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wow... churchlife seems to be totally different from what i recall in my youth...pizza and churches never got mentioned in the same sentence

what parade where you looking at? and i bet your kids had a good time... tho the amount of sweets... boy... no need to extra suply them with food a fortnight then


as for the scouts... i know exactly where you are coming from... but i was always more in favor for the "as GW " inteded style... sometimes coolness comes from careless^^

Ok, I like the turret conversion on the rhino a lot. Paint the banner. you know words, and symbols and pretty.

Not too much pressure for Theo, LOL!

@vik, church shouldn't be so stiff, that's religion. Religion takes the joy out of worshiping God, and is what the Pharasises were doing to the Jews in the New Testament. They would create rules (I thnk they had 700+ rules) that the peopl had to follow, where God gave only 10 commandments, this gave them power and stopped people from "knowing/ understanding" God. We have great fellowship at our church. I went over to the pastors house with 5-6 other men for the NFL season kickoff, and we had fun playing pool, talking, watching he game and discussing God and where we are at in our faith. Religion sets the church elders apart from the people and is more about ceremony and hints not listed in the Bible. As fo th candy...we still have some left over from last year. My wife and I are both overweight and we don't want that fo our kids, so they are very limited on having candy, deserts, and soda. Yesterday I think they got 5 pieces each, and that's a major treat for them.

@comrade, thanks, I'm considering doing something like "Remember Sotha" or along those lines on the banner. Or taking the banner off and printing one from the books to hang on there.

So here's a pic from the parade.

It's a Segway scooter inside the trashcan . If I had the money I think I would build a giant R2D2 costume similar to this for myself

Got home from church and the pizza party. The kids all got unlimited game play n the arcade including riding the go carts, laser tag and my favorite....skeeball. The unlimited play was $3.00 a kid, so only cost us $9.75 with tax for unlimited games and pizza bar buffet tha also had tacos, burgers, nachos, deserts, and fountain drinks.

Got scared when we couldn't find our smallest daughter and she isn't respond to the overhead paging, but great church family blocked the exits and helped us find her. She was in the laser tag area, an the headgear covered her ears. She also had found a great hiding place in there, combined with her small size she was able to score big

Did a bi of painting when I got home, wife is taking a quick nap before us going back tonight for choir practice and all of us doing bible study.

The one scout was completed this week, the others are still WIP.

Can't wait or next Saturday. We are going to see a Christian comedian with the pastor and other friends, the kids will get to spend the night at he grandparents that night.

@vik, church shouldn't be so stiff, that's religion. Religion takes the joy out of worshiping God, and is what the Pharasises were doing to the Jews in the New Testament. They would create rules (I thnk they had 700+ rules) that the peopl had to follow, where God gave only 10 commandments, this gave them power and stopped people from "knowing/ understanding" God. We have great fellowship at our church. I went over to the pastors house with 5-6 other men for the NFL season kickoff, and we had fun playing pool, talking, watching he game and discussing God and where we are at in our faith. Religion sets the church elders apart from the people and is more about ceremony and hints not listed in the Bible. As fo th candy...we still have some left over from last year. My wife and I are both overweight and we don't want that fo our kids, so they are very limited on having candy, deserts, and soda. Yesterday I think they got 5 pieces each, and that's a major treat for them.

Amen to that! (and that is not meant in any sarcastic way this time!)

you say overweight... how tall and how ...big are you? if i may be so bold to ask? in the tv the americans are pictured as mostly overweight which i think is a bit too far to say so... i see lots of heavy set peeps here too... and i think we don´t need to be slim all around...

that segway lady in the dumpster looks a bit like audrey hepburn from breakfast at tiffany...

now that you say it vik, she's almost a dead wringer for Audrey hepburn

I'm 6'5" tall vik, and right now I'm 315 pounds. When I was working full time I was still the same height, but 35 pounds lighter and very well muscled. I need to do more physical work to slim down again. The problem though is this. The charts for height and weight don't take into account shoulder span/ build of a person. I am a big guy. If I were to weigh 200 pounds like they say I'd have no body fat at all because my shoulder span is larger than most men as well. When I was 280 pounds I was getting compliments about the shape I was in, then I hurt my back, and now I don't have a physical job, so the physique disappears. When I start getting physical again this weight will disappear and my muscles will return quick.

Growing up I worked on our family farm. During the summer I'd lose the weight and bulk up, at winter I'd get my winter weight on, and lose the muscle tone. Spring would come and he first few weeks would suck, but the weight would go and the muscle return. That's why I don't want a desk job .

The muscles are still there, the other day I went to help a friend from hutch move furniture because they got new coaches. After getting the love seat outside he apartment I lifted it above my head and carried it across the parking lot around the building and next to the dumpster. The only thing keeping me from carrying the sofa was the size of it, 7' long sofa, too bulky but not too heavy.

respect...you´re a giant...really... i am at 185cm... that´s 6 feet for you...
moving stuff tho was never a thing for me... i think in my youth i never built up the muscle structure... and atm i am way too layed back...or as some people might call it lazy
proof of the literal pudding is my growing belly...but there are those that say that a man without a littly tummy is only half a man...hmm...

Swimming may help, so much support from the water.

I am only 5' 10", well shrank down to 5'9" and am 388lbs.

swimming wouldn´t do for me... i really hate being in water... somehow the lack of real muscles makes it rather uneasy for me to breath in water...(well with my head over water of course )

@vik, um pudding. I look at the wwe wrestlers and think how much time they spend pumping iron, and think of all he time wasted that they could have been making little plastic men
@shaso, I love swimming. It's not so much me dragging my extra weight around, I can go walking all day long, I've always been happy that I've had strong legs to support myself. I also have a brisk pace, and people have trouble keeping up with me. They blame my long legs, but I just keep moving, not slowing own or lazy stepping. You'd better watch that shrinking. My wife's grandfather has shrunk almost 8" in the past two-three years, he's got a degenerative disc disease, but still its caused most of his other problems.

Another reason for he weight gain was my unemployment, and having to cut he gym membership. I ident go often, but it was enough to keep the gain down. Winters coming, so. Should find some sort of physical activity to get m moving more. I'd love to do martial arts again, but its just not in the budget.

isn´t there a church something sports related that could help you? i´ve heard of such stuff happen here and there...specially martial arts...
having long legs and a quick pace meself... it is really a bugger when you have real small kids... just the right age when they start to walk on your hand and you can kiss your intervertebral disks good bye^^

and shrinking is rather common in a certain age... tho i hope this is still a bit ahead...

Our church doesn't have many sports groups that I've found. The congregation is heavily older families, but is developing a younger group as well. Our old church had a couple black belt martial artists that taught and had their own dojos. My kids haven't figured out to walk at my pace yet, it's really annoying that all three like walking in front of us then slow down to their pace.

I figured the water would support other excercises as well allowing the back not to mess with you due to support and all.

Yeah, I am watching the shrinkage closely. I need to strecth more before I look like this fella

Ever since coming to college a few weeks ago I have put on some weight but my room mate is a physical therapist so he goes to the gym daily. And now things are getting better

It's difficult to stop being lazy and get started but once you do it feels so much more worth it.

@shaso, pic didn't pull up or me. The water would help the back stress, but my backs been pretty good except for the one time.
@nafarious, the beer weight is hard to drop, so be careful.

Started messing with the sewer stuff this morning again. Need to do a supply run his week as I don't have enough plastic bits to do what I want right now, but this week is going to be rough. Today I MUST get schoolwork done. Tomorrow I'm spending most of the day at church helping to paint the entry foyer and commons. Wednesday is grandparents labor day. Haven't looked at Thursday/Friday yet.

Think I have enough sprue parts to do a big chunk of the sewer. Just need to decide if I'll have my walkway at one bulkhead high or two. I think at one high it will look the best, a two it won't wrap around the whole stadium.

Edit: before schoolwork started.

Woo sewer stuff
Thanks for the tip, I don't really drink at all though
I do however sleep and browse dakka in class because TX Gov, is ezpz.

I suggest the one walk way high bulk heads as well.. have fun with the busy week.

Theo, it isd just a pic of John Leguizamo in his Clown/Violator costume and make up from the movie Spawn.

Well since these walls got airbrushed, there's not as much definition to them as the Han painted ones, so some work must be done to them. I'm procrastinating on schoolwork. I hate finance. I got half the stuff done, I'll be up late tomorrow on the other half , if I can't sleep tonight I'll do it then.

I did take a little time to work on the sewer.

Dry brushed lead belcher then Badab black. Walls got a few bricks picked out in differing colors then a heavy delvan mud wash. The rivets are the new larger sized beads that I picked up a while back. I decided the lower catwalk worked for me, might attach pipes or lights above them later.

Spent two hours working on our attached garage. Our house is seventy years young and the garage is too small for our van or my SUV, so it's like a garden shed....full of . It doesn't have a doorway into the house either, so it's not a gaming refuge. My father in law was redoing his basement so he kindly dumped some stuff on me and said "I know you can use this stuff", good thing I wasn't home hen h dropped the crap off . It's a lot more organized right now, we'll see later on what happens, the weather has turned to fall here and recent rain means I'll be mowing the grass soon, so I was time well spent out there so I can get to everything for this fall. I should be getting the grill and fire pit ready for storage too.

Still a good start point by the looks of it Theo, and I got the Leviathan in, what a beast to build! It will be keeping me busy once I am done with ships and also I will have to now get my defiance games soldiers finished oh the lovely details and crisp lines from Dreamforge awesomeness in plastics!

Nice bricklaying Theo.

Great news! The weapons for the Titan are out in the wild now , one of the guys down under received his nova cannon (not melt a cannon) and posted pics of the sprue.










Thanks to Yonan for posting these in his gallery here I linked them from.

The nova cannon as well as all the gun arms are able to be done left or right handed for the Titan. And since he upper armor fits snug just don't glue that and you can even swap back and forth, as I was just reminded in the news and rumors section.

@dr. H, I've been eating LOTS of fiber
@shaso, defiance also screwed the pooch recently in their kick started by trying to use the initials DFG for their company , they caught a bit of slack from us dreamforge fans, and got a nice PM from mark mondragon. They did supposedly get I'd of Tony though so things may be looking up for that company as well.

Leaving to go do painting at church today, might check in later, but still have my paper due tonight , long night ahead of me.

Glad to see some more work on the sewers, I really like Dream Forge Games, they know what they are catering to

Keep up the good work Theo.

Theo, after opening the box for the Eisenkern troopers and the command supplement kit, I thought I opened a box of Tamiya 1/48 scale soldiers kits, that is how well done and detailed the DFG stuff is! I compare to the nice UAMC Marines that DG made(Note that I Know the difference in abbreviations), and am drooling, I need to paint my already assembled DG Marines for my Amexadian company and get cracking on assembling the Kruegerian 144th Iron Hearts platoon and support titan!

Defiance removing Tony at least from decision making, not sure if he is totally gone or not, they have not said, means no more of them going "Ooh! Shiny! " midstream of fulfilling their goals and orders, but they still have a tarnished reputation I have seen in that Kickstarter thread to put behind them.

@shaso, I'm sure he's still there, there's been no explosions of his vitriol about having a second company stolen from him.
@nafarious, not much more done on them, too much happening this week. Also need money for a supply run.

Okay, spent most of he day at church painting. The lead guy told me about it Sunday saying "if you can make it that would be great, but we have plenty o people signed up so no worries I you can't." So I get there today and its me, the supervisor and one other guy , I'll be going back tomorrow and Thursday if necessary, already told he grandparents I won't be making it tomorrow.

Schoolwork tonight.....maybe.

I am about to order this big fella

So that is my supply run, although I will need to build an awesome base for him. I need to get to work on my display board.. hmm maybe I should work on my own P&M thread

Hey Theo i am So totally with you on the homework issue... Million things to do more important than these...*groans*

Second day of painting at church complete....at LEAST one more day of painting if not two .

Oh how I lived in Australia, not really, but they are receiving their dreamforge games wave 2 stuff. Only fair they get first delivery this time, after the fiasco of wave one they are air mailing the orders direct from hong kong. ohand from this picture can you guess what I'm excited about.


No it's actually not the titan , or the one getting curb stomped. Look at the buildings....
Mark just mentioned in his thread the files for the buildings are done, and they're modular , they were not part of the kick starter, so not sure I hey will come out as a second kick starter, or just made available as another set later. He's being hush hush until wave 2 is fully shipped before releasing anything on wave three even picture wise.

Dam I would be in for those buildings I cant wait to get my Mortis if I new the Aussies were getting theres first I would have stayed at my sisters

Yonan has pics of all he spuds in his gallery where I linked the above photo from. You can see the scythe and the hand as well as the laser cannon. I didn't order any wave three stuff, but the black widows, heavies and hanomags are something I want .