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Just ten seconds or so into “Cortege De Bacchus” and you’ll hear the theme tune. It came as quite a shock to hear it just thrown in there!

Loving the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. I learned to play “The Good Bad and the Ugly” from this guy (below) but the fully orchestrated version, complete with voices is just so much better. That tune at the beginning, from the pocketwatch, was always a bit creepy for me!

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@blinky465 so what is it the theme of ? I don’t recognise it, but then it probably is a British tv-show … something sport related perhaps ?

The music box theme is indeed very creepy … and I really like how it shows up as a prop in the movie and then transitions to soundtrack in that finaly battle.

(spoilers)

This another great western :

 

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@blinky465 Shit with mustard, man! (More impressive in the German that dear @sundancer can roll off the tongue especially in a northern dialect). My condolences to your wife. Perhaps you can 3d print a brace of some sort to help her out. I know there are ones that have been made for kids with scoliosis that look pretty swank. As far as the hiking I’m keen on the thought but being cooped up inside for so long has left me underserved and my knees ache after a good long jaunt. I do not look forward to the training at the range tomorrow where I will be moving about quite a bit.
Awesome to pull out the classical inspiration for the Knight Rider theme.

The instrument you’re curious about is the erhu from China. There is something similar in the Balkans from the migration/conquest by Hajduk/Seljuk(?) forces.

@danlee I’ll be sure to send more minis. You’ll be a good target from Sundancer to get Intercontinental Ballistic Minis lobbed at.

@limburger Good addition for the music. I’m going to sit back and hold off on buying any Gunslinger Ball. I just literally bought a used Silentaire 20A from eBay for $200. For the shipping I’m ok with paying $50 for ground when the offer was for significantly less than for something new. Oof! Next thing is to see if I can score a BenchVent BV300S-D.

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@limburger – sorry, I thought everyone in Germany loved David Hasselhoff 😉

(and by extension, knew Knight Rider?)

I’ve struggled to justify buying minis this year (especially after spanking so much £££ on .stl files and Patreon) but I have been very tempted to buy some Gunslinger’s Ball minis. They look absolutely superb, and even appear to have put a bit of research into the characters/groupings – the Linguini Faction look like fun too (I think I’ve got a Clint .stl on a hard drive here somewhere….)

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@blinky465 the limburger is no German… 😉

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@sundancer – you’re twisting my melon, man. Not only did I believe @limburger to be one of your compatriots, in my mind, you two are brothers.

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In fact, we’re all fake… no one is real… we’re all constructs in the matrix 😉

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Some new content on my project page:

Extermination: Pile of Shame

That’s it, I’m sick of looking at it.  Sick of thinking about it.  Sick of feeling bad about it.  Pile of Shame, the time of reckoning has come.

I haven’t picked up a brush since Christmas 2019.  Before I even think of driving into any new projects, this pile of shame is doing down.  As in to absolute f***ing zero.

I realize this pile of shame is pretty puny compared to many others.  But … (a) … I would hardly say the size of one’s pile is something to brag about, and … (b) … the diminutive size of such a pile is all less reason to let it linger.

So you’re all witnesses to a premeditated murder now, folks.

I am killing my pile of shame.

So this is it. My pile of shame. Note a lot of this is half-completed – which in my mind makes it even worse. I have the Bolt Action DAK force given to me at the Western Desert Boot Camp, the bulk of my Iraqi 15mm force for upcoming Gulf War 30-year anniversary content, a Tiger I and Stuart given to me by publishers and companies during reviews, convention minis, etc.

First up, that 28mm DAK force given to me during the Western Desert boot camp. These guys have had a hard life so far, I’ve never worked with 28mm plastics before, and an accident in the hours involving a collapsed hobby table resulted in some breakage and a LOT of repair work. But this army WILL be finished, damn it!

Okay 44 infantry figures now complete, including 7.5 cm PaK gun, 8.0 cm mortar, two 5.0 cm mortars, MG-34 MG in company support tole (tripod), x2 MG-34s in platoon support roles (bipods), AT rifle, radio, medic team, three officers, etc.

A little command team, three officers and a radio operator in the background.  I kept the piping on the shoulder boards white for most of these figures (white = infantry) but that radioman has yellow for signals troops.

Some support teams, MG-34s in both company support role (tripod) and platoon / squad support role (bipod).  There’s also a GW-34 8.0 cm mortar.

My PaK antitank gun.

Some of my infantry.  German shields on the helmets and roundels on the campaign cap hand-painted.

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Nicely done… and let’s call it “the pile (or cupboard or attic or house *cough*Gerry*cough* ) of opportunity” instead of shame 😉

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@blinky465 I had to listen a third time before I recognised the bits from the Knightrider theme tune. I think it is too little to consider them to be related in any way.

I liked Knightrider as a kid. I remember finding code to do the intro tune on my MSX and trying to make a game with a car sprite shaped like KITT. Never got anywhere, because I didn’t know what the game needed to be.

The Knightrider reboots exist in the same space as the sequels to Highlander.

A-team, MacGyver and Airwolf were the other series I watched.
I know ‘Blue Thunder’ was a tv-series, but I can’t remember any of the episodes.

It’s kind of funny watching re-runs of Airwolf (and Knightrider) and looking at the ‘futuristic’ technology they had at the time.

Never understood why Hasselhof had any fans in Germany though.

Also : nope, I’m not related to @sundancer in any way I know off.
Not a German either. Although people from Holland do sometimes think we are German.

This … not so much :

This definitely will sound like German to outsiders :

(anyone recognise either song ? ;))

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@oriskany I have to agree with @sundancer here. It is no pile of shame. IT is indeed a pile of opportunity.
That is an excellent paint scheme with an incredible amount of detail. I may want to copy that once I get to that part of my pile of shiny. Not sure if I can those tiny details though, but that’s neither here nor there.

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I’ve no idea what those songs are, but I love them! Euro-pop is brilliant. That second one reminded me a bit of Reel Big Fish.

I’ve only just realised that – much like when I walk in on a TV drama half-way through – the backstories I’ve invented for most of the people on this forum aren’t actually true (it’s why I struggle to follow the plot – the story and the characters never seem to follow the backstory I’ve invented, so it all just seems like a jumble). Sundancer and Limburger aren’t even related, let alone twin brothers, HoratioNoseblower probably isn’t an LA surfer dude who is so cool he walks to the local shops in flip-flops (I sent him some stuff in the post, so I should actually know where he’s from). I was suprised to learn CrazyRedCoat was at uni, because I thought that was a lot to take on, what with his brood of four kids to look after (three girls, one boy, since you’re asking) and I bet DanLee has never even been inside the Parliament building, let alone worked as a bodyguard there.

Some members, however, remain ethereal matrix-like NPCs, until I learn more about them (and invent an appropriate backstory to go with the tiniest bit of information). Kantor is like a digital will-o-the-wisp; like one of the ghosts in Harry Potter, but made from ones and zeroes.

Sometimes I think I prefer my version of reality.

 

@oriskany – that is some seriously impressive work right there!

 

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@blinky465 What made you think I was a bodyguard at Parliament? Who do you imagine I protect?

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@blinky465 the second is a cover of this song :

This cover song should be dead easy for Blues brothers fans :

We could still be twin brothers in one of our previous lives 😀

And as Adam Savage once said : I reject your reality and substitute my own.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IRejectYourReality
(yet more proof that things can be older than you think … )

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I don’t know. Maybe guarding the tea trolley – stopping anyone from pocketing all the custard creams on the way to the voting lobbies? Maybe one time you said something innocuous I just extrapolated it. Now I feel like I’ve shared too much….

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The @blinky465 unit knows to much… prepare the system wipe…

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