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[Steel Penguin]

TY Narses  yep shes good, a small piece of tooth / filling came away, nothing painful or worrying,  just a case of getting more glass ionimer adder after a quick check of the rest of the tooth   

[scooter]

TY Narses  yep shes good, a small piece of tooth / filling came away, nothing painful or worrying,  just a case of getting more glass ionimer adder after a quick check of the rest of the tooth   

I had that happen at dinner one Mother's Day, ages ago with a wisdom tooth.  I just waited until my Guard battalion's summer camp at Ft Drum to blame the rations on it, and had it extracted at one of the base dental clinics when there was still an AMEDD (Army Medical Department) presence on the base.

[Steel Penguin]

TY Narses  yep shes good, a small piece of tooth / filling came away, nothing painful or worrying,  just a case of getting more glass ionimer adder after a quick check of the rest of the tooth   

I had that happen at dinner one Mother's Day, ages ago with a wisdom tooth.  I just waited until my Guard battalion's summer camp at Ft Drum to blame the rations on it, and had it extracted at one of the base dental clinics when there was still an AMEDD (Army Medical Department) presence on the base.

ouch!  glad you got it sorted ok.   

[Steel Penguin]

the 80s brits are done, and wile it was 10 figs im only counting them as 5 for completions sake.  the chally is done assembled and painted, need to put a few decals on and its done  gone for a lighter green main coat, with the standard stripes blotched on in nato black, and then some flat white  the same ( that has a good variance of opacity some some parts are more very pale green ) it looks rather striking, and i intend to do a landy and 2 warriors to go with it, along with the  Athena winter squaddies https://www.athenaminiatures.co.uk/product/british-rifle-section  .  to give a bit more winter  feel to them,  its rather heavy metal for most skirmishes in that form but gives a pair of reinforced squads and  a non too obvious officer,

9 figures 12 pieces of scenery and 3 models

[NARSES2]

Sounds interesting mate 

[Steel Penguin]

the 3 ground zero games hover vehicles are done,   the less gloss varnish drying now,  they are a fun and simple paint  but do look good.
9 figures 12 pieces of scenery and 6 models

ive had a rummage through my airfix operation Herrick stuff amd found that i have a snatch land rover in the pile, so thats been extracted from the pile of potential, and undercoated.  I think i will leave off the decals for the mesh on the windows, as it looks rather busy just on the storage sheet.  but at the moment im feeling good with hobby things, and will have to go into the loft to get the warriors soon ish.

[Steel Penguin]

the landy is rather busier than i thought it would be  having  engine gubbins and extensive underside bits  ( yes i know, highly technical terms    )  and im going to have to read my paint conversion tables carefully as not being a Humbrol user im going to have to convert to Tamiya numbers.
the interior is also rather more detailed than the ( much) older 1:43 scale one i put together years back, which isnt a bad thing either     as that one looked very good at wargames ranges  ( 2` visual range on the table top) even if it looked rather large compared to most other stuff i used, due to that being 1:50 or 1:48.

[Rheged]

the landy is rather busier than i thought it would be  having  engine gubbins and extensive underside bits  ( yes i know, highly technical terms    )  and im going to have to read my paint conversion tables carefully as not being a Humbrol user im going to have to convert to Tamiya numbers.
the interior is also rather more detailed than the ( much) older 1:43 scale one i put together years back, which isnt a bad thing either    as that one looked very good at wargames ranges  ( 2` visual range on the table top) even if it looked rather large compared to most other stuff i used, due to that being 1:50 or 1:48.

A chat to our esteemed colleagues Pellson and Killnoizer  about the extensive underside bits and engine gubbins of the Land Rover Defender  might be helpful.  They are our experts  in this field, having found it necessary to  lean into or crawl underneath the full size  vehicle on occasion.

I don't know if it's true, but there was a rumour that early Land Rovers were painted  RAF cockpit green, the paint having been bought as military surplus material  in 1948 .  If so, it could well be Tamiya  XF71.

[Rick Lowe]

the pile of potential

I like that, as an alternative to The Stash(tm). 

I don't know if it's true, but there was a rumour that early Land Rovers were painted  RAF cockpit green, the paint having been bought as military surplus material  in 1948 .  If so, it could well be Tamiya  XF71.

Something to file under "If it ain't true, it sounds like it should have been." 

[Steel Penguin]

the pile of potential

I like that, as an alternative to The Stash(tm). 

shamelessly stolen from my younger brother, ( for a wargamer the alternative is " the pile of shame" due to the unbuilt unpainted units residing thereof.

I don't know if it's true, but there was a rumour that early Land Rovers were painted  RAF cockpit green, the paint having been bought as military surplus material  in 1948 .  If so, it could well be Tamiya  XF71.

Something to file under "If it ain't true, it sounds like it should have been." 

works for me as well, though mine is rather more modern  in that the troops have SA80s  so it must be after 1984 i think as thats when the troop trials started or post 94 for chally 2 adoption

[Steel Penguin]

ive just finished the commander for the chally so thats going to get varnished momentarily, ive also finished a ScFi shuttle  / lander that i picked up at a show a wile back,  dont know the company who made it but at a guess its a casting from a converted toy,  the half Jerrycans on where door openings would be is rather a give away,  its in ford ice diamond white  so a very pale blue ( or " white with a flick of black" according to my friend who worked in the paint industry)  and the the bottom scrubbed with black and then NATO black paint to give it a burnt from re-entry look,  looks alright and is sufficiently generic it could be on any landing area. 

9 figures 12 pieces of scenery and 8 models

ive got the first two parts of the landy gluing,  lower engine and part of the transmission i think.   so further progress.
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[Steel Penguin]

the landy continues onward ( a statement many owners would no-dought endorse    )  im following the instructions and they do seem to lead an easy road so far, parts come off the sprues easily, and the fitment is good ( i looked at the exhaust pipe and silencers a trifle warily, but they went in well).  the amount of interior is good  but not massively surprising considering the amount you can see in.   so happy there.
slow and fun, i can do.

[kerick]

Sounds good, carry on!

[Rick Lowe]

Sounds good, carry on!

Yuuup! 

[Steel Penguin]

yup, ideedy, will do so.
especially as now the fuel truck has arrived i have something to give a convoy to .... feel