What did you get for Christmas 2020?

[flamingpig0]

And well deserved too.......My sympathies to all in the Sarf East. 

Arguably I live more in the South East than London and up until Wednesday I was in Tier 2.

What is your problem with London were you bitten by a cockney as a child?

[flamingpig0]

(I wonder what Tesco's is going to be like this morning.) :-

Full of rioting pensioners fighting over toilet rolls

Our Sci-fi dystopia is pretty crap compared to what 70s films promised.

[toxicpixie]

Did you see the pics of the scrum at the train stations yesterday? Horrendous :/

[flamingpig0]

London early this morning

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Did ASDA- lady on till said it were quiet, maybe (SHOCK HORROR) I wuz wrong, well as to be a first time....

[Raider4]

(I wonder what Tesco's is going to be like this morning.) :-

Just got back. Slightly busier than a normal Sunday, but not stupidly crowded. All tills were manned for a change, so next to no queuing to get out. Some good offers on booze if you've got a clubcard.

Almost all customers wearing a mask, but probably a good fifth don't seem to understand that it's supposed to cover the nose as well . . .

Large percentage of shop staff not wearing a mask. Don't know why they're exempt, but they obviously are.

Social distancing has all but been forgotten

[Last Hussar]

My ex-wife, having only sons, once lamented during a trip to Bovingdon that she didn't have a favourite tank.

[jimduncanuk]

Wife just back from Aldi, plenty of stock, not too many customers.

[fsn]

My ex-wife, having only sons, once lamented during a trip to Bovingdon that she didn't have a favourite tank.

I am shocked! I would have thought this sort of statement should be met with an information campaign, including performance statistics, photographs, operational histories and some suggested criteria for making a choice?


My ex-wife half way through Bovington exclaimed "another green tank." I think that's when I knew she was going be the ex-Mrs FSN. For goodness sake, it was olive drab!

[Westmarcher]

My ex-wife half way through Bovington exclaimed "another green tank." I think that's when I knew she was going be the ex-Mrs FSN. For goodness sake, it was olive drab!

As a member of Friends of Historic Scotland, I used to drag my family around Scotland to visit the various historic properties (e.g., castles, standing stones, etc.). When we drove into the carpark of one, one of my daughters exclaimed, "Oh no. Not another castle!" and refused to get out the car.

In later years, the same daughter was awarded the 2nd Year Students Archaeology Prize in Glasgow University ...

[Techno II]

Did ASDA- lady on till said it were quiet, maybe (SHOCK HORROR) I wuz wrong, well as to be a first time....

Tescos was VERY civilised this morning.....a TINY bit busier than normal for a Sunday....but that was it.....Only saw a single person NOT wearing a mask
Everybody seemed to being particularly sensible....and not getting 'arsey'.
I even swapped Christmas wishes with some 'youth' (mid 40's ?) while we were looking for cat food......He, apparently, had to come back later, to get stuff for his parents.

Poor sod !!


Cheers - Surprised of SW Wales.

[Orcs]

My ex-wife half way through Bovington exclaimed "another green tank." I think that's when I knew she was going be the ex-Mrs FSN. For goodness sake, it was olive drab!

Your right Nobby, Divorce is the correct response to  "another green tank.".

[Orcs]

Well I don't know what I have got for Christmas Yet, but having just had a Birthday last week I got

A Dice Tray
Box of 20mm CMP trucks from PSC
4 15mm 4 horse Assyrian chariots
3 Seleucid Elephants
Lots of Beers
A Very nice top
A pair of slippers.

[Heedless Horseman]

Hmm. Well:
A VERY much needed Washer Dryer... sadly not plumbed in 'right' because of...
A VERY much needed  kitchen floor to put it on... though a 'cheap' repair by 'builder'... (Why cut the outside waste pipe, FFS?)   

New Flat Roofs, (If the roofer survives his Quarantine to do the back one). 
All rotting outside woodwork replaced with plastic plus new Doors and couple of windows.  Will enjoy 2021, siiting outside and thinking..."Yeah!".   
Actually said a Sad 'Goodbye' to the front door...still sound, but old and needed new locks. (Took off the Knocker and bolt... but... Ma remembers an old horse having his shoes taken off before going to the knackers    ...so sad!). 
Guttering right round... I am going to regret this!, 

A 'Garden' that is starting to resemble Paaschendaele... (See above, + 'The Old Bloke', (Maybe scared off by the above work...like the Foxes!)... but will probably be back...I've got his Tools, LOL!).  ...  (Though He's got my money...  ... )   

So, 'Reasons To Be Cheerful...1,2,3!"      Maybe! 

As far as models go;
A 'Strange' and worrying penchant for buying Roco Minitanks in 1/87 from 'the net'...and EARLY Airfix figs to go with them! WTF! WHY?

I would 'blame the Lead', but haven't been able do do much with anything... so probably just going 'Nuts' for Christmas!

Curious: Does anyone else have an aversion to 'Cracking Wallnuts'... 

Have a Good One, Peeps! 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

A 'Strange' and worrying penchant for buying Roco Minitanks in 1/87 from 'the net'...and EARLY Airfix figs to go with them! WTF! WHY?

Know a good analyst who could cure that - only £1000 a minute 

[Big Insect]

Just put in an order to Northumberland Tim Solder - https://www.northumbriantinsoldier.com/time-robbers/ - for their Time Robbers (aka Time Bandits) range - I have been liking their sculpts for quite some time and have fancied doing a matched pair of 28mm HoTT armies.
I'm thinking of creating the strongholds out of a railways scenic 1960's residential detached suburban house (for the Good side - Kevin's mum & dads house) and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness out of Lego bricks, in a desert of shingle with a screen of one-way mirror glass in front of it (for Evil).
I was going to put a smoking micro-oven on the lawn of Kevin's house but then I though I might want to include it as a potential gaming element ... although I am not sure what.
The only things I am missing are:
1). a seated Napoleon with some Old Guard - as a Shooter - (Foundry do a nice one but I am bu88ered if I am paying £24 for the full set just to get Napoleon)
2). a very large bald giant with a sailing ship on his head - that will have to be a Reaper Bones Ogre with a 1/300th scale Napoleonic man-0-war attached - I will probably field that as a Behemoth of course.
3). some of the 'screamers' from the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness - but 1st Corp do a very nice pack of metal animal sculls in their 28mm Thracian range - and that has the appropriate horned cattle sculls in it ... but what shall I classify them as?  :- Probably Lurkers.
4). I also need a scruffy old gent as the Supreme Being - dressed in a tweed jacket and trousers - I suspect there is an appropriate figure in a VBCW range - obviously he is classified as a God.
I fancied creating the playing board to look like the Time Map and have the terrain as pieces of furniture covered in plastic dust sheets ....
Oh dear I am having another bad attack of HoTT'itus again!

I also couldn't resist buying the Murder of Crows range as well - although I think it needs at least a couple of other figures - such as a wizards apprentice and a missile armed crow (probably a crossbow or blunderbuss armed variant) to allow me to create another Frostgrave band.

(NB: buying my own Xmas present from daughters - I have learnt over time - is the only safe way of ensuring domestic harmony around gaming presents)

I shall look forward to painting these up when they arrive - especially as it now looks like we'll be locked-down until January 2030 as the virus mutates and Elon Musk evacuates us all to Mars.

Happy Crimble folks

[Big Insect]

Well I don't know what I have got for Christmas Yet, but having just had a Birthday last week I got
A Dice Tray
Box of 20mm CMP trucks from PSC
4 15mm 4 horse Assyrian chariots
3 Seleucid Elephants
Lots of Beers
A Very nice top
A pair of slippers.

I note that you have the 20mm trucks and 15mm Assyrian chariots - but the 3 Seleucid Elephants appear to be the same scale as the 'nice top' and the comfy slipper ... hope they don't make too much mess on the carpet!

Happy belated Birthday

[Orcs]

I note that you have the 20mm trucks and 15mm Assyrian chariots - but the 3 Seleucid Elephants appear to be the same scale as the 'nice top' and the comfy slipper ... hope they don't make too much mess on the carpet!

Happy belated Birthday

[Smoking gun]

My copy of The Seelow Heights 16-19 April 1945. A Wargamer's Guide arrived today. I had a quick flick through before passing it on to my wife for wrapping. Further details here: https://steve-nationsinarms.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-seelow-heights-preview-copies.html?showComment=1608073746644#c8173122982541422782

Best wishes,
Martin

[fsn]

Just put in an order to Northumberland Tim Solder - https://www.northumbriantinsoldier.com/time-robbers/ - for their Time Robbers (aka Time Bandits) range

Is it just me, or are there some very strange games at the moment?