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.".

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!, 

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...  ... )   

So, 'Reasons To Be Cheerful...1,2,3!"      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?

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'... 

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?

Know a good analyst who could cure that - only £1000 a minute 

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

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

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.".

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