Christmas

Started by fsn, 06 December 2013, 06:40:55 PM

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mollinary

Quote from: fsn on 09 December 2013, 06:41:58 PM
Well, my understanding it's only gone to select members of the forum.

So,  just you then?   :-\ ;)

Mollinary
2021 Painting Competition - 1 x Winner!
2022 Painting Competition - 2 x Runner-Up!

fsn

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

fsn

So I came home today there was another package from Pendraken. This one had again again been left with my next door neighbour, who helpfully attached it to my front door with some kind of ceremonial knife.

Is there some sort of computer glitch at Pendraken caverns? Another  of the little popping fellows in the foliage, more blessed Zouaves and yet more of the Free French machine gunners. More paint too, these from the "body parts" range. I have to question "nipple brown". After extensive research on the internet, I can assure you the colour is not authentic.

More welcome was the set of five bikini clad lovelies with guns. I'd question the choice of weaponry, seem a bit random, but the sculpting is beautifully, almost lovingly done (Clib, is this yours?) The first figure has a slim, almost boyish figure. She's wearing sunglasses - Dior I think, and I could see her as perhaps an Asian girl. She's carrying a small shoulder bag,from which she's pulling a Smith & Wesson .32 revolver. The next figure is slightly taller, more rounded, and she has a lovely pair of Remington 1858 .36's.  The third is kneeling, and again, slightly bigger. She's got both hands around her .38 Magnum. The fourth is probably the worst of the bunch being slightly uneven. She's toting a .44-40 Winchester. The last carries an M60 and is positively Reubenesque. So for this fifth gift at Christmas, Pendraken sent to me: 5 top totty, 4 pots of paint, 3 French Brens, 2 Tonkin Zouaves, and a sniper in a fir tree.

To the advent calendar. Let's see ... "10th December 1861 - Kentucky becomes the 13th state of the Confederacy." Oh lovely! Let's see what the state of Kentucky has contributed to world culture. It's a roundish sort of door, pop it open and ... well, it appears to be a shapeless mass. Ah! From the notes here it represents a chicken nugget. Not sure how I'm going to use that in a game, but never mind.

Delving into the Pendraken sack of goodies, I've today pulled out some DVDs. They're all from the Pendraken Studios, seems to be a straight to video type organisations, and I've been sent some updates of Christmas favourites.

It's a wonderful Lifeguard. David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson find the true meaning of Christmas whilst running along a beach. Pammie sports a red bathing suit, but the Hof cannot forget his time protecting Buckingham Palace and spends the entire film wearing back and breast plate. The supporting cast is made up of young actresses who will never be seen again without a staple in their navels.

Gnome Alone. Macaulay Culkin is "accidently" left on his own when the family goes away for Christmas, and nobody cares.

Jack Frost. A British colonel has to defend Arnhem bridge before the sun comes out and he melts. Starring Michael Keaton

The Santa-Anna Clause. Tim Allen has a problem: how can he take the Alamo, and still deliver all the presents at Christmas?

Jungle all the way. Sequel to "Predator". Arnold Schwarznegger reprises his role as Dutch, who having defeated the invisible alien now has to get home in time to buy his son the action figure he wants. But he's stuck in Central America, and it's Jungle All the Way.

A Christmas Karl. George C Scott plays a Victorian miser, who is visited by three ghosts and awakes on Christmas morning a changed man. He buys a 60cm self propelled mortar and bombards Sevastopol.

Die, Marder. Bruce Willis saves Christmas again ... this time it's being threatened by a German tank hunter. Expect shooting, explosions, and Bruce Willis in a vest saying "Yippie Ki Ay, Oedipus"!


Elf. Will Ferrell plays an elf who has to save Christmas with his friends Galadriel, Legolas and Aredhel.




Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Fenton

You really do have a Wonderful life . I am shocked though that Pendraken havnt sent you a sculpted model  of your favourite Countdown presenter wrapped in tinsel and strategically placed holly...A Christmas Carol I think its called
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

fsn

FSN World is a happy, happy place.  :D
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Duke Speedy of Leighton

How much time do you put into these. Nice one FSN.

We want photos...
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Techno

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Somebody find the compartment in his back and  take his batteries out !

No...On second thoughts leave them in....Too much fun ! :)

Cheers - Phil

fsn

These days it seems to be a long drive home. Then it all pours out like mental diarrhoea.

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Fenton

Eagerly awaiting today's offerings
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

fsn

Well believe it, or believe it not, and I suspect that you do, when I came home today there was yet another package from Pendraken. Unfortunately, this again went to my next door neighbour, who's a singular sort of chap. He's spent the time before my return in transforming the jiffy bag into a near perfect replica of me. I think he wanted me to have it as soon as possible, for he's carefully attached a red silk cord around it, and I came home to find it hanging on the front door from the knob ... suspended by the neck.

Anyway, what have we here? The usual arboreal ambusher, more of these Tonkin Zouaves - do they fit with anything else? What is a Tonkin anyway? And of course, the little bristly faces of the French Bren gunners. Paint, this time it's from the Pendraken Music range. There's "Pink!", "Deep Purple", "Simply Red" and "Deacon Blue". Lovely. Quite lovely.

What is quite new are these five lovely figures (Clib, are they yours?) of girls in some sort of Science Fiction militaristic outfit. The first, the officer, seems very aloof, aristocratic, some would say posh. The second is the standard bearer. I have to say this is the weakest of the five, the flag looks and hangs like a dress from the pole. Not only that, but the standard bearer is downright ugly, a right, as they say, minger. The third figure is a scout, or assassin. Very athletic, very sporty looking. The next is the heavy weapons bearer - very fierce looking. Quite intimidating, quite scary. The last is the medic. Small and quite innocent looking, very young, almost a baby. What's the name of the range? - Spice Marines. Lovely, as I say, quite lovely.

What else is there? Oh. Something from the League of Ausberg range. That's a pity. Artillerymen manning the gun, obviously aiming with an officer of some kind directing fire. So, for this sixth gift at Christmas, Pendraken sent to me - six gunners laying, 5 top totty, 4 pots of paint, 3 French Brens, 2 Tonkin Zouaves and a sniper in a fir tree.

I don't mind being used as some sort of market research for Pendraken, but there's no form or anything to send my comments back on. Perhaps I should email Leon, get this sorted out.

Anyway, it's time for the advent calendar. So the 11th December, what could this be? Ooo. It's a little vignette of a lancer attacking a samurai. Which of course means ... anyone? ... 11th December? No? Me neither. It says here .... let me just adjust my glasses ... "11th December 1941, Poland declares war on Japan." Well, who knew?

OK then. Time to delve into the Pendraken goody bag  and today we have ....well this is quite heavy. Oh! Super, it's the "Pendraken Omni Wargames Rule Set". Lovely. "A wargames manual for any period, and any scale figure between 1:144 to 1:160". Let me just describe if for you, it's quite a thick volume, bound in thick leather of some kind, with hand tooled carving of some of Pendraken's offering on the front. Let me just flick through it's, let me see 829 pages of quite close type, with quite a few illustrations some of which have been very neatly coloured in with an unusual palette of crayons.  

It's quite neatly set out in sections. "Part 1 - wargaming and it's history", good HG Wells and so on; "Part 2 - collecting and organising your army with Pendraken"; "Part 3, the rules" - that's pages 101 to 462, so they'll be comprehensive then; "part 4, painting guides" and "part 5, corrections and errata" - that's pages 612 to 828. Hmm. Perhaps release 2 will clear some of these up.  "part 6, wargaming with non-Pendraken products." That's a single page, page 829. It says ... let me see ... it says "Don't". That's fair enough.

I'll just give you a flavour of how comprehensive these rules are:

"Section 16.1.2a Weather.
16.1.2a.1 For wargames in a hot climate, open the windows and drink beer.
16.1.2a.2 For wargames in a cold climate, keep the windows closed and drink tea.
16.1.2a.3 For night actions, switch the lights on."

Well, beautifully written and quite explicit. Lovely.


Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Techno

Did you really like my crayoning ?. :) :-[
(You've put the batteries back in again, haven't you ?)
Cheers - Phil ;)

fsn

I do. Your crayoning was lovely and so neat!.

And, yes, I've just inserted some new Duracell.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Leon

www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 10,000 products, including nearly 5000 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints, Tiny Tin Troops flags and much, much more!

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Very good work FSN, more surreal than an episode of the Goodies!
:-)
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Shecky

Funny thing is, I'd probably buy those rules.  :D