Apologies All @unclejimmy I got ambushed by a family get together which involved a new tandoori oven! Annoyingly the uncle in question works sourcing sites for mobile phone masts, but lives in the back of beyond.
The picture is from SPACED it was a sitcom on channel 4 around the 2000’s which was written by Simon Pegg – very much in the mould of his later films but I think probably in some way his best/funniest work. It’s about 30 somethings living in london but not quite being adults. However it is probably only fourth on my list of favourite sitcoms to Red Dwarf, Dads Army & Peepshow although this changes alot! well worth the watch!
I like TTCombat especially their venetian range! I also like sarissa’s gangs of rome stuff – however i already got some 4ground stuff from my brother last year (which to my shame i only finished this weekend), luckily i got a few bargains on ebay and picked a couple more up in their 20% sale:
The ones i finished off this week:
their stuff is lovely but in some places very fiddly, i plan to make signage and posters for different eras so i can quickly theme up a board!
I also started my gangs of rome bakery – which i might use in a middle eastern board for the time being as I have a lack of terrain and it is in a similar ‘build’ to those
however i am unsure how my painting will turn this out!
So moderns I havent actually started I got Spectre rules and minis in the BOW swap-a-thon which I am probably painting these next few weeks. I also bought a pdf of skirmish sangin as this seemed to have good reviews!
and is also the reason why my tea chest of shame has now some 4ground middle eastern buildings (ebay bargain)
I also bought some modern us ranger squads and a couple packs of insurgents to paint up too. All models atm are at 28mm but we will see where the future leads!
1) yes unfortunately it was a cuddly toy lab, although a real one would have been cool – my g.f wants a german shepherd and I love a boston terrier, but i think we (if we move) might end up on an australian sheep dog for one we both like (as a middle ground)
the blanket was more of a doylie considering the holes, however much like now as a kid i could snooze anywhere, i think i was just much more prepared back then.
My dad had the old dr who on vhs when i was young (well some of them!) and i enjoyed them quite a bit growing up! I do like the new dr who but sometimes it is a bit paint by numbers or a little bit force fed on subject matter…
Sharpe is great for a young kid, all about battle and women (of which i knew nothing much about either! – and probably still dont!)
I have the coin! (Picture below) next to the notes my oma bought over with her as mementos when she escaped cold war germany (she was from kothen but escaped in berlin with help from two aunts), tried a few times and had to stop, got shot at once and nearly caught the night she did run across train tracks. many an interesting story of her life in ww2 and before – however she seemed to very much dislike russians!
I remember my first computer – infact I still play the first game we ever got on it called civilisation 2, it is both rubbish and utterly brilliant at the same time. In the game they tried to make Ghandi ultra mellow as a leader so set it to 0, however 0 both meant zero and 10 in the coding of the era, so infact instead of giving him a 0/10 rating for agressiveness, in the game he is the demon child of adolf hitler and genghis kahn, he is 11 on the bastard-o-meter ever sneak attacking, threatening etc. Gandhi – what a bastard!
for music I will drop in two of my more modern english bands:
Enter shikari – redshift – ecclectic band, everything is independently done crossing the lines from hardcore back into dance/drum and bass/electro etc and back again (and everything in between) I think last year they were one of the first bands to use surround sound at their gigs – it was quite a weird experience having the music move around the room
and the milk
annnnd:
the skints:
east london ska?
