Destroyed 15mm Modern North Korean T-55 and Loki has a great giveaway.........

..........with the chance to win painted miniatures or have miniatures painted!

The T-55 is from Peter Pig and is part of my modern North Korean forces and was one of my submissions for Curt's painting challenge, it's had a few bits added to the base since then, I do have other stuff painted but little time for pictures or finding it!

Loki is giving away painted figures and the chance to get figures painted as well, go over here to find out how to enter............

....one of the lovely buggers below!

What are you waiting for.........go!!!!!

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!)

Happy Birthday, Loki is 2 and he's giving stuff away!

Loki (Andrew) is two over at his blog and is giving stuff away but you get extra entries for pimping him big time styley and taking a leaf out of blog whore Ray's book I'll help a fellow blogger out so head over there and enter!

Not necessary to comment, just go visit Loki!

World War Z poster, Pimping some Blog Giveaways,bad Blogger Cosplay and even more Boobs!

Look at this excellent poster I saw over at HOLLYWOODSPY (nice guy Dez) and really looking forward to the movie, there's a new trailer over at his blog also...........

Several excellent blogs are giving stuff away, Michael over at 28mm Victorian Warfare is giving away some very nice stuff and has just added more........

Ian over at The Blog with No Name is giving away even more stuff and has added £20.00 to spend madness...........

Anne over at Anne's Atticis giving away good stuff as well and is looking for as many entries as she can get, so head over and enter people..........

Zombie Goodness!

Speaking of bad cosplay....Ray Pancho Villa said it was for a party but I don't believe him!

....but speaking of real boobs!

...and the winner is! Dice Give Away Result!

I was going to get Ray to pull the winners but photographic evidence has come to light concerning some dodgy dealings.....

Lurker: What are you up to mate!
Ray: Nothing!
Lurker: Seriously what are you writing?
Ray: None of you business...
Lurker: Where are you going and why are you running?
Ray: Keeping fit!
Lurker: Now I know you're up to something.....

Well the results are in and I'd like to say I'm delighted with the response to the give away, there were just over 100 entries and after Ray was beaten for his actions (I trained a squirrel to do the draw with the promise of nuts...Rays!) I got the 3 results and the winners were in order........

Michael Awdry from 28mm Victorian Warfare

Vampifan aka Bryan from Vampifan's World of the Undead

Anibal Invictus from Gaming with TooFatLardies

Some of the entries.......

.......even Anne..........

I found these before the prize drawing was to be done by Ray......

The box of entries.......

Winners!

I need some details from the winners and then the dice will be on their way!

Will probably do another one soon but for something different!

Don't forget the dice give away.......reminder.....post!

Just a quick reminder of the specially anointed DICE give away draw on Wednesday when we get back to work, make sure you've entered!

You don't need to leave a comment unless you really need to leave a comment as this is a post I set up on Saturday night and Monday morning as a reminder about the dice but just to let you know Ray has 6 more entries for his dice give away and he was bragging at SELWG about it like a baboon!

Even those who don't know what to do with them can enter and give them away again!

I also may have photographic evidence of his cheating and sabotage shenanigans of my draw, stay tuned!

The Rejects Lurker Dice Giveaway!

I've promised to give something away for a while especially for my two year anniversary in July, myself and Ray decided to get these reasonably unique dice made (some for the giveaway and some for us), they turned  out well, a bit expensive (we shared the deal with a couple of other Rejects) and they took quite a while to sort out with the company.

So we're both giving dice away, Ray here (gives you two chances to win the dice!).

Anyway here we go with my three lots to give away, 15 for 1st prize, 10 for 2nd prize and 5 for 3rd prize, they're 16mm in size and who doesn't like to roll a dice (well most people!), so to enter leave a comment (it would be nice if you were a follower as well but not a deal breaker!). The draw for both blog giveaway's will be noon-ish on Wednesday the 17th of October.

We just wanted something a little different to give to much appreciated readers, followers and commenter's...thanks to you all!

Won a signed copy of Tribes of Legend by Jake Thornton and a skip problem?

I won this lovely book from nice guy Jody over at Frontline Gamer ,where he does a fantastic review of this book and the reason behind the give away....

.....I'm happy to have won a signed copy and look forward to reading and possibly using the rules, great artwork and well put together.

Said copy...

Said signature....

Now onto skips.....

This a skip, a monstrosity left outside houses and businesses for collecting rubbish and debris, a lorry appears and takes it away, apparently invented around the 1960's by a guy called Biffa!

I purchased some 15mm skips from The Scene to use as scenery in my Franonian project but I was told that skips don't exist outside of the UK and Ireland, is this true?

Help from readers outside of these countries would be helpful to the point if you've ever seen one where you are....Thanks!

I also won a runner up prize over at BigLee's Miniature Adventures  of a copy of Wellington's Victories

Not a bad week and over to Ray's tonight for a test game of his French Indian War period and rules and it's St Patricks Day tomorrow...have a good weekend if you can people!