TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 41)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

This weeks miniature is another offering from Hasslefree, a buxom young lady who goes by the name of “Yilsa The Believable” (her sister is Unbelievable and you will get to see her soon!).  The figure was one of a few I didn’t manage to get done in time for the Fembruary challenge.  Doubtless the others will follow in the weeks ahead.  Of the figures I purchased I’m sorry to say Yilsa is my least favourite but you can’t win them all.

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Coronavirus

The way I see it there are two sides to the Coronavirus situation, the serious side and the how do I exploit the situation side.

On the serious side people are dying.  People of a certain age and those with underlying health conditions are it would appear among the most vulnerable.  My son has Cystic Fibrosis and is very much in the high risk group.  He also works in a Supermarket so there is no hiding from the general public and keeping his head down.  Recent government guidelines though are such that my family and I will be going into a 12 week period of self isolation.  It is a concern and as parents it worries the life out of She Who Must Be Obeyed and I a great deal.

There is also my ageing mum (88) and dad (93) to be concerned about as well as my young daughter.  SWMBO and I are now in our 60’s as is my brother and his wife.  We are not of course unique but like everyone else we are it seems powerless to do anything about the matter other than follow the advice we have been given.  Our fate lies in the hands of God or whatever you chose to believe in.

It doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom though.  Every cloud has a silver lining.  Whilst some people have elected to stock pile hand gels, toilet paper, tissues and food I have placed numerous orders for vast quantities of figures.  SWMBO didn’t even flinch when I told her I had just spent over £250.00   I have no intention of being bored in isolation.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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This week TIM has been listening to …

Buddy Holly.

As I have said on previous occasions my music taste is wide and varied, from Classical to Rap and everything in between.  Every generations throws up its mix of great and shit music.  Born in 1957 I missed out on what I think was one of the greatest periods in music, good old fashioned Rock and Roll  The American High School era of the 1950’s would be a period I would like to visit if I had a time machine.  Who knows, in parallel universe maybe I am there already having the time of my life!

So why Buddy Holly this week?  Well a few days ago I went to the Wharf in Tavistock a wonderful small venue where tribute bands regularly play and She Who Must Be Obeyed and I went to see Buddy Holly and the Cricketers.  They are an acclaimed band and were simply awesome.  When they played Rave On I was in my element.

The link below is from the movie The Buddy Holly Story starring a very young Gary Busey.  The clip is when the band, the first white act, went to play at the Apollo to a black audience.  It is a legendary moment in rock history.  Three short tracks with Rave On third up.

Sadly, as sung by Don McLean in American Pie, the music died on the 3rd February 1959.

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This week TIM has been watching …

American Graffiti.

Sticking with the Rock and Roll 1950’s vibe I just felt compelled to get this one out of the cupboard.  A classic movie featuring an awesome sound track (although with some poetic license used by director George Lucas ).  Interestingly both this film and The Buddy Holly story star Charles Martin Smith.

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Remember …

In the best interests of getting your day off to a positive start try to begin with “Good Morning” rather than “Here we Fucking Go Again!”

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 40)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

This weeks figure, a 28mm sculpt of a Rat Catcher, comes from “Other World” miniatures.  Originally when I bought this figure I had other plans for it but it was so long ago that I had forgotten what that was so I just painted him and put him on a 25mm base!  It’s an age thing.  If I ever do remember then I guess I will have to buy the figure again.

The base, not clear from these images, was constructed using coffee stirrers to make a wooden floor.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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Time for a Project?

Just lately I have been painting stand alone figures and and a few vignettes which have required a bit more base work.  It has all been fun and I have enjoyed what I have done and am looking forward to doing what I have lined up on my desk still to do.  However, I recently got the urge to embark on something a little bit bigger.  The driving force behind this is Telford in November.

After last years surprising success I am keen to enter a couple of things for this year, especially in the Fantasy Diorama category which I was lucky enough to win gold in.  I remain convinced that part of the reason for that success was entering something which was a little different.  If I am to stand a chance this year I feel I need to hit the same note again.  Having been racking my brains I came up with two ideas.  I favor one far than the other not least of all because it will have more detail in it.

Having had the ideas the challenge was on to find the right figures and determine how to base them.  I have had a few ideas for the basing and have managed to find appropriate figures for the better of the two ideas.  Work on it has now begun.  It will I suspect feature several WIP posts due to drying time and the such like but I will try to spread these out with other bits and bobs as I go along.

For now I only have a working title, I am currently going with “OMG!”  Maybe the title will stick, maybe it wont but for now at least I will leave it with you to consider what I might have in mind.  The first installment should get posted this coming Saturday.

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This week TIM has been listening to …

Cat Stevens and “Where do the Children Play?”.

Now before he went and changed his name to Yousef something or other and became a bit weird good old Cat had a few good tunes in him, several quiet deep and meaningful such as this one.  Clearly not everyone’s cup of tea but as I have said on previous occasions my music taste is very, very wide and varied.

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This week TIM has been watching …

“In The Heat of the Night”.  A classic film from 1967 starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.  A ground making film for its day and remembered by those who have seen it for the immortal line “They call me mister Tibbs”.

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Remember …

If you are ever chased by a pack of taxidermists don’t play dead.

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 39)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

After spending time painting female figures for Fembruary I decided I needed a change.  I turned to a Hasslefree figure based on the Simon Pegg charachter in Shaun of the Dead.  At some point I will get round to doing a couple of zombie dioramas as I think they would be fun.  I don’t think you can over do the blood on a zombie based figure.

Not entirely sure why his trousers look glossy in the photo’s as they are anything but in reality.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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Retail Therapy

Regular readers will recall that a few weeks ago I mentioned it was my intention to make a concerted effort to clear my backlog of miniatures and resist any temptation to buy more until attending Salute in April.  To be fair it was going well with the exception of a minor but “essential” purchase which incurred the wrath of She Who Must Be Obeyed.  But then it started raining.  Then it rained some more but with the added bonus of 80 mile an hour winds.  This is how it has been for the entire month of February and looks like continuing throughout March if the weather forecast can be trusted which for bad weather predictions it can be.

Compared to some I have no grounds for complaint.  We, unlike a great many people, have not had our house flooded and given our position I would like to think we are unlikely to do so.  Nevertheless with no hold up in the weather damage is being caused and my list of out door jobs is growing and all I can do is watch.  Fortunatley I do not have to go to work in it but I do need to venture out to walk the dog twice a day.  Getting wet is one thing but continually putting on wet walking clothing because it is impossible to get them dry is unpleasant.  Each day is Ground Hog day.  Deja Vu, or as I now prefer to call it Deja Poo, the feeling you have seen this shit before!   

The thing is it has now become all rather depressing.  I am in a negative spiral with few signs of an imminent turn around.  At my age this is a potentially dangerous situation with serious health implications and so I poured my feelings out to SWMBO over a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit.  She was sympathetic, she understood, she cared.  After such an emotional out pouring and before the postman was due to arrive I figured now was the perfect time to mention that I had spent a couple of hundred quid on hobby therapy.

I was wrong.

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This week TIM has been listening to …

Robbie Williams.  I do like a bit of Robbie everyy now and then.  Like Freddie Mercury he is an entertainer who can work the audience.  I rather like the opening sequence of this video.

I appreciate concerts and huge musical events take place all over the world but, and at the risk of being very biased, I do think us Brits do it better than most.

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This week TIM has been watching …

“The Split” – Series One and Two on BBC iPlayer.  After watching Nicola Walker in numerous TV programmes over the years, all of which are excellent, I have decided I have a thing for her.  I expect it’s mutual.

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Remember …

According to Chemistry alcohol is a solution.

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 38)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

This weeks miniature is another female figure from Hasslefree and the last for Fembruary.  The little lady goes by the name of “Katarina”.  A sexy temptress for sure but clearly a more modern woman and not one to be messed with given the knife she is carrying with an intent to use.

Photo’s below of Katrina and a group shot of the previous three ladies.  As a non gamer I cannot say how they fit into that world but as a figure painter they are all quite different in their own way and were fun to paint.  Make of them what you will.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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Go To Suppliers

Although Salute is still more than a month away I thought I ought to start making a list of things, figures inparticular, that I would like to buy if the traders are at the event and have the necessary stock.  I decided to start with a list of suppliers who to date have never let me down, both in terms of quality and service.  My list of 10 will be refined in due course as I remember other suppliers but in the meanwhile I thought I would share it with you.

If you have a moment I would be delighted to know what suppliers you would recommend so I can check them out before and at the show.  Cheers.

Current top 10 suppliers.  In no particular order …

  1. Knuckleduster – Gunfighters Ball
  2. Hasslefree
  3. Other World Miniatures
  4. Reaper
  5. Demented Games – Twisted Miniatures
  6. Crooked Dice
  7. Lead Adventures
  8. Gripping Beast
  9. North Star
  10. Empress Miniatures

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This week TIM has been listening to …

“Layla” by Derek and the Dominos.  Eric Clapton at his best.

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This week TIM has been watching …

“Seven” starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.

I originally saw this film in Hollywood in 1995 when She Who Must Be Obeyed and I made our last trip to the USA before our son was born the following year.  Very dark, quite gruesome and SWMBO hated it.  She can be hard to please.  I remember taking her to see Apocolypse Now for her 21st and she didn’t like that either.

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Remember …

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance – the 5 stages of waking up!

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 37)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

Another post and another female figure, well it is Fembruary after all.

What I have tried to do in my own little way is to try to present the female figure in a small variety ways to meet the brief from Alex of the Leadballoony  – “… I’m just looking for awesome portrayals of the feminine in miniature form, as part of an ongoing conversation about how women are presented within our hobby”.

First up we had the scantily clad “Shayda”, a dominant and intimidating female figure clearly designed to be sexy.  Sex sells and rightly or wrongly so do these Hasslefree figures.  “Rowena” by comparison was dressed from top to bottom with no flesh on show, very much the victorian style.  Hard to believe that the glimpse of a female ankle 120 years or so ago was enough to give a young lad an erection.  This post we have “Alyx”, another depiction entirely.  Clearly not sexy unless you are paedophile, but with a disturbing attitude unless you consider armed school girls normal.

Doubtless there is much discussion to be had on these and other figures in terms of how they present females in the modelling world.  Are they are acceptable or do they exploit?  Well I’m not the sculptor, I only bought them.  For my part there is a danger, as there is with too many things in my opinion, to look far to deeply and over analyse the subject.  For my part I can only say that as a figure painter I purchased them because I liked them and thought they would be fun to paint.  Oh, and because  “Shayda” had a nice chest and reminded me of a girl I once dated. 😉

With over a week of February left there might be another female figure or two to follow.  Meanwhile photo’s of “Alyx” below.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

For Wudugust, a Scotsman with a sense of humour …

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This week TIM has been listening to …

“Gracelands” by Paul Simon.  An album which was a huge hit when it was released and one I haven’t listened too for a long time.  Still great and glad I dug it out.  Mustn’t leave it so long next time.  I like the whole album but this was the official single if I recall correctly.  Nice bit of lip syncing by Chevy Chase.

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This week TIM has been watching …

“The Outlaw Josey Wales” starring Clint Eastwood.

As I haven’t painted a cowboy figure in a little while I thought I ought to at least watch a Western film just to keep my brother happy.  They don’t come much better than this one.

 

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Remember …

The next time your wife gets angry, drape a towel over her shoulders (like a cape) and say “Now you’re SUPER ANGRY”.  Maybe she’ll laugh.   Maybe you’ll die.

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 36)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

This week we have another 28mm figure from Hasslefree Miniatures.  This one goes by the name of “Shayda Diovol”.

Now according to IRO, who seems to have gone all lardy-dar, the Fembruary challenge shouldn’t include scantily clad females, however, if you look at the rules set down by Alex no such restrictions apply.  Clearly IRO is just sucking up to his female following oblivious of the fact that they have him worked out.  Women are not easily fooled.

Now “Shayda” may well be scantily dressed but she is not a girl to be messed with.  Never underestimate a woman who has a bigger chopper than you.    

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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Fingers Crossed

I promised She Who Must Be Obeyed that after Christmas I wouldn’t buy any more figures.  She was right to point out that I have a very large pile of forgotten figures and that it was high time I began to do them.  But then I remembered that nearly 38 years ago she promised to love, honour and obey me and I realised that my promise was there to be broken just like hers.

With that in mind I went and bought some new figures and earlier this week I took delivery of four figures from Lead Adventure Miniatures, a company based in Germany who I had never used before.  They do a very nice Steampunk range and the words “Limited Quantity” were enough to send me into panic mode and place an immediate order.  Just as well because two of the figures have now been labled “Sold Out”.  Proof indeed that if you see it and want it you should buy it.

Needless to say SWMBO spotted the recent acquisitions and questioned the value of my promise to her.  Bravely I argued that she too had made a promise 38 years ago to obey me and had rarely ever done so.  It seems when you make a promise with your fingers crossed behind your back it doesn’t count.  I need to remember that.

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This week TIM has been listening to …

Rod Stewart  and “Maggie May”.  This is a Top of the Pops mimed version from 1971.

I do like a bit or Rod and he has had his share of classic songs.  This track is one of my all time favourite songs.  I love the song itself but it holds a great many memories.  In our day my mates and I would always look for this record on a pub Juke Box and give it our all after a good few beers!

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This week TIM has been watching …

“Spartacus” – the classic 1960’s version starring the late Kirk Douglas.  Following his death last week it seemed appropriate to watch this awesome film.

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, “I’m Spartacus”.

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Remember …

When you get dressed in the morning try to remember that if you die what you are wearing will be your ghost outfit for ever!

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 35)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

Every now and then along comes a figure that I think should not only be in my collection but in everyone else’s too.  Such a figure is Frank”, a 28mm figure produced by Hasslefree.  I decided  to give him a smiley face T-Shirt, it some how seemed appropriate.

I painted this figure on behalf of my uncle and am dedicating it to the Dail Mail newspaper.  You will understand why when you read the article further below called Korea, The Forgotten War.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

It might interest you to know that She who Must Be Obeyed is part Irish!

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Korea, The Forgotten War

For a change a serious article.

My fathers brother and my undle, Edgar Green, is the National Secretary for the British Korean war Veterans Association.  He went to Korea with the Middlesex Regiment, 27th Brigade.  He is 88 years old, 5 years younger than my dad and they are both still alive and kicking.

Edgar, on behalf of his Association and its ever dwindling numbers, wrote to the Daily Mail to see if they would publish the below letter in their newspaper given the 70th Anniversary of the Korean War.  They didn’t want to know.  Despite the rather limted audience his words will receive I nevertheless thought I would publish it here.

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The Forgotten Veterans of the Forgotten War

This year of 2020 marks the 70th Anniversary since British Land Forces were sent to Korea.  During the three years that we were involved around 100,000 young men served there of which 1,078 paid the supreme price and remain in that land so far from their homes.

Going through the records of those that paid the price they were 50% National Service men and 50% Regulars.  We have always been known as the Forgotten Veterans of the Forgotten War.  On Remembrance Sunday you never hear a word about us in the BBC coverage.  It is through this that so many of us don’t march as a group but do so with our own Regiments.

Is it not possible for one of your writers to do something for all of those that remain in the Far Off Land?  Or will they wait until the last of us have passed on to the Green Fields.

This Poem say’s it all for us.

Korea

We didn’t do much talking

We didn’t make a fuss

But Korea really happened

So Please Remember Us

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We all just did our duty

But didn’t win or lose

A victory was denied of us

But we never got to choose

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We all roasted in the Summer

In the Winter damn near force

Walking back from the Yalu

With our blacken toes

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Like the Surf, the enemy kept coming

With their bugles in the night

And we fired into their masses

Praying for the light

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All of us just had to be there

And so many of us died

But now were all but half forgotten

No one remember how we tried

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We grow fewer with the years now

And still don’t raise a fuss

But Korea really happened

So Please

REMEMBER US

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This week TIM has been listening to …

“Teenage Kicks” by the Undertones.

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This week TIM has been watching …

“Tremors” – Starring Kevin Bacon.  This film was released on the 19th January 1990, hard to believe it is 30 years old.

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Remember …

In case you had forgotten, a reminder that tomorrow is Jamaican Hair Style Day, personally I’m dreading it.

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 34)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

This week we have yet another Knuckleduster miniature, this one goes by the name of  Johnny Deuce.  I still have quite a few more in my to do pile but as I have a number of others figures as well I have primed some of them in the hope that next week I can treat you to something different.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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Great Film Lines

I’m not in need of new modelling ideas at the moment, I’ve got more than enough to keep me busy for years as things currently stand but I had an idea.  Now it’s far from an original one but I got to thinking that great film lines would provide an excellent source for diorama ideas, always assuming you can find the right fìgure(s) that is.  So I got to thinking about great movie lines and came up with the following inspirational short list:

  • “I’ll be back” – Terminator
  • “Go ahead, make my day” – Dirty Harry, Sudden Impact
  • “We rob banks” – Bonnie and Clyde
  • “I see dead people” – The 6th Sense
  • “It’s alive!  It’s alive!” – Frankenstein
  • “I feel the need  – the need for speed” – Top Gun
  • “Say hello to my little friend” – Scarface
  • “Yippie-ki-yay mother fucker” – Die Hard
  • “Why so serious?” – The Dark Knight
  • “You talkin’ to me?” – Taxi Driver

Obviously the potential is limitless so as and when I come up with others I will refine the list accordingly.

Feel free to make suggestions.

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This week TIM has been listening to …

“Pinball Wizard” by The Who.

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This week TIM has been watching …

“Jerry Maguire” starring Tom Cruise.  Notwithstanding the height difference (I’m a fare bit taller) I’ve often been mistaken for Tom due to my winning smile and good looks, perhaps that’s why I like his films.  OK I just like his films!

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Remember …

No matter how far you push the envelope it remains stationery.

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 33)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

Knuckleduster figures continue to dominate my backlog pile for now.  There are more to be done but progress is being made in parallel with other little projects that I am working on.  In fairness I do enjoy painting them and adding them to my collection so it is hardly a chore, just a simple desire to move a quality figure from the gloom of a cupboard to the light of day.  Latest to make the move to the display case is “Lucky Lou”.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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Salute 2020

Yesterday I bought my train ticket and entrance ticket for Salute 2020.  Looking forward to it and spending money on all those “essential” items.  The 18th April will come along quickly enough but for now I have time to sew extra pockets into my coat so I can smuggle my contraband passed She Who Must Be Obeyed when I get home.  The alternative is to simply man-up but the last time I did that I found myself cooking my own dinner!

I should also point out that SWMBO also has a wart on her hand.  Not one but two or three.  She is understandably self conscious of these and has investigated many remedies but so far without success.  I too am conscious of her warts.  Conscious to the point where I am more convinced than ever that she is a witch.  It cannot be a coincidence that I haven’t seen a newt or a toad in a while.  These are dangerous times in the house of TIM.

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This week TIM has been listening to …

Paolo Nutini and “Pencil Full of Lead”.  There are plenty of jazz versions of this track but I prefer this one.

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This week TIM has been watching …

“1917”.  A trip to the cinema to see this Oscar nominated film with my mate.  Enjoyable is never the right word to describe a war film, experience is probably more appropriate in these days where nothing is left to the imagination in a graphic portrayal.  All in all an excellent film and well worthy of seeing.  Not so sure about it being a potential Best Film winner but quite different from anything I have ever seen before in the way that is was filmed as one continuous sequence.

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“Do Not Touch!”

Probably one of the scariest things to read in braille!

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Until next time.

TIM

TIM’s Miniatures & Musings (No: 32)

Welcome to this weeks Miniatures & Musings!

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TIM’s Mid Week Miniature

As luck would have it I managed to get a single figure done for this post.  Nothing exciting just a straight forward Knuckleduster cowboy by the name of Rowdy Joe Lowe.  I have a pile of Knuckleduster figures to work through so expect to see little else on the Mid Week Miniature post for a good few weeks.  Unless I get bored that is!

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2020 – The Plan! 

As mentioned in last weeks Miniatures & Musings, this week is mainly about my plans for 2020.  Like all plans I very much doubt it will unfold as I would like to anticipate it will but with creativity at the centre of it all perhaps it’s to be expected.

So, moving on what can you dear reader expect to be confronted with at the dawn of this new decade?  Well for starters, and as previously posted, I have acquired the urge to dable with Steampunk.  Certainly to begin with I will be focused on figures only and in this respect Reaper and an Australian company, Twisted Miniatures, are coming up trumps.  I really do fancy doing one or two little dioramas along the way as well and have a few ideas but nothing concrete.  Much rests of finding the right figures to begin with.

I am keen to participate in one or two competions again this year with the first being my club annual event to be held at the end of this month.  Retiring the models I submitted at Telford in November wiped me out so it will be very difficult to do well at the club this year as I haven’t had enough time to replace them.  After the in-house Plymouth Club event it’s the club hosted show in June followed by Cornwall in September and Telford in November.  For now time is on my side to produce a single figure under 54mm, a mounted figure under 54mm, a vignette of upto 6 figures, a fantasy figure under 54mm and two dioramas one of which will be a fantasy one.  A tall order but at least I have some ideas of what I want to do.

Somewhere along the way I would like to expand upon the Apocalypse models I have done as these were fun to do and I will need to do a few cowboy figures along the way in order to keep my brother happy!  On top of that there is the guilt pile, all the must have stuff I bought but which sits there looking at me as if to say “you bastard!”.  I’ve promised my self I will make a concentrated effort to get a lot of the stuff done but then again I promised She Who Must Be Obeyed that I would cook once a week and that’s never going to happen either so we will have to wait and see.

Painting figures for sale on Ebay will continue.  It has really helped me to practice my painting while at the same time completely self funding my hobby.  It also keeps SWMBO of my back and that alone makes the whole thing worth the while.

Two things which have become apparent though.  Firstly, given some of the models I want to do it isn’t going to be possible I think to turn out something new every week.  That said I still want to keep the blog going so expect a few more “work in progress” posts.  I’ll try to keep them as interesting as I can.

Secondly, I need to think about my WordPress memory and the need for archiving older posts.  No need for immediate action but thinking about how to deal with it has given me an idea.  It struck me that very few people who start to follow a blog look back on old posts, they simply start where they pitch in and move forward.  With this in mind I’m thinking of a new weekly post called “Memory Monday”.  I did toy with “Flashback Friday” and do prefer the name but thought posting Monday made for a more even distribution.  Then again I could call it “Flashback Friday” but post on a Monday!  In any event the idea is to re-post older articles and give them a second lease of life to a slightly wider audience before archiving them to a new site I am going to call “TIM Gone By”.  However, this all needs to be thought through and once I have gotten my head around it I will let you know.  Hopefully this coming Monday will see the first post.  The trouble is neither one of my tech savvy kids are about when I bloody need one!

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Important Question

Does refusing to go to the gym count as resistance training?  Asking for a friend.

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Well It Made Me Laugh …

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This week TIM has been listening to …

Erasure.

Thought I would work my way through my CD collection with the emphasis on playing stuff I haven’t listened to in years and forgot I had.  Expect more blasts from the past!

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This week TIM has been watching …

“Secret in Their Eyes” a film I recorded over Christmas.  Can’t say I knew anything much about it but it was watchable and had a twist at the end which I didn’t anticipate.

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Remember …

The human body is roughly made up of 60% water … you’re not fat you’re flooded!

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Until next time.

TIM