Hi all painting some native porters for my Anglo Zulu War

take care

andy

Got side tracked with other stuff so nothing been done

take care

andy

Many many hours researching and sculpting Bdapest cobbles on 15mm Hungarians....
F*** I'm sad!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 January 2014, 10:55:25 PM
Many many hours researching and sculpting Bdapest cobbles on 15mm Hungarians....
F*** I'm sad!

What were they using them for - ammunition? 

That would improve their firepower!


Just caught myself adding sculpted team lines to bases too...

5 platoons of 15mm troops undercoated, base coated and ink washed today.
10mm Bavarian cavalry division assembled and undercoated. Dark elves likewise.
Busy day... 

Doing bugger all apart from atempting NOT to smoke, its fkn hard.

No painting done at all for the past few weeks as I have been sidetracked into my Baltic Crusades project. Now the order is in with Leon I can focus back onto some painting etc. which will be nice, some of which will get entered into the painting comp I'm sure.

Quote from: GordonY on 18 January 2014, 06:28:50 AM
Doing bugger all apart from atempting NOT to smoke, its fkn hard.

Stick with it Gordon !
It's not easy !!...But damn well worth it !
Cheers - Phil

Well done Gordon, i'm also trying to give up, i can recommend the vap E ciggie , it's really helping me and it's actually just like a real smoke, i do fall a bit on a friday when i have a few beers but to go from 15-20 a day to 5ish on a friday night is ok by me, keep trying mate. My kit cost £15  and the vapor juice is £5 and last's a good 2 weeks .


kev

I have been using the e cig thing for about 3 years now...working well though I have had the odd relapsed

Yep doing the E-ciggie thing, I can heartily recommend the Capachino (however you spell it) flavour, I must be smoking 40 cups a day just now. Still feel like a fag though, I think I might have to up the nicotine content to 18mg and see if that helps.

I use the 24 mg one tobacco flavour. Even after 3 years  that first hit with the e cig is just about the same a real one  so if I get past that I am ok  for the rest of the day

I gave up about twenty years ago by using the nicotine chewing gum.
E-ciggies weren't about in those days.

I really commend you all for your efforts....STICK WITH IT !!
It's truly fekking hard to start with....But you'll be SO pleased if you persevere.

Cheers - Phil.

Each cigarette costs approximately 40p. Assume one smokes 10 per day then:

1 day of not smoking buys you a 30 pack of Pendraken Roman Infantry
3 days would buy you a Pendraken trireme

You could buy a Pendraken WWII Infantry pack with a morning's abstinence,
and buy a supporting tank in the afternoon.

Giving up for a year could buy you 10,950 Dark Age infantry - i.e. all of Harold's army at Hastings, plus half of William's in 1:1 Pendraken goodliness.
Either that of 621 Shermans, i.e. about 4 brigades's worth in 1:1

(I find that nowadays my standard unit of cost comparison is the Pendraken Sherman Firefly tank - BR33. I don't smoke, but it helps when faced with chocolate.)
 

10 FSN?

try about 60 rollies, ok I'm getting the baccie tax free, but its still about £25 a week

against that, my new e-cig habit is running about £5 a week, and its better for me (ok not better but less harmful)

so its win win, more money to buy even more stuff that I cant find time to paint

my old desk might even collapse under the increased weight.

Mrs T and I used to get through 100 Silk Cut a day between us ....60/40.... (Yeah..... OK we were wimps)......what would that be nowadays....£30 +.
Couldn't remotely afford that now.
I'll certainly keep encouraging you Gordon !
Cheers - Phil.

I was a 30 a day man: just gave up one day when I ran out.  Had the odd relapse but been clean for about 15 years.

Feel considerably healthier; stay with it guys

I gave up the first time when I realized how much it was costing me.....and I was drooling over camera equipment, which I couldn't afford....
It was a case of "I'm not wasting money on ciggies anymore."
After 9 months I relapsed.....But gave up again around '93...and haven't touched one since.
What I find is.... If I go past someone smoking in the street.....nine times out of ten, I think....."Ughhh !......that smells disgusting"....
The other time......."Hmmmm....That smells LOVELY !"......So it never truly leaves you ! 
Cheers - Phil

Be warned on e-cigarettes as they contain an awful lot of sh*t, possibly as bad or worse than cigarettes, hence the EU bringing in regulations to make them conform to certain standards. We have done tests at work on all the major devices and they are shockingly bad in terms of quality of manufacture, reliability and consistency of dose. By next year they should all be up to a safe standard fingers crossed.