Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[FierceKitty]

What rules Pierre?

Probably Mrs Pierre.

[paulr]

What rules Pierre?

For King and Parliament http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,17075.0.html

[Orcs]

But as I point out to Mrs Shy its a heck of a lot less than a mid life crisis spend that a friend of mine did recently when he bought a Suzuki 650 road bike with all the options. OK he had (most of    ) the budget to do it but he still spent $20k all up.
 

I wish my mid life crisis only cost £20K.  Mine was upwards of £180k.  Best £180K I ever spent though   

[pierre the shy]

Quote from: Last Hussar on Today at 02:34:57 PM
What rules Pierre?

Probably Mrs Pierre.

100% correct there Kitty 

[FierceKitty]

Ah, well, it's much easier not to have to make any decisions.

[Ithoriel]

I wish my mid life crisis only cost £20K.  Mine was upwards of £180k.  Best £180K I ever spent though   

HIM: I thought I might get you a nice bottle of perfume for your birthday
HER: I don't want perfume!
HIM: How about a bit of jewellery?
HER: I don't want jewellery!
HIM: Well how about a new car then?
HER: I don't want a new car either!
HIM: Well what do you want then??
HER: I want. A divorce!
HIM: 'kin 'ell I wasn't planning on spending that much!!

[fsn]

I am being very productive at the moment.

Just finished my 1:3000 Mediterranean forces, about 160 ships all told. That's it. All done. No more. Ever. (Unless I get the Pacific bug and need some Japanese flat tops.)

My new way of having 3 projects on the go seems to be keeping my enthusiasm up. On the table at the moment are recce elements of the Guards Armoured, more ancient Greeks hoplites and an empty space which I will either fill with some 1:600 Beaufighters, Wellingtons and Swordfish, or some 1:600 coastal craft, or some scenery or *gulp* I may have to start on some Napoleonics.

[fsn]

"In April 2018, a very large and interesting machine rolled out of a military museum in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a town in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. It was a T-35 — one of the most bizarre tanks of the interwar period and known in particular for its five turrets, huge size and short performance on the battlefield." 

http://warisboring.com/a-gigantic-t-35-tank-rolls-out-of-a-factory-80-years-after-production-ended/

[d_Guy]

Thanks for posting this. Good to see one actually moving. The T-35 is one of the few tank models I own (although neither assembled or painted). Are the red stripes and white dashed actually how they were painted? Seems unlikely but cool.

[fsn]

The red and white isn't authentic. Some of them had white stripes, but I don't know of any red.

[Ithoriel]

From Tank Encyclopaedia

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_T-35.php

"A T-35A before the addition of the P-40 AA mount. This scheme is from the 1936 summer maneuvers." (my emphasis)

[fsn]

I stand corrected.

I was looking at them in 1941.

[Ithoriel]

It was news to me too fsn.

Glad now that I googled it before agreeing with you!

[fsn]

I had a long weekend this weekend.

Very productive. Finished off a squadron of KV1s and KV2s to give the Russians something to fight with when the T35s and T28s just aren't enough.

Painted up a couple of lakes. I think it was too warm and the ripple effect disappeared, so the lakes look becalmed. 

Varnished up some 1:600 Horsas, Hamilcars and Dakotas for aerial assault. I left off the invasion stripes and am now regretting it.   

I actually got a game in. Trying out my new aircraft rules, I pitted a Sunderland against a FW200. The Sunderland was tasked with keeping the Condor away from the supposed position of a convoy. Lots of jockeying for position, and very little firing. Only damage was a lucky shot to the FW200 which struck a fuel tank. This enabled the German to withdraw with honour. Oddly satisfying, like watching a hippo fight with a rhino.

[paulr]

Certainly a different air scenario