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Almost time for the air to start cooling down. It is going to be a sticky night! It is hot too.

I hope everyone is happy and cooked right through. What better way to cool down than to get those hobby jobs done. Let your worries fade away and the music will take you away from it all.

@sundancer – I don’t really need to use a ‘search engine’ being almost god-like. However, I know what you mean…”Goggling” something has become a statement. As if that automatically makes it correct. The same with Kakipedia! Oh, that is always right too. The lazy persons education.

When I was at school the teachers will always drill into you that “…when you grow-up you won’t have a calculator in your pocket”. True. The first calculator I got was almost the size of a house-brick. It was 1975.

@robert – roger that! I have a whole shelf of stuff that need ‘re-homing’ of it will be getting chucked-out. I like the ‘Primordial’ cover. Sheffield cemetery has a few of them on their gates. Nice garden. Ours is coming on nice too. We even have a few Frogs. Cat’s have been chasing them! Heather spends most of her summer holidays out there from dawn to dusk.

Oh, did BoW become OTT while I was away? You have to tell me these things.

@seldon9 – YOU TOO! How come you didn’t dive right back in? 100pts.

@tuffyears – Hammerite. That is what the jakkies drink up in Glasgow. Isn’t that for outdoor pipes? I have a feeling it might obscure some of the detail if you don’t thin it down a bit. However, I know very little about painting so I could be wrong.

@woldenspoons – my wife watches it, but I sort of absorbed it throught the right ear. My doctor looks like Jack Whitehall. He even wears the trousers. I mentioned it to one of the receptionists and he pissed himself. That said, he is a very good doctor.

Did you notice the ‘motto’ in her office?

I am more of a ‘Still Game’ watcher. That rules, but it is Scottish. I could quote most of ‘Bad Education’ from the amount of times I have listened to it. I have watched it too. The history lessons rule. 50pts.

That was going to be my next question: “how did it go?” Did you get a good feeling?

I like the big guy on the far right…nice. 20pts. I have been putting stuff together for my garage. It has now become ‘garages’ since I found another unit. Clearing up is great…just like xmas!

Avril rules. Seen her live twice. Bloody amazing. 50pts. I get about you know. When Eve was younger, 10-16, she went through the enevitable ‘Goth’ phase and we went to see all sorts of bands. Some fucking aweful (Avenged Sevenfold and MCR the 2nd time) and some really outstanding, like AL, Evenescence, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Paramore. I took her to see other bands too…the Damned, Gary Numan, Theater of Tragedy and of coure, All About Eve as she is named after them.

My son, Jamie, has other tastes. We went to see Rush! Oh, wow. 1000pts. He loves Numan and his first gig at 12 was Steel Panther. Eve bought us tickets to a film premier by Thomas Dolby who I have admired since I was 15. I have always wanted to meet him as I had a promise to keep. My second girlfriend and I used to listen to his first album ‘The Golden Age of Wireless’ and the very first time we did it we were listening to it.

She made me promise if I ever met mr. Dolby that I would thank him of the album. I did whisper it in his ear and thanked him.

Pink? Not really me, but the song ‘Who Knew’ is one of my favourite modern songs. Very deep. 50pts.

As for Blur…you might be heading down the wrong path, my child. I did mention my secret identity might break out!Try this book…

I do like the song, but it is a bit ‘wet’ for me. Too “art school” for me. Try ‘Throbbing Gristle’ or ‘Cabaret Voltaire’. Even thought they were very art school, early Human League rules.

@cpauls1 – me too! I could hump all day and not break a sweat. I cannot run short distances quickly, but stick 70lbs on my back and I am as happy as a pig in glabour. The good old days. However, they are not allowed to do it anymore. UK recruits have died so they are more merciful. Some days I remember being like an ant under a magnifiying glass. I have watched the Sun take turns to keep following me behind stuff! However, here you can still breath. It is not like the sand.

Barn cats are ultra savage. I have known a few. My Lillie was a feral rescue and became a lovely ‘house’ cat. I saw her with a bird outside one morning and it was not pretty. I know why cat’s have that glint in their eyes when they come in.

A good way to get them socialising is to stick in some of your worn clothes. Gets them accustomed to the smell.

Those torso’s are really nice. I love the one with the Iron Cross! 20pts.

Well, you should have enough stowage pretty soon. I have no idea how long it takes to get to you. The girl in the PO hadn’t even heard of Manitoba. In her defense she is just a local and only about 22 years old. She does have three children though!

I have been sitting inside to avoid the MCE ruining my pale complexion. It is hot enough to burn a man’s conscience today. Your monster would like awesome if it was illuminated! I have a bit of Infinity styled terrain that has little LED’s in it…like a tall computer core. I should finish that!

@crazyredcoat – I agree with @robert. I painted a couple with camo just to not have to paint it black! Loving the medic. 100pts.

@torros – as if you would ever be an intruder here! How are you doing?

@limburger – here it is supposed to be the hottest day of the year. Where…on the fu**ing Sun? I was going the put ‘fucking’, but I thought I better not.

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@robert – a sttange thing for a cemetery gate.

Then again, you get some strange things in cemeteries.

That was the same day we went to Nottingham for the boy’s birthday!

Everyone has a hero.

 

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Ever seen a Hammer vampire movie?

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@unclejimmy I’m not talking about socializing the cats with us. Eve is shy but Joplin used to sleep on the bed, and Scipio is fearless, and already likes his belly rubbed. We handle them a lot. I’m sure Scipio will lay a beating on the dog when he’s older. I saw him dragging a dead chipmunk around when he was eight weeks, so not as worried about him.

I’m talking about trying to get the cats and our Arctic killing machine into the same space without the place looking like an abattoir. Aran licks her chops every time she sees a cat.

Isnt’ a snake eating it’s tail a symbol of infinity? Is it stating the obvious i.e. you’ll be dead forever? Or does it mean you’ll live forever?

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A visit to Waco HQ and only two bags ?

I’d swear I would have to book another plane for the extra luggage on my way back if I ever were to visit that place …

A snake eating its own tail ?
Isn’t that Ouroboros ? I think I saw it in a Red Dwarf episode once.

Hammer movies you say ?
I vaguely remember seeing one.
It’s where Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing got started, right ?

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@unclejimmy That’s an Ouroboros and is an ancient symbol of the cycle of life and death. Or, as we Pagens think of it, the Midgard Serpent who forms the barrier between Midgard and Utgard. 😛

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@unclejimmy It is strange as it would have been an important pagan symbol in pre-Christian Ireland – something to do with the circle of life but I stand to be corrected on that.  It was that an important symbol that when someone wrote “that Patrick drove the snake from Ireland”, somebody then took it literally and that is were that myth/legend comes from (or so someone on the Irish History podcast told me years ago).

Don’t chuck it out is there a local club you could donate it to?

I do like a bit of gardening, an old friend just visited today and he wants half my garden come November… has all the plants picked out he wants a bit of.  He doesn’t want the stuff I don’t like though, I’ll have to dig it out myself!  I love the fact I have fresh herbs on demand.  Nothing beats shoving a bit of sage or tarragon up a chicken’s arse!  No frogs here, but plenty of ants and the wee fuckers keep biting me!

 

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@unclejimmy that last picture looks like the cemetery from the last Phantastic Beasts movie… wasn’t that scene supposed to be in Paris? Or do I misremember?

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@unclejimmy I’m doing well. Finally got back into painting after long lay off.  Looking into a new  oroje t which could well be 10mm Persians but haven’t decided yet. I managed to win a  copy of Black sails by Warlord and I’ll sell that to get the rulebook for Clash of Spears and some new figures.  Historicon kind if got  me interested in Napoleonics again  but not sure if I have the time and effort to get into that

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@cpauls1 – “I saw him dragging a dead chipmunk around when he was eight weeks…”, Rambo the cat! 100pts.

I am sure my dad’s Uncle would have known what to do. He would have probably beat them both with a chicken or something primitive like that. He was the local vet. I’m sure I told you about the guy who turned up on his doorstep in the middle of the night with half his arm hanging off…

Without you worrying I will ask my dad. He does know about this sort of thing.It is known as an ‘Ouroboros’ (I hope that is spelt correctly) and represents ‘wholeness’ and ‘the infinite’. Sort of like an Ahnk, but different. It’s all about who you listen to and there are loads of different interpretations and uses. Unusual on a British public cemetery.

@limburger – that is we wanted Heather to see! I bought almost £200 worth of IA stuff as if was 30% off. We went a few times for Jamie’s birthday. A good friend of ours works for FW and we would meet him for lunch. One year he brought Jamie the FW Tau campaign book and had gotten all the designers and artists to sign it for him. He almost wet himself. It is still one of his most treasured things. We would have a game sometimes. I got my arse handed to me by him and Dr. Andy one year. I hate Tau.

That was a day off school to go to Conflict. The guy bending over (on the left) is Derek. Not ‘my’ Derek. No, this is the famous “army” Derek. A machine-gun team squad-leader and an awesome painer/modeller. His modelling skills are almost as good as mine. He won best army that year. A mobile ‘Desert Guard’ army with his mobile artillery…

The magazine comes out and has individual rounds. Different ones too. When he was in Kosovo they had him doing radio watch for 24 hr shifts. We would post him loads of undercoated models and he would send back some works of art. For the  summer holidays he would put on games in GW. One year he covered the entire table in trees and informed the four players that there was an “enemy” out there. Derek made a 40K Predator, but I don’t have a picture. Now and again a shot would ring out and a sniper would be revealed. They would have been there all game…hidden like the real thing. Nobody noticed a single one of them before they started firing.

…and then the Tau deployed right on top of me!

I knew the fucker were planning something. They had been plotting on the way down…looking into the back of the car an smiling! Yes, that other ‘boy’ is a doctor. We went to Edinburgh to buy an Airbrush and found ourselves in the Burke & Hare club. The young ladies asked what we did and he said, “doctor”. They wouldn’t believe him, even when he showed them his hospital ID. One of them said, “You can get one of the online.”

The argument was settle when another of the young dancers offered a resolution…”Would you two gentlemen like a girl-on-girl dance?” Now, I am a very polite person and just smiled. Andy managed to stutter out a, “…yes plese” before handing over 40 sheets. The only reason I know where about that place is because there is a brilliant model shop around the corner. Since my childhood model shop became a gay cafe I have to travel 124 miles to buy glue.

I used to enjoy a day out and just ride up, but now it’s the train or when my dad is going up that way. he has two customers up that way. Or if we go to the Fringe festival for the day.

I just saw this while looking for something else. That was before we went to see Avril in 2006. Eve would freak-out if I showed that to anyone!

 

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The cat in the picture was out first ever cat, Miranda. That was a savage beast. Seperated from her mother way too soon. When Eve was 5-6 her thing was to say to me, “Dad, I want to see Mirandas fangs.” Usually while Miranda was sleeping after coming in from a night stalking. It was like a version of Buckeroo, but with teeth. Aren’t children great…

Found it…my dad outside the cow bar. We went to see Jerry for his birthday.

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Okay, Ops Center Episode 09 is in the can, the new Podcast is coming out later this week, and it’s lunch time at work.  Time to finally catch up on the thread.

@rasmus – Indeed, Sendai Byo and Kama were running abeam for most of that battle, I was almost starting to worry that Sendai wasn’t getting the full use of her very expensive thrust and maneuverability, shackled as she was to her “BBW” sister.  😀  But things seemed to work out.  Indeed those Akashi strike frigates are fierce.  Just don’t get attached to them.

@limburger – most of the universe and lore writing is in the project thread, although it’s down there quite a ways.  Actually, no it isn’t.  Apparently there is a “bottom” to the project system and I have hit it.  My Darkstar project is missing all of its early entries.  Too long, I suppose.

@unclejimmy – yep, that’s the battlereport.  A lot of our battle reports are now in video form on the Sitrep YouTube Channel.  You might like these three we did on Gold Beach (admittedly the first half of the first video is a little slow and creaky, I promise the videos pick up the pace as they go along).

You cats sound awesome.  “Mysterious wounds” – sounds like they’re out brawling at night, little free range ass-kickers!

Jesus, is “Stolen Valor” really a thing?  I guess so.  Shows how much I pay attention.  How dumb to these people have to be?  I  guess they don’t realize how instantly obvious it is, if even one ribbon is out of place, if their boots are laced right over left instead of vice versa, if their trousers aren’t bloused just right, if you can’t cut your hands on the creases …  I gues they’re trying to pull this on civilians who don’t know the difference?  Even then, to what end?  Not only offensive, but dumb.  I don’t get it.

Thanks for the compliment on the MiG counters.  Sadly, they didn’t perform as well as they look, I couldn’t make a Split-S turn to save my ass.  Nor could my SA-2s hit the SKY, much less any American planes IN the sky.  @elessar2590 PWNED my ass with his two US Navy F-4 Phantoms (VF-51, USS Oriskany).  I’ll probably start the video cut on that one today now that OpsCenter 09 is done.

@tuffyears – those Harlequin minis look extremely details and fragile.

@cpauls1 – thanks.  I can’t wait to see you drones painted up!   The kitten is adorable.  Look forward to seeing the armored cars.    Those Arcadian legs just look like BDUs to me, except for the WW2-style leggings on some of the boots.  Yes, 90 degrees F … Brr!  Can someone turn up the heat?  Just kidding, we hate the heat as much as anyone.  It’s actually not bad here with the rain every day and situated as we are between the Atlantic and Lake Okeechobee (practically a small inland sea).  92-93 is about as bad as it gets.  Now if we can just judge hurricanes for another year …

@robert – that’s awesome!  Hey, hobby takes all forms and shapes.  And thing you make with knitting might have the additional benefit of actually being USEFUL in real life.  😀

@unclejimmy – OH NO!  Only a B minus.  I suck.  🙁 🙁 🙁  Seriously, thanks for the comments of the battle report.  Yeah, @damon really rolled poorly on that last broadside.  That’s happened to him twice now.  That game works out many times where you maneuver and maneuver and take hits and pivot and roll and dogfight … just trying to get to that one juncture where you’re at the right range, the right position, with the right arcs, on the right targets …  The game is often decided right there.  Now Damon’s broadside wasn’t perfect, the range was long and one ships (HMS Indefatigable) was hitting Kama’s starboard quarter rather than her stern (it helps when you focus ALL fire on one facing, you overwhelm shields and armor that way) … but it definitely SHOULD have done a lot more than it did.

Was the note to @rasmus – “better luck next time” … about the Darkstar game?  If so, Rasmus was fine.  He STOMPED in that game.  Damon’s the one who needs to melt his dice down and make them into an ashtray for how they treated him in that game.

Nice Mark IVs.  They look like late Gs or Hs.  I’m sure someone can use them.  That’s an extremely ubiquitous mid- and late-war tank.

Hope the weather cools down for you soon.

I like that cemetery gate.  Reminds me of Thulsa Doom from the 1982 Conan movie.

Awesome gaming pics!  Desert tables are always some of my favorites.

@crazyredcoat – great start so far!  😀

@woldenspoons – great creatures.  Pox Walkers?  What game is that for?  Sorry if everyone else knows and this is an obvious question.

 

 

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This is what AI is when you turn off the power! Join in if you want…or we could have a seance?

The man himself.

Mr. Dolby back in 1983. This song is dedicated to his uncle who lost his life while serving aboard a submarine.

At his best.

Finally, the video containing my earliest childhood hero…Prof. Magnus Pike. A genius and a real scientist too. Not like these modern TV fools. He died after some scratter mugged him and he never recovered from it. When I was still a student I rang into a late-night radio phone-in (Talk Radio) and pointed out to them that a “time machine” was more likely to be a ‘place’ rather than something would sit in. The show started off with some young choob claiming that he totally understand ‘A Brief History of Time’ and I called in and called him out. I said that as a post-graduate cosmology student, and ringing from Newcastle University observatory, I didn’t get it, therefore he didn’t have a Scooby-Do.

After we finished nattering about stuff I had to go back to work, but I always used to listen through the night. About 25 minutes later Dr. Pike rang in to agree with my statement. I couldn’t believe it. If only I could have recorded it.

 

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@oriskany – I saw this and for some reason thought of you…

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@unclejimmy that’s awesome.
I had my suspicious as to what kind of club something called “burk & hare” could be, but I had to google it … *eh*
Plastic crack must have been mighty addictive if that wasn’t a distraction .
Are you sure that visiting the shop wasn’t an excuse ? 😉

It does suck when (good) shops close.
When I was a kid there was an awesome shop filled with all sorts of scale model kits and pretty much anything you could imagine.
Unfortunately it closed after the brothers (who were both handicapped IIRC) who owned it died. To this day I haven’t seen anything even remotely similar. Never mind that scale model kits have also dissappeared from the regular toy shops (at best you can find a few easy-build kits). No one stocks the Revell and Italeri kits that I used to assemble as a kid.

I remember building this one :

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-237-dodge-wc-51-beep–130297

Never painted any of the kits, because all we had back than were those awful enamel paints, which required a chemical called ‘thinner’ (sp?) to clean.

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