It's Friday! 25 November edition

by **Helen** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:11 pm

Working on conversions using the BAM Polish. Completing final assembly of PZ1a ready for priming. It's been raining very steady for the past few days, however, it allows more time for painting halfling cavalry for a US company and finishing some more USMC. My small order of Warlord USMC are in the post. Can't wait to paint them up.

by **Biggus Dickus** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:51 pm

clivethecelt wrote:@ Cubster: That's a great idea; I was going to use corrugated card for roundhouse walling, and cut up an old wallpaper brush for the thatch - didn't think about using old card tubing, got a lot from work. Thanks.
@ Carvel: Light troops and cavalry are definately what you need - listen to Mike!
@Mikeland: I'd wondered about a hill fort, but have been struggling to create a ditch and rampart for a Roman marching fort I'm trying to make. In the end I gave up - difficult without carving up the wargame table or raising the wall height substantially, so just settled for simple, modular walls. I tried a terrace-type arrangement, but it looked plain wrong ...

I've been busy buying a car long story......it normally is

Anyway.....can't agree more with Clive on Carvels Roman needs....well done on ebay, by the way....I have to say that i try and make all my hobby purchases self financing....buying selling stuff on ebay i either don't want or have painted etc....... Lofts they are a Gold mine....well mine is!!!!

Mikeland if you want a guided tour around some hillforts in Dorset just ask! there are two one local and one extremely famous one 20 miles away Mai Dun.....or maiden Castle as it sems to be called!!
I look forward to seeing your scenery.
More later...I'm in the middle of a rather fantastic bit of cooking if i do say so myself! Chicken Carbonara!

by **NORTIVS MAXIMVS** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:33 pm

Yesterday I made some progress with my Roman baggage train (not Warlord Figures so have a look at my blog). I'll do some more work on that today and put the first paint on my auxiliary archers ... still wondering what colour to pain their tunics ... though I fancy something with a stripe ... I might do some more work on my auxiliary cavalry too ...

Cheers
Paul

by **carvel2** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:32 pm

How about some kind of big tarp at the front half....some height and bulk. A figure could be handing out food from the rear to some cheeky legionary...keeping the jars etc...like a mobile kitchen snack bar?

by **grant** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:04 pm

Well so far it's been an uninspired weekend of gaming or hobby. Made a sic-fi piece of terrain in 12mm scale for Heavy Gear. Not very exciting at all. Looked at the Japanese, Call of Duty sucked me in instead. Ah well, maybe today...

by **Cubster** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:16 pm

Concrete was still too wet to put the second coat on today, but at least the weather was decent and gave me a chance to repair yesterday's horrors. Now instead of getting to work on my backlog of orders I have to waste the morning doing render again ... weather permitting.

by **grant** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:29 pm

Cubster wrote:Concrete was still too wet to put the second coat on today, but at least the weather was decent and gave me a chance to repair yesterday's horrors. Now instead of getting to work on my backlog of orders I have to waste the morning doing render again ... weather permitting.

I get to put up Christmas lights today. Probably my least favourite thing to do. At least we got hit with a chinook this weekend, melting almost all our snow, and now the weather is a balmy for November 10c.

by **Invisible officer** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:45 pm

"....got hit with a chinook "

Heli gunship attack? That's realy hot, melting the snow.

by **grant** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:49 pm

Invisible officer wrote:"....got hit with a chinook "

Heli gunship attack? That's realy hot, melting the snow.

From wikipedia Chinook winds ( /ʃɪˈnʊk/), often called chinooks, commonly refers to foehn winds[1] in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges, although the original usage is in reference to wet, warm coastal winds in the Pacific Northwest.[2]
Chinook is claimed by popular mythology to mean "eater" but it is really the name of the people in the region where the usage was first derived. The reference to a wind or weather system, simply "a Chinook", originally meant a warming wind from the ocean into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest (the Chinook people lived near the ocean, along the lower Columbia River). A strong Chinook can make snow one foot deep almost vanish in one day. The snow partly melts and partly evaporates in the dry wind. Chinook winds have been observed to raise winter temperature, often from below −20 °C (−4 °F) to as high as 10–20 °C (50–68 °F) for a few hours or days, then temperatures plummet to their base levels. The greatest recorded temperature change in 24 hours was caused by Chinook winds on January 15, 1972, in Loma, Montana; the temperature rose from -48–9 °C (-54–48 °F).[3]