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[Steel Penguin]

sorry Narses     a security robot..  its the 3 armed flame thrower thing from the series   pics via google  https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1684&bih=911&q=blakes+7+robot&oq=blakes+7+robot&gs_l=img.3..0i10i24.1283.15270.0.15430.20.14.2.4.1.0.98.903.13.13.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..6.14.864.tdejs_p5pfQ

the armed Morris have hand guns and grenades, ( the sticks give extra range )    there from the gripping beast Very British Civil War range ( no abdication and things go down hill from there) http://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/Specials__The_Woodbine_Design_Company--category--224.html   

Capt C  when you say Sparks I have a very, very weird mental image of the Mael brothers singing "this town aint big enough for the both of us"  in brownie uniforms....     Every so often I game with them, ive plenty of different troop / force choices to play around with,  if I display at shows I normally have some to show off, and like  a lot of folks round here I paint to enjoy the pleasure  of painting. 

Wargaming has spread a lot further, and some of the things now available are utterly bats, some of the things are weirdly sublime,  and there are enough sculptors for hire out there that if you can imagine an idea, you can get it sculpted.  I know of at least one person who gets stuff sculpted for his projects, than when hes got enough, sells them off to a commercial company and uses that money to seed his next project,  He did an attack on the Ducal residence Dune style game, and is now doing a bizarre cross between Lost, Gilligans island and some of the console survival / jungle island stuff....

[zenrat]

IIRC the Lancre morris men didn't need to be armed to be an effective fighting force.

[NARSES2]

the armed Morris have hand guns and grenades, ( the sticks give extra range )    there from the gripping beast Very British Civil War range ( no abdication and things go down hill from there) http://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/Specials__The_Woodbine_Design_Company--category--224.html   

I had heard of that range. It was possibly about when I gave up on the Wargames magazines ?

I started wargaming in about 1963 when Donald Featherstone brought his book "War Games" out. Was lucky enough to meet the man on a few occasions  Originally I fought WWII and American Civil War using the book rules and then branched out into Ancients  using WRG IV. Ancients always amazed me as the "experts" constantly wrangled over realism in the rules and then would pitch 4th Dynasty Egyptians against Wars of the Rose's Brits  What If or what 

Gave up, but kept an interest when the rule book lawyers just got to much. I think you are at the fun end of the hobby though mate, which is the good end 

[Captain Canada]

Neat stuff, especially the lost/ Giligan's Island thing !

Love the Scary Scarecrows in your link. Too cool !

[zenrat]

Mrs z's cousin does Napoleonic wargaming with really tiny figures.  He's not too keen on rulebook lawyers and it's put him off a bit.  I think he tends to only game against the same group of mates as they're all comfortable with each others interpretations.

[NARSES2]

Mrs z's cousin does Napoleonic wargaming with really tiny figures. 

Probably 5mm but I have seen 2mm !!  The first time I saw 2mm figs mentioned they'd been made from the "spikes" on women's hair rollers ! The last Salute I went to, many years ago, you could get them in metal and an entire US Civil War set including both sides, scenery and a train with track were being sold in a box the size of an Airfix Series 2 kit. Weighed a tad more though  They were just meant to be "splashed" with paint and then the effect was en-masse, but I bet some paint to competition standards now.

[zenrat]

I think they are about 10mm tall.  Tiny enoough if you have eyesight like mine.  He paints every single one including details like stripes on their trousers.

[Steel Penguin]

got a load or Ainsty resin bits undercoated,  some  small transport pods, some ISO containers, a row boat, 2 skips, and a few boxes / crates.
both jags now have the wings fitted and im filling  / smoothing out the joint.

And im hope that any one visiting the Cov show today has a good day,  im afraid that my in laws were up yesterday for fathers day,( which is a pleasure not a chore, ill hasten too add)  so im catching up on the weekend jobs that need doing, ( washing cloths etc).  So its slowly progressing on bits a pieces in-between things.


The smaller scales for wargaming are something ive looked at in the past, and even got as far as getting some, but my friends mainly play either 28mm for man to man,  or we are really small size for star ships,  so 1:72 ( ive got modern brits and a chally)  or 1:100 ( flames of war )  I just haven't had the interest to get together,  ive some 1:300 modern brits and WW2 brits but I don't remember actually using them,  so any part done is just languishing in boxes.
Ive seen 1:72 ( 15mm?) figs that ere jaw dropping,  Napoleonic's that had all the straps and things in the correct colours and stuff, they looked amazing close up, but did make me wonder the effect at mass and range, ive also seen a skate punk lizard man that a friend did for fun in that scale that he`ed painted the  Nine inch nails logo onto that was readable    there are some seriously talented painters out there.

[Steel Penguin]

the resins done
3 ISO truck style containers
3 sci fi cargo pods
a sci fi gas canister pod
and  6" long row boat
8 pieces of scenery

106 figures  11 pieces of scenery 4 models

[Steel Penguin]

came home tonight, and found the horror that any cat household knows.   
Multiple birdstrike
one of the kittys had brought in a bird, and it had been flying round.   my navy tonka,and a sea harrier were down  and I think reparable, but my resin Horsa glider has shattered and lost some of the support struts on the tail,  so its going to need replacing. 
my desk was all over the floor  fortunately none of the paint, or glues spilt so things have been policed up and will get thoroughly checked later   

said bird was encouraged to leave the house by flying ( under its own power) out of an open window, at least

[zenrat]

Did you also defenestrate the cat?  I would have...

[Steel Penguin]

Zen,  no,  cats get no punishment for doing what comes naturally ( hunting) to them,  in fact we praise them and fuss them, wile we quietly get the item out of the way.    weve had very few things brought into the house in the 18ish years weve had ( various) cats.   If I was really worried id have more display cases then open shelves, as that would stop the dust as well as remove the impact risk.

[zenrat]

Fair enough.  I'm no cat person but I realise there are a few of you out there...

[Weaver]

the armed Morris have hand guns and grenades, ( the sticks give extra range )    there from the gripping beast Very British Civil War range ( no abdication and things go down hill from there) http://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/Specials__The_Woodbine_Design_Company--category--224.html   

One of the guys who came up with VBCW and writes a lot of the stuff is part of the group of bikers I (used to) hang out with. I had several fascinating conversations about it with him in the early days, and he was interested in some of my Patchwork World ideas that fitted in with it. havn't seen him for a few years unfortunately.

[Weaver]

Ive seen 1:72 ( 15mm?) figs that ere jaw dropping,  Napoleonic's that had all the straps and things in the correct colours and stuff, they looked amazing close up, but did make me wonder the effect at mass and range, ive also seen a skate punk lizard man that a friend did for fun in that scale that he`ed painted the  Nine inch nails logo onto that was readable    there are some seriously talented painters out there.

IIRC,  1/72nd is "realistic" 20mm. We used to use 1/72nd & 1/76th kits to make sci-fi vehicles for 15mm though, becuase obviously, slightly too big is useable when you're making it all up anyway, but slightly too small is hard to explain no matter how ingenious you are.