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[PR19_Kit]

 Now that looks to be a potential winner there. 

[Steel Penguin]

well bit the bullet and ordered the resin bits, 
hopefully it wont take too long for the package to arrive, and then itll be plane time.
just need to get some hello kitty decals....    I have a Goth friend I must ask a bought them again, 

[Steel Penguin]

trying to get back into doing stuff
so painted up 4 crooked dice  time lift security with rifles, added a small cylinder under th4e fore grip and barrel of 3, to give them grenade launchers

8 figures 1 piece of scenery 0 models.

ive stuck another few bits onto the chally, and feel reasonably good 

[NARSES2]

ive stuck another few bits onto the chally, and feel reasonably good 

Good to hear 

so painted up 4 crooked dice  time lift security with rifles, added a small cylinder under th4e fore grip and barrel of 3, to give them grenade launchers

Now is that 4 members of a security unit who protect a lift (elevator for our US cousins) that can take you from one time zone to another or something completely different and I'm being far to literal ?

[Steel Penguin]

bang on sir !
the game they are from has the said device in Battersea power station, and sort of falls between captain scarlet ( which they very closely resemble), tourchwood, primeval, and some of the 70s oddball series, but there main opponents are dinosaurs, Vikings, and similar oddness. 
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/time-lift-pistols/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/time-lift-rifles/
give you some idea of what they look like.

[NARSES2]

Ah, cheers mate 

By the way have you been to Battersea Power Station lately ? When they removed the gasometer that stood between it and the Dog's Home they revealed an extremely suspicious, extremely large hole that had been under said gasometer. I did wonder why it was there *

* The hole that is. The power station was coal fired so the by product was town gas, but the size of that hole ?

[zenrat]

Ah, cheers mate 

By the way have you been to Battersea Power Station lately ? When they removed the gasometer that stood between it and the Dog's Home they revealed an extremely suspicious, extremely large hole that had been under said gasometer. I did wonder why it was there *

* The hole that is. The power station was coal fired so the by product was town gas, but the size of that hole ?

Its where the big pig lived...


Battersea is a great example of industrial architecture.  It's a shame that when they tore down Croydon power station they only left the one chimney.

[Steel Penguin]

Narses to be honest you can count the number of time ive been to London on the fingers of 1 hand ( including school trips) , and the number ive spent wondering round unescorted on the thumb 
my view of London is mainly from the BBC ( news, Dr who, day of the triffids) other TV shows ( Avengers etc)  The odd film, The Peter grant series of books by Ben Aaronovitch, and various RPG games, so is very various, as it goes from many Victorian eras, through the several versions of the 20th century, and into several todays and tomorrows. 
Its mainly due to the bother (+ cost) of getting there, and then having to work out where I want to go, and having to pay to do so, most shops I want are out side it, and very few of the museums and building I want to visit are inside it. ( insert shrug emote here)
ill get there and round bits one day   

[zenrat]

I spent years going to London every day for work.  It's over-rated.  There a few good bits and it's easy to get around due to the public transport network but I don't miss it.

For a different view of London try Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

[NARSES2]

Its where the big pig lived...

Until it flew away 

It's a shame that when they tore down Croydon power station they only left the one chimney.

And we now have a generation or two who think it was built as part of the IKEA site 

As for London ? Well liked Zen' I traveled there every day for work and yes it is a bit overrated, but I've now taken quite a few overseas visitors around, mainly American, and when you see it through their eyes you understand what the fuss is about. Even Croydon, where I was born, bred and live, became fascinating seen through their eyes 

[Steel Penguin]

Zen,  neverwhere ( book and series) is one of my view points for the 90s.  And is a perfect setting for a role playing game, you just need a decent tube map to run it, preferably one with all the closed stations on it, even better all the proposed stations as that really messes with peoples minds. 
I admit London has a wonderful base level for weirdness, what with the tube, the hidden rivers, post office railway, the necropolis railways etc, and that's before you get to the stuff that was proposed but never built, like the 4 orbital motorways, if I had a goodly length of time and cash I wouldn't mind having a good explore, but time / cash/ other stuff 

[zenrat]

When we live in or visit a city often then we rarely see it as we could.
After living close to Melbourne for 15 years it took taking visitors into town to make me look up at what was above the shop awnings.  Turns out there is some amazing art deco architecture up there.

The part of central London I knew best was the South bank area centred on Waterloo.  From what was County Hall to Borough Market.  And I have recently discovered that my Paternal Grandmother's family came from this area.  Generations of them toiled in the area and died in the poorhouses of Southwark.

[Rheged]

When we live in or visit a city often then we rarely see it as we could.
After living close to Melbourne for 15 years it took taking visitors into town to make me look up at what was above the shop awnings.  Turns out there is some amazing art deco architecture up there.

It's amazing what you can see above the shop windows. I used to take guided history walks around Carlisle; locals were nearly always astonished at what they found in the city they had lived in for decades.   Generally speaking, no one ever really looks above eyebrow  or below belt buckle height.

[NARSES2]

It's amazing what you can see above the shop windows.

Absolutely. When I took my American friends around Croydon early one Sunday I was ready with explanations for it's Elizabethan (16thC one  ) buildings, but not some of the Victorian/Edwardian architecture which was only visible if you looked above the modern shop fronts. Lived in the place all my life and I was stunned.

The part of central London I knew best was the South bank area centred on Waterloo.  From what was County Hall to Borough Market.  And I have recently discovered that my Paternal Grandmother's family came from this area.  Generations of them toiled in the area and died in the poorhouses of Southwark.

An interesting area, from the Brutalism of the Festival Hall to the Victorian pubs of the Borough. You wouldn't recognise the market now mate, gone all middle class and gastro. Some great stuff for sale though and the pubs are still 

[Steel Penguin]

doing more tank, I really have been spoiled by Tamiya, the storage boxes on the outside of the turret are rather fit where they touch, and trying to get them to match together is rather delicate,  but im doing stuff, which is the most important part,   and if I stuff this one up too badly, ive  1 possibly 2 of the same kit in the stash to do as lessons learned ones ( one I think has the extra MGs, the other the dozer blade).

this morning was spent helping a friend load stuff into a skip as he's moving house, soonish, and is trying to get rid of n years of clutter,  hes muttering that he will need another skip to put a serious dent in things. so I have had time well spent so far.