Steel Penguins braying

[Steel Penguin]

that does look very nice Zenrat .
It doesn't help that this does rather make me hanker for some of the now vanished  chocs from my youth,
Frys 5 bar    ( for those who don't know like a fry mint cream  but had 5 flavours of the cream in it
Spangles, especially the old English flours ( I remember that some of them were powerful enough to de line your mouth if you weren't careful, but they suffered the problem of being very sticky for boiled sweets, if you were unlucky you ended up with most of the wrapper staying on !)

im certain there are others, but my mind is slipping...   and I quite fancy a Bounty now...

[PR19_Kit]

Have you noticed that today's Wagon Wheels are nowhere NEAR as big as they were in the 50s? Maybe half the size even.

[Steel Penguin]

allegedly  the original moulds  and plant were shipped to Australia,  and were substantially larger 
its something ive heard mentioned numerous times Kit.

[PR19_Kit]

allegedly  the original moulds  and plant were shipped to Australia,  and were substantially larger 
its something ive heard mentioned numerous times Kit.

Are we talking about Wagon Wheels or FROG kits here? 

[Steel Penguin]

wagon wheels I hope, ive never liked the taste of styrene 

[zenrat]

It's not just Wagon Wheels that were larger when we were young.  I swear 1/72 models were also bigger.

Remember Texan Bars, Caramac and Mint Crisp (which is still available here but extinct in the UK AFAIK).  I used to put Texans in the freezer to harden them up and would nearly break my teeth chewing on them.

[Steel Penguin]

caramac   mmmmmmmm   got some a wile ago,  I swear they tasted "more"   the caramel taste was hardly there  
Texan bars I cant remember, and  wile im sure I can remember mint crisps, I cant remember the taste.

[NARSES2]

Never liked Wagon Wheels, but there was a chocolate, biscuit bar (by Carrs I think) that they sold in the school tuck shop and that was 

Yup back in the 60's even State secondary schools had tuck shops 

[Thorvic]

caramac   mmmmmmmm   got some a wile ago,  I swear they tasted "more"   the caramel taste was hardly there  
Texan bars I cant remember, and  wile im sure I can remember mint crisps, I cant remember the taste.

Just take a look at a Caramac, to get that colour and flavouring they would have loaded it with artifical stuff thats probably now banned, the safer replacements just can't match the original tastes quite the same.

As to the shrinking chocolate, whenever the price of the raw materials went up the reduced the volume to keep the price steady. Probably cost about £1.50 these days for an original sized Mars Bar

[Steel Penguin]

Thorvic  wile that may be true    I don't have to like it much.

But away from sweeties  on the modelling front
the wall sections are done  5 parts.
and the base grey is on the Jags
and 3 more sprue stacks are together as scatter scenery  ( but will need painting)

118 figs 16 pieces of scenery 5 models

and ive been following an anime series on you tube called Gate, briefly  a gate to a fantasy style world opens in down town Tokyo, and after the attacking  legions, orc and dragons  surge  into the down town area,  and then meet the JLSDF and JASDF, Japanese troops are sent back through to the other side to see what's going on.   there's politicking going on both sides of the gate, and some of the lines are smileable  when a Dragon attacks the hero and his recon patrol  they swing into attack it ( and defend the refugees there escorting) declaring that " fighting giant monsters is all in a days form for the sdf"    It gives a few ides for some dioramas,  Helo gunships vs dragons, and  SDF troops  escorting wagons  with elves etc in them.

[Rick Lowe]

and ive been following an anime series on you tube called Gate, briefly  a gate to a fantasy style world opens in down town Tokyo, and after the attacking  legions, orc and dragons  surge  into the down town area,  and then meet the JLSDF and JASDF, Japanese troops are sent back through to the other side to see what's going on.   there's politicking going on both sides of the gate, and some of the lines are smileable  when a Dragon attacks the hero and his recon patrol  they swing into attack it ( and defend the refugees there escorting) declaring that " fighting giant monsters is all in a days form for the sdf"    It gives a few ides for some dioramas,  Helo gunships vs dragons, and  SDF troops  escorting wagons  with elves etc in them.

Gate sounds interesting.

" fighting giant monsters is all in a days form for the sdf" 

Well, you have to remember that they've been battling Gojira et al for decades, now, so they should be well versed in that sort of thing... 

I like the idea of the mixture of genres as diorama possibilities.

Cheers

[Steel Penguin]

  exactly my thought 

[Steel Penguin]

the base grey is on both jags, and the green disruptive blobs are going on,  all 3 fuel pods are grey, the recon pods grey,   I need to do the LGB and the laser painter and then  white paint on the winders, transparency's and decals,   so not that far off. 
ive also seen the price of a tacom  mk 11 chieftain     that's a bit...  but I wants it   

[Steel Penguin]

jags are getting closer to finished  and my  wondering mind is trying to settle on the next thing to do,       I need to concentrate on finishing the job in hand, or ill never get the jags of my desk 

and im mentally prepping my self for the trip to get a chieftain mk 11,  a black label Conqueror,  and wondering when the 1:48 space 1999 eagle will be out, and what the damage on that is going to be

[Steel Penguin]

jags are done, in an attack of the perversity of being, though the varnish has developed a finish between scaly and pebbled     so ive pva glued the transparency's on and that's it finished   

im also going through the part painted 28mm stuff again and 2 more of those are done   a WPC in the old blue below knee skirt and jacket  ( I have no idea where I got the figure from)  and an elven adventurer from Heresy minis.  which has been 90% done for years.
Also watched the next part of gate, where the hero and friends have got themselves inside a besieged town, and call in help from the troops near-by,  the CO send the helos that hes got available but the commander of them, in his second statement says  "you've got to let us go, weve got the speakers and the Wagner ready"    to which the co thinks " there possessed by the spirit of Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore" so you know where its going to go.....

120 figures 16 pieces of scenery  7 models