Recent content by theBaron

The comments you all have posted cover all the reasons why I choose not to watch this series. I'm not a fan of Burns. "The Civil War" was a great documentary, groundbreaking, and it set the standard for documentaries that followed, like "The American Revolution" and "Liberty!" "Baseball"...

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I have to take back my tentative ID of the figure in the slouch hat. The Schutztruppe hat had the right-hand brim turned up, not the left. Prost! Brad

Yeah, there were a number of kit makers, and some figure makers, who made Schutztruppe figures. Monarch made kits, and I think Valiant did, too. And now that I think of it, Pickelhaube Miniatures made finished figures in his catalog. It's hard to tell, but it might be a Pickelhaube mounted...

This was posted in the General Matte forum, but it's probably more relevant in this thread: https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/threads/treefrog-id.85097/ We talked about this years ago, too. I made my own badge in Word by printing the logo and using an Avery badge. Prost! Brad

Is the mounted figure in the first picture part of the set? The hat looks more like the one worn by the German Schutztruppe. Prost! Brad

Yeah. classic toy soldiers-the old glossy and mostly hollowcast pieces made as toys are making that transition from collectible to true antique. There are fewer and fewer people who remember playing with them, for one thing, so demand has been declining. We saw the "I played with that!"...

Would you say, though, George, that among the table-top gamers, interest in painting their figures with more skill and detail has grown over the past 10 years or so? It seems to me that previously, most gamers were satisfied with a general level of painting, enough to look good at a scale...

Is there no setting on the nannyware to list exceptions, or to set it more precisely than just to identify the string of letters? Having to replace ay-ess-ess in words where that string occurs is asinine. If there is no such setting or preference, then, speaking as someone who worked in...

You know what annoys me? Nannyware that makes it necessary to euphemize otherwise innocent words. Prost! Brad

I thought it was interesting that so many games ended with the winners within a score or less of the losers, close games. I don't know that there's a pattern, and that it's just a matter of the odds and repetition. But it always seems remarkable when that happens across the schedule for the...

A series that is decided in the full seven games, and comes down to the wire in extra innings in Game 7, is a good series. Certainly better than a 4-game sweep. I agree that the Dodgers won with starters, and in using them both as starters and relievers. I was amused by the analysts who spoke...

Ah, yes Caberfeidh! I had forgotten about the brand. I have to compare them closely, though. Mine are a little simpler in their detail. Thanks! OK, yeah, the 17th-century chair. The two pieces shaped like an F are the sides, and the turned bar is a stretcher that goes between them in front...

I guess the Puppy Bowl is still on, isn't it? Or the Victoria's Secret Lingerie Bowl? Maybe someone will broadcast an old-school test pattern during halftime. Or it'll be time to load up on seconds from the buffet, or take a long dump till that crap is over and the second half starts. Prost! Brad

This is just saying the obvious, but that's why we were so concerned in previous generations, to ban gambling on professional sports, to keep them as free of gambling as possible. It's more a sign of a decline in our society that we've just accepted sports gambling so readily. We go for the...