OK, I know it's a bit early ... but I received this on Wednesday and was so incredibly touched.
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The lady who made it for me asked me in July what my favourite tank was. That's what you call planning!
Recognisably a Centurion - I think she's used the Tamiya box art.
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I take so much pleasure in things that someone has spent the time and energy doing. I was really moved.
This is going to take some beating!
Brilliant
That is so cool 8).
Nice stuff
Love it ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
That's excellent!
Thats a nice gift.
I got an envelope packed full of crisp 'oncers' (True-ish....they were £20 notes)....And I haven't opened one particular packet, yet......Looks like CD's to me. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
That is a very thoughtful gift :-bd
QuoteRe: What did you get for Christmas 2020?
Another day older and deeper in debt?
More seriously, I think I've a load of exciting coffee and some 1/200 P-80's for Blood Red Skies.
Nothing 10mm, sadly.
A lovely gift
And very thoughtful
Regards
Sean
So far - a back-lit mechanical keyboard from my son in NY. He knows me soooo well!
What I suspect is a box of biscuits from my upstairs neighbours.
A microwaveable heating pad to keep my toes warm in bed this winter - the circulation in my toes is not what it once was :-(
A bag of Elheim 20mm figures to add to my sci-fi RPG collection from a younger couple who had played computer RPGs but couldn't work out how you would translate that to a tabletop. They came round to my place a couple of times early this year and I ran introductory sessions. They are apparently now running a campaign for friends, using Zoom. They posted a Christmas card through my letter box with cash and a note thanking me for the sessions, for the coffee, for the home made scones, the warm welcome and relaxed atmosphere and saying I could spend the cash on anything I wanted but they hoped I'd get some figures that would remind me of them when I was running a game. What? Teared up? No, no .... really .... just ...I .... grit in my eye, honestly. :)
Good man
I'm eagerly awaiting a bolt action early german army and a belgian army.
Excellent stuff, Ithorial, some good Cmas cheer there :)
Well done Ithoriel =D> =D> =D>
Has anyone suggested home made scones to Little Wars TV as yet another way to grow the hobby ;)
A lockdown in Tier 4
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 20 December 2020, 12:56:42 AM
A lockdown in Tier 4
And well deserved too.......My sympathies to all in the Sarf East. :'(
A lockdown in level 4, over here......thought that was coming....Can't say I'm in the slightest bit surprised.
(I wonder what Tesco's is going to be like this morning.) :-\
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno II on 20 December 2020, 07:41:15 AM
(I wonder what Tesco's is going to be like this morning.) :-
Absolutely HORRENDUS. Considering ASDA later on, will have to tomorrow :'(
Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 December 2020, 07:34:34 AM
And well deserved too.......My sympathies to all in the Sarf East. :'(
Arguably I live more in the South East than London and up until Wednesday I was in Tier 2.
What is your problem with London were you bitten by a cockney as a child?
Quote from: Techno II on 20 December 2020, 07:41:15 AM
(I wonder what Tesco's is going to be like this morning.) :-
Full of rioting pensioners fighting over toilet rolls
Our Sci-fi dystopia is pretty crap compared to what 70s films promised.
Did you see the pics of the scrum at the train stations yesterday? Horrendous :/
London early this morning
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Did ASDA- lady on till said it were quiet, maybe (SHOCK HORROR) I wuz wrong, well as to be a first time....
Quote from: Techno II on 20 December 2020, 07:41:15 AM
(I wonder what Tesco's is going to be like this morning.) :-
Just got back. Slightly busier than a normal Sunday, but not stupidly crowded. All tills were manned for a change, so next to no queuing to get out. Some good offers on booze if you've got a clubcard.
Almost all customers wearing a mask, but probably a good fifth don't seem to understand that it's supposed to cover the nose as well . . .
Large percentage of shop staff not wearing a mask. Don't know why they're exempt, but they obviously are.
Social distancing has all but been forgotten :(
My ex-wife, having only sons, once lamented during a trip to Bovingdon that she didn't have a favourite tank.
Wife just back from Aldi, plenty of stock, not too many customers.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 20 December 2020, 03:08:32 PM
My ex-wife, having only sons, once lamented during a trip to Bovingdon that she didn't have a favourite tank.
I am shocked! I would have thought this sort of statement should be met with an information campaign, including performance statistics, photographs, operational histories and some suggested criteria for making a choice?
My ex-wife half way through Bovington exclaimed "another green tank." I think that's when I knew she was going be the ex-Mrs FSN. For goodness sake, it was olive drab!
Quote from: fsn on 20 December 2020, 03:33:18 PM
My ex-wife half way through Bovington exclaimed "another green tank." I think that's when I knew she was going be the ex-Mrs FSN. For goodness sake, it was olive drab!
As a member of Friends of Historic Scotland, I used to drag my family around Scotland to visit the various historic properties (e.g., castles, standing stones, etc.). When we drove into the carpark of one, one of my daughters exclaimed, "Oh no. Not another castle!" and refused to get out the car.
In later years, the same daughter was awarded the 2nd Year Students Archaeology Prize in Glasgow University ...
Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 December 2020, 11:17:41 AM
Did ASDA- lady on till said it were quiet, maybe (SHOCK HORROR) I wuz wrong, well as to be a first time....
Tescos was VERY civilised this morning.....a TINY bit busier than normal for a Sunday....but that was it.....Only saw a single person NOT wearing a mask
Everybody seemed to being particularly sensible....and not getting 'arsey'.
I even swapped Christmas wishes with some 'youth' (mid 40's ?) while we were looking for cat food......He, apparently, had to come back later, to get stuff for his parents.
Poor sod !! :)
Cheers - Surprised of SW Wales.
Quote from: fsn on 20 December 2020, 03:33:18 PM
My ex-wife half way through Bovington exclaimed "another green tank." I think that's when I knew she was going be the ex-Mrs FSN. For goodness sake, it was olive drab!
Your right Nobby, Divorce is the correct response to "another green tank.". :D
Well I don't know what I have got for Christmas Yet, but having just had a Birthday last week I got
A Dice Tray
Box of 20mm CMP trucks from PSC
4 15mm 4 horse Assyrian chariots
3 Seleucid Elephants
Lots of Beers
A Very nice top
A pair of slippers.
Hmm. Well:
A VERY much needed Washer Dryer... sadly not plumbed in 'right' because of...
A VERY much needed kitchen floor to put it on... though a 'cheap' repair by 'builder'... (Why cut the outside waste pipe, FFS?) :'(
New Flat Roofs, (If the roofer survives his Quarantine to do the back one). :(
All rotting outside woodwork replaced with plastic plus new Doors and couple of windows. Will enjoy 2021, siiting outside and thinking..."Yeah!". :)
Actually said a Sad 'Goodbye' to the front door...still sound, but old and needed new locks. (Took off the Knocker and bolt... but... Ma remembers an old horse having his shoes taken off before going to the knackers :( ...so sad!). :'(
Guttering right round... I am going to regret this!, ;D
A 'Garden' that is starting to resemble Paaschendaele... (See above, + 'The Old Bloke', (Maybe scared off by the above work...like the Foxes!)... but will probably be back...I've got his Tools, LOL!). ;)... (Though He's got my money... :o ... ) ;D
So, 'Reasons To Be Cheerful...1,2,3!" ;D Maybe! ;)
As far as models go;
A 'Strange' and worrying penchant for buying Roco Minitanks in 1/87 from 'the net'...and EARLY Airfix figs to go with them! WTF! WHY? :o
I would 'blame the Lead', but haven't been able do do much with anything... so probably just going 'Nuts' for Christmas! :)
Curious: Does anyone else have an aversion to 'Cracking Wallnuts'... :o ;D
Have a Good One, Peeps! :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 21 December 2020, 03:47:46 AM
A 'Strange' and worrying penchant for buying Roco Minitanks in 1/87 from 'the net'...and EARLY Airfix figs to go with them! WTF! WHY? :o
Know a good analyst who could cure that - only £1000 a minute ;D
Just put in an order to Northumberland Tim Solder - https://www.northumbriantinsoldier.com/time-robbers/ - for their Time Robbers (aka Time Bandits) range - I have been liking their sculpts for quite some time and have fancied doing a matched pair of 28mm HoTT armies.
I'm thinking of creating the strongholds out of a railways scenic 1960's residential detached suburban house (for the Good side - Kevin's mum & dads house) and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness out of Lego bricks, in a desert of shingle with a screen of one-way mirror glass in front of it (for Evil).
I was going to put a smoking micro-oven on the lawn of Kevin's house but then I though I might want to include it as a potential gaming element ... although I am not sure what.
The only things I am missing are:
1). a seated Napoleon with some Old Guard - as a Shooter - (Foundry do a nice one but I am bu88ered if I am paying £24 for the full set just to get Napoleon)
2). a very large bald giant with a sailing ship on his head - that will have to be a Reaper Bones Ogre with a 1/300th scale Napoleonic man-0-war attached - I will probably field that as a Behemoth of course.
3). some of the 'screamers' from the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness - but 1st Corp do a very nice pack of metal animal sculls in their 28mm Thracian range - and that has the appropriate horned cattle sculls in it ... but what shall I classify them as???? :- Probably Lurkers.
4). I also need a scruffy old gent as the Supreme Being - dressed in a tweed jacket and trousers - I suspect there is an appropriate figure in a VBCW range - obviously he is classified as a God.
I fancied creating the playing board to look like the Time Map and have the terrain as pieces of furniture covered in plastic dust sheets ....
Oh dear I am having another bad attack of HoTT'itus again!
I also couldn't resist buying the Murder of Crows range as well - although I think it needs at least a couple of other figures - such as a wizards apprentice and a missile armed crow (probably a crossbow or blunderbuss armed variant) to allow me to create another Frostgrave band.
(NB: buying my own Xmas present from daughters - I have learnt over time - is the only safe way of ensuring domestic harmony around gaming presents)
I shall look forward to painting these up when they arrive - especially as it now looks like we'll be locked-down until January 2030 as the virus mutates and Elon Musk evacuates us all to Mars.
Happy Crimble folks
Quote from: Orcs on 20 December 2020, 04:09:18 PM
Well I don't know what I have got for Christmas Yet, but having just had a Birthday last week I got
A Dice Tray
Box of 20mm CMP trucks from PSC
4 15mm 4 horse Assyrian chariots
3 Seleucid Elephants
Lots of Beers
A Very nice top
A pair of slippers.
I note that you have the 20mm trucks and 15mm Assyrian chariots - but the 3 Seleucid Elephants appear to be the same scale as the 'nice top' and the comfy slipper ... hope they don't make too much mess on the carpet!
Happy belated Birthday
Quote from: Big Insect on 21 December 2020, 05:21:27 PM
I note that you have the 20mm trucks and 15mm Assyrian chariots - but the 3 Seleucid Elephants appear to be the same scale as the 'nice top' and the comfy slipper ... hope they don't make too much mess on the carpet!
Happy belated Birthday
;D ;D ;D ;D
My copy of The Seelow Heights 16-19 April 1945. A Wargamer's Guide arrived today. I had a quick flick through before passing it on to my wife for wrapping. Further details here: https://steve-nationsinarms.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-seelow-heights-preview-copies.html?showComment=1608073746644#c8173122982541422782 (https://steve-nationsinarms.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-seelow-heights-preview-copies.html?showComment=1608073746644#c8173122982541422782)
Best wishes,
Martin
Quote from: Big Insect on 21 December 2020, 05:18:04 PM
Just put in an order to Northumberland Tim Solder - https://www.northumbriantinsoldier.com/time-robbers/ - for their Time Robbers (aka Time Bandits) range
Is it just me, or are there some very strange games at the moment?
Quote from: fsn on 21 December 2020, 07:12:28 PM
Is it just me, or are there some very strange games at the moment?
It's just you! :)
All looks perfectly normal to me.
Now, if you'll excuse me I need to get my Killer Penguins across the Stream Of Conciousness and move SS Wiking into position to hold the Evelyn Woods against that dragon :)
I shall block.that move with my Spam Submarine.
Is that a euphemism? :-\
Quote from: Orcs on 20 December 2020, 04:05:21 PM
... Divorce is the correct response to "another green tank.". :D
How should one respond to "That means I've won, doesn't it? Six in a row now, right?" - murder?
(This is a purely hypothetical thought experiment of a question. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 21 December 2020, 09:05:03 PM
It's just you! :)
All looks perfectly normal to me.
Now, if you'll excuse me I need to get my Killer Penguins across the Stream Of Conciousness and move SS Wiking into position to hold the Evelyn Woods against that dragon :)
Did I just spot a reference to Swords & Sorcery by SPI
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 22 December 2020, 02:24:42 AM
Did I just spot a reference to Swords & Sorcery by SPI
Maybe. :)
Yours, X the Unknown
Quote from: Ithoriel on 21 December 2020, 09:05:03 PM
I need to get my Killer Penguins across the Stream Of Conciousness ...
Of course Alternative Armies do their fantastic Evil Christmas sets https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/festive-season-15mm-range/products/hott1023-xmas-army - which I have seen and played against as a very effective HoTT army
Gentlemen,
I have asked the Dark Lord, and in his benevolence he has allowed me to share with you the doings of our resident Welsh Catweazle. He has weaved his magic and with remarkably little blood loss has produced some Gentlemen in Pig Faced Bascinets. These arrived with me before Xmas, and I am delighted to share them here. I shall be sending them North once I have finished gloating. :D
Thank you Phil for some lovely figures. Really looking forward to getting some painted up. :D :D :D :D :D
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And how oftwen has he refused to do them !
Oftwen ?
I HAVE given up.
See me reply int nother topic.....
Gentlemen!
Please don't taint this small moment of joy with petty squabbling.
Quote from: fsn on 23 December 2020, 02:07:48 PM
Gentlemen!
Please don't taint this small moment of joy with petty squabbling.
That's a War of the Roses quote isn't it, shortly before the series of massacres and scorched earth conflicts that passes for fun if you're from the gentry?
Not helping :P
Bugger. I don't need them but may have to get some.
Oftwen is famed and toasted in every pub from Pwyll Deri to Harlech, look you. The things she can do with a bunch of wet leeks....
Nah. OfTwen is the body that oversees the quality of £20 notes.
No - it resembles the late great Spike Malligna - it's a spelling or rather typing error ! ;)
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From my daughter and her girlfriend.
I think they know me very well. :D
Quote from: fsn on 24 December 2020, 02:39:51 PM
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From my daughter and her girlfriend.
I think they know me very well. :D
I hope you double down and talk about it even more
Quote from: fsn on 24 December 2020, 02:39:51 PM
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From my daughter and her girlfriend.
I think they know me very well. :D
Poor them ! ;) ;)
Great t-shirt, which I imagine would be somewhat applicable to most members here :D.
Oh and the pig faced bascinets look great too 8)
Seconded :)
I know one thing I will be getting, because I bought for one of my heirs.
A nail varnish shaker
Yes, I know!
But I will repurpose it to shake and shake and shake my Vallejo paint bottles, each with a small ball bearing in ...... fancy that, properly mixed paint and my wrist still intact.
Quote from: Norm on 24 December 2020, 07:10:46 PM
I know one thing I will be getting, because I bought for one of my heirs.
A nail varnish shaker
Yes, I know!
But I will repurpose it to shake and shake and shake my Vallejo paint bottles, each with a small ball bearing in ...... fancy that, properly mixed paint and my wrist still intact.
Of course we all know you actually want your favorite fuchsia nail varnish to go on your nails properly :)
From my older son I got a personalised Christmas message delivered online by Jewel Staite!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 December 2020, 10:44:07 AM
From my older son I got a personalised Christmas message delivered online by Jewel Staite!
Wow thats something very different.
Quote from: Orcs on 25 December 2020, 11:44:18 AM
Wow thats something very different.
It certainly is. I can now say that Jewel Staite has wished me a Merry Christmas and blown me a kiss ..... the fact that she couldn't pick me out of a line up if I was the only one in it is neither here nor there :D
The four series of Elvenquest on CD. :-bd
I will really enjoy those !
Cheers - Phil :)
Two sets of figures for Star Wars Legion.
Lots of DIY and car bits!
Hugs all
Wow! Great present Ithorial!
Some wargame and history books, which I ordered myself or gave the info to the family. So a couple of Airfix magazine guides on the 8th Army and Afrika Korps for that nostalgia hit, Bob Cordery's The Portable Pike & Shot Wargames and Nomonhan 1939 (or Khalkin Gol). A nice mix of stuff as at my age, frankly I have everything I really need, so books are those little luxuries I still enjoy receiving :).
I got a few gaming things for Christmas (largely ordered myself, but lets me go for some of the things I have been umming and arhing about)
Pendraken box of goodies, several landing craft in resin, WWI German troops, including the very cool 37mm anti-tank gun. And the new MDF trebechet, which is surprising large (in a good way)
A new desert mat from Deep Cut Studios, and
Irregular Wars Fantastic Battles - which is available from Amazon so easy to add to a wish list for my extended family to buy from
I also got a few cycling things. All in all a good day, even if it was restricted to our immediate household. Although catering wise I hadn't really worked this through so we will be having lots of left overs for a good few days!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 December 2020, 10:44:07 AM
From my older son I got a personalised Christmas message delivered online by Jewel Staite!
I had to look her up.
I said to all the family that a PayPal money gift would suffice if they couldn't think of a suitable present. I also reminded them that I'm on a weight reduction diet due to my coronary artery issue.
So what did I get?
A pair of diabetic socks, some nice smelly stuff, a box of chocolates, a box of chocolates, a box of chocolates, a box of chocolates, an Amazon gift voucher, an Amazon gift voucher, an Amazon gift voucher and finally a high spec computer game.
What are diabetic socks? :-\
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 26 December 2020, 11:44:15 AM
I had to look her up.
:o
She had one of the best lines in Firefly (which was ripe with excellent lines.).
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Quote from: fsn on 26 December 2020, 12:38:30 PM
What are diabetic socks? :-
Socks with high blood sugar taking metformin :-*
Jewel Staite was very good in SG: Atlantis, too!
Ian, if your socks are on Metformin it explains your renowned grumpiness :D
Quote from: fsn on 26 December 2020, 12:45:51 PM
:o
She had one of the best lines in Firefly (which was ripe with excellent lines.).
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I'll be in my bunk...
Quote from: fsn on 26 December 2020, 12:38:30 PM
What are diabetic socks? :-
One day you may need them.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 26 December 2020, 01:13:37 PM
Ian, if your socks are on Metformin it explains your renowned grumpiness :D
No most of my socks are reliogious items
That's the Metatron, not Metformin ;)
This is how I spent Boxing Day.
1) Put the painting table back
2) See if I can make that texture wrapping paper into cobblestones
3) Paint plague elementals (Need basing)
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Nice work, that man ! :-bd (That was bloomin' quick !)
Cheers - Phil
Ta.
Fun way to pass Boxing Day. :)
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Terror birds before basing and varnishing.
Got one of my presseies to me working - now have a new smart phone working :)
Quote from: fsn on 30 December 2020, 12:32:10 PM
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Terror birds before basing and varnishing.
They've come out nice, contrast paints?
Very nice work, Nobby !! :-bd
Again.....Haven't you painted those quickly ?
Cheers - Phil.
:-bd =D> :-bd for both, very quickly painted :)
Very nice Nobby
Thanks chaps.
I am blessed to be able to paint as much as I want. Those terror birds were fun. I have no idea what I will do with them.
Quote from: fred. on 30 December 2020, 02:38:44 PM
They've come out nice, contrast paints?
No. Base coat, wash and some highlighting.
:o
Those terror birds came out great!
Thank you Lt Rivers. :)
Those terror birds will definitely be in my next order.
:- emu colours for my 6mm sci fi
Regards
Sean
I looked at photos of emus and ostriches, but they seemed a little monochrome.
I thought terror birds deserved a little more colour. :)
Secretary bird?
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I WILL paint one of the terror birds......(One day, never.. ;D ;D ;D)......But I'm not painting the original green master (Wot I got back, now).....that would be naughty.
I'm thinking of a totally over the top colour scheme.....More like a Macaw.
(Then I'll almost certainly think that I have gone OTT.....and strip all the paint off. X_X)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Quote from: Raider4 on 02 January 2021, 09:53:08 AM
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ... Boobies.
Charles Darwin eat your heart out.
How did anything end up with 'sky blue ' appendages ?
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Quote from: Techno II on 02 January 2021, 12:38:38 PM
How did anything end up with 'sky blue ' appendages ?
Very cold weather ? or more likley in Runcorn/Widnes chemical polution :d :d
Some suggested colour schemes:
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More realistic than my ideas. ;D
Cheers - Phil. (I went off on one this morning when some amoeba brain on 5 Live described parakeets as being 'budgies'......He won't be replacing that nice Mr Attenborough...Thank intercourse.) :D
Love the terror Birds Nobby!
I have dome from the old Target Games Chronopia figures. We called them "Death chickens"