Steel Penguins braying

[Steel Penguin]

its been a quiet weekend and im slowly ploughing onwards on the lead mountain,  im switching between 3 units of figs ( in various states of paint) so when they complete itll be a good bump,  and slowly on the think as too which to build  / paint next, im in the mind to finish started things ( again), but its deciding which to do. Either going for a part done kit ( chally 2, chieftain, 2 * quads and limber, conquer or more 28mm stuff)  or start off onto something more and go for a new one,  in which case I have to make a decision on what to start     and the MDF building downstairs hasn't had anything done on it for an age  so needs sorting. 
Ive also got my eye on some of the 1:48 Tamiya kits  like the Type 10 and a couple of Hummers  and then try to botch some infantry together, as a small force. 
this is on top of wanting to build the KV and gun jeep from the Manga / animae  Grey : Digital target  as a PA warband.

[Steel Penguin]

been photographing my late father in laws  railway collection,  137ish  photos, most of which contain anything from 3-12 items, took aprox 2 hours with me lifting, carrying, packing and unpacking, and Mrs SP photo'ing.  he had stuff stacked away that ive never seen before, or even heard him mention,  and some of it hit home....  like 3 Garrett's in OO,  2 of the new Heljans ( I think he got one runner out of them) and an all metal one that he built himself ( I think) with the funky looking rotating coal feed,  the sheer presence of them is jaw drooping,  but we found at least 4 DMU sets, 2* 3 cars ( at least)  several railcars, in steam, derv and leccy, and enough wagons to empty a coal mine  and at least 3 sets of 4+ carriages in different livery's. 
just exhausted now 

[PR19_Kit]

THREE Garratts??? That's some motive power!!

The white metal one may be a K's kit with that rotating coal bunker. It was a super casting, only let down by their somewhat inadequate motors.

[Steel Penguin]

Kit, your probably right,  and if the motor was a bit wimpy, Id imagine that its been replaced a looong time a go, as it didn't seem to have any problems when I saw it running.

[PR19_Kit]

Being a Garratt it'd have two motors, one for each end. 

The K's motors were very popular in the slot racing world back in then 60s, they were long and thin so fitted easily in a car, but their magnets were a trifle lacking.

[Captain Canada]

Painting and gluing ? Yay !

[Steel Penguin]

my pile of finished things grows!! yay.
in the "to varnish " box
7 old style GW terminator marines
one of the lead adventure hero's,  the pulp golgo satana figure, the crooked dice 2nd version Avon ( leather and studs edition    ),  2 ground zero robots ( with claws), 4 HLBS 40mm modern brits ( desert scheme), 7 airfix 1:48 op herric brits ( green DPM)  and 2 empress minis 28mm downed UK apache crew

another 25 figs.
108 figures  6 bits of scenery  3 models.

[Steel Penguin]

   DOH! to quote homer simpson.
got the lead, gloss varnished, than got out the can of Matt to take the worst of the shine off,  no fricken pressure in it  AGHHHHHHHH!   so ill have to get some Matt varnish, or a can of GW purity seal or summit
poot I say poot

[Steel Penguin]

so after a prevaricate the centurion AVRE is out of the poly bag and ive finished blacking the tracks, and started getting the grey on, the turrets finished and the body and track ploughs have a few blocks on, but im typing in the drying time as im going to leave finger prints if I keep trying to handle it.  im not going to get it identical to the others as the Cobham from the warrior has rather altered the nose and side shape.  it will be close enough to confuse though.

[Steel Penguin]

got a can of matt varnish today, so the figs are done ( whew) 

[Captain Canada]

Can't wait to see that Centurion. Loved seeing them as a kid at Camp Borden. One of these days I'll build one 

[Steel Penguin]

cents done, and a quick base together for it as well, waiting for the varnish to fully cure then itll be glue together and pack.

108 figures  6 bits of scenery  4 models

[Steel Penguin]

dragged out a pile of games workshop Grey Knights ( 2nd hand from my younger brother  mumble years ago) cleaned em up and white undercoat,  got to face a lot of gold now.  Also on the desk currently in the fill the pin holes stage, the Larson designs resin Darlek  shuttle, its a mere 3 years old, so in the grand scheme of things a spring chicken,  but at 10 parts to assemble, should be doable quite quickly. 

[Steel Penguin]

Mrs SP and myself went to a new thing today, we went to a model railway show, a small club event at Ellesmere ( via the small but rather splendid ruined castle at Whittington) We were looking  for some advise form the club members and wanting to talk to the visiting dealers there,  the layouts were interesting, and I may have added dinosaurs and Bigfoot to some ones Canadian based layout,  they asked me what I though, I liked it and mentioned the 2 and they had that far off look in there eyes      The Ellesmere club members we talked too were very helpful, and made some suggestions, and  a couple of the dealers were interested, and asked if we could drop them an E-mail with lists, ( we had a tablet with photos that they were able to take a quick look through), and one had a look and then insulted our intelligence by offering a price that was so low as to be ridiculous,  we had, had a walk round and eyeballed the prices things were going for, and ( as I mentioned above 137 photos, roughly 500 items)  "arnt so green as cabbage"  .  I think the hard part may be doing something with the ) 009 layout  as the much bigger 00 layout was only partly finished,  but the 009 one 1s 10` long, a bought 4` wide and 20+years of hobby work, so pretty much finished, and I know it was exhibited several times in its earlier 4` incarnation.  And has a lot of buildings, trees, and scenic gubbins on it.
also got to see a UK O gauge shunting set,  if I want a loco, a couple of carriages and a few wagons, ill need a bigger house    lovely to look at but rather unwieldy for wargaming,  ill have to look sideways at this for a wile.

[PR19_Kit]

Some of the dealers seem to think the world owes them a living.

They'll cheerfully divest you of some real rarities with the 'There's no demand for them these days mate' response, and then put them up for sale with comments like 'Really rare these days, but for the serious collector well worth the money'.

That's before they drive home in their S series Mercs of course........