Please don't; I'm feeling queasy now.

Still none the wiser.  If goods are faulty I usually send them back.

 

(Ohhh.....Gimme strength....... )

OK.....Enough about ESSEX.

That includes you, Mark.....Especially !!

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: John Cook on 19 June 2019, 02:29:58 PM
Still none the wiser.  If goods are faulty I usually send them back.

Essex is a British wargame company that has been in business for almost forty years. They have very crisp figures, but in order to save weight/metal/money (?) they deliberately make their stands very small and, in the case of cavalry, very narrow, thus making them very difficult to glue to a base without them flopping to one side or the other before the glue has set.

Quote from: Dr Dave on 18 June 2019, 05:56:57 PM
Essex? Why can't we just say: "ESSEX"? 

It is Essex isn't it?

You said it three times.

Now Joey Essex will appear and won't leave until you#ve taught him the rules of Advanced Squad Leader.

Quote from: Leman on 19 June 2019, 07:19:37 PM
Essex is a British wargame company that has been in business for almost forty years. They have very crisp figures, but in order to save weight/metal/money (?) they deliberately make their stands very small and, in the case of cavalry, very narrow, thus making them very difficult to glue to a base without them flopping to one side or the other before the glue has set.

A very fair summary.

Very crisp castings and a huge variety of figures, nations and periods.
But difficult to base.
I wonder whether I should break out my recently acquired hot glue gun to speed things along.

I based 18 of their little blighters this morning and had to do it in two sessions, with a Plasticine scaffold improvised for each one.

Ah, the dreaded Essex bases!
My technique is:
smear the mdf/card base with contact adhesive.
smear the underside of the cavalry base with gel superglue, hold for a few seconds, then press firmly into place, and hold for a few seconds - the superglue causes the contact adhesive to set mmuch quicker. You'll still get the odd one that falls over a minute later, but it works 10 times out of 12.

Mark

Quote from: sultanbev on 19 June 2019, 11:29:10 PM
smear the mdf/card base with contact adhesive.

That statement reminds me of another Essex girl joke.

How does an Essex girl know if she has had a good night out? .........  The rest of this joke has been censored by Techno.    Whatever happened to Free Speech?

If that's the joke I'm thinking of, Mark....And I'm fairly certain it is.

I'm glad you 'self censored'.

Cheers - Phil

LIke I said before - the Welsh have no sense of humour !

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 19 June 2019, 09:14:47 PM
You said it three times.

Now Joey Essex will appear and won't leave until you#ve taught him the rules of Advanced Squad Leader.

Just the basic game was bad enough. But to compound the added complexity with poor Joey as well... That's just harsh... 

An Englishman, an Englishman and an Englishman go into a pub, get totally and absolutely legless, throw up over each other, lose half their clothes, come round with the world's worst headaches then tell everyone they had a great time. As a Welshman I find that hilarious.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 June 2019, 06:46:09 AM
LIke I said before - the Welsh have no sense of humour !

Lets be honest If you lived in Wales where:-

99% of your neighbours were sheep with the best conversation limited to BAAA,
It rained all the time
Summer was the single afternoon it rained only with a shower or two
You had little or no TV/phone reception due to the mountains.
The pubs all shut on Sundays
Most place names are unpronounceable.

You would not have much of a sense of humour 

Twll du'n bob sais!

Quote from: Orcs on 20 June 2019, 06:48:54 PM
Lets be honest If you lived in Wales where:-

99% of your neighbours were sheep with the best conversation limited to BAAA,
It rained all the time
Summer was the single afternoon it rained only with a shower or two
You had little or no TV/phone reception due to the mountains.
The pubs all shut on Sundays
Most place names are unpronounceable.

You would not have much of a sense of humour 

You missed one - the locals all spoke gibberish !!!

Quote from: Orcs on 20 June 2019, 06:48:54 PM
Lets be honest If you lived in Wales where:-

99% of your neighbours were sheep with the best conversation limited to BAAA,
It rained all the time
Summer was the single afternoon it rained only with a shower or two
You had little or no TV/phone reception due to the mountains.
The pubs all shut on Sundays
Most place names are unpronounceable.

You would not have much of a sense of humour 

Bit racist 

Quote from: ianrs54 on 21 June 2019, 08:20:13 AM
You missed one - the locals all spoke gibberish !!!

It's these continual micro-aggressions that are both lame and wearing...

Also getting pissed off with this. If Black, muslim or women was substituted there would be a positive shitstorm!

Quote from: Leman on 21 June 2019, 01:27:37 PM
Also getting pissed off with this.

Absolutely! Please stop.

I've found it personally insulting.

It's NOT banter...(Tee Hee hee).....It's......No forget it !

Be nice to get a couple of apologies.....But that's not going to happen..

*****.