Bored Tonight...Post a Diorama, LOL (4 Viewers)
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Thanks for all the praise Gentlemen, I appreciate it very much .It's nice to know
people like ones efforts.
A museum is in order. I have the space, timbers, steel for at least beginning construction.I do need a place for work, production and dioramas.It's so far just a dream but it is a goal that could be realized .Maybe this summer I'll get it going.I like to do things myself but I may have to hire it out .Take care of your back guys!
My Napoleonics have not been out of their barracks since last June 18.
Clearing the decks here for a Peninsula set up this weekend{ I hope} so I may have some images of a siege posted before too long.
Thanks again folks
Harold
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people like ones efforts.
A museum is in order. I have the space, timbers, steel for at least beginning construction.I do need a place for work, production and dioramas.It's so far just a dream but it is a goal that could be realized .Maybe this summer I'll get it going.I like to do things myself but I may have to hire it out .Take care of your back guys!
My Napoleonics have not been out of their barracks since last June 18.
Clearing the decks here for a Peninsula set up this weekend{ I hope} so I may have some images of a siege posted before too long.
Thanks again folks
Harold
FUBARRRR
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Fubar
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John, You know you are always welcome here.Just hop a flight to PDX and I'll swing by in the halftrack and give you a lift to the asylum. Just got back from the farm and was eyeballing{ AGAIN} the spot where I want the building. Theres still a pile of channel and angle irons in the way { I mean a PILE} and some RR Car chassis. My old mans a real Packrat. Almost got some slings and shackles to rig it up and drag it away with one of the lifts.Grounds pretty soft so i knew I'd get stuck.The 251 is all wrapped up for the winter and I decided I would take all the tarps off and use that.Of course BIG BLACK Clouds approaching.Heck with it.Sunny days around the corner.
Pop thinks I'm crazy.Wonder what his first clue was?
FUBAR
Pop thinks I'm crazy.Wonder what his first clue was?
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Yeah, I have several different felt sections I bought at the fabric store plus foam hills and such I cut out with a hotwire and flocked.Can make about any terrain I need.Crops, haven't bothered with.
Since it's St. Patricks day I thought I would post a pic of my small Irish Dark ages force. I only did 1 60 figure warband for an Arthurian trip I was into for a while.
My ancestors were not from the Isles. They Pludered them!
Ragnar
Since it's St. Patricks day I thought I would post a pic of my small Irish Dark ages force. I only did 1 60 figure warband for an Arthurian trip I was into for a while.
My ancestors were not from the Isles. They Pludered them!
Ragnar
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Fubar,
You may be a Longshoreman for the adult portion of your life, but it is clear that you have been a artist throughout your entire life. What a remarkable and productive talent you have! Not only will I come to see your museum but, if I had the talents and skills, I would help you build that musuem! You are truly gifted! You cannot imagine how much I would like to see the actual figures you have painted and the dioramas you have constructed.
My greatest compliments!
Warmest personal regards,
Pat
You may be a Longshoreman for the adult portion of your life, but it is clear that you have been a artist throughout your entire life. What a remarkable and productive talent you have! Not only will I come to see your museum but, if I had the talents and skills, I would help you build that musuem! You are truly gifted! You cannot imagine how much I would like to see the actual figures you have painted and the dioramas you have constructed.
My greatest compliments!
Warmest personal regards,
Pat
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I agree with Pat completely. Michael
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Bored last nite, fought a wargame with my young friend from the WW2 reenactment group. Saratoga, sorta.Sold off a painted 25mm army and have been picking up AWI sets and lots here and there for a few months.Thanks to Mike at ALMA miniatures in the UK. I bought row upon row of LOOSE mint Britians from him at a VERY good rate.He really helped me put the units together!
British held the redoubt { by a hair}and drove off { more like destroyed} the American center, while the British Light infantry tied up and isolated the American left.Fun evening. Wanted to enjoy the collection before I put it away to do a Peninsula siege. Danny boy wants a rematch.Fine, I'll be the Americans next time!
Still need some fine tuning on the troops, need a few of this and that.I'll have 2 King and Country British Line unit of 24. Going to wait until those 2 new figures they show are out!
The redoubt is a CTS bunker hill piece, with several other Conte Alamo PARTS and some Hobby bunker 3 pc gabions.Could have made it bigger, the better part of the table but I wanted some field action and manuver .
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British held the redoubt { by a hair}and drove off { more like destroyed} the American center, while the British Light infantry tied up and isolated the American left.Fun evening. Wanted to enjoy the collection before I put it away to do a Peninsula siege. Danny boy wants a rematch.Fine, I'll be the Americans next time!
Still need some fine tuning on the troops, need a few of this and that.I'll have 2 King and Country British Line unit of 24. Going to wait until those 2 new figures they show are out!
The redoubt is a CTS bunker hill piece, with several other Conte Alamo PARTS and some Hobby bunker 3 pc gabions.Could have made it bigger, the better part of the table but I wanted some field action and manuver .
Fubar
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Okay, somehow with my limited puter expertise I managed to get 2 images in the same post. Lets see if I can do it again, this time on purpose!
: BY DANG I THINK I T WORKED!eek:
Some of you will probably shriek out loud but I GLUED one of my CONTE American Militia Standard bearers to a steel base and terrained it.He just WOULD NOT STAND UP. The 2 KC Kings and Regimental colorbearers are in for the same treatment.
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: BY DANG I THINK I T WORKED!eek: Some of you will probably shriek out loud but I GLUED one of my CONTE American Militia Standard bearers to a steel base and terrained it.He just WOULD NOT STAND UP. The 2 KC Kings and Regimental colorbearers are in for the same treatment.
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Wow Fubar!!!!
You're the best.
Carlos
You're the best.
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FUBAR you are dangerous to my wallet. Now look at what you've done. I want to start on the AR series. Man-oh-man, what am I going to do? Michael
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Yes, I am a bad influence, but in a good way.I wish I could influence my friends to take up 54mm. One of my good buddies did start collecting 54mm Conte ACW plastics. I showed him some conversions, and it wasn't long before he was merrily whacking figures apart to make different poses.Maybe this summer we'll find time to display both our collections in a massive display.
Panda1, I agree. WW2 is of intense interest and always has been, theres just no way { in my opinian} that it can compete with the visual splendor, color and Martial glory of massed Horse and musket period troops and nice terrain.
I have been fascinated with Napoleonics since I was a young lad and saw a calender, poster, maybe it was a puzzle glued together of Highlanders in Square hanging in a FEED and Tack store of all places.
The place smelled of leather, had lots of AMERICAN horseman type illustrations hanging about, John Deere farm toys and rows of { I think Bryertons?} horses, Elk, Bulls ect.Even some Britians Plastics stuf like A stables etc. Hardwood floors creaked when you walked around.
I could always be found standing in front of that Waterloo illustration.I was always seeking out books on Military subject with paintings so I could DRAW them.Was always drawing in class and always behind in my work!
Ahh, The good old days are gone forever.
FUBAR
Panda1, I agree. WW2 is of intense interest and always has been, theres just no way { in my opinian} that it can compete with the visual splendor, color and Martial glory of massed Horse and musket period troops and nice terrain.
I have been fascinated with Napoleonics since I was a young lad and saw a calender, poster, maybe it was a puzzle glued together of Highlanders in Square hanging in a FEED and Tack store of all places.
The place smelled of leather, had lots of AMERICAN horseman type illustrations hanging about, John Deere farm toys and rows of { I think Bryertons?} horses, Elk, Bulls ect.Even some Britians Plastics stuf like A stables etc. Hardwood floors creaked when you walked around.
I could always be found standing in front of that Waterloo illustration.I was always seeking out books on Military subject with paintings so I could DRAW them.Was always drawing in class and always behind in my work!
Ahh, The good old days are gone forever.
FUBAR
I'm with you Fubar, when I was younger, I absolutely hated reading because, I had never found a book that interested me and I could not bring myself to read just any old book to do book reports. My mother was worried that I would never learn to read. I then came across a book on Waterloo in the library that had a painting of the Currassiers charging the squares. I read that book and spent alot of time looking at that picture. I was into 1/72 Airfix then and they began to produce their Napoleonic figs about that time (Highlanders & Currassiers came 1st, I believe) and the timing couldn't have been more perfect. I'm still hoping that someone finds the missing 2 hours of Sergi Bondarchuk's Waterloo and they put it out on DVD.
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Fubar,
Brilliant displays, remind me of when I used to wargame years ago, except I was using 25mm figures. Napoleonics was a favourite of mine along with the Seven Years War. I was also into the Colonial theme quite a bit and had large armies of Dervishes and a few British to beat them with. Nothing like a Gunboat and a few Maxim guns before dinner!! I used to take lots of photos of my games, so I will try a find a few and scan them, I know that they are not 54mm toy soldiers as such but I would welcome your comments.
Keep them coming.
Regards
Jeff
Brilliant displays, remind me of when I used to wargame years ago, except I was using 25mm figures. Napoleonics was a favourite of mine along with the Seven Years War. I was also into the Colonial theme quite a bit and had large armies of Dervishes and a few British to beat them with. Nothing like a Gunboat and a few Maxim guns before dinner!! I used to take lots of photos of my games, so I will try a find a few and scan them, I know that they are not 54mm toy soldiers as such but I would welcome your comments.
Keep them coming.
Regards
Jeff