Hundred Years War - DBA

[paulr]

Departed Facility in AUCKLAND - NEW ZEALAND Monday, May 25, 2020 at 06:29

It's now probably got about an 8 hour drive to the Wellington distribution centre

Or if I'm really lucky just over an hour by air

[fsn]

Still not sure that a furry elephant is dignified.

[Ithoriel]

Still not sure that a furry elephant is dignified.

I'm pretty sure a furry elephant is actually a mammoth!

[paulr]

Arrived at Delivery Facility in WELLINGTON - NEW ZEALAND Monday, May 25, 2020 at 09:08

It looks like my package flew down from Auckland and went direct to the Delivery Facility rather than a distribution centre

[O Dinas Powys]

I'm pretty sure a furry elephant is actually a mammoth!

Indubitably!

A Palaeontologist... 

[O Dinas Powys]

You could play on an Eleanor of Castile/Elephant and Castle link...

[hammurabi70]

Still not sure that a furry elephant is dignified.

I think it is very undignified but the past is a strange country and they do things differently there, especially in respect of the interests of those with money.

[Fancy markings on a black elephant seems more like the drawing of a five year old ].

[paulr]

 Estimated Delivery: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 By End of Day 

[paulr]

With delivery courier WELLINGTON - NEW ZEALAND Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 09:31

[Leon]

With delivery courier WELLINGTON - NEW ZEALAND Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 09:31

Excellent!  I've got a decal delivery doing similar on its way from the States, hopefully it'll arrive sometime this week.

[paulr]

The parcel has now arrived

Gloves have been disposed off and hands sanitised, I now need to leave it in quarantine for 3 days 

[Techno]

Can you not unwrap the package, wearing gloves, and retrieve the goodies within, Paul ?
No-one could have touched those, since they left Middlesbrough.....Unless any customs officials have had a peek inside the box.

The packaging can then be left to 'decontaminate' before being recycled.

There WERE reports of a certain frequency of UV light that will kill viruses......But not harm ourselves......That's gone very quiet of late.
A shame....that sounded like an exciting discovery.

Cheers - Phil

[O Dinas Powys]

The parcel has now arrived

Gloves have been disposed off and hands sanitised, I now need to leave it in quarantine for 3 days 

Cut open the box; pour out the contents onto a tray; recycle box; wash hands? 

[paulr]

Thanks, that's a really good suggestion

I'll do that tomorrow, a bit late to start sorting tonight

[O Dinas Powys]

Thanks, that's a really good suggestion

I'll do that tomorrow, a bit late to start sorting tonight

If you want to be extra cautious wear nitrile/latex gloves and you can even start sorting and prepping them: or use tongs/tweezers to pick up the packets.

Since the main route of infection in this type of scenario is touching your face after touching something someone infected has touched, the gloves help by giving you a visual reminder not to do it and you can treat the gloves like an extra layer of epidermis: a thorough wash with soap will remove/kill any viral particles you may pick up! 

[paulr]

Contents of box successfully decanted and sorting begun

Fitting around working from home of course

[O Dinas Powys]

Contents of box successfully decanted and sorting begun

Fitting around working from home of course

Obviously 

I figure that anything hit with a blast of spray primer is either going to be immediately denatured and/or destroyed and/or encased in a paint sarcophagus and so is no longer going to be a infection risk 

[Big Insect]

Heraldically speaking, isn't that one of the furs?  So it's actually a fluffy elephant! 

Green beaver?  Too much cheese at bedtime? 

Late to the conversation as always (& having done an Advanced City & Guilds in Heraldry in my youth) - the 'fur' on the elephant is Ermine.

I think a green Beaver is something she might need antibiotics for however!

I'll get my coat (of arms!) ...

PS: that Oxford Coat of Arms is not correct for 100years War - best book if yoy want HYW Heraldry is the one from Freezywater Publications. They also fo great Wars of the Roses Heraldry as well.
Cheers
Mark

[paulr]

I managed to get half the armies sorted yesterday

English and French, two armies each, left to sort

[paulr]

Sorting finished

I slightly over ordered ELM14 Peasants with mixed weapons

Not a significant problem, I'll use the extras as more units of Rabble for my ECW armies

Lots of very nice figures

Where to start



Possibly the Burgundians