Steel Penguins braying

[zenrat]

apparently a lot of the " cool uber modelers" part assemble, then paint, finish assembly then  add the teny tiny details and weathering.  and then never handle the thing again  ...

Then how do they play with them?
I don't understand.   

[NARSES2]

Ive always liked the look of ranked battalion games, but have never had the patience to paint for one of them. 

Yup I was mainly 15/18mm, 7 Years War & Napoleonic's so having battalions (20/25 figures plus officers) based was almost natural. Even my 25/28mm Han Chinese were on bases, but smaller. Mind you even back then once you got to "modern" gamming, i.e. WWII, figures and vehicles tended to be individual, which was one reason not to many people dabbled in the period. That and the complication of the rules.

[Rick Lowe]

apparently a lot of the " cool uber modelers" part assemble, then paint, finish assembly then  add the teny tiny details and weathering.  and then never handle the thing again  ...

Then how do they play with them?
I don't understand. 

   
You have to do the 'zooming around the room', or 'trundling across the carpet/steppe' thing. Otherwise, why have all these Marvellous Toys?

[Steel Penguin]

i knew i stayed here for good reasons       like minded folks. 

[kerick]

apparently a lot of the " cool uber modelers" part assemble, then paint, finish assembly then  add the teny tiny details and weathering.  and then never handle the thing again  ...

Then how do they play with them?
I don't understand. 

   
You have to do the 'zooming around the room', or 'trundling across the carpet/steppe' thing. Otherwise, why have all these Marvellous Toys?

Have you heard the song by folk singer Tom Paxton?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWcocGtEyA

[Steel Penguin]

absolutly cream crackered now.  helped set up the Womborne club show yesterday afternoon, and then wile Mrs SP was setting up her stand i was helping others get traders stock in, then all day on the stand, and helping traders load back up and take down,  the floor may not be as hard as telfords but its not far off.
A day well spent     and hepfully well recived

[NARSES2]

Glad you had a good day mate

[Steel Penguin]

the caddalac commando scout is done,  looks good to me     much rammage, and i find it has a distint personality.   just needs varnishing now.

another pipe stack is ready to spray  this one is 6 tubes, so 3 levels tall
and im greebling a pair of industrial tanks,  the tubes  are the center of small rolls of plastic bags that go in a oviod that is for pet owners to carry round as " pooper scooper bags"   we use them for cleaning up the cat litter trays, so dont use the  oviods,  glued the lids on and then built a small square of 1:48 tamiya wall as a base,  use some sprue to conect the 2 and bingo , when im happy with the detail layer i can spray paint and dirty them up. 

having fun and building things. 

[NARSES2]

having fun and building things. 

Which is what its all about 

[Steel Penguin]

Narses,  it certainly is!     ive a smile on my face and want to do stuff, i think i may need to get the candle out to hot bend some pipework ( circular sprue ) to get inflow and out flow pipes,  with a bit of crud on the base and walls itll then be time to break out the spray paint

living the dream 

especialy as evan if it looks rough as all heck mrs SP suggested i enter it into the local club comp      after all itll be a full scratch build and theres no way any one can gainsay it dosnt look like what it should    mwahahaha

[NARSES2]

especialy as evan if it looks rough as all heck mrs SP suggested i enter it into the local club comp      after all itll be a full scratch build and theres no way any one can gainsay it dosnt look like what it should    mwahahaha

Oh now that is straight out of the mouth of some cartoon villain   

[Steel Penguin]

excellent   my work here is don....  oh shiney   ` wonders of after new thing`       

[Steel Penguin]

its my 22nd wedding aniversary 
another case of where did the time go   

[scooter]

its my 22nd wedding aniversary 
another case of where did the time go   

Congrats

[Steel Penguin]

thank you Scooter

In other news,  pipe stack is undercoat gresy, and ink has started to be added, i can wack on some drybrush  / highlights  when thats dry,  and the tanks are undercoated  ive got some round sprue bent to give outflows, they can be added till a bit later in the paint process as they will be from the base to the tanks, and there not fixed yet