Steel Penguins braying

[Steel Penguin]

the will o the lead strikes again.
West wind are running another Nickstarter for the first Frostgrave supplement, ( discount lead andstuff) so im getting yet more 28mm figures, to add to the lead pile , plus some other related / weird stuff ,  wolves, snow toads, pirates, and a side project for an idea that hit me.   an evil Marion of Sherwood   Baroness Marion de Belem, with her Saracen hit man and ensorcelled giant,  her scarlet warrior etc.    I just need to find figures for the 80s  Robin of Sherwood cast and suitably repurpose them 

[Steel Penguin]

tanks back in the box and in the pile,  so the phantom will be next ( probably)  im rather frayed at the mo works been double plus busy, and last night there was a Madness concert at the local race course, it finished rather later than id wanted to get to sleep at, BUT it was nice to listen to the set from the comfort of my own home, without bothering with the crowds ( I only found out it was on Wednesday, so rather cursed not being able to get tickets),  so the tank being NO FUN at the moment had to go, or id not go near the desk.

[Steel Penguin]

well played " kill dr lucky " to day, from cheapass games  its the fun bit before cludo   you have to off the old git, making certain theres no lone of sight to any other player, and they have to try to use cards to counter the weapon your using,  ie the killing joke, tight hat, loud noise, or civil war cannon,  and certain things do better in certain rooms,  the rat poison in the green house,  fast fun and silly  brill!
watched the recent king Arthur film ( the Kera Nightly one)  its ok, its got a couple of thiveable ideas in it
started painting and gluing the Phantom, ohh am I glad its a cheap kit, its flashy and some of the gates arnt far off the thickness that would need an angle grinder     so far though its fun, so its what I want, ill need to source an additional body for the rear seat as you get 2 crew, one for the pit, and one stood holding the bone dome    so ill have to rummage in the hasagawa boxes for that.   
im figuring tank, twin winder and agm, sparrows gunpod on the centre, then twin winder and agm, tank.   might put tip winders on as well

[NARSES2]

watched the recent king Arthur film ( the Kera Nightly one)  its ok, its got a couple of thiveable ideas in it

I quite like that film and the use of Sarmartian's as the Heavy cavalry and thus the "Knight's of the Round Table  " is inspired in my view as the late Roman's did have some Sarmartian's and indeed Parthian's in the British Isles.

Allegedly on spying the publicity poster which showed a shapely Keira  bending down to fire her bow she quipped "I wonder where they came from ? Hasn't the airbrusher's art come a long way" 

[Rick Lowe]

well played " kill dr lucky " to day, from cheapass games  its the fun bit before cludo   you have to off the old git, making certain theres no lone of sight to any other player, and they have to try to use cards to counter the weapon your using,  ie the killing joke, tight hat, loud noise, or civil war cannon,  and certain things do better in certain rooms,  the rat poison in the green house,  fast fun and silly  brill!

Yeah, the Cheapass stable has a few good'uns in it.

The Phantom loadout sounds good, nice & varied.

Cheers

[Steel Penguin]

the pit and pilots are getting some paint, ( had to have a deep delve in the pile to find the 2nd crewman) but its a fun build so far, enjoyable and not too fiddly.
ive had some more lead arrive for that pile and having seen the skunk works F-16XL  around I may want to get one or 2 of them, and as Dogfighter Zen says, modernise it, the spine and CFT are a certain, as would be double shoes on the wing tips, and possibly a medium sized pile of LGBs on the pylons, possibly doubles and some Brimstones as well.  Oddly the XL is really the only 16 version I have been truly struck with.  shame it never got anywhere.

[Steel Penguin]

in between a nice walk in the park, ( off work this week  ) and picking some more pears from the tree,  managed to get the pit finished and the 2 body half's onto it, bit of a struggle to get the pit in the "right" place.  looks ok now, and will dribble some glue in and around it to fix it good,  got the fuel tanks together, may start getting the 2 half's of the AGMs together as well, still fun, and cor its a big ole thing with the wings and body dry fitted together 

what I have seen as well is the new pics of the 22" space 1999 eagle supposedly out soon... oh I wants one, ( at least)  wonder if I can fab up a few different pods for it ...
lets see  passenger, lab, laser, rescue, crane, politico, recon,  ( it says 10 on the wiki page but some may be rather similar)
and there is mutterings on the companies blog that they'll be producing the Al tart up pack for the engine bells  but the cost they've given is the same as the base kit, so it may be an expesive luxury compared with extra eagles on the table ( warning wargaming penguin at hart, 2 tanks or 1 super detailed tank will always result in 2 tanks)

[Captain Canada]

Not sure what I'm more interested in now....the Phantom, it's weapons load, the movie ( Knights of the Round Table ? ) or Kiera Knightly !



The weapons load sounds good tho.

[NARSES2]

No contest.....................Keira 

[Steel Penguin]

wings and bodys together, tail planes are on  agms are assembled, as is the fuel tanks and gun pod, I can see why people like the toom  its gor a presence even in white undercoat, incomplete, balanced on the paint pots on my desk.

[Steel Penguin]

the phantoms all assembled.  and after careful consideration, I think it will be maximum JMN bait,
so the over load on the war load, it'll have full wrap round grey green paint, and I don't think ive got any 19sqdn decals,( pale blue and white check)  but I have got some yellow and blue checks that I can pinch from a jaguar sheet, and ill have to overwrite my unit marking with a rotering and white ink.    oh and its the wrong model as well... and when they moan  ill answer with either Wookstas gentle little witticism, or start on the fact that its a reel model anyway and that its from Dr who ( sort of) and they just used some stock footage ( a barefaced lie) and ask if theyre misremembering from there youth....  mwahahahah

[Steel Penguin]

the greys on, and ive got a guide coat of green on, realising ive no paint guides for F4s I turned to the next best thing,  the Vulcan calendar from last year, nice big deltaish wings, Bingo !
and it actually looks quite good, even if I say so myself.   though it is taking 3 or 4 coats of green, I may have over thinned it a bit,

[Steel Penguin]

ive started decaling,  the under wing roundels are from a sea harrier ( 48th) so red white blue,  the intake decals are from a hawk ( I think) and are small but will look ok with the checker board from a Jaguar on either side, and the wing top ones are 1:72 Vulcan red / blues ones.  and I have to give a big  to Airfix on them as there around 30 years old, and not been stored particularly carefully, and have gone on like a dream, soaked off cleanly, and sat with no trouble either.
so far its still being a nice fun build.

[Steel Penguin]

as an aside, any one out there got the latest IPMS mag yet not the one with the Chally 2 on the cover but the next. ?

[PR19_Kit]

as an aside, any one out there got the latest IPMS mag yet not the one with the Chally 2 on the cover but the next. ?

No, is it out yet?