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Cheers weets , will give her a go , see if she can rekindle something...

quote "Read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" the other day - Its very philosophical and most of the novel seems set in boot camp but is excellent for all that. I'm not sure I'd like to live in a universe where only ex-military are allowed to vote or run for office... "

yeah i read that a fair few years back , i noticed a lot more emphasis on the skinnies in the book.

Aye take the money whilst the goings good . hows your allotment going .. and pottery stuff on the horizon ?

Many, many people have told me that Starship Troopers is a very good film, but I still have a hard time with that due purely to the sheer amount of nerd-rage that was coursing through my system when I first watched it.
Not sure why that particular adaptation caused so much anger, it's not like I expect Hollywood to ever be faithful to the source - hell, Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream... are at the top of my favourite film and book lists respectively - but something caused a real surge of teen angst that week I suspect

Ursula has some lovely stuff, and a lot of great shorts. As for Dick, he's da man Ocassionally his style loses it's way a bit, but for sheer ideas...wow! And there's a hefty catalogue of shorts there again Neil.

And, yes, make the dollar while you can weety

I also am inquiring into any news on the ceramic front

Well Mr monkeytroll I personally was actually surprised by how much of the book I recognized in the film. It could have been a lot worse! Still I think the emphasis of the book was completely different to the film - And where were their armored suits and jetpacks? Terrible really...

Neil I think you will enjoy ursula's shot stories her writing is very beautiful, almost lyrical and she deals with some very profound concepts around space travel, time dilation, matter transference, immortality etc.

The pottery is a no-go atm. I need a studio nearby or the rising cost of petrol will screw me. Its not my first priority unfortunately but I have resisted the temptation to sell the equipment so it will happen eventually.

Allotment is great! We have pulled 3-4 coffee table sized boulders out of the ground plus countless smaller ones - we have enough to make a small stone circle now! And the vege is in the ground and growing. I just wish there was such a thing as a meat tree...

The film, while somewhat enjoyable in it's own right... really wandered far-afield from the book, both in actuality and in spirit. Too bad, as the book was clearly an inspiration for the original creators of 40k.

Two stories from the production of Starship Troopers:

1) Verhoven STARTED with power suits. They had 'em all mocked up. But he didn't like how you couldn't see the actor's faces all that well, so he ditched the concept. All of it. All gone.

2) When they first land on the bug planet, you see some tentacles/claws skittering along a ridgeline. That scene was done five times, with CGI, or mechanical stuff, or... Eventually, the take that Verhoven liked, was a few guys running along the ridgeline, waving claws on sticks.

--B.

I loved Starship Troopers as a movie. It was bad, but it was a lot of fun to watch. It had a high budget, lots of random actors... I mean really, Neil Patrick Harris AND Michael Ironsides... Michael Ironsides is both incredibly awesome, and has one of the coolest names in history.

It has violence! Nudity! Spaceships! Bad one-liners!

What wasn't to love?


Now the second one? That was... that was bad. It was all, "Well, we don't have that rockin' budget from the first movie, so what do we do? ... ... Oh! I know! More nudity!"

...yeah... that didn't work.

I quite like the one where its just a squad of guys holed up in a building and the bugs are swarming at them - I think it was number 3 or 4? Verhoven always does loads of sequels - remember how many robocops there were.

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:I loved Starship Troopers as a movie. It was bad, but it was a lot of fun to watch. It had a high budget, lots of random actors... I mean really, Neil Patrick Harris AND Michael Ironsides... Michael Ironsides is both incredibly awesome, and has one of the coolest names in history.

It has violence! Nudity! Spaceships! Bad one-liners!

What wasn't to love?


Now the second one? That was... that was bad. It was all, "Well, we don't have that rockin' budget from the first movie, so what do we do? ... ... Oh! I know! More nudity!"

...yeah... that didn't work.

mate you have that covered just right! i am totally with you on all acounts!

and i liked the first one...and after half an hour of the second movie i fell asleep... that doesn´t happen so often with me^^ the thrid movie i didn´t even try in fear of dislike...

The movie was supposed to be cheesy and a bit OTT though, I still love it!

Oh I know Vik, I have NEVER been able to stay awake through The entire Two Towers...ever

ow...not that is unforgivable... that maniac suicide speach of theoden is among my favorite battle lines... he really had a death wish... the thing it makes me want to turn off is whenever the story turns to fordo and his male friend... i really can´t stand frodo with all his whimpering...

I watched the two towers in the cinema - and all I can say is they need more comfortable seats in those cinemas. Or maybe reclining couches.

Here is what I have been painting this week - very slow but I'm happy with it. He is a techmarine and I will paint his pall with the blowtorch soon - they will make a great pair.

ah weety... an actual update of yours was greatly missed...and that tehcy looks very good...those warm looking lights are someting new i think for your guys! i like them...

as for the two towers... well i can´t count how often i have seen that one...tho i must say the more i see it the harder it is to stay "focused" ...

WOW! THat bolt pistol look so tiny! Really Nice orange lenses!

It was from the era of tiny bolt pistols - they are a bit daftly small in the hands of an astartes - looks less silly on the guardsmen.

Nice techy! Quality lenses, and love the dusty, rusty legs. Saladfingers would approve.

I like rusty spoons...

I feel the model is a poor sculpt, but it has a sense of humour - he is looking at his watch and wondering if its time for a cuppa. Or maybe thinking "sh*t its half past 9 and I forgot to pick up milk and now the shops are closed and I'll have to take my tea black"

Or just possibly he is checking his wrist mounted chronometer to set the timing of the antimatter exposive charge he has laid under the ork camp

Well, this is the future, I think that's a bit more than just a watch. He's updating his facebook status - 'Explrng abndnd warehse, v excitng. Got frnd rqst frm a Mr G Steeler, any1 knw him?'

Never ever accept friend requests from G Steeler.

Lol yes - he has a "bomb timer" app from the app store. He's a techmarine after all. Maybe there is even a miniaturized tea's maid in there so he can have tea anytime he likes.

That would certainly be holy technology to be revered and worshipped.

Tea anytime? That's madness...MADNESS. How could that fit into the GrimDark of the 41st century? Nope...sorry, there has to be suffering...suffering Succotash!

So yep, he can have an automatic Succotash dispenser but not a miniaturised tea slingin' tart.

...tea anytime...pfft!

Let me tell you young jimmy me'lad, you don't know grimdark till you've faced down a dozen angry marines wanting Lapsang Souchang when all you have is a single Earl Grey and a couple of old camomile.


Don't you know Tech marine is a derivation from Tec Marine, which came from Guilliman's 243rd appendix. It was later discovered to be a misprint of Tea Marine, but by then the damage was done. Nevertheless they still seek the mystical Secret of Tea, Continously blueprints.

Tea Marine

LMAO

Possibly something is lost in translation - a tea's maid was a 1980s invention that made tea and had an alarm clock so the tea would be ready when you woke up. Not a female tea making servant...

Hence fitting better into a tea (I mean tech) marine's equipment.

Perhaps... I really want an armored rolls-royce from copplestone castings - they look perfect for the genestealler cult limousine!


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Or maybe the Lanchester 6 x 4 Mk. II Armoured Car - http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=VEH as it is bigger

Lovely tech support guy weets, the orange is a vibrant contrast .

Gotta say i wouldn't turn down that snow cat , been thinking on these for some civilians of praxus

Tech support - lol, I am picturing him in a call center "Have you tried pressing the on button?"

Another plague victim for papa nurgle:
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Very repugnant.

Hey gits - I'm posting your marine tomorrow. I've been very slack on that.

Pustule face there looks very bubonic, nice work.

Actually I quite like the idea of there being a tiny space-fairy in a maid's outfit, with a samovar, all hidden away inside his funky new casio

No worries weety, I'll be excited to get him!