Steel Penguins braying

[Steel Penguin]

TY Weaver, below 28mm ( 1:56 to 1:48)    I tend to wobble a bit on size / scale    20mm  1:72, so  15mm must be 1:100,  I know 6mm is 1:300 (ish)
the VBCW  is a small interest for me, part of me wants to play, but the force id want ( forest of Dean independent militia ) isn't likely to appear any time soon, and ive got a lot of other stuff I want to get done, that I can get easily, or have got and need to paint up.  Including 80s NATO and Warpac, I still want non UK and Russians, so Dutch, German, French, Danes, Nordics, and US army for west, and Germans, Poles, etc for east.  My Viet Nam project needs more vehicles for the ANZACs, and some VC, and NVA opfor plus scenery.  I need to get and paint some fall of the Reich troops, ( ive got Russians and both normal, and para UK forces, but my opponent moved so I need to lay in the opponents again),  my DAK and desert rats are still in there boxes, unassembled. My ACW rebs have a small raiding band done, the rest are still boxed ( my wife's northern force is in the same situation) , and the  wild west stuff and weird west stuff needs to be finished.   my "cult tv" forces are still not done (mainly  Spectrum )  and ive got a set of bad guys to sort, along with a wood elf army to do, a high elf army, a Imrryrian  force, some Tau to finish,  more gre knights, eldar, and a pile of near future slum scum.   that's with my model pile not included,  which im still adding to, despite wanting to slow down    I seem to be acquiring stuff still.   and I haven't even begun to get stuff for some of the projects id love to start, Traveller ( possibly have to be 15mm as I want to go up to the TL15 grav tanks on that one),  a weird world war 2 project based on the snippets form the Peter Grant novels  concerning Ettersberg,  some pulp stuff and onwards to infinity 
I just need an extra lifetime to do it in and at least an extra house to store it all in....  and a lottery win to pay for it all. 

[Steel Penguin]

been gluing bits onto another AVRE centurion, so this one will have track front mint plough ( I cant find a full width dozer blade at the mo) and the Cobham armour panels ( sort of) as im using bits from an empress miniature Warrior up armour kit, with a bit of chop and shunt, need to make up a plate of ERA to go on the turret roof front, possibly using repurposed bricks, and then try and chase down something to make the ECM ? Mine detonator thingy from,  and then give it the berlin block treatment.
the harrier is fixed and fine,  the Tonka though has lost the ECM pod and one of the winglets from the chaff pod has gone    hopefully it will still turn up, if not ill have to scratch another.

[Captain Canada]

Would love to see some pics of that Centurion....my favourite family of tank right there !

[Steel Penguin]

    cents together and undercoated, and the above is a mine plough,  though a mint plough may be an idea, from what has been said by my friends, who garden regarding mints survivability.
Ive also got 2 of the  10 future freedom fighters done, Cally and Avon,   Dayna isn't far off finished. ( there are 2 Blakes 1 idealistic freedom fighter, one with a serious scar on his face from the last episode)
The next one of the airfix 1:48 troopers is off the sprue ( one of the knelt down ones without the radio) going to have the SA80 swapped out for a  mine /metal detector.

just finished 2 books as well,  Ready player one, a cyberpunkish novel with a serious case of 80s flashback, and the latest one from Charles Stross in the Laundry series   The annihilation score,  Stars Mo more than Bob, but im not incredibly impressed, the end run on a laundry action by another faction is ........ hmmmmm.

[Steel Penguin]

all 11 of  blakes 7  painted, good Blake, Avon, Cally, Jenna, Gan, Villa,and Orac from  the start, then Soo Lynn, Daina, and Tarrant, from the later series, and merc Blake  from the last ep.
with yet another savage school girl   12 figs.

118 figures  11 pieces of scenery  4 models

not too bad at the moment I think

[Steel Penguin]

more parts on both Jaguars the intakes, nose, over wing pylons, RWR fairing,  so going well.
ive tided up the "to paint" stuff on the desk and window sill, as well  one of the younger cats likes to watch out the window, so things were taking a beating... its easier to be tidy, than to train a cat 

[NARSES2]

You can't train a cat (except perhaps a kitten to use a cat flap) they train you 

[Steel Penguin]

   yup Narses most defiantly yup,  there are a group of Buddhist monks who train cats to do tricks as part of there duties , but they are far more patient, and better tempered than I.

[Steel Penguin]

the front gear flaps and engine plate, and the engine cans are now on both Jags,  so steady progress,  neither is gear down, so ive yet more gear legs and wheels....

[Steel Penguin]

the ruined semi that I started in june is finished
118 figs  11 pieces of scenery 5 models. 

next building is a corner grocers,  the pack comes with 3 options UK, France or Germany,  you choose the windows, and the signs for the door etc,  at the moments its leaning towards UK...

Any of you gents out there have any experience with the Sanger vac form kits ?   they've announced that there taking interest for the 1:48 B52 they've been preparing,   if im going to go in tat the deep end.... 

[zenrat]

1/48 B52?
You could climb inside one of them and take it for a spin!

[Captain Canada]

Looking forward to seeing the Jags ! Love that aeroplane.

And a BUFF that big ? Wow !

[Weaver]

You can't train a cat (except perhaps a kitten to use a cat flap) they train you 

Depends on the cat: my dad trained one of ours to walk on his hind legs.

[Weaver]

Traveller ( possibly have to be 15mm as I want to go up to the TL15 grav tanks on that one), 

I have some of the old 28mm Traveller figure sets: can't remember who made them, but they're pretty nice.

[NARSES2]

You can't train a cat (except perhaps a kitten to use a cat flap) they train you 

Depends on the cat: my dad trained one of ours to walk on his hind legs.

You can use their natural play reaction of trying to "bat" something to get them to do that, as I've seen it with a friends cat. Said cat will only do it if you are dangling a ball or something for it to play with however, so I'm not sure if that's you having trained the cat or the cat having trained you to play with it  . I'm not saying they can't be trained but it must take endless patience, at least far more then I have. Dogs (most of them) are relatively easy compared to that. Although I wonder if that's because you can praise and chastise a dog. Chastise a cat and it'll more likely find someone else to feed it 

Can you tell I'm a dog person ? I've had cats and like them but still prefer dogs