jasdpar@rmii.com Hi, I picked up your message from the news
group and reposted it to "Bouting" listserv. I hope you
don't mind too terribly. "Bouting" is a small mailing list
for all forms of Napoleonic wargaming. I thought some of us
need to get outdoors more. Besides, it expands the scope of
the kinds of games the list covers. With best regards, Jim "It's all very well in practice, but it
will never work in theory." - French management saying
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