What would you do ?

Started by chalkie, 01 October 2013, 08:41:10 AM

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Last Hussar

I am expecting the next price rise to take a pack of 30 infantry to 4 Guineas now!

Personally I'm glad of metric (born 1969).  I do wish US rules wouldn't give us, for instance, base sizes of 1 1/8 inches by 7/8ths (Fire and Fury).  My base sizes are all multiples of 20mm and 30mm.

I'm that generation caught between the two.  My dad  measures things in mil- but then he's been an engineer all his life.
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Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 October 2013, 02:03:31 PM
I am expecting the next price rise to take a pack of 30 infantry to 4 Guineas now!

Personally I'm glad of metric (born 1969).  I do wish US rules wouldn't give us, for instance, base sizes of 1 1/8 inches by 7/8ths (Fire and Fury).  My base sizes are all multiples of 20mm and 30mm.

I'm that generation caught between the two.  My dad  measures things in mil- but then he's been an engineer all his life.

Yep, I try to do everything in metric, because it's so much easier, but at times I still find myself slipping back into imperial. A 1.83m x 2.439m table just doesn't work, I find.
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QuoteYep, I try to do everything in metric, because it's so much easier, but at times I still find myself slipping back into imperial.

I mix both at work, metric for small stuff, say less than 1'/300mm, then feet and inches for anything larger. When I was at school we started off with Imperial measurements and then quickly had to learn metric as well.