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We only had one kind of trifle. But we did have dark chocolate+ stem gonger fudge, mince danish, chocolate roulade and ginger+pineapple crumble as well.

Weety, was wondering, you got a fave csm chapter, or at least god?

weetyskemian44 wrote:OOOh the one with the face! I really want that one. Its it complete and undamaged? Nearly got one once but was pipped at the post by a higher bidder. Please go ahead and post them so we can all see


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Merry midwinter bank holiday everyone. I have a cake, pudding, roasting chicken, taters, sprouts, parsnips and carrots, oh and trifle. All homemade. It great having a man-slave who likes cooking (I will be washing up I think)

Yep all complete and undamaged, it was painted maroon for some reason but I've stripped the paint off, the only bit I don't have is a flying base.
I'm going to try and get a card reader at some point so I can post up pictures

I have Flying bases if you want any Wheety

Here's those Pirate fellas I mentioned before, let me know if the pictures aren't needed and I'll remove the links



Also some Rogue traderish marines:



And last but not least an Ambul:

Wants the Ambull but will let Miss Wheety have it if she wants it

I'm thinking I might keep the Ambul (sorry) as it's such cool mini and buying another one would be impossible the price they're going for on ebay at the mo.
Everything else can go

Anyway as promised here's the Harlequin jetbike and also some weird Necromunda style figures (no idea who made them)


I've got a few more of these style mini's in the process of being stripped.

Anyway I'm done high-jacking your blog

I've not seen an Ambul in donkeys years, very cool mini.

Nice trifle by the way, it looks huge.

TiaraMisu is an Italian desert cake Vik, not British iirc. I have never tasted Tripe either, but it looks lovely.

Happy Xmas all (bit late I know, but to hells with it!)...

Very nice festive termie Weety, the gold looked particularly well done (I always have a problem with it, which is a pain since my Chaos marines colour scheme has lots)... Nice minis there too headnhalf... In this era of plastic it's mad to see metal models that size (jetbike & ambull I'm looking at you)!

And as my contribution to the Xmas scranfest, I would urge everyone to try ecclefechan tarts, a Scots creation which, despite its slightly rude sounding name is bloomin' lovely!

dsteingass wrote:I have never tasted Tripe either, but it looks lovely.

It's not. My Grandad used to eat it with vinegar. It is a Bad Thing.

OOps, too much minecraft, I meant Trifle, not Tripe- Tripe is organ (stomach) meat and quite the opposite of the stuff Weety was talking about

i just wikipediad trifle and the basic desciption sounded as if there might be some minior similaritis... and i do know about the italian background^^ of the tiramisu... of course! i do a very good one myself! to tell a truth...

at Archroy
translated just tripe...yuck^^ but your ecclefechan tarts i have researched and they do sound mighty delicious... some times they do have scottish food stuff in our shops...special weeks and such things and if i ever stumble upon this i will try it out...with cream of course!^^

Hey headnhalf - the dudes in the bottom pic look really cool (seen them on a mini site but can't remember which one - they are "bikers") - I think I have most of the RT space pirates though. I will definitely be placing a bid on the jetbike - but you are right about the ambull - the prices the rarer minis go for are amazing and I don't think my funds would stretch. So post us a link when you have listed them - I'm sure it will drum up a bit of interest.

It really was a truly monumental trifle - we are still eating it and haven't had the appetite to even touch the pudding or cake.

As for tripe, I believe we sell dried tripe in poundstretcher for dogs, and it smells of sweaty genitals (perfect for dogs). So on the strength of that I'm saying no to tripe


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Playing fallout new vegas on hardcore mode - the ceaseless struggle for survival has never been so much fun. Simulated hunger, thirst and fatigue are my constant enemies. Actually to be honest I think there is to much food and drink in the game, I'm actually in precious little danger of starvation which I think is kinda disapointing

Really, can there be enough Minecraft?

I am playing the crap out of it, trying to make myself sick of it, so I can say "feth it" and go over to my painting bench, but it isn't happening. I have now started referring to starting it up as "the double click of doom"
The Millenaire mod spawns either Hindi, Norman, or Japanese villages randomly, you can sell them stuff, which they use to build and upgrade buildings in the villages, followed by mini-quests, quite addictive, but such a time-waster, leveling entire mountains for cobblestone, or worse, for the Hindi villages, making mud bricks and setting them out to bake in the desert sun by the hundreds. Apparently, then you can buy a magic wand and create villages wherever you want. Please help me stop, I am going to need an addiction recovery center soon.

Painting with out a desk or lamp is very bad for the back - I keep having to lean right over my knees to get light on the model - damned ceiling lights. Time to get a lamp.

Light levels are a bit of a problem in this photo - I had to digitally manipulate it a bit to get any clarity and he still looks a bit wrong. Looks much better in RL.

Do they sell something like an OttLite over there in Merry Olde England?

I use one of their flexible neck floor lamps: http://www.ottlite.com/p-37-floor-lamp-dove-grey.aspx, which my lovely lady picked up on sale.

One of my good friends went for the desk model which is cheaper.

Or maybe you can just get a daylight bulb for a normal table lamp?

I just got this OTT LITE with Daylight bulb for the painting bench from Michael's craft store yesterday for a steal of $50.00:

that's like only what? 5 Pounds in your money
Do you have similar stores like that in the UK? Big haven for scrapbookers, knitters, artists, etc.

edit: @JB- I asked about daylight bulbs in the UK, it turns out they are not in every store there like they are here in the US. Their electricity is 220v (I think) so they don't even use the same Edison-style universal screw-in bulb like we do either (am I right?)

it depends on the light fitting - most UK lights are gas lamps and candles, lol. No I mean bayonet fitted.

But something like that would be good - that I can attach to the back of my chair and shine right over my shoulder onto the mini. You guys are lucky to have the space for a dedicated painting desk. 50$ is a steal, that's like only 30 squid, or a gram of purest gold.

The mini, now I look at it next to the other goliaths, is very darkly painted. Probably the time of year effecting me subconsciously.

every thing is bigger in US...this has this board showed me on many occasions...like daves garage full of young boys dreams^^

by the way... nice new avatar there dave! american shotgun lol

at weety... the goliath is looking a bit darker... but the moody face of him suits it well^^

Oh yeah, happy new year to everyone - lets hope its less eventful than 2011. Probably a forlorn hope that.

Thanks VonDom - I was trying for a more muted look - more dirty and post-apocalyptic

it has definatly a mad max ring to it!

Hope you had a good holiday season, guys!!

Abominal Valhallan!

Bayonet fittings? Really? You mean you weren't joking about oil and gaslight, I could have sworn that's all you had down your way

I have daylight bulbs in all my sockets and have a normal desk spotlight with a daylight bulb in for my work desk. Unfortunately, as the workroom was originally the master bedroom the fitted lights were two little bayonet candles that would be placed nicely for reading in bed, and thus their light comes at me across the desk - bugger all use for painting.

And one plug socket seems to have been tampered with by some rogue grots, so the desk lamp is now on the left of the desk, whereas I want it on the right.


I've made a new year's resolution to whinge more. So thought I'd make a start here

Its an absolute outrage monkeytroll - why is it that modern barge designers just don't take fine modelling crafts into consideration when positioning light sources. I just don't know at all anymore.

When you say "master bedroom" is that to imply that there is more than one bedroom on this barge? sounds like a pretty epic barge - I'm imagining something ramshackle and orky, made out of mismatched scrap metal and gubinz.

abominable snowman you have there Valhalla. Really quite abominable. Or abdominal?

Getting down to a delaque today - I've also tidied up and finished off the juves so I will have a posse together soon. Still no lamp - I'm going back to painting lying down to save my back. I will cane my neck instead.

Delaque style action:

Niice! I will be painting my Delaques soon too, as soon as I finish my Ratskins (on my Necro thread)

Nice weety.... very nice.

Miss Wheety I have a bag of Flying bases if you want them, they were earmarked fer the mongoose starfleet minis.......

Hold fire on that miss dee - I have nothing flying to stick them too as of yet!

Thanks gitsplitta and dsteingass - been watching your ratskins dstein. All those lovely buildings you have needed some occupants.

Yet another unasked for day off. I'm barely doing my contracted hours (normally we are on constant overtime). If the government were to cancel housing benefit like I know they want to then I would be homeless every January!

Still it means I might paint something -maybe my 2nd edition sentinel? Or a chaosy type thing... Hmmm. I have quite a few possible to choose from