The devil makes work for Idle hands

Started by Orcs, 29 August 2016, 02:26:45 PM

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Orcs

I have had to worktoday, and its been very q***t ( we don't say or type this word as when you do all hell breaks loose).

This is VERY dangerous. I have been here 8 hours and so far have considered doing

6mm  Scifi using brigade models and Iron Cow

6mm Napoleonic

Reviewed my 10mm Japanese early war list (for a future project) with a view top expanding to doing Pacific WW2

Looked at the 10mm Marines pack and what I might need to put together a small force. Looked at sourcing suitable vehicles

Looked at Early WW2  French and British, and wondered if I should do one or both and if I do both, which first

Now I have just seen the requests for 10mm Sikh Wars....


The other problem is that I was hoping to go to the Peterborough show next weekend.  This does look like happening now so will probably end up placing an order or two instead in the next 3.5 hours I have to spend here


The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ithoriel

I don't like it sergeant it's too <thunk> ... argh!!

B Troop ain't comin' back. :)

Enjoy the day Orcs
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Duke Speedy of Leighton

You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

fsn

I've had a somewhat productive weekend.  :D


  • French Foreign Legion (a la Beau Geste) completed bar the basing (x46)
  • 1920s armoured cars undercoated and topcoated (x6)
  • Pack camels undercoated and top coated (x15)
  • Stephen & Matilda command units, monks, and status marker finished, based and varnished (x40)
  • Another unit of Stephen & Matilda infantry & cavalry undercoated (x60)
  • medieval wagons under and base coated (x8)

Wondering about drilling and undercoating some 1967 Arab-Israeli aircraft.  :-\

Still haven't finished the Iron Age fort.  :(
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

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3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Blimey!
I went and looked at a hedgehog rescue centre!
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Leman

I walked to Hilbre Island yesterday, plus a bit of the Wirral Way and a circuit of West Kirby Marina; if you think wargamers are weird you should see the model remote control yacht brigade. Gardening today and still managed some painting on both days.
The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

Orcs

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Orcs

Quote from: fsn on 29 August 2016, 02:53:16 PM
I've had a somewhat productive weekend.  :D


  • French Foreign Legion (a la Beau Geste) completed bar the basing (x46)
  • 1920s armoured cars undercoated and topcoated (x6)
  • Pack camels undercoated and top coated (x15)
  • Stephen & Matilda command units, monks, and status marker finished, based and varnished (x40)
  • Another unit of Stephen & Matilda infantry & cavalry undercoated (x60)
  • medieval wagons under and base coated (x8)

Wondering about drilling and undercoating some 1967 Arab-Israeli aircraft.  :-\

Still haven't finished the Iron Age fort.  :(

Crumbs! You have been busy  :-bd

Madame Whiplash fully booked then ? ;)
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Techno

After pushing putty around, went and checked the single sheep that had been suffering from fly strike.

Huzzah ! All of the little wriggly maggots appeared to have died after last night's use of a special insecticide.
Truly disgusting job, scratching the dying maggots out of the fleece ! :-& :-& :-&  (I forgot to take the disposable gloves  X_X ).

Cheers - Phil

Steve J

Went for a walk.
Picked blackberries.
Did some gardening.
Went to visit friends.
Did some more gardening.
Chilled out in the lovely weather 8).

fsn

Quote from: Techno on 29 August 2016, 06:03:08 PM
Huzzah ! All of the little wriggly maggots appeared to have died after last night's use of a special insecticide.
Truly disgusting job, scratching the dying maggots out of the fleece ! :-& :-& :-&  (I forgot to take the disposable gloves  X_X ).
Lovely!

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

petercooman

I was going to play a game today, instead, i found out that there was a fivecore retro bundle on wargame vault, so i am now reading these  :D

Westmarcher

Spent part of the weekend wondering when I'll be allowed to get back to my hobby to paint the two ACW supply wagons and Dahlgren gun and naval crew that I forgot I had until recently, and the SYW howitzers, crews and limbers I bought at Vapnartak ....   :-<

The rest of the weekend was spent doing household chores, going to a Stag Night, recovering from a Stag Night, rushing to daughter No.2's house to attend to a flood in the upstairs bathroom dripping through the ceiling below, punching holes in said ceiling to let water out (which had run off somewhere else presumably by the time I got there coz no water came out), ripping out bath panels and dismantling shower screen (to facilitate access) to try to find cause of flood (still a mystery but appears related to shower in some way, the pipes for which are also helpfully inaccessible behind the tiles), fighting a losing battle with the moss on my front lawn, putting in new bath sealant .......  :-<
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

d_Guy

Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on