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Ah! The Glass Bead Game!
Been awhile since I read that!
(in translation only, sorry Vik)

lol...whut chibi?^^

the grammophone tubes look really good to me... i thought about such propaganda things too...guess something like that will happen later tho...

at anvildude, i will try to show you how i used the glassbead (actual as mentioned above it is a small plastiuc ball) in the periscope...it is rather fidly to do but i done it nevertheless^^ painting will dicide how this is going to be done^^

and shaso, you forgott the most coolsome looking pic of those aperatures:



hope to show some more stuff later on...


vik

Well, I didn't want to over do it.

lol... with this add you can´t do that...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol... with this add you can´t do that...^^

if you insist.

Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel)

holy moly on both accounts^^
the herman hesse referrence...didn´t knew he was read in britain...tho i have to say i didn´t read much of him in school...(least outside school^^)

and neil...guess you scored a new achievment here on this blog... first femal pic?^^ and for those pics i do insist^^


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just googled the Glasperlenspiel at wiki...lol...uncreativity and fear of...may the gods preserve us

Have read most of Hesse's major works.
Steppenwulf is a cult thing I believe. Re Read it a few years ago but has been a while since I last tucked in.
Apart from Siddhartra which is a perennial for me.

Magic Mountain was made into a film or TV series I think

Thinking about it Hesse is about the only author I re read for some reason having read a lot of the books at least a second time. Don't normally do that.

the TV adaption i saw as a youngster... was bored then... i think i could value this now much better...
and by the way... staying here on these blogs with peeps like you chibi and neil and shaso really boosts up my vocabulary...the words i have to look up sometimes...
i think my interest for fantasy and specially terry pratchett has ruined my taste in literature so much that i am mostly unable to look into other authors works...but i really like how classic german authors gets read over the channel^^ makes my enthusiasm (or rather the lack of) for these doesn´t show up as much^^

Magic Mountain is by Thomas Mann of course
what a dolt! (me not Mann )

Also read much of Mann's work in translation.

Not read any Pratchett but my daughter loves his books.
Don't read a lot of fantasy tbh
Not strictly true because my concentration is limited these days I read a fair bit of teenage fiction, and there is a lot of good writing about and often with a fantasy element.
Kids today are so lucky!

that kids literature sure has come out of the kidergarten for sure... but one has to avoid the glamour vampires^^ and then i think pretty much all is a good read... i was unsure of the "zauberberg" ...so i let it slip^^

is this switch to teen literature due to sleeping habbits of yours? obviously chapters are shorter in this kind of books...so one can better pause for a nap or two^^

That is part of it and also the ME affects concentration too.
When you re read a paragraph for the third time and still can't remember what was written then it is time to put the book down!

But yes the shorter chapters help a lot as they provide good resting points. Also the style tends to be suitable and don't have to wrestle too much with abstract concepts etc

yes, more like convinience lit it seems...

have to cut the discussion off now as the kids are back from their nap...

see you all in the evening chaps *waves*

Viktor von Domm wrote:yes, more like convinience lit it seems...

have to cut the discussion off now as the kids are back from their nap...

see you all in the evening chaps *waves*

It's evening! Get to work! *cracks whip*

Poor Vik
Every chap and his dog demanding to see the chap at his labours.

(seconded, c'mon Vik get a move on lad! )

ps Smudge the housecat/monster from the Underhive says get a move on too!

whip cracks would do wonders if it wasn´t for the wife and kids all cramped at home...i tried to force me to some work, but then my wife and me watched some telly...(for clarification... today is in germany fathers day...and also my kids kindergarden are closed...for a week...)

so hobby related no whipcracking had any effects, as we had to tour the playgrounds of our neighberhoods...gosh...the kids were packed in mud^^

Just this once then Vik. I've been "slacking" too....waiting for stuff to show up at my door MWAHAHA and stuff.

On an unrelated note:

I think you should totally include this guy....for me....plx?



I mean he is all steampunkish and stuff!

definatly and stuff^^ i think in the long run i have to seriously look into purchasing some fancy steampunky charcter minis... there is a range from a for now by me forgotten producer who has some very nice minis... along those lines as your shown mini... but if you show that you sure as heck have to say where you`ve found that beard with a steamgun^^...you know it is all show and tell here... the mean teases all got thrown out of fairy land^^

I got Thomas Rockheart Jr. here.

And he is one of the models for Wolsung: Steam Pulp Fantasy

There are several others out as well, all steampunkish...but with less beards.

had a quick look on the linky side you provided...this mini has now my attention:


he looks suitable cool...this i have to further investigate...

you are right, the thomas guy is bearded... one could even say this is a beard with a dward as a mere side detail^^

Investigating further is half the fun ^_^ Who knows where you will end up! I actually came across some Dr Who Miniatures I might get....and a new Necromunda Gang type minis.

if you look for some nice minis for necromunda and stuff i suggets you pay (hur, hur...) this site a visit:
http://blackcatbases.com/

extraordinary cool stuff... the cultists are so tempting that i might one day make my own choasy stuff based on those...

hope you got some nice slippers from your boys . and nie link mtey

got some sweets and my middle son felix told me a poem he learnded at nursery... i was quite astounded by the amount of this... early in the morning, and he told it with such sincerity only a five year old can do...i was really proud of him!

^^ and the linky is something i could very well get totaly brock on^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:got some sweets and my middle son felix told me a poem he learnded at nursery... i was quite astounded by the amount of this... early in the morning, and he told it with such sincerity only a five year old can do...i was really proud of him!

^^ and the linky is something i could very well get totaly brock on^^

those mini's look really good, you should definitely get them.

I think that will depend on the price!

as ever oh so true...mainly i try to get my stuff via ebay and cut a good bargain... only from time to time i am bold enough to order new stuff...tho i recently talked to my wife how disapointing it is to use second hand stuff.. but then i am hunting currently for bitzboxes... this is really fun to do^^

One must do what one can to feed that hobby-monster!

it is a monster on a jekyll and hyde level...

http://www.lead-adventure.com/index.php?cPath=2&osCsid=6c3775f1c4bbacefc7c1ee542e606d45

Think this is a German company Vik