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Keep listening... it's working!
Anglo-American family and taking the boy to see the Mayflower exhibit in Plymouth this week, we took him to the Mayflower Steps last year - well we ran into it by accident looking for the Aquarium...
Aaron that's beautiful work, genuinely love it
I do love that enormous sea table, play down one end and set a pretty island up the other to look at whilst my opponent is going through his manoeuvre deck once again - new players both of us!
I've had my starter set for a while but lost my opponents in a house move early on.
Now my son is eleven I've got a ready made opponent, I've sold it to my wife as making history fun too....
To...
Hmm,
been drinking the same three beers for thirty years so can't see me changing for nautical fashion guys, favourite tipple is Bacardi 151, a love born when I lived in the States, though it's so...
Wife's Bday...
No chance of commemorating anything but national shoes, handbags, hats, jewelry and spa voucher day...
Fred Jane has no chance
Hiroshima has no chance
One man's corn is another man's want it for my own ...got to unashamedly steal that!
Had half a memory and so just dug in the draw and found a polystyrene skull that flashes red eyes and gives a...
Both pieces really add to the table, are those yellow leds in the eyes of skull island? I do like the subtlety of the image, it allows you to get away with the cheeky reference heh
That's what they told me about Johnny Garlic's chicken Rob..
The heatgun idea is very clever Rob, you're basically turning an outer layer of the expanded polystyrene back into non-expanded whilst keeping the inner bulk of the material light. The outer layer...
I'd seen the fortifications post but missed that gorgeous little port, they're a joy and an inspiration both
It's a fine line between poly vinyl ACRYLATE (pva) glue and a thick ACRYLIC hobby paint, you're definitely doing the same job TexaS and that stuff is made to cover well in one coat.
Don't tell the...
Haven't had any issues with colours fading, but then I'd always paint porous filler with watered PVA (white) woodglue (2 coats watered 3:1 works well), then begin your paintjob on top of that.
That...
Thanks TexaS, if I didn't know I made them all myself I'd suspect I had some of your work in my small hills box heh
Really like your tall island, immediately had me thinking of a place I'd gone to...
I've used expanded polystyrene to make hills and cliffs in the past, I tend to use 2 part car body filler on top in a very similar way to your wall filler, it's cheap for the amount of material and...
Always wanted a reason to lay in wait for caravans!
I'll need a tractor, 20yds of baling wire, the big camo net and 2 blindfolds....
That's really great work Vol, problem solved. I'm going to try...
That's definitely the exact same approach to creating the coastline I had in mind. It'll be a while before I attempt anything as major as your fort or harbour though heh
For now I'll stick to much...
Very pretty indeed, on these I don't find the rigging too intrusive either, encourages me to replace the ships with Langdon, magnetising the original SOG bases so they can be lifted off and then make...
Completely new to the game and models.
Starter set arrived from ebay, well wrapped and complete. He'd washed the models black for the RN and brown for the dreadful French to easily differentiate...
Thanks all, appreciate the warm welcome and the wealth of first class info to be found here
phil
Got tons of these ships when various sub-genres of it went out of fashion
The masts do break occaisionally so I add a small "puff" of cotton wool to represent fire/destruction rather than pulling...
Hello,
new player just picked up the starter set.
Haven't played any Napoleonic naval since Action Under Sail in the eighties.
Prettiest simulations of extreme brutality I've ever found heh
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