James is giving away free stuff on his blog........

.....to celebrate his blogs birthday and feed the bloodyshinyitis disease.

James s giving away some lovely stuff on his blog to celebrate his blogs third birthday, go and visit the man!

The man himself and it wasn't even Christmas...........

.....and a picture that made me smile and highlight the problem some men (like Ray) can have:D 

Bloggers for Charity Blog!

"Wargames Bloggers joining forces to put on a Charity Demo game at Triples 2014"

Andrew asked me to help highlight this excellent idea that he,  James ,Kevin and Mike have set up and I hope to help or participate myself at the show...........

The Bloggers for Charity blog has been set up, please click the link and head over to join, donate or at the very least to show support for a damn fine cause!

Thank you for taking the time to visit!

15mm Painted Eureka Minis Chechens, Redundancy and........

........... yet more Boobs!

15mm modern Chechen fighter figures from Eureka Minis, I also have painted their modern Russian figures but the Chechen figures gave the most trouble as I had to rely more on images than a painting guide, I used the Russian flora camo as the main uniform colour but with a lot of other camos, jeans, tracksuit bottoms etc......

Apologies for the quality of the picutres, poses, my interpretation of camos but I have to thank Barks for the guide to Russian flora camo though......

Tonight is my last shift here at GSK Dartford with Ray, just gathering up my gear, have had a takeaway (feel a little bloated) and that's that, no job yet as theirs not much out there but we'll keep plugging away, my blogging may suffer a little in the coming weeks or months but I hope to post as much as I can but maybe not as much as normal and visit other blogs to see what's going on.......

If you're looking for a quality security officer/supervisor near or around Gravesend please call......

Anyway to help stem the tide of depression on this post I've included some cleavage and as Bryan always asks........her name is Bianca Beauchamp!

I just may post boobs for a living?

28mm Painted Hydra Miniatures Warbots for Victorian SF, Steampunk, Pulp SF etc.........

......from their Retro Raygun range! The red light of doom comes for you!

28mm Pulp Science Fiction Miniatures from Hydra Miniatures, not bad sculpts at all, the arms were a little fiddly but with some bodging everything went together and if you use less angry bodging then you will probably get a better looking model.

These will be part of my Back of Beyond forces to provide heavy support with there laser eye of doom and cutting hands!

The 28mm Copplestone figure is to help show scale and size! They could be also used for other scales?

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 99: Star Trek: Into Darkness 2013 (4 STARS).....

....and Kris is giving away a lot of free stuff over on his blog for hid birthday week!

Not much more to add to what many others have said.........impressive (may contain spoilers).

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

I enjoyed the first, no real problems, I saw this in 3D and a couple of arrows made me flinch but getting better with 3D entertainment, this is quite an excellent movie from the get go, plenty of action, great effects, a good story with great characters, some humour, could do with more action but that's just me, the main characters are growing and you can see this developing before any 5 year missions.........

We have a new Khan (bloody impressive), old style Klingons (impressive), a Tribble and a Federation that I would have loved a series on, less exploring and more blowing the crap out of things but that's just me, it really is highly entertaining even if not a fan of Star Trek and I may go see it again.....

Also this lady is in it and in this outfit......

My 28mm Lieutenant Colonel Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards....

....who in 1863 toured the Confederate states for 3 months and is seen here in the movie Gettysburg and played by the actor James Lancaster, he viewed most of the battle from a tree, met Longstreet and Lee amongst other Confederacy officers and wrote a very interesting diary of his travels through the south which I have just read and liked, my copy was from 1956 sans dust jacket.

So anyway you're wondering why am I harping on about him, well I wanted to represent Fremantle with a figure for my ACW forces as a possible scenario involving him (his journey) was uneventful and relatively safe until he crossed over in to the Union lines (some townsfolk handed him over to union military forces with a note that said basically in nice words to hang him as a spy).....

....so after much searching through Victorian and Crimean miniature sites I either found nothing or nothing cheap (part of a larger set) but surprisingly Ray found and bought for a £1 a suitable figure at the Foundry stand at Salute in their singles pile (what a nice guy, it's hard to believe some people say such terrible things about him).

I present Lt Col Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (1835-1901), he is described as wearing a grey hunting suit with a cowboy hat at one stage but I could only find this version which is more like the movie version below........

James Lancaster in a scene from the movie..........

....the man himself and you can read more here.

.....and the book is well worth a read!

....and that great girl Tamsin is giving away five lots of goodness and today is the last day so go visit here and the links for the other 4 are there also!

Pimping the Wargaming Girl Day 3........

.....and a bit of humour!

Tamsin the lovely Wargaming Girl is giving away more free stuff over on her blog and this picture made me actually laugh the other day!

I've also won some GZG 15mm tanks from Seb and 5 historical painted minis of my choice from Andrew but the nice man has agreed to 5 non historical minis (I've never painted them as I could not do them justice) and they are on their way to the poor unsuspecting fool (well he's a very talented painter and these minis will end up in my display cabinet).

This picture made my day.......

Best or Worst Movie Remake Blogfest.......

........and Tamsin is giving away free stuff!

Anyway Alex is hosting along with others a blogfest asking what are the best and worst movie remakes ever made, I've done 10 of each (you have to set a limit) that I believe are good candidates but everyone will not agree......maybe and there's one or two that may even be controversial!

I give you my lists........and don't forget Tamsin is giving away free stuff (that must be worth 10 extra Tamsin as I mentioned it twice!).

Hosted by:

Alex J. Cavanaugh  http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.com/

Stephen Tremp  http://authorstephentremp.blogspot.com/

Father Dragon Al  http://fatherdragon.blogspot.com/

Livia Peterson  http://leaveittolivia.blogspot.com/

The Best Remakes in no particular order...............

A clever reworking of the original...........

There was nothing wrong with the original Infernal Affairs but this was an epic collaboration of  great performances.......

A remake of Yojimbo by Kurosawa which is in it's own right a masterpiece but this was a relaunch of the western genre and the epic rise of Mr.Eastwood........

Very enjoyable remake of the slightly dated original, great performance from Colin Farrell.........

Good update of the Charles Bronson original with maybe a different ending.........

No question here, far better than the original..........

Not that there's anything wrong with the original L.A Takedown but this is slicker than goose faeces....

Speaking of slicker than Ray's hairdo...........

This is a good reinvention of the slightly dated original.............

Enough said, blots the stain that was Stallone's abomination...........

.....many others out there obviously!

Now the worst remakes...........

James Caan would be horrified, this is shocking.........

Now before we start the ranting I prefer the original, there's nothing really wrong with the new one but the old one had a better story and the slow zombies still get my vote...........

Very foggy fecking remake, the original scared the faeces right out of me...........

The originals ending still annoys the faeces out of me but Stallone should apologise for this....just after he apologises for Judge Dredd

The original is dated but not compared to this................

The original Nikita is leaps ahead of this wooden remake, it also goes under the title The Assassin..........

There is only one Willy Wonka and that's Gene...........

Fecking merde...............

Alec Guinness would be upset, along with Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers etc.........

Shocking descent of a once great actor..............

....and don't forget Tamsin's give away (that's 15 extra Tamsin!)