Order arrived-now to paint them!?

[Subedai]

Another personal vote for 'in scale' buildings here. I just can't get my head around using smaller buildings, it just doesn't look right.

Like you I make all my own although I did succumb and but some 20th Century type 6mm resin ruins on fleabay the other week.   

[FierceKitty]

AND to launch the reaction for the twenty-seventh time, there are those of us who like a town to contain several buildings without covering six times as much ground to scale as the reality, and who therefore opt for 6mm.

Shouldn't there be a sub-board for this shouting match? It arises every fortnight.

[Subedai]

Without actually disagreeing with you, I know the topic may well come up periodically, but people who have not long joined probably don't know that. It doesn't bother me how many times it gets repeated, if it gets people talking then it's fine by me. I usually find that it doesn't go on for too long anyway, usually because someone will make a comment that sends the whole thread whizzing off at a tangent.

[FierceKitty]

True enough. Funny you should mention tangents; I remember trigonometry was the branch of maths that convinced me I'd never master the art.

[Ithoriel]

I hope it is never seen as a shouting match. Some of us like 10mm buildings with 10mm figures some prefer 6mm, entirely personal preference but I wouldn't want those with a preference for 10mm to feel they are doing it wrong because someone else recommends 6mm buildings. Some people like Marmite, some don't.

Frankly, if people are happy to have their 10mm Imperial Romans fighting over a 3mm scale nuclear power station or a 28mm skyscraper then more power to their elbows ... though I reserve the right to to pass comment if it's a game I'm playing in

As to thread derailments ... no idea what you mean Subedai.

BTW does anyone know if the old fantasy mammoth without a howdah is basically naked or does it have a blanket or other trappings?

[FierceKitty]

In Australia they often call a blanket a blankie, a habit my wife picked up there as an exchange student twenty years ago (though fortunately not the accent).

[Tawa]

True enough. Funny you should mention tangents; I remember trigonometry was the branch of maths that convinced me I'd never master the art.

They made us learn Algebra. Waste of time. I've still never been there.

[jimduncanuk]

They made us learn Algebra. Waste of time. I've still never been there.

I've been to Algebra but felt I was there just making up the numbers.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

COATS!

[Subedai]

True enough. Funny you should mention tangents; I remember trigonometry was the branch of maths that convinced me I'd never master the art.

Same here. Pythagoras is about the only theorem I can remember and even that one doesn't get much of an outing these days. Algebra in its basic form is fine, I can cope with that and even managed to assist the smalls with their homework up until second year at least.  After that forget it, in normal life it's about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe.

Without being pedantic, I always thought maths was a science not an art.   

[fsn]

Strangely enough you can get BAs or BScs in Maths.

Maths is beautiful. The way that a Fibonacci series describes the structure of a snail's shell; the  encryption on your mobile phone is based of prime numbers; the appreciation of a picture expressing the Golden Ratio. Vitruvian man.


Danny Kaye singing "Inchworm".

I rest my case. 

[Subedai]

Strangely enough you can get BAs or BScs in Maths.

Maths is beautiful. The way that a Fibonacci series describes the structure of a snail's shell; the  encryption on your mobile phone is based of prime numbers; the appreciation of a picture expressing the Golden Ratio. Vitruvian man.


Danny Kaye singing "Inchworm".

I rest my case. 

If it's too heavy you can rest your case anywhere you like, but beautiful is not the word I would have chosen to describe maths. I think you either get it or you don't; for most of the time I'm in the latter category. Luckily for us a lot of people do.

[Tawa]

I've been to Algebra but felt I was there just making up the numbers.

Could you not find a Solution to that?

[fsn]

1 part olive oil, 1 part Fairy Liquid, two parts gin.

[d_Guy]

Your lot's numbers are much more stylish - slashes through zeros, little dashes or tildes through sevens - nice!
Isn't Algebra like a news service or something?