Yup, it's a very expensive hobby, that's why I thought most kids these days were doing smack instead, because it would kill them before they ran out of cash...
Wandering Dunadain wrote:
i think that it is a good idea, that way when you get to my age (16) then you will be a good painter and gamer, i myself started at 11
I started this about 18 years ago now, so if that's the case, I should be a GD standard painter by now... I'm not.
Also, shouldn't that mean you should have mastered typing by now?
It's more about the hobbyist in general, rather than the age or whatever.
It doesn't matter if you are 12 or 21, if you are an idiot, you're an idiot. There are loads of little kids in the local GW who are pretty level-headed, and a few that look to be developing into really good painters or gamers. Similarly, there are guys in their late teens who are the aforementioned idiots.
What you'll find is, in general, it's guys not girls who get into this hobby as youngsters, then when they hit their late teens they either scale down their involvement or give it up because they have discovered girls and alcohol. Using the money they have been after so long for mini related goodness.
Some, but not all, will return after a few years hiatus, and for those that head off to uni or whatever, they will find that there are usually uni gaming groups, and, shock horror, there are girls there. And they can kick ass and take names just as well as the boys.
[spoiler]Look up Ali McVey (fluffybunny.) You might recognise the surname, being that she is married to Mike McVey (GW 'Eavy Metaller and sculptor of old) and check her work out. She's only been painting for about 5 years, maybe not even that long. Jen Hayley is another one.[/spoiler]
When I was a youngster, it was pretty much birthday and Christmas that I got new minis, then once I started working, it's what I blew all my cash on. It is an expensive hobby, but like I told my old man when he complained about the cost 'At least I have something to show for my money the next day, my mates are all p'ing theirs up against a wall.'