Holiday Jam up

          I am all sorts of jammed up this week. The wife is still half broke. Her mom is back with us. Plus two friends are visiting. They leave and my parents arrive. Then they leave and 9 of her friends are coming for Xmas. Short is I am cleaning three times and cooking two Xmas dinners. All the while playing nice with her friends and not painting or touching of lead men. Yeah, yeah its a sickness I know.
          So what is one to do. I say order a butt load of dudes. Then since work is slow and my customers are off burning up the last of their "use it or lose it vacation time."  I'm painting at work. The most I have ever been paid to paint!

Now if I can only get people to stop breaking my tools, its full speed ahead.

Ebay

          After moving to no where NY the truth is I never play 40k at all. Clearing out more GW and Forge World that has been sitting around since the move. Kind of breaks the heart to see all those dreams and projects go bye, bye. Does that make me a hoarder? Hell yeah, cause whatever I get I will piss away on more lead and scotch.
         So here they are, http://www.ebay.com/sch/folais/m.html?item=121038398121&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

        

Force on Force

          More skinnies. I got a cubic butt load of skinnies and zombies. They are all 20mm from Stan Johanson, and Elhiem. The Elhiem are bad ass.

          These are Johansen's Jihad dudes. Kind of cool. Dirt cheap. Their heads are covered in towels, like those mugs in the CNN pictures from Syria. I am trying to stick to all earthy business casual civilian clothing type colors. Hoping to get that look of a mug so pissed, with no military training picking up a weapon and messing with his government or occupying force. They are not meant to be area specific.

 More of the same in black ninjas get ups.

 I got so more in bound from Wartime Miniatures. Mostly US forces and civilians.

Epic Storm Raptor

          Some dude in the EU made these monsters. They are monsters, it is huge and very heavy. I think old boy had it cast in lead. I need two flight stand as it bent the first one. The base will need some supports added the weight is caving it in.

          Very easy to assemble, clean cast. Only part I had trouble with was the transport arms and the middle to front section connection point.

                      The transport arms;  The slots they fit in where too big. Also the part of the arm that goes in the main body was way too long. Check out the peg topper, outstanding idea. Flight stand, Peg toppers

                     The main body; The tail section was perfect, no gap. The cockpit to middle section was not flat. I sanded, filed, pinned it, green stuffed it. Three different times and it still does not look 100%.

Calling in Sick

Man if your calling in sick, just say your sick and unavailable to work today. There is no need to talk to me directly. A voice message or email is perfectly OK. I don't need some bullshit story, sick voice, coughing in my ear, nor do I need to know what meds you have taken or what time your doctor's visit is. We give ya all sick time for a reason.

There is sick and then there is sick. I am sick cause I want to stay home. I am sick cause I am actually sick. Cool, great, either way I don't care. I must likely will not even fill out the paper work saying your sick.

The only time I would even ever pay attention is if you always call in on Friday or Monday, after the super bowl/ST. Pat's day, before or after a holiday weekend. Don't create a pattern. Don't call in all the time. No one will know, no one cares!

Thursday Night Gaming

          This time we were at Pat's house for a game of Force on Force. George and Fred showed up. Both Jimmy and Larry had to cancel. We played the first demo off of page 112. With all of us playing the same game, I doubled the forces and the size of the table. Fred and George took the USMC fire teams. Pat and I were Hadji. We did screw up and Hadji was re-enforced after the first turn.
          Quick game, we were done before 9. The USMC team kick the ever living crap out of Pat and myself. Even with Fred being trashed before the first turn ended.

The night's greatest moment was when George's dice throw completely missed everything, the tray and the table. The dice tray was against his belly!
 
           We ate and drank more than we played. Which again leads to zero pictures.

Force on Force

          Today some Stan Johansen miniatures 20mm Jihad came. They are just over a dollar a dude. Trucks with skinnies are 8 beans. Great deal. The guy ships the same day as you order. I had mine in my mail box the next day. Very clean casts. Mine had only heavy mold lines on the bottom.

     Here you can see a picture next to a 1/72 Caesar's mini. The Caesar's look taller in the picture, but it is not true. The base of the plastics are much thicker. Which serves me just fine as, in my experience Africians are taller than us and we are taller than Hadji.
     Again I am mounting them to nickles, 5 cents for a heavy base can't be beat. Next the base will be filled in with pink stuff and off to be primed.

 

     What I like most about Stan Johansen's minis are that they look just like the Syrian fighters CNN loves to take pictures of. Just about all are shooting from the hip and none seem to display a proper firing position.

Some WIPs of plastics I am chipping away at.