Funny what you find in the loft

[Orcs]

Today I finished the bits and pieces on my painting table.

So I looked at the three boxes of renaissance figures to sort them out for playing Furioso.  PANIC!. 

The figures are gloss varnished.- ok a quick matt varnish should sort that out

The bases are horrible and some are curly. (beer mats advertising Barbican alchohol free lager) - You would think they would last longer than 40 years - Urgent request to add some 300 bases onto Pendraken order I placed last night.

I do not have enough figures to make complete units -  no problem  I have some unpainted Essex/Mikes models  in the garage loft.

When I come down from the loft even I am flabbergasted at the amount of unpainted 15mm renaissance figures I found.

I have Polish, Ottomans, Loads of Italian Wars.  Too many to count so  I weighed them.......... 8  (yes eight)  Kilos.

Whoops

[Steve J]

8 kilos! A wonder the ceiling didn't cave in .

[Heedless Horseman]

An Uncle, upon moving into his new farmhouse, found an unexploded AA  round lodged in the loft. Rapidly 'disposed of' in the  farm river.
Do not try this at home. kids... YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THIS1 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Only 8 kilos ?

[Steve J]

I remember at secondary school in the '70's, the police giving a talk in assembly about playing with live bullets and if anyone had some they should hand them in. IIRC a couple of kids did have some, but where they got them from, God only knows.

[Heedless Horseman]

Have heard of 'Live' artillery rounds being valued 'Fireside' ornaments... until some visitor thought "Eh!" lol!
Or Grenades... minus clip and pin... being 'chucked around' for decades. Still 'live'!
A drunken bunch of 'us' were at a mate's house, long ago, (pre Gun Cabinet?).... HE wasn't there! His shotgun was found... and messed with... until somebody thought... "Hey, This Is 'x's... maybe He keeps it LOADED!" LOL!   No one checked... just put back! 

[steve_holmes_11]

Only 8 kilos ?

A veritable lead molehill.

[DecemDave]

A veritable lead molehill.

Ah but thats probably just the renaissance box

[Ben Waterhouse]

We had a French 75 shell from the Western Front on our parents mantleshelf for decades after my father liberated it from France in the early 1960s... Until my youngest brother thought it should really be checked. The RE blew it up on a local bit of rough ground. Yes, it was live...

[Orcs]

Ah but thats probably just the renaissance box

Unfortunately You are correct, there are many others 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Of course you didna buy em, squirrals dropped em off over the years.

[sunjester]

Poles and Ottomans!  Get painting 

[steve_holmes_11]

We had a French 75 shell from the Western Front on our parents mantleshelf for decades after my father liberated it from France in the early 1960s... Until my youngest brother thought it should really be checked. The RE blew it up on a local bit of rough ground. Yes, it was live...

Reminds me of an old schoolpal who contacted me recently on Facebook.
I'd mentioned Carronade and posted pictures from a road trip to Falkirk.
He then mentioned that his house while we were at school (Nice part of Chigwell a few doors down from Rod Stewart) had a pair of Carronades as driveway ornaments.

Interesting anecdote about the removal firm who brought and placed them (A couple of guys who looked like Geoff Capes, none of that new fangled winch and cable nonsense).
He assured me they were perfectly legal. A bit of steel hammered down the touch hole or something.


Warning:
I strongly recommend NOT storing any spare Carronades (or other Nelson era naval ordnance) in your loft.
Modern building standards aren't as demanding as the deck designs of King George's navy.

[Heedless Horseman]

Re: 'King George's Navy'...have been reading the Patrick O' Brian books... ('Master And Commander', etc.). Now, he seemed to 'know his stuff'... but I am amazed at some of the 'possible' capabilities of sailing ship crews in the novels!
Had always assumed that various 'bits' of mast, yards, etc. ...were 'just there'... and damage was 'jury rigged' to get to port. Are the books credible? Given the size of a Frigate, just  'where' could spares be stored? And crews fully capable of 'raising or lowering', major parts of masts as 'routine' on the high seas? Or, storing 'Carronades' etc. in the hold... until required! Much 'battle damage' repaired from shipboard supplies... or go onshore to find some timber!

Artistic license or 'semi' factual? Hard to believe, but, with woodworking artisan skills and  a couple of hundred crew... 'possible'? Anyone know?

[fsn]

I'm just going to leave this link to explain https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57965260