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Aww shucks. Heh. Well the night shift is over for me, much to Ladygeek's happiness.... back to long days and long weekends. Being Autumn here now, we seem to be busy every damn weekend now. Soon.

Also, we've been looking at buying a house! One in particular has even caught our eye. complete with an ideal basement with separate, but connected gaming room, and hobby room. more details on that as we know

 dsteingass wrote:
Aww shucks. Heh. Well the night shift is over for me, much to Ladygeek's happiness.... back to long days and long weekends. Being Autumn here now, we seem to be busy every damn weekend now. Soon.

Also, we've been looking at buying a house! One in particular has even caught our eye. complete with an ideal basement with separate, but connected gaming room, and hobby room. more details on that as we know

I feel so envious of you right now wow what a man cave a basement and a joining games room good luck with that

lol when we were looking for our house my 1 stipulation was that i get space for the hobby, got a whole converted garage/granny annex and i love it, every one should have somewhere they can play with their toys in peace

This house is pretty sweet, it's older, built in the 60s, but the back yard is all wooded, and the back of the house is almost entirely covered with big windows. The kitchen is big with an attached hearth room, but the basement..it's pretty sweet. dated with multicolored tile, but it's dated just the way I like it. The hobby room is the current owner's oil painting studio.

Sounds really cool, I'd love to have a gaming room or even a basement but you don't see many of those in the UK.

moving is something we too would need to do in a coupla years... but with our both respective hobbies (I guess you know mine...and my wife does knitting and sewing and all other handmade stuff...) and the plethora of toys of the kids , moving would be like hacking of your own leg......even if we would be able to find a fit and not too pricy apartment...

but I wish you both that you get that house as it sounds like a very good match the way you describe it...!

And a nice backyard for beans......and possibly frank if you got a second dog , just watch for ticks on the pet if you have woods that close to home.

How have you faired with the mantic sprues for buildings dave? I just got an idea for mine today, and then after assembling some I got frustrated by all the trimming.

Well if you have to move, that hounds sounds like a right fit for you and Ladygeek and the 4 legged kid, as well as your hobbying needs, and game needs, ah to have a house with such facilities for the hobby, add a fridge for drinks and chilled snax as well as a cabinet for the dry ones,

Oh moving will be a total pain. But this house is only maybe 2 miles away from here. Same side of town. I already told her that with my Piano- we're hiring a moving company to do the heavy lifting. The packing everything up will be the pain in the azz. Not something we'll be doing in a hurry for sure.

Theo- My bench is a mess of DZ parts right now. there are just soo many damn parts in that box..and you know, it seems like not enough of the right ones! Sort of frustrating. I don't really know what I'm doing with them yet Just playing.

I decided to pick up more of the deadzone bits today and stopped by miniaturemarket on the way home. I got the second set down size as the quadrant has too many things I didn't need/want. But I think all the sets are short on connectors. They really have it designed for small buildings for their system and not set up to have enough connectors go do large flat areas wether vertical of horizontal.

If you can buy the new house and still have a few weeks or a month on your current place then being a couple miles away makes for some easy moving, especially with all your gaming materials that don't pack so well. That's how we moved one of the pastors a few weeks ago, my SUV and another parishioners pick up and multiple trips to his new place and storage place that were both less than five miles from his old residence.

Good luck with getting the house and the move .

Pokes Dave with a stick (not sharp of course)

Hey just stopped by the local train shop near my house and saw this. I know your a gijoe afficianato, but I never saw this


It's the gijoe Saratoga aircraft carrier. It's only about the size of a sky striker, but it has buttons for lights, attack sirens and an elevator on it. It also has joy sticks on the back when you flip up part of the deck and 6-10 mini f14 fighters. I thought it was cool and thought of you. He's not selling it right now, it was his sons, but he's going to consider it and will call me if he decides to sell.

Hmm I've never heard of that before. Is it Micro Machine size?

The planes are about an inch long each, the carrier is about 2' if I remember right.

Found it on YouTube, I noticed it had wheels under it, didn't realize it moved on its own
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z-lzkLgHU8A?autoplay=1[/youtube]

It must've been brand licensed at some point, much like the lunchboxes and HO scale train sets of back in the day. It's got the retro 60's Joe logo rather than the 80s RAH logo, so it probably came out 90s-oughts I'd imagine

When are the Dsteingass lunch boxes and model sets being released?

Dave ...... Dave ....... Dave ....... are you there Dave..........

Dave must be sealed again in his inner sanctum, w/o the code we will have to open the door by thermite burn through.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Dave must be sealed again in his inner sanctum, w/o the code we will have to open the door by thermite burn through.

Heavy explosives is the way to go

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Dave must be sealed again in his inner sanctum, w/o the code we will have to open the door by thermite burn through.

Heavy explosives is the way to go

In fact, a great deal of problems can be resolved with the correct application of explosives!

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Dave must be sealed again in his inner sanctum, w/o the code we will have to open the door by thermite burn through.

Heavy explosives is the way to go

In fact, a great deal of problems can be resolved with the correct application of explosives!

I keep recommending this option myself at work but for some reason it falls on deaf ears

'Ello fellas. I'm here. I'd like to wish you all a belated MErry Christmas and Happy New Year! My workbench and painting bench have been silent. We're still looking for a house to buy with the ideal workspace. No real excuse for not having anything to post though.

 dsteingass wrote:
'Ello fellas. I'm here. I'd like to wish you all a belated MErry Christmas and Happy New Year! My workbench and painting bench have been silent. We're still looking for a house to buy with the ideal workspace. No real excuse for not having anything to post though.

Dave! you are alive! Huzzah!

We miss you Dave. Nice to know you are OK.

Would be nice to hear from you once in a while!

Nuff of that, so how is the job. Obviously struggling in house hunt. How Beans? What you get for Christmas? What do you think of the Star Wars game?

I will shut up now. Did I say we miss you yet?

Comments about missing our Dave can't be made too much...

I cross my fingers for a successful house hunt....

Cheers, vik

You could move to the UK I guess explosives do work after all


Welcome back and happy new year to you too

Happy festive wossnames to you, Dave.
Good to see you are still kicking.

Mmm, Thermite. So simple, so good.

 lone dirty dog wrote:
You could move to the UK I guess explosives do work after all


Welcome back and happy new year to you too

I told you blowing the door out of it's frame would do the trick! EXCELSIOR!

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:
You could move to the UK I guess explosives do work after all


Welcome back and happy new year to you too

I told you blowing the door out of it's frame would do the trick! EXCELSIOR!

I will never doubt you again

Hey guys

There were LITERALLY cobwebs on unfinished projects around here.


However, I do have a little surprise lined up.

What could it be?

What could it be? I call that a bloody life sign for sure...

And mind you, I am no stranger to cobwebs around my own unfinished projects...freaking spiders, having no sense for completing ones work in their behalf...

looks like a bridge tho...? Innit?

Welcome back matey!