Steel Penguins braying

Rick Lowe · July 19, 2024, 03:43:58 AM

Quote from: kerick on July 17, 2024, 06:13:37 AM
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Quote from: NARSES2 on July 16, 2024, 04:59:37 AM
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Quote from: Steel Penguin on July 15, 2024, 10:19:16 AMglad to help folks, and please steal away on any useful idea from my blathering...

its a rare day i can be held up as a good example to my peers..

I once saw a tagline that said 'Perhaps your sole purpose in Life is simply to serve as a Bad Example.'...

I've known a fair few that could/can be applied to

I will admit to there being a few instances where it can be applied to me...

I really try to learn from other people's questionable choices but sometimes it's a DIY project.

Sometimes there's no substitute for Empirical, Personal Experience.
"Of course, I'd never make that mistake/I would do things differently and get a different result"... Nope.

Steel Penguin · July 19, 2024, 11:09:28 AM

im now off for the week YAY

there will be painting, and possibly DvD watching,
to quote Radish " the possibility's are endless"

Steel Penguin · July 20, 2024, 06:20:19 AM

sprayed the 432s green earlier in the week, ( a tamiya gloss green) so they've had a couple of quick coats of matt green and now have some splodges of NATO back on them to break up the outline, it looks simeler enough to the " normal " BAOR set up, without being a slavish copy of any one hull, ill need to do some work on the rucksacks on the side to break them up a bit, and add blue to the view port and a little gunmetal on to the exhaust, tools and tracks but i can do a bit one one, then the other , and then allow to dry.

Steel Penguin · July 20, 2024, 01:10:58 PM

the 2 built 432s are done, they will hopefully get varnished tomorrow

ive pulled the 3rd one out of the box and sanded the tracks down now ( blurg ) i will be getting to glueing them and the other bits on presently. I amy well do the Landys next, they are capable of carrying WOMBATs https://www.empressminiatures.com/baor23-landrover-with-wombat-and-crew-2748-p.asp so i need to do them, the crew ( mounted then the Wombats as dismount able systems and then to the dismounted crews https://www.empressminiatures.com/baor22-wombat-with-crew-2747-p.asp that will leave me with the SF troops from the range to do, but i may well then try something else.

Steel Penguin · July 22, 2024, 06:41:30 AM

the 2 432s have been varnished so thats now

65 figures 4 pieces of scenery and 9 models

the 3rd on is together and had a base set of spray paint laid down

Steel Penguin · July 23, 2024, 12:47:40 PM

final FV432 is done

65 figures 4 pieces of scenery and 10 models

Steel Penguin · July 24, 2024, 09:50:01 AM

2 Ainsty sci fi cargo containers ( 1" square and 3/4 tall ish) grey with a blue band across each, 2 of the Egyptian explorers , and a gent in a long coat bowler hat and a large revolver / ray gun. all count as figures with size.

70 figures 4 pieces of scenery and 10 models.

and a visit to the dentist this morning, with no problems

and being told that whatever im doing im doing right

I may not particularly enjoy visiting, i realise its important, and try to look after the teeth and gums

NARSES2 · July 25, 2024, 12:32:19 AM

Having a productive week mate

As for dentists, I've had a phobia about them ever since one hurt me as a 12 year old $:-\$ Need to be anaesthetised to get me in the surgery, and I'm not joking.

Rick Lowe · July 25, 2024, 10:45:24 PM

Quote from: NARSES2 on July 25, 2024, 12:32:19 AMHaving a productive week mate As for dentists, I've had a phobia about them ever since one hurt me as a 12 year old $:-\$ Need to be anaesthetised to get me in the surgery, and I'm not joking.

Find one with a knockout receptionist, or nurse... she'll get you in the door! Problem solved.

NARSES2 · July 26, 2024, 05:22:45 AM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on July 25, 2024, 10:45:24 PMFind one with a knockout receptionist, or nurse... she'll get you in the door! Problem solved.

Oddly enough I've had that experience both when I HAD to have a tooth out a few years back and I went to Kings College Dental School and then again when I had a procedure to remove a polyp from my intestines, again at Kings College Hospital. Nurses at each procedure were crackers and one even held my hand

Steel Penguin · July 26, 2024, 11:01:47 AM

i was reading a wargames fora ( lead adventure, a civilised place) and stumbled across this
https://modiphius.net/pages/space-1999

a space 1999 RPG, oh so tempting

Steel Penguin · July 28, 2024, 10:09:40 AM

another 28mm figure finished. not certain on the company but a fairly good representation of Mina Murray from league of extraordinary gentlemen, rapier / small sword, over elbow gloves and the neck scarf.

71 figures 4 pieces of scenery and 10 models.

Rick Lowe · July 28, 2024, 10:33:12 PM

Quote from: NARSES2 on July 26, 2024, 05:22:45 AM
Quote from: Rick Lowe on July 25, 2024, 10:45:24 PMFind one with a knockout receptionist, or nurse... she'll get you in the door! Problem solved.

Oddly enough I've had that experience both when I HAD to have a tooth out a few years back and I went to Kings College Dental School and then again when I had a procedure to remove a polyp from my intestines, again at Kings College Hospital. Nurses at each procedure were crackers and one even held my hand

kerick · July 29, 2024, 06:57:58 AM

Reminds me of the time I ended up in a cardiac wing with four nurses that had to be just out of college and cute as a button. One was actually fluffing my pillow. My sister and my wife were in the room so I had to behave....

NARSES2 · July 29, 2024, 07:00:17 AM

Quote from: kerick on July 29, 2024, 06:57:58 AMReminds me of the time I ended up in a cardiac wing with four nurses that had to be just out of college and cute as a button. One was actually fluffing my pillow. My sister and my wife were in the room so I had to behave....

That immediately brings to mind a Carry On Nurse, or Doctor film and Sid James' first sight of nurse Barbera Windsor