Blast from the past

Gort · Post by **Gort** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:58 am

I was going through some of my old issues of Wargamer's Digest and came across these :

This is what got me hooked on Micro-armour. What got you started?

regards

Steve

CA-68 · Post by **CA-68** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:18 am

I was stumbling around the internet looking for a model of the USS Quincy (CA71) for a friend who's father served on it during WWII, and came across GHQs website. I had played battletech before, and liked miniatures and gaming, and have been a customer since (about 2 years)
The incredible detail in the tiny castings blows my mind, being able to game with the little models is icing on the cake for me. Its a way to build a great collection of models and take up only a small amount of space, a major concern in my small apartment.

Cpl_Blakeman · Post by **Cpl_Blakeman** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:48 am

What is the time frame for that printed ad btw?

I have really just started though I have played other miniatures games. I like real equipment better than the sci fi stuff and micro armor fits the bill.

Gort · Post by **Gort** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:06 am

I scanned those from a couple of 1977 issues.

regards

Steve

ferret701 · Post by **ferret701** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:39 pm

Gort --

I'm readying an article on my website on "vintage GHQ" (I planned to finish it 6 months ago, but was delayed, and am now close to done). Would it be ok if I used those images on the site? Obviously, I would credit you.

Thanks,

Pat Callahan
www.microarmormayhem.com

Gort · Post by **Gort** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:38 pm

Pat

Go ahead and use the images if you want, but there's no need to credit me. The ads are GHQs' not mine.

regards

Steve

ferret701 · Post by **ferret701** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:00 pm

Thanks, Gort. I hope to have something up in the next few days. I have shots of a half dozen very old GHQ moderns, plus scans of The Vivandiere (a 1970s GHQ mag/catalog) and the 1978 GHQ catalog.

Pat Callahan

Ritter · Post by **Ritter** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:41 am

For me it was the add in the last pages of ASL rulebook - probably around 1987 (edit - has it REALLY been that long?!!), I thought no frickin way...those are so cool!

Once I saw GHQs minis up close, I new that my plastic modelmaking days were numbered!

Troy

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:51 am

For me it was the confluence of two events. I'm afraid I became a convert ust a wee bit before Ritter's revelation. Like, maybe 15 years or so..?

1) I got the Avalon Hill board wargame PanzerBlitz for my 13th birthday. Gosh how I wanted that game. Had seen it in the store, read the back cover ("Russian tank commanders slam shut the hatches on their dreaded T-34s ... and there -- topping the rise! ... a glint of dawn reflecting off of the muzzle of the first German tank ... PanzerBlitz is about to begin!" Oooh MY

). Showed it to my mother, made sure she knew that I wanted exactly that game, had to have it. So for my birthday, there is was. Oooh yes! Then I opened it up, and that great big box with all those cool words and images on it had nothing but little cardboard squares inside? Are you kidding me?!!

2) I was at my local hobby shop, which had a fantastic choice of models and Rocco Mini-Tanks, and which I had patronized almost every Saturday of my life for years already, and I was looking at a 1/35th Tamiya JagdPanther, and the guy behind the counter saw what I was looking at and said "Good choice. 88mm gun, and 'A' frontal armor. The JagdTiger is even better -- it's got a 122mm gun". And I said "Uh, it was a 128mm gun, and what do you mean by 'A' armor?" And he started telling me about WRG's Armor and Infantry rules, and wargaming with micro-armor, and recommended me to another hobby shop across town that carried them (the local shop didn't).

So I went to that other shop, and saw those little tanks, and started buying them like mad! Not for micro-armor wargaming, but because they were just PERFECT to replace the little cardboard squares in my PanzerBlitz game! Oooh sweet! I still have the T-34s and T-34-85s that I bought at that time -- no tread pattering, no boxes or gas tanks, came in a clear hard-plastic snap-shut box with red foam to mark it as a Red Army tank (Germans came with gray foam, Americans with green foam).

Of course I eventually did get the WRG Armor and Infantry rules (first edition, 1972 printing). And PanzerBlitz has been in the closet ever since.

jb · Post by jb » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:30 am

My intro to Micro armour was even before that. I remember seeing them in the Alnavco catalog. That was- I beleive in 1968. I do remember viewing the MkIIIs,IVs,and the stug III. I had that catalog for years. I just couldn't aford those little tanks though-they cost $1.35 for a pack of 5 ,that was alot of money then...

kiasutha · Post by **kiasutha** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:24 am

Pat:
Do you know how many issues of "Vivandiere" were published?
I still have the first four, but life got in the way of gaming about that time...
Were there any more?
And talk about Alnavco & $1.35 micro...Man that was a long time ago.
Anyone remember when they went to the $1.95-2.20-2.45 scheme? I should, but...
Thanks,
Jim

ferret701 wrote:Thanks, Gort. I hope to have something up in the next few days. I have shots of a half dozen very old GHQ moderns, plus scans of The Vivandiere (a 1970s GHQ mag/catalog) and the 1978 GHQ catalog.

Pat Callahan

ferret701 · Post by **ferret701** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:53 pm

I've only ever seen the first issue...

... any chance I can talk you into scanning them?

Pat

wkurniawan · Post by **wkurniawan** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:56 pm

Hi guys,
can someone tell me which tank model is that Soviet tank featured in the flyer (1st post)?
I have browsed throuhg the entire Warsaw Pact Tank catalog but couldnt find anything like it.

Thanks!
Willies

Bruce Morris · Post by **Bruce Morris** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:53 pm

Looks like the early version of GHQ's T-54. I still have a few left.

Bruce

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Which Soviet Tank Model is that?

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