What ho chaps!
Tiz the season of jealously and taking, so what did you get in your lead lined stockings this Xmas?
I got some great books, including Mary Beard's 'A History of Rome' lots of socks, official sanction to keep my beard (electric beard trimmer), and...
An English Flodden starter pack, with add ons, Osprey 'Henry VIII's army' and the Imperial Fighter pack for Star Wars Armada! :D
In-laws gave me cash so that I might spend it at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry on Sunday, and yes, I am going to take Warband up to show everyone! ;)
Well done that man
My main Christmas gift will arrive some time in January, the trenches that WeeWars designed and cut for me :)
Does this make him a Christmas elf ;) ;D
I've been really lucky the wife bought me a dremel which I'm looking forward to trying out. Friends and family bought me various osprey titles.
Take care
Andy
I got a boxed set of Biggles stories. Tally Ho !
The usual socks and smellies, but also a very nice tankard from my daughter with the Heart of Miidlothian crest on it, missus got me the Baccus WSS boxed set which is brilliant and work starts on that today!! :)
Rail gun, plains war army pack, western buildings.
Book on "The Last Highlander"
Best of all a Dremmel Stand and flexible Dremmel extension.
As a social occasion it was one of the best Christmas days ever. In terms of wargaming I bought myself a lot of 1513 figures for the Italian Wars. My son bought me me a very large book on military history, which is a bit like a walk through a virtual museum. I was also given a copy of Michael Barthorpe's British infantry to go with my matching book on the cavalry. And my daughter bought me a copy of Mary Beard's History of Ancient Rome, so plenty to keep me going for the foreseeable.
Santa didn't bring me anything. I did receive some money off family, so that may end up being spent on the hobby in January.
I did receive two Secret Santa gifts (I entered two blog events).
1) £15 worth of stuff: I received four Peter Pig ACW Naval models.
2) £5 worth of stuff - but painted: I received a (Old West) pianist and piano model, which I'll use to part populate a 4Ground building for games of Dead Man's Hand.
Non-Hobby stuff:
Boxers.
T-Shirts.
Sweater top thing.
All non hobby stuff. But I did get some blue suede dessies.
A wood elf Warband army, Russian snipers, to become dinosaur hunters, dismounted raiders to fight my plains wars first nations and the Warband barbarian shamans, a tube of smarties. Some Peter pig 15mm colonial pack to be used as skirmish figures alongside my 10mm armies. Well an officer and gentleman has to account for himself when the square breaks. Oh and a PS4 from my in-laws, they got it free with their new car.
I got a 15mm Carthaginian army pack from Forged in Battle, to be painted up for games of Impetus and To the Strongest.
Plus lots of socks and chocolate.
A stroll around Urbino, followed by tagliatelle with wild boar sauce, excellent roast rabbit with truffles, chicory and potato salad, and a rather good semifreddo. In addition to having to finish the better half's duck, since she constantly fails to anticipate the size of Italian servings.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 December 2015, 04:03:33 PM
A stroll around Urbino, followed by tagliatelle with wild boar sauce, excellent roast rabbit with truffles, chicory and potato salad, and a rather good semifreddo. In addition to having to finish the better half's duck, since she constantly fails to anticipate the size of Italian servings.
Nice 8->
I had a beef sandwich. A biscuit. Packet of crisps, and a cup of tea.
I then went back to bed and read a book. It being persisting down outside.
Bah Humbug. m/
It seems to have been 'persisting' here, almost continuously for the past 6 weeks.
Trouble is....When you moan about it ...(Mrs T and I do, all the time)......You end up feeling really, really guilty, because we're only getting gales and lashings of rain....Nothing even remotely as awful as the poor folk, who've had their homes flooded, elsewhere in the UK. X_X
For Christmas, I got the main thing that I really wanted....The box set of season 12 of NCIS. (I'd actually watched all the episodes before Christmas day. :-[)
Today, out for a Boxing Day meal at a pub/hotel, with Mrs T, Mart and Mrs Mart.
Super time. :-bd
(Did feel a bit sorry for the pub tho'......They said it might be safer if we booked, as they could be really busy. Apart from a couple who came in and had a big sandwich & a drink, we four were the only ones eating.)
Cheers - Phil.
The "Jetwash" add-on for the Firefly board game was my only gaming related present.
However lots of nice things to eat and a bottle of Hudson Baby Bourbon (a present from my younger son who is back from New York for a week) from friends and family. Also a sizeable contribution towards my new dining table and some cash from my parents.
Eight of us here for a belated Christmas lunch today. Just as well I have a new and larger table!
I've time shifted Christmas ever since my wife and I split.
Now doing dishes in short batches interspersed with tele watching, festive quizzes, snacks and drinks.
All of the Star Wars things ;D
I now have about 12 of the die-cast display ships, a massive figure of Boba Fett, four out of the six "William Shakespeare's Star Wars" books(!), some new slippers - as my old ones can wander the house under their own power - a Darth Vader 3D mug off my nephew, a "Jedi" dressing gown, a Lego Millennium Falcon (off myself), a Lego Star Destroyer and many other SW related items.
My Mrs is awesome :D
Oh, little man got me the SW Lego kit of "Rey's Speeder Bike" which he was kind enough to build and play with for me..... ;D ;D ;D
My mother got me a Yoda statuette and series 3 of Ripper Street on DVD.
All around, t'was a rather awesome day :D
I had a very special Christmas with my three girls . l I got to spend my first Chistmasy Day actualy on Dec 25th with them in 11 years. partly due to shifts, but mainly due to my Ex making it difficult.
I got a painting of a spitfire from my youngest (17) that she had done herself. It was very good. Various things to eat and Drink.
A funny T shirt and some smellies from Mrs Orcs and a realy cool jigsaw of a diagram of a Lancaster Bomber. Our main present to each other is going to be a short break to Iceland.
No actual wargames related stuff this year. To be fair I did not ask for much, as I have too many projects on at the moment.
Eldest daughter's birthday today, we went to the panto, then yummy tea at the in-laws! :D
These were the gifts I received as part of two blogging events.
Santa Clause - stipulation being, paint up a miniature(s) to the value of no more than £5. [hints can be given to aid gift choice]
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNgUqJNl_mQ/Vn_Hpkxp8pI/AAAAAAAAEGQ/9hBfnfg0ds4/s300/Santa%2BClause%2B2015.JPG)
Secret Santa - stipulation being, spend around £15 on hobby items. [hints can be given to aid gift choice]
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As you can see, the two photographs bear the names of the respective blogging events they belong to. The 28mm Pianist and Piano will be used to help populate my Old West games, and the 1/600 ACW boats will help me to sort out games of Hammerin' Iron or Smoke on the Water.
Obviously, I don't know who were my Secret Santas. Whomever you are, Thank You. I very much appreciate these two gifts.
Got a few Amazon vouchers . Need to have a good look about.Was going to pick up BBB if Amazon sold it but I don't think they do
Some Mike Embree bboks, a book voucher and some cash. So a happy bunny :)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 December 2015, 04:03:33 PM
A stroll around Urbino, followed by tagliatelle with wild boar sauce, excellent roast rabbit with truffles, chicory and potato salad, and a rather good semifreddo. In addition to having to finish the better half's duck, since she constantly fails to anticipate the size of Italian servings.
Nice! Really Nice!
I got a bunch of pre-painted TYW figures (Pendraken as it happens) from my wife (I think because I've kept my wargaming stuff off our dining room table) AND three very quiet days with our family.
Just spent sone Xmas money on An Imperial class Star Destroer for Star Wars armada; WOW , it puts out a LOT of attack dice! ;)
Whisky and a walk in the wet with a muddy puddle loving hairy Alsatian. These little joys... :-\ :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 27 December 2015, 09:32:08 PM
Whisky and a walk in the wet with a muddy puddle loving hairy Alsatian. These little joys... :-\ :)
Daft dog we walk (a Saint Bernard) dodges puddles as he doesn't like getting his feet wet, but then he'll wade out into deep streams till only his back and head are above the surface. It must make sense to him :-\
I've lost my glasses. Sorting out my lead mountain and can't see what I'm looking at. :(
A new coat and shoes from Ma Subs ready for Poland next month, the obligatory bottle of wine, chocs, a starmap with the constellations marked on it, more chocs, smellies and associated 'stuff', a copy of Stormbird, Iggulden's War of the Roses book and a copy for Genghis Khan and the Mongol War Machine by Chris Peers.
A platoon of 15mm Neo-Chinese Infantry painted by Nathan (ToxicPixie) http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/15mmSF/CDSU.html (http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/15mmSF/CDSU.html)
Several sets of painted Khurasan Miniatures sets including Walking Dead survivors and zombies, Hellboy, ET, Ghostbusters and American Werewolf in London to name but a few
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 December 2015, 12:57:17 AM
Eldest daughter's birthday today, we went to the panto, then yummy tea at the in-laws! :D
Happy Birthday "Eldest Mini Lemmey" :)
Thank you
Quote from: fsn on 28 December 2015, 11:09:29 AM
I've lost my glasses. Sorting out my lead mountain and can't see what I'm looking at. :(
Sorry about your glasses. The bright side is that orcs painted as 1809 French sappers will be a treat to see.
Mainly bits and bobs for me this year, Game of Thrones Monopoly, couple of Xbox games, loads of sweets and the obligatory socks and smellies.
Nice new fleece jacket and shirt were the main pressies, nothing specifically gaming related but a couple of books and maps on Ancient Egypt as I hope to visit in October.
On a damper note, Santa's little elves at the council did organise several very special deliveries of sandbags to our street (the A6) on Boxing day to help keep the new river (the A6) from running down peoples drives and flooding their houses. While one should never look a gift raindeer in the mouth, especially when they've half a dozen pallets of sandbags on the sleigh, we would generally have preferred if the elves had previously turned up with gully cleaners and removed several decades of silt from the drains.
Apparently drain cleaning is the job of another elf, who eventually turned up the day after Boxing day with some mates and THREE big yellow drain clearing machines, then, as if by magic, the torrent that had been the A6 went back where it belongs.
I've now got about 60 sandbags, which are MUCH heavier when wet, sitting in my front garden waiting for re-deployment in the face of Storm Frank due this evening.
Glad you weren't too badly hit Dan, mates down the road were paddling rather!
I hope you survive 'Frank' unscathed, DanJ
Good luck, Dan !
Cheers - Phil.
Thanks, we had neighbours flooded and about 6" under the floor in the crawl space but nothing in the house itself.
I'm hoping that now the drains can c actually drain the road Storm Frank won't be too bad but I'd have liked there to have ben a few more days of dry weather to give the land time to drain a bit. The fear is that the land is so saturated the water table will just keep rising and come up through the floor. :-X
Same here, in Pembrokeshire as far as saturated ground is concerned, Dan X_X
It SHOULD just run off our fields this evening, and turn our little road into a river, like it's done in the past.
The road drains, aren't actually blocked...But they just can't cope with the volume sometimes......So we get 'white water' running down the track almost opposite us.
I'm so, so teed off with this weather...here ..And I haven't been flooded, blasted by a tornado, had to watch out for bush fires, or been snowed in with the power cut off.
The weather seems have gone totally mad this last couple of months !
Cheers - Phil
A pleasure to have had two sunny days in a row here in Bristol. For months we've just seemed to have had overcast, dull and wet weather. Not seasonal at all.
Snowdrops now out, daffs started growing in October and tulips etc already growing by end of November. Everything topsy turvy at present...
I got nothing at all... :(
Although; Santa Leon did give me a very nice discount! :D
Cheers,
Rob
Hmm, a few CDs, the Mongrels DVD box-set and a mug that FierceKitty might appreciate:
(http://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/ekmps/shops/danihall/images/literally-grammar-grumble-mug-no.-5-choose-material-bone-48816-p%5Bekm%5D250x250%5Bekm%5D.jpg)
Gaming stuff: more assault rats and security robots AND the most recent Escenografia Epsilon Eastern Front building. However, when I decided it was time to check them out next to the other resin buildings, International Rescue decided to become involved...
(http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l602/Meirion_Hopkins/10mm%20Minis/Thunderbirds%20are%20GO/535F9BDC-73F1-40A8-8C6B-0C5741729905_1.jpg)
I believe the objective was to deliver corn - from TB2 - to the windmill, whilst a coach party of tourists visited the church on the other hill.
There was also a certain amount of seismic activity to be alleviated as my boys kept finding new boxes and books to put under the terrain mat... X_X ;)
Following a trip to The Entertainer yesterday, TB1 has now joined the rescue effort :D
Interestingly, the Thunderbirds models actually look like a reasonable fit for 10mm... :-\
Cheers!
Meirion
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 29 December 2015, 05:39:51 PM
Interestingly, the Thunderbirds models actually look like a reasonable fit for 10mm... :-\
And so another project is born... ;D
Quote from: Steve J on 29 December 2015, 02:36:55 PM
A pleasure to have had two sunny days in a row here in Bristol.
I don't believe you! ;D
I got expansion 2 and 3 for Commands and Colors Ancients. If i want to expand the wargaming community in Changchun, I have to start with easy games, Battlecry seems to be popular among the colleagues I played with.
LM