Encourage this!!

You might get a gaming recruit or even a guest painter!

Nice idea

If you ask him nicely he might do Prussians from Walt for you

I'm not buying bloody Prussians.

QuoteClearing up my desk area. Found these:



25 'bolter-shell' pots and 43 newer ones, none newer than 2009. All dried up of course. Some well used, some clearly never even opened.

More de-cluttering:


76 double-sided & 73 single-sided 3½" floppy-disks. Including original Microsoft install disks for both MS-DOS 6.20 and 6.21, lots (and lots) of stuff for Doom, and disks for Compuserve Information Manager for both Dos & Windows 3.1.

Also random memory modules & and USB-->PS2 adaptor.

The crap we keep. None of these disks will have seen the light of day for at least 25 years.

Nostalgia central!

I'd forgotten there even were single sided and double sided 3.5" floppy disks

Those green ps2/USB adapters were everywhere but actually hardly used IIRC

Quote76 double-sided & 73 single-sided 3½" floppy-disks.

Hmmm. Just checked eBay. People are trying to sell these things. Was going to just bin them but might try a listing or two.

De-cluttering/nostalgia post #3:


Plenty of these on eBay, including at least one person trying to flog the envelopes.

Surprisingly, there seems to very little information about Truprint the company on the internet. Like when they stopped their processing/free film service. I presume they went bust sometime ago. The Truprint name is now owned by Snapfish. I doubt they'd honour the processing . . .

I've also found 27 IKEA pencils.

Last one, I promise:


No batteries - or cassettes - to hand, so don't know if it still works.

I've started wondering about the size of gap between desk and wall.

 

"Keep nothing that is neither useful or beautiful"

Which is a major block to my ambition of being a kept man.

Quote from: Raider4 on 09 January 2026, 12:02:43 PMMore de-cluttering:


76 double-sided & 73 single-sided 3½" floppy-disks. Including original Microsoft install disks for both MS-DOS 6.20 and 6.21, lots (and lots) of stuff for Doom, and disks for Compuserve Information Manager for both Dos & Windows 3.1.

Also random memory modules & and USB-->PS2 adaptor.

The crap we keep. None of these disks will have seen the light of day for at least 25 years.

It wasn't that long ago I found some 5 1/4" floppies to throw out. Including Dos 6.0 and orriginal windows.

Quote from: Raider4 on 09 January 2026, 01:59:29 PMI've also found 27 IKEA pencils.

They are so usefull to leave in the shed, Garage, Toolbox Etc. Mrs orcs tells me off for collecting so many when we go to Ikea - I say thet I am only doing as asked, picking one up each time I go past a pile witha huge sign saying "Please Take One"
She was less than impressed when I taught her girls when they were young to collect them as well, and also paint stirrers from Costa .

QuoteThey are so usefull to leave in the shed, Garage, Toolbox Etc. Mrs orcs tells me off for collecting so many when we go to Ikea - I say thet I am only doing as asked, picking one up each time I go past a pile witha huge sign saying "Please Take One"

My local Morrison's has a table & 4 chairs by the delicatessen counter. On the table is a sign saying "Feel free to take a seat".

I'm always tempted to pick up a chair & wander off with it.

Update on the guy at work painting some ECW.

He usually does Warhammer - he is painting each 10mm individually...

Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 January 2026, 02:51:35 PMUpdate on the guy at work painting some ECW.

He usually does Warhammer - he is painting each 10mm individually...

I suppose he is doing the Base coat, Mid coat, Top coat shading thing, followed by wash and pick out the highlights. Thats the way to madness, but on the plus side when the men in white coats come to take him away you migh be able to get your hands on 10-15 very nicely painted 10mm ECW

QuoteI suppose he is doing the Base coat, Mid coat, Top coat shading thing, followed by wash and pick out the highlights. Thats the way to madness, but on the plus side when the men in white coats come to take him away you migh be able to get your hands on 10-15 very nicely painted 10mm ECW

3 of those 5 steps would be plenty!

Someone on the pub quiz team has just mixed up Kenneth Williams and Kenneth Moore.

An awful lot of War movies are very different...