How are we getting through it?

[Steve J]

Blimey, I hope you didn't lose too many figures to damage etc

[paulr]

Wot they sed

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Christ! Hope all is okay Last Hussar! 

[FierceKitty]

In the immortal words of ET: Ouch.

[Orcs]

Thats a bugger - how many gins had you partaken of.  Hope the figures survived

[Techno II]

Awwwwww.....  How did that happen ?

Like everybody else, I hope there wasn't too much damage. !

Cheers - Phil

[Last Hussar]

I moved the shelves around a bit earlier in the year, and they are a bit tight, so you have to take the bottom RUB at the same time as the top one. I didn't realise it was more than half out when I removed the top one, and not being metal I didn't spot the shift in weight.

Luckily very little damage - they are the Little Wooden Men, so paint didn't chip, and my theory on the dedicated LWM thread seems to be correct; they are so light the don't hurt other bases. Broke one gun, but the crew stayed, and a few other singleton/double figures  came off, but easily glueable. Only 1 or 2 flags as well, so that was good.  A couple of the skirmisher muskets are broken, but hanging on in a shoot round corners way, and one general appears to be 'Nearly Headless Nick'. You all know how wood doesn't snap cleanly, and the thin slither is keeping bits together.  Because they are semi-flats, they didn't tangle.

The oddest bit was the single figure that was part of a strip - it was the STRIP that broke, not the legs, despite it being glued down! Not sure how that happened.

The most relief was finding I hadn't lost 1 lance on the 36 Uhlans!

However - do you know how to tell the difference between French and Austrian Hussars at 1:200?  No, neither do I!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Some good news peps - Astra Zenica vaccine has been approved - 100m doses ordered - end of the begining not begining of the end ?

[Techno II]

There's a little more light at the end of the tunnel, now. 

Cheers - Phil

[chrishanley]

It is indeed good news about the Astra-Zeneca vaccine and it is probably the only way out of the restrictions we find ourselves. However I am wondering when normality will return and more importantly, when can we play a game again...
Taking the UK as an example and assuming a double dose, the vaccine needs to be injected into two million arms a week to achieve this in a year.

[Orcs]

It is indeed good news about the Astra-Zeneca vaccine and it is probably the only way out of the restrictions we find ourselves. However I am wondering when normality will return and more importantly, when can we play a game again...
Taking the UK as an example and assuming a double dose, the vaccine needs to be injected into two million arms a week to achieve this in a year.

Yep, its a long term prospect. Hope the vaccine works for longer than a year.

in the meantime keep on painting so you can have mega games when its over.   

[Steve J]

Mojo sadly lacking at present, despite two game ideas ready to put on the table . Ditto painting. I think in the main this is caused by the current uncertainty on school closures (my wife's a teaching assistant), with half the staff wanting them open, the other half not, alongside the distinct possibility of another full lockdown. Also no idea whether our daughter will be able to fly back to Edinburgh and Uni in just over a week or so. Not being able to plan anything more than a day in advance is very frustrating!!!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

There's a little more light at the end of the tunnel, now. 
Cheers - Phil

Yeah - it's a 6 car Merseyrail train doing 100km hr 

[FierceKitty]

I find myself looking at another fortnight of holiday, possibly more. Just as well I'm not the primary earner here.

[fsn]

Yeah - it's a 6 car Merseyrail train doing 100km hr 

Don't be silly! 100km/hr! Pah!