Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ah!

I have 2 Saxon and 2 Norse packs.

Just forgot about the Normans. 

Tart...

[fsn]

Tart...

Harsh ... but fair.

I'm being very good at the moment and trying to delve into the bottom of my lead mountain and turn it into a lead molehill.

I've got some ACW to paint, plus lots of Marlborough and a recently discovered Anglo-Scots selection (probably bought in 2014 in the fervour of the Bannockburn anniversary.) That will leave me with Korea and the mass of Napoleonics that I have been putting off.
And a few bits of WWII.
Oh, and some horses of various descriptions
Maybe the odd wildebeeste and Zebra
And some tiny aircraft - Pacific 1944, Korea, Viet Nam ...
And some 1:600 boats ...
Musn't forget those brick walls either ..
Or those 1:144 airliners for the airport scenario ...

[Techno]

It's been repurposed ...

Nice one, Nobby ! 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Silly Things FSN has done #38

It being Pendraken Ordering Day last week, I took the opportunity to send in an order to Tumbling Dice as well. Of course, my current passion is triremes, and so I ordered a few triemes and penteconters.

So far, so good.

Before I pressed the buy button, I thought I'd have a little look at the other things Tumbling Dice has to offer. I strayed into the Napoleonic ships and this is where I made my mistake. "What" I wondered "would the 74 look like?"

I realise now that a little fortitude would have got me through. However, I was at a low ebb, and feeling a bit poorly and weak and so a 74 got added to the order.

It arrived yesterday.

Today I am flicking through Otto von Pivka's "Navies of the Napoleonic Wars".

Please be prepared for a post in 2024 - "today I discovered 42 Napoleonic warships at the bottom of my lead mountain".       

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Oh man...

[d_Guy]

Silly Things FSN has done #38

Before I pressed the buy button, I thought I'd have a little look at the other things Tumbling Dice has to offer. I strayed into the Napoleonic ships and this is where I made my mistake

Criminey! I thought this was leading up to you announcing you had made an offer to buy the company! 

[Ithoriel]

Sounds pretty small beer by comparison with some of my impulse buys!

[Orcs]

Silly Things FSN has done #38

Please be prepared for a post in 2024 - "today I discovered 42 Napoleonic warships at the bottom of my lead mountain".       

Bottom of your lead mountain !!!!!!!  Now we know your talking complete nonsense, as if your are EVER going to get there.

[Leman]

There is also the point that the bottom is going to be far larger than the top, thus 42 Napoleonic ships, even in 1:1200, are not going to take up  much space.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

What's is lead alloys critical mass?

[Orcs]

What's is lead alloys critical mass?

Its a very big number.  We have a friend - lets call him Walter.  He has so much unpainted lead in his house its rumoured he would be safe  from all but a direct hit of a 1 Kiloton Nuclear bomb/

[Techno]

I've just had to use another of your plasters, Mark.

Today's safety tip is......Don't fix a new 10A blade to the scalpel handle, by pushing down on the pointy end.
(I thought I was holding it each side....until I realised I wasn't....Wazzock !!  )

Cheers - Phil.

[grahambeyrout]

I've just had to use another of your plasters, Mark.

Today's safety tip is......Don't fix a new 10A blade to the scalpel handle, by pushing down on the pointy end.
(I thought I was holding it each side....until I realised I wasn't....Wazzock !!  )

Cheers - Phil.

You shouldn't really be publicizing this. Someone at the office did the very same thing. Immediately health and safety banned them other than to people who had a gone on a training course on handling pointy things. Is this a joke?. No way, I worked in Local Government.

[fred.]

Today's safety tip is......Don't fix a new 10A blade to the scalpel handle, by pushing down on the pointy end.
(I thought I was holding it each side....until I realised I wasn't....Wazzock !!  )

Phil!!!

We do want you to keep enough fingers to be able to sculpt more little soldiers.
I always change scalpel blades with a small pair of long nosed pliers, as I'm so worried about cutting myself while removing or inserting a new blade. And generally I'm quite gung ho about this kind of thing

You shouldn't really be publicizing this. Someone at the office did the very same thing. Immediately health and safety banned them other than to people who had a gone on a training course on handling pointy things. Is this a joke?. No way, I worked in Local Government.

Phil really is the opposite of local government - when it comes to bureaucracy and administration. At my work you have to go on a ladder training course, so that you can climb ladders, this is in an office, not up trees or the outside of buildings or anything tall ...

[Techno]

You're right, of course, Forbes !

I always remove them with a pair of needle nosed pliers..then use the same pliers to remove one of the new blades from the wee packet.
Normally I just slide the blade onto the handle, with my fingers.....(JUST the very beginning, so it starts to sit in the grooves on the handle)....then push the blade home on the cutting mat.

I think I was trying to go too fast this afternoon....It won't be the last time I do something like this. A fact that most of you are sadly, already aware.

You shouldn't really be publicizing this. Someone at the office did the very same thing. Immediately health and safety banned them other than to people who had a gone on a training course on handling pointy things. Is this a joke?. No way, I worked in Local Government.

Oh...I believe that totally. Though I bet some folk still forgot, even after the training course.

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

Sounds like you might need some more plasters, or a bandage or some of those butterfly strips 

[Techno]

Only had to use one of the butterfly strips since you sent them , Mark.

Plenty of those left.

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

There was I thinking that Butterfly Strips was some kind of niche adult entertainment.

[mmcv]

Is there not an obvious solution here... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FPCJXYS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_DQnGCbYEYQQTE

Though it is a little odd there's 12 of them.

[Techno]

No.....Don't start giving Mark any ideas. 

Cheers - Phil