Reply To: If you are looking for trouble…

[cpauls1Participant 8957xp 4]

Welcome back @unclejimmy ! Woot! Apologies for the late arrival. People keep telling me I should do work at work… a foreign concept for me but it did get in the way today.

Pledge: Teaching at my LGS tomorrow so time will be limited. Sunday I’ll be out with Vi, and I gotta say she’s a damn sight prettier than you lot!  Still, I’d like to get another of my battle boards ready for my LGS (shameless plug: for those who haven’t seen it, I’ve got a project going – Battle Boards and Scatter Terrain).

Also, I’d like to finally start hanging stuff off my FSV for my near future recce troop — the pointy, pointy end of my combat team. There’s not much real estate on the deck, but I think I can fit a few worn jerry cans on the front fenders, and maybe pile some rucksacks behind the .50 cal turret (a scratch build). Then I can highlight it and finally call it done.

I’ve got a crewman prototype I’m pretty happy with: Dreamforge body, less the pauldrons, and a GW Cadian(?) head. I liked it as a crewman helmet and the bits are cheap as chips. The rest of the Cadian body was too chubby — lots of groceries in the 40k universe apparently… or are they just big boned? My PC hat slipped there for a moment. I’ll try to get some paint down on the other crewmen as well.
Questions:
1. What have I watched since you’ve been gone? Mostly kids at splash parks… till they took away my camera.

2. The week’s been good. My dick of a boss has been outed on Stolen Valour’s Facebook page, by yours truly, and should be on pogie by Monday. For those who don’t know, Stolen Valour investigates guys who wear ranks and medals they’re not entitled to, and never earned. They are euphemistically referred to as space shuttle door gunners. Anyway, my boss claimed to be a jumper and a captain, but never rose above the rank of corporal, and was never in the Airborne Regiment. Grrr…

3. Summer? Vi and I pack a lunch and a bunch of beer into a cooler on Sunday’s and pick a direction, and a vague destination. We leave about 1000 and are back before dark. We call them ‘daycations.’ If we can swing it we will drive to Kingston, Ontario to visit our grandbabies.

4. My first girlfriend? About 20 of us were packed into a motel room for a weekend party and she dragged me into the bathroom. We trashed the place, broke the sink and the toilet lid; good thing the music was loud. The relationship didn’t last long, and my next girlfriend had to tune me down considerably on that front.

5. What have you missed? I’ve come full circle. After getting a degree and graduating with honours, I’m back working on the airbase I retired from making under half of what I made before.

6. Genre change? Does that mean I have to use a different bathroom? Is there an intermediate bathroom in case the surgery isn’t entirely successful? Actually, I just bought some 15mm WWII stuff, but the FoW rules suck. I’ll likely go back to Striker or Traveller rules, or may try Battlegroup.

Music. I’m having a nostalgic, mainstream commercial kind of day:

I’ll be by tomorrow. Too much fun! Good to see you all here!