Soooo ....

I've been working on the Russian 1941. T28, T35, BT7, Komso ... Komsolong ... Somko ... mini tractors ... and so, of course, the latest package from Pendraken had some lovely North Africa buildings from Total Battle Miniatures. 

Obviously now, my interest and attention has just dropped 1000 miles south and 20 years later.



Still. There are Centurions.

Oh I know that feeling only too well.....

I reckon a lot of wargamers have written a chapter in that book.
I just finished the last of my Irregular 6mm FPW stuff and now I'm wading through...yep, you guessed it, Irregular 6mm Samurai. Go figure, as they say.

Quote from: fsn on 12 April 2015, 05:42:55 PM
Soooo ....

I've been working on the Russian 1941. T28, T35, BT7, Komso ... Komsolong ... Somko ... mini tractors ... and so, of course, the latest package from Pendraken had some lovely North Africa buildings from Total Battle Miniatures. 
Still. There are Centurions.

Don't forget the T35's from ANOTHER MANUFACTURER !!!   

FSN - butterfly - NOW I KNOW WHY THE WEATHER is TERRIBLE. STOP FLAPPING

IanS

   Didn't think of the chaos theory. 

[When I read the title, "Butterfly fsn?" I thought, "That's a bit extreme. Has Techno finally lost it with Nobby!"    ]

Ahem !

Though I would say, that I think both Nobby and I have lost the plot completely sometimes ! 
Cheers - Phil

I'm flapping because everyone keeps mentioning T35s!

Quote from: Techno on 13 April 2015, 03:51:25 PM
Though I would say, that I think both Nobby and I have lost the plot completely sometimes ! 

Not me. Never had it.

Quote from: fsn on 13 April 2015, 03:52:08 PM


Not me. Never had it.

That is true. 

So having painted a number of middle east based tanks, buildings and one platoon of infantry ...

SOMEBODY who shall remain anonymous (but may live in Wimbledon, recycle, and have an interest in the 6 Day War) posts a thread* about basing trees and I've spent the last three days making copses, coppices and avenues.



I am expecting a transfusion of Zil trucks which will inevitable slide me back to more southerly climes.

On the plus side, I've used static grass rather than flock and may never flock again. (Been flocking for nearly 6 months.)

*http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,12096.0.html

Well you are far too old to flock   

IanS

So gentle readers, I left you with my enthusiasm bubbling for temperate scenery. Indeed I managed to maintain this persuasion for full on a week, and had carefully based some 50 or so trees in a most decorous manner - I may with some little pride that I have a avenue of pink blossom that Mr Inago Jones would have remarked on most favourably. Having finished for the time with the fauna, I turned my attentions to the architecture and coloured a few black and white building to a scheme I recalled from many excursions to the delightful town of Chester.

The arrival of the aforementioned Zil trucks tore me from my path and hurtled my affections back into the Barbary of some half century ago. I fell to with a will and cleaned, under-coated and base-coated a goodly number of both foot and vehicles last weekend. This state of bliss I was sure would last until I could, with a light heart, dispose of the project as completed.

This then was my plan, and I could not know as I applied pale sand onto some 3/4 ton Land Rovers that my good intents would fall by the wayside in an unusual way.

You may know that I am on occasion called upon to travel for my business. On Monday last it fell to me to ride the railway to London, there for some purpose of my education which I will not tire your patience by describing. My affairs being completed by half past four of the clock, I found that I had some little time before my return journey, so determined to enjoy that part of the great city that I had at one time known so well and loved not a little.

I am not sure by which power my steps were decided, but by happy chance I found myself by the old University Bookshop. Many a happy hour I had in there, and in an attempt to recollect those halcyon days, I entered the premises. You will not be surprised that I soon found myself in the history section, head bobbing from side to side like some demented parakeet as I captured the titles offered. In the shelves marked for British History, I was quite enchanted to find a volume on the life and times of King Stephen. Twice doubled was my pleasure on finding it remarkably reduced in price, being the last of its kind in the establishment.

Perhaps I should have considered more the possible consequences of such a purchase, but most cheerily did I make my way to the terminus at Euston, and thence speedily homeward. The time, though short, was well spent and I was consumed with the tales of the politicking and warring of that early dynasty.

Alas, dear reader, when I arrived home, I appraised the Zil trucks on the drying board, and knew that my fickle heart had again withdrawn, however temporarily, its affections and transferred them to a new belle. This evening, I have been scaling my lead mountain in search of the early medieval and Norman figures that I had purchased some months ago.

I ask not for pity, but for understanding from sympathetic souls. 

       

Go for it Nobby , I think its one of the most intriguing periods of British history

Quote from: fsn on 19 May 2015, 08:00:51 PM
I ask not for pity, but for understanding from sympathetic souls.         

Oh.....Alright ! 
Cheers - Phil

Which Stephen book was it?