Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Really nice FSN!

[d_Guy]

Congrats on finishing the project - always good see it all lined up and ready go. I know the LEGO is for storage (and a great idea) but do you use it for game play also?

For many of us our ability to buy outstrips our ability to paint (  or what is heaven for   ) - it help support the hobby after all.

[fsn]

Thanks chaps!

I'm still experimenting with the Lego in games. I put a flight on a base, and can use small piece to indicate height/speed etc.

What I'm trying to do is to put some texture n the bases to hide the Lego dots, but leave the functionality.

[fred.]

What I'm trying to do is to put some texture n the bases to hide the Lego dots, but leave the functionality.

Yes, for in game use hiding the Lego look would be important. Wood filler will probably work well for this, put some 1 pip round pieces of lego on the pegs you want to keep, then gloop wood filler around the rest of the base, you can texture this a bit as well.

[Leon]

My question is, when did I buy fluorescent paints?   English Uniform,  Luftwaffe Cam Green, fluorescent Orange? Doesn't go.

I don't think Leon did an Ocado and substituted my Olive Green with florescent yellow.  :-

I don't think we've done any substitutions, but there's always the chance a customer at a show has put a flourescent pot in the wrong location on the paint rack and then someone's packed your order without realising?  Let me know if it's an error at our end and we'll get a replacement sent out.

[paulr]

Congratulations on another finished project

Got to love that Pendraken service

[fsn]

To be clear I have not received fluorescent paints from pendraken. Of that I am sure.

Where the fluors came from? Not a Scooby. Could I have bought a pack from elsewhere with them in?

Anyway, my question was more to do with using them. What have others used fluorescent for?

[fsn]

So the score is 60 sheep, 40 cows, 10 pigs. I've left the ducks and chiickens for later. Thought I might add the dogs to command groups and the like.

Also, since I've been very productive 40 Carthaginian veterans, 8 misc repurposed as Trojan War heroes, 12 1:600 a/c (P47 & P51) to cover the bomber stream, 2 battering rams and 2 Centurion 1's from a 7th Armoured Brigade HQ.   

Currently working on some more Trojan War heroes, and a chunky Hoplite phalanx.

Very productive time.

[Techno]

Sounds good, Nobby !! 

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

You are being very productive, fsn, busting things out left and right.
I like the Pendraken zoo and have taken to scattering the creatures. great and small,  all over the playing surface. They also make great markers for all sorts of things as well. :-

Thought I might add the dogs to command groups and the like.

One dog to command a unit of ten sheep prehaps, or a unit of three cows as the heavies? You could add a pig as an intelligence officer (and I mean no disrespect as pigs are really quite bright!). You omitted cats which would make excellent recce officers (assuming they'll actually come back to report). And don't forget the bunnies - naturally born company runners!

Wait...I may have misintpreted what you intend. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That's no bunny, it's a fiend incarnate! Look at those sharp pointy claws and teeth! 🐰

[fsn]

Oh come on! My painting isn't that bad! 

[fsn]

This is how life abuses poor Nobby.

Having painted many, many tiny aircraft, Niobby decides to abandon the "brmm brmm bang bang" era* and go for some "clip clop swish swish". Nobby is tired of the cutting and the wetting and the poking around with sharp instruments, and also of putting tiny decals on tiny aeroplanes. Nobby decides to paint some hoplites which had been stashed away for far too long. Lots of lovely bronze and spears and big shields and it looks as if they're not going to get revamped this decade. So Nobby paints the bronze and the white armour and the tunics and the nodding plumes ... then remembers that Nobby bought lots of tiny decals for the shields. 

Poor Nobby. What a pillock.






* Forward thinking military historians divide military history into only 3 eras:

• Clip clop swish swish - horses for transport, swords for weapons
• Clip clop bang bang - the introduction of gunpowder
• Brmm brmm bang bang - the introduction of the internal combustion engine

[Techno]

 

You complete OIK.
I'm not doing something too dissimilar with what I'm trying to do for that nice Mr Leon, at the mo'......and if he identifies the next animal I've just done, as another frigging warthog (when I send him the photo)...I will get on a train to Middlesbrough and give him a damn good slap !

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Does that mean the Meerkat is finished?

[Techno]

Nope, sorry, Will...the Mk 10 is still in the drying pot...and gathering dust  ......But in another month (or less) I reach State Pension age....So a month after that, I'll have some sort of free time because I'll be getting some free money. 

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

* Forward thinking military historians divide military history into only 3 eras:

• Clip clop swish swish - horses for transport, swords for weapons
• Clip clop bang bang - the introduction of gunpowder
• Brmm brmm bang bang - the introduction of the internal combustion engine

There is a fourth era one before those mentioned.  It is defined by Mrs Orcs for the Ancient and Medieval periods (I have given up trying to explain the differences). In TV programs and films of these periods there is generally a lot of sex (of a rough nature) and fighting, and she does not think there is much difference between the two activities. So in our house it is known as :-
 
Are they f*ck*ng or fighting?  - Bows and arrows,swords and spears

[Ithoriel]

Surely the earliest era is

tramp rumble thump clang - foot or chariots for transport and a mix of throw sticks, clubs and bronze spears & axes

I'm pretty sure sex sounds much the same in every era

[Orcs]

I'm pretty sure sex sounds much the same in every era

It was the rough grabbing of each other and the ensuing grunts

[FierceKitty]

Surely the earliest era is

tramp rumble thump clang - foot or chariots for transport and a mix of throw sticks, clubs and bronze spears & axes

Does that really count as warfare?