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Vitruvian XVII wrote:Im confused... Why are you celebrating the 4th on the 2nd/3rd!??

Ahh, but Vitruvian, the times of those distant and mysterious lands are not in accordance with our own!
Hope your 4th was a blast Gits! Same to all you Colonialists!

DE's right.... the formal cerebration (i.e. official firework displays) are sometimes off (early) by a day or two depending on scheduling, other things going on (like the baseball game) or which things land on a weekend and which don't. This makes it nice as you can usually attend 2 or 3 Independence Day bashes if you want. We're going to go hang with my brother-in-law tonight as HIS town is having their celebration tonight! I think the weekend aspect is a big part of it, because even though many people have the 4th off... we all have to be to work the next morning which cuts down on the reveling.

We're completely hooked on Madison's fireworks display at the ball field though. Crowd or not we'll be there with the kids next year. Short of the Chicago display on the lake, it's the best I'd ever seen.

Wonderful model gits. Glad that all the hard work and second guessing (thinking of the wings here) have led to such a beautiful model in term of looks and your unique fluff.

Glad you enjoyed your family day out. Off to my own "4th" celebration now as we have befriended some Americans who live near by.. I'm going to try corn bread for the first time! Exiting times

I *love* good corn bread! (I'm not even a southerner...) It can be a bit dry (depending on the style of the corn bread and quality of the cook), so it benefits from some butter. It goes well with sweet flavors, so it's a perfect compliment to BBQ.

I might feel a little awkward if I was celebrating the 4th in Britain if take you are there by your flag." Hi, we didn't like you that much 235 years ago, have a sparkler!"

Well, as a nation we have a tendency to forgive and forget anything as long as it leads to a good night out!

Also, I reckon anyone who wishes to celebrate anything to do with their heritage is entitled to, hell I celebrate St. Patrick's Day and I'm not even a little bit Irish - excuse for a party!

Excellent Point, party on. And as a famous cartoon father said here in America I don't remember how many years ago with the biggest firework he could find, "There's no better way to celebrate the birth of your country than blowing up a small part of it."

DE's right on both counts. I think Britain is our closest ally and has been for quite some time... and there's no residual animosity that I've every seen expressed over the Revolutionary War. It's the same here... St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo have similar status here in the states (though St. Patrick's day is far more established) as they're good excuses to get together with friends and celebrate... which... is the whole purpose of a holiday anyway. People don't get the day off for either of course... but there are a lot of celebrations going on all over the place none-the-less. Usually in cultural enclaves like restaurants.

Gits the Vanguard vet is gorgeous, a whole squad of them will be fantastic!

Thanks my friend, I do look forward to seeing that day come as well. Made good
progress on the terminator librarian today. Can't post from my phone but he's in my gallery if you're interested.

Happy 4th July

Where would you find a 235th birthday card big enough for an entire country? and more importantly how much would international postage be on something like that. either way happy 4th of july

Just imagine the candles on the cake. That'd violate a health and safety reg or two.

I don't think the country could blow out the candles, no blowing out the candles means no wish... no wish means we don't get lightsabers :(

Gitsplitta wrote:DE's right on both counts. I think Britain is our closest ally and has been for quite some time... and there's no residual animosity that I've every seen expressed over the Revolutionary War. It's the same here... St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo have similar status here in the states (though St. Patrick's day is far more established) as they're good excuses to get together with friends and celebrate... which... is the whole purpose of a holiday anyway. People don't get the day off for either of course... but there are a lot of celebrations going on all over the place none-the-less. Usually in cultural enclaves like restaurants.

Yeah this is true, theres no animosity involved (did make watching 'The Patriot' last week a bit......odd loyalty-wise, but its a good film none-the-less )

Happy 4th of July!!

Its cool, you can root for the British, we don't mind

Alfndrate wrote:Its cool, you can root for the British, we don't mind

I did......


only joking

happy 4th of july you americas

Happy the 4th!

And for the record: the corn bread was very different from what I was expecting. Quite dumpling like but sweeter. I was too enthusiastic with liquid celebration too put it mildy so my memory of the event may have been lost in he celebrations.... Good times all round though!

Happy celebrations to whoever celebrated whatever and wherever

I suspect the majority were 4th July, but hey, a celebrations a celebration

And Gits, my respect for you has just gone up another notch after attempting Tranquility camo on the guy getting nommed by the 'nid.

Nice Vanguard Gits, it turned out really nicely!

yeah, in all the congratulating I forgot to point out I thought the Vanguard were awesome

Finally home! :-)

I wanted to thank everyone for their warm greetings and wanted to say "thank you" with a little Independence day gift of my own to you all. Pulled together a few choice shots from the weekend and a (non-patriotic) music selection for you.

First... the music. "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest. I was 10 years old when this song hit the charts and I've loved it every since. Enjoy!




So, our weekend started on Saturday afternoon for a trip to Warner Park to see the league leading Madison Mallards!



11 inning game with the Mallards pulling out a victory at the end... GO MALLARDS! (this is 1-A baseball... college kids basically, but a heck-of-a-lot of fun!) After the game we hang out in the park... eat, drink, check out all the new construction (1.6 million dollar upgrade) and they open up the outfield so we can all lay on the grass to watch the fireworks. We get a fighter jet flyover that is so close it rattles your bones in your body! Then roughly an hour of non-stop fireworks timed to go with a rolling sound track. Stuff from movies, rock tunes, classical... and a little patriotic stuff at the very end for the grand finale. During all this time we could still buy food and drink from vendors wandering through the crowd (just like during the ball game).



The next day we take off for my wife's brothers for a party at his place. Beautiful place. We reveled for several hours, then made our way to his pontoon boat on one of the large lakes in the area to go watch the fireworks display. As we approached the part of the lake where the fireworks are, we joined a flotilla of hundreds and hundreds of boats... I'd never seen anything like it!



And of course we reveled some more. As night drew near the site of all those boats with their running lights was pretty amazing. I should mention that these were the boats *behind* us... the previous picture were the boats in front of us which just got more and more crowded as the evening wore on.



The a little "Venetian Boat Parade" went by with a bunch of boats in various sizes and shapes decorated with lights, streamers and festooned with Old Glory.



So, we reveled some more... and the fireworks began again! Watching fireworks while your on the water is quite an experience as you generally get two-for-one!



After which we retired to my brother-in-law's house for more reveling... (and eventually sleeping).

THEN this morning after breakfast we pack up everyone into the cars and head over to a nearby tiny little town that hosts a HUGE parade. Dozens of fire trucks, classic cars, politicians, a band and God only knows what else. Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to photograph anything (perhaps it was the reveling that started soon after breakfast), but afterwards we went down the street to their Independence Day festival. Where we.... (take a guess???) ... that's right! we reveled some more! Here's a shot of the band at the end of one of the three beer halls.



And finally.... one happy Gitsplitta enjoying a Wisconsin delicacy.




Happy 4th of July everyone! I'm so happy to have had the chance to get to know you all and am honored to share this little corner of my life with you!

Gits



OH, and to make this post somewhat relevant to dakka... here's the progress on my terminator librarian.

That is one beastly shield, and I can only get a glimpse of the force weapon, its awesome

Also, I want a roasted ear of corn now :(

Lol, glad to hear you and the family had a good time!

After a hard fought battle against the trials and tribulations of decisions with the vanguard! you have finally got to the peak of awesomeness! such a good looking model Gits, the wings/jump pack really look fantastic and i love how you've done them it suits the model and is nicely outside the square! the conversion is neat and clean (unlike some of mine!) and the pose is predatory...well,....he IS a Mantis!

all in all, i'm very impressed with him! can't wait to see the Libby though that shield is shaping up to be more awesomeness!


Nerdfest09


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On a side note, are we allowed to pop up a couple of non gaming pics if they're in our blog and not in the gallery? I got my tatt finished wouldn't mind showing some! :-)

@Alf: Thanks. My idea was that a storm shield, in order to do what it does, would need to be a "power shield", and this particular shield model has plenty of space for the effect... but I'm not sure it works. The Force axe is orange so I used the same palate with the shield, but it looks odd with the gold and the blue in the background. I'll finish the libby proper, then reassess the shield color.

@Blackhand: Thank you sir... we did! Quite the weekend, I need to go back to work so I can rest!

@nerdfest: I appreciate that nf. Some of these figures pose challenges at various stages and I don't always find the best solutions... but I think this one worked out well.

Yes, you just can't take up gallery space with them. So these pics are on another site. Unfortunately when you link them like this, you have no control of size, which is why they're all so big (life sized gits eating corn is not what I'd intended)... but it is possible. Now, if you consistently posted pics and content that were not related to the purpose of dakka, I imagine the mods might have something to say about it. But suspect the occasional bit is OK. I figure 1 post in nearly 250 pages of content will probably slide. ;-)

Beautiful vanguard, and the Libbys shield is sweet, colours are great like that, they contrast well with all the blue!

Hope "y'all" () had a good time! Hope you're not too worse for wear after all that revelling!

Happy 4th buddy! We all went out to a diner and ate ridiculous amounts of neat whilst waving tiny flags in y'all's honour (or should that be honor?... No. )

I must confess...I like that Libby's shield. A lot. I like the glow but you have a point Gits. The reds seem odd and a bit stark. Admittedly it's because there's a lot of blues and there will be green tones...

Have you thought of a purple tone? That could give the energy effect without it being lost in the sea of blue, or too stark a contrast.