Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[fsn]

It's true.

I was the 80s. I was young, I was innocent, I didn't know what I was getting into. A friend  introduced me to Traveller. Said it was just a game. Not like D&D. You could be cool and do Traveller. It had spaceships and planets and lasers and grav craft. Then came the plunge ... the Vargyr, the Aslan, the robots. I was hooked. I spent about 10 years in Traveller. It wasn't just Mega Traveller, it was Traveller 2300 and Striker and all the other systems.

Eventually, with the help of poverty and HaT industries, I was coaxed back onto the historical path. But you're never really free of Traveller. Every now and again, it come back and pulls me back in.

I could have resisted, but Pendraken did have to produce that SF range. I'm technically classed as human. I was weak. I couldn't resist.

And that's why I may have some SF troopers.

And some other bits from that range.

And the zombies.

Lots of zombies.

But essentially, I'm historical .,.

[Ithoriel]

But essentially, I'm historical .,.

It's spelt hysterical

[d_Guy]

Fsn, international man of history.

[Techno]

Well.....There you go. 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

So today's tally has been 3 elephants and 30 slingers for the Punic Wars, plus 11 merchant ships and 9 Sunderland a/c in 1:3000.  (Yesm, I found some partly completed warships too.)

Tomorrow? Probably some Numidian cavalry, plus more hoplites? And the convoy escort of 2 cruisers, 6 destroyers and 6 corvettes.

And some Swordfish.

This is so cathatric - emptying the "nearly finished" boxes.

Oooh! Just found some medieval carts! Chuck them in as well. 

[paulr]

Well done, that Oik

You have been very productive

[Last Hussar]

I'd like to thank Sunjester and Orcs for today's game with Pendraken WotR/SPear and Shield.  I'd especially like to thank Sj for his sterling service of buggering about on my left flank while I caused first Orcs and then his Ally ran away due to me defeating units. That is the version MY herald is writing down.

Sj also seems to be labouring under the delusion there is such thing as a 'Spare bottle of beer'.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[fsn]

Today's tally is 17 1:3000 warships & 12 Swordfish, and 2 gods (Athene and Hephestus.) The hoplites and Numdians started but not completed, and progress made on Aphrodite and Hera. 

I got slightly sidetracked into tidying my stores. Apparently, I have

• 58 "spare" paintbrushes of various sizes.
• 56 ready use and 21 spare/duplicate Vallejo paints (including the dreaded fluorescents)
• 113 other paints (still working through duplicates)
• 2 ready use and 8 spare bottles of ink (used for washes)
• 6 washes and weathering powder

This is what comes of stashing your purchases in different places.

The sad thing is that I didn't find the gloss varnish I was looking for.   

[paulr]

 

[Last Hussar]

17 1:3000 warships & 12 Swordfish, and 2 gods (Athene and Hephestus.)

Given that mix I'm not sure if he is painting biplanes, torpedoes or actual fish.

[Westmarcher]

Given that mix I'm not sure if he is painting biplanes, torpedoes or actual fish.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No he only paints Centurions, has a vastly over officered Early Imperaial Roman Army.


IanS 

[fsn]

And now on Radio 4, former Home Secretary Jack Straw discusses safety in cricket, and tries out some of the new high tech defences in "Jack in the Box" ...

After the Archers, a Front Row special which reviews Tom Cruise's new film in which his super-spy Reacher goes to New York in "Jack in the Bronx"...

On Radio 5 now, Bobbie Charlton defend his brother from accusations that he was a goal hanger in "Jack in the Box?"...   

In Tomorrow's Woman's Hour, 80's screen heartthrob Jacqueline Bisset discusses the time she worked as a toilet clear in a segment called "Jack in the Bogs"...

On Eastenders tonight, a stock Cockney will beg his daughter to give up her infatuation with a pugilist in "Jack in the Box-er"...

Later on Radio 4, naked magician Jenny Barnstaple discusses where she hides court cards in "Jack in the Box", and if you enjoy this episode there's still time to catch up with Jenny's first program "An Ace in the Hole" on iPlayer...

On PM, Eddie Mayer will be investigating the disappointment men feel upon receiving yet more motoring accessories as birthday presents in "Jack in the Box"...

Finally, at 11:30 there's reflections on the funeral of President John F Kennedy.   

[Orcs]

 

the one about the naked magician really made me laugh