28mm Painted Samurai Walled Residence.

28mm painted walled residence from John Jenkins Designs with a building I bought off ebay many years ago when I had money but never was able to identify the manufacturer, 28mm Perry miniatures are performing guard duties. I also forget where I got the Ishi-doro (stone lantern) or kago (japanese type of litter) from but I think the memory is going now aswell.

The residence is on a 2ft by 2ft tile to show scale.

Angry Movie Lurker Review 37: The Eagle (3 STARS).

In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.


The Eagle I believe is based on Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novelThe Eagle of the Ninth (1954)


I like Roman movies especially set around the time of early imperial Rome (between 25BC and 193AD) as I used to game this period of Roman warfare, the action at the beginning is good between legionaries and British tribesmen as Marcus takes command of a garrison. Marcus is all brooding and a bit moody (not the best choice for this role), the action then crosses Hadrian's wall in pursuit of the lost eagle, the movie is then the relationship between Marcus and his slave Esca ( who he saved at a gladiator bout and was then presented to him by his uncle and played well by Bell) as they search for the eagle in the North but will Esca's secret, lost ninth legionaries and a slightly dodgy ending ruin the search?, no by this stage you will stay the course because you've watched it this far but it's worth the watch especially if you like a bit of a Roman action romp (it also has Mark Strong and Donald Sutherland doing their brief best aswell) but it's no Centurion or something you might rewatch. 

Blogger Problems?

Blogger giving anybody else arseache, it wouldn't let me comment on blogs until recently and if it did it was with the blog title Bigmanfran, so if somebody with the handle Bigmanfran but with my ugly mush has commented it was me or if signed The Angry Lurker that was me, it seems to be sorted now but it's given me arseache as I have now given up on posting what I was meant to but that's maybe why I'm not called The Happy Lurker:P

A new sign for my department at work.

.........and a picture for the boys.......or girls.