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Says right below my avatar, but just for the hell of it, I'm in BC

I like how the gaming table dominates the room... as it should.

If my wife's doll collection didn't take up the whole dining room, I'd have a table in the house. But I had to give her one room... I've got terrain and gaming crap in almost every room. Bless her.

Nowhere close to ohio then... although hockey is popular here too. you should see Lacrosse though. think hockey on grass with lighter pads and you throw and catch a ball rather than using a puck. you can hit just as hard as hockey though. a lot of the people around here who play hockey also play lacrosse, so I think you would like it.

Dude, I know what Lacrosse is. Hell, French Canadians gave it that name when they stole it from the Natives

Pray tell, how did you do the battle damage on the veteran sergeant?

Pray tell, how did you do the battle damage on the veteran sergeant?

Lovely looking abode, gaming aspect everywhere, also a similar bottle collection to what I have going on.

Looking forward to more models from you for sure

Your armies are awesome, and so is your terrain! Good job!

Metallifan, if I ever end up in Canada, we are gaming.

Loving the army still.

metallifan wrote:
My small (though still increasing) beer bottle collection:

I totally have those F4 and Mig19 toy planes back home. That line of toys was awesome. Had the jets, P51 and FW190, Tiger I, AAVP, C130 Gunship and a few sets of infantry.
Good times. Wish I could remember the name of the line.

You lose points for not having a single Keiths bottle. As a Canadian you have no excuse for not having tried the "Pride of Nova Scota".

Alexander Keiths is one of the best beer's I've ever had.

Also I'm going to a brewfest as my grad present.

Nowlan wrote:

You lose points for not having a single Keiths bottle. As a Canadian you have no excuse for not having tried the "Pride of Nova Scota".

Sure I have an excuse. It's gross. I've had it. There's nothing to be proud of. It's better than Kokanee mind you, but it's not as good as folks seem to think. It's on par with Okanagan Spring which any Canadian from BC, or no further East than Edmonchuk or Crapgary, knows is crap

metallifan wrote:It's gross. I've had it. There's nothing to be proud of.

Heresy!

Hey I still said it's better than Kokanee.

metallifan wrote:Hey I still said it's better than Kokanee.

Bah! you colonials and your bizarre concoctions, everyone knows you can't beat a good cider.

Lord Harrab wrote:Bah! you colonials

The irony of this is almost unbearable

And I do drink Cider, but it's a Christmas thing. Hot Cider with Rum. Or Maple Whiskey. Mmmmm. Is it winter and -35C yet?

metallifan wrote:

Lord Harrab wrote:Bah! you colonials

The irony of this is almost unbearable

And I do drink Cider, but it's a Christmas thing. Hot Cider with Rum. Or Maple Whiskey. Mmmmm. Is it winter and -35C yet?

actually, i'm English. I'm just erm.... inspecting New ZEaland, yes, on the queens orders, pip pip!

You've been inspecting it for almost a year. You work slower than a Cuban construction crew!


Back on track I'll get pictures of that Dread and the Russes sometime. I think I might even have taken them already and I just haven't uploaded... Hm... Must find out now.

metallifan wrote:

My small (though still increasing) beer bottle collection:

K... Guinness good.....MGD? bad ...Bud lightlime? Bad .....Mickeys Epic

Not a bad beer collection. If I may recomend to you: Monkshine or the best beer you will ever have Chezchvar (i belive thats how its spelled) Could still be labeled as Budvar but I think Bud may have nipped that in the butt.

The only people who MIGHT possibly educate Canadians on Beer is Aussies.

POSSIBLY.(Though I doubt it!)

Love the Blog, love your work. Kudos to you Homie!

Boyofdestiny205 wrote:K... Guinness good.....MGD? bad ...Bud lightlime? Bad .....Mickeys Epic

Not a bad beer collection. If I may recomend to you: Monkshine or the best beer you will ever have Chezchvar (i belive thats how its spelled) Could still be labeled as Budvar but I think Bud may have nipped that in the butt.

We have a Gov't Liquor store here that has two whole wall-fridges devoted to imports. There's something like 250 different imported brands. I'm slowly making my way across the shelf. The MGD, Kokannee, and Bud Light bottles are just fillers. Some bottles that deserve a spot are...

A) A grape beer from the Netherlands. Too sweet for the beer drinker in me, but I could totally get black-out drunk on the stuff without puking.

B) The 40-sized jugs of beer from Quebec. Nasty swill, but you get 8 beers worth in one jug for about half the price.

C) Kamloops Draft. It's not too bad, and I'm all for supporting local economy. It's getting an int'l name too - you can find it in some northern areas of Washington State

D) The entire selection of German Beers. Because over half of them are stronger than 10%. The weakest brand we could find was 9.5%

E) And of course, U-Brew. Best $100 you'll ever spend. Beer that tastes like Corn-Chips and tends to be stronger than most mainstream brands? Epic Win.

Happy Canada day! To start off the day in honour of our nation and it's confederation on June 1st, 1867, I've begun painting a Cadian wearing CADPAT digital camoflage. Pictures of him will follow upon completion.


Alright, better post this before bed! Happy Birthday Canada!

My Canadian Cadian, wearing CADPAT uniform and Tac-Vest as promised:






Don't mind the mold lines. I actually repainted him from the earlier 90's NATO Scheme uniform. How's that for irony?


And, of course, MOAR TANKS:






And Ze Dreadnazi:


Goodnight meow!

Wow, i like that guardsman and his all over camo, i don't see it often. Perhaps i should adopt a style like that.

I always like seeing national camo schemes done well

I find it very interesting to compare the colours selected between countries.

Hah, CADPAT Cadian reminds me of my buddy, who is painting his Tau with the same digital tigerstripe scheme as our ABUs

Interesting fact about the ACU and MARPAT Patterns actually...

Contrary to popular belief, it turns out that they're both recoloured and rearranged versions of CADPAT. They aren't actually unique patterns. You can tell by looking at the camo patterns - In the same way that the US BDU of the 80's and 90's had a recurring pattern, MARPAT and the ACU both feature some very distinct pattern sections found on CADPAT. I found that pretty interesting.

lol except the ABU is totally different from the ACU. Similar color scheme, but whereas the ACU is lolrandom pixels, the ABU (Airman Battle Uniform) is "digital tigerstripe" basically a digitized sand-green version of the old Nam era camo uniform.

*sigh* when I think about just how close the Air Force came to having Multicam as our duty uniform...

You Yanks have too many uniforms. LFN waiting to happen if you ask me. Army and Airforce both use CADPAT here. The Navy gets shunned, but that's okay. Everyone ignores the Navy

Is the ABU the same stripe as MARPAT? Because if so...

And what handheld magical death factory are you carrying in THIS picture? It's hard to tell. I see a wooden stock... I'm guessing AK, if that's a strap blocking the rest of it? Damn you. /Jealousy.

ABU and MARPAT are two different patterns. Navy has MARPAT, only theirs is inexplicably blue.

And in this pic I am holding the same PSL rifle as in my last one, I just have it help up so everyone can see the rugged manliness that is my face

*Facedesk*