Well hasn't it been a bit quiet here for a while? I thought that I would shed a small amount of light on what is going on in Inso's world at the moment.
Inso has been away for almost a month now and has been kept very busy fixing things. He is currently working a 24hr on, 24hr off shift pattern and is getting about 7 hours sleep every two days because his insomnia has been rearing it's ugly head a lot. He is fairly happy and has met some very nice people where he is working. The Americans are particularly good at making friends and Inso has had many a chat about the different cultures that we have.
For inspiration, Inso only has to look out of his accomodation to see Humvees parked every where in a multitude of different models. There are armoured personnel carriers, trucks, attack helicopters and many other cool things (including the Polaris, quad bike/buggies)...all there to stimulate ideas.
He has already written a short story (it can be found in the Forum of Doom: Hasslefree gaming and flufferey section).
His homework is progressing...he is learning electrics and is currently finding out all about fibre optics...NICE ;).
Inso has also flown about as a passenger in one of his helicopters but he said that he'd much prefer fixing them to flying in them!
Roll on the 28th of June...it's not as far away as it was a few days ago!
Catch you later!
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Thursday...it's going to be a while.
It's Thursday and everything is set.
Bags are packed, the motorbike is in storage and farewells are in the process of being made.
This blog will be a bit quiet from now on as Inso is preparing to launch off into the wild blue yonder.
The next entry will be sent from the sunny Gulf and will be distinctly different to what you are used to. Not a lot of hobby and probably not a lot of anything else. Just babble to let us know that there is still life in the old dog.
Yesterday, Inso got a very nice little present from a friend over at the Forum of Doom. It was a packet of 10 little cavalry miniatures called Fubarnii. They have been made and cast up by a guy called Carcharoth and they really are fantastic. It was all Inso could do not to unpack his hobby stuff and get to work on them...but alas, real life is beckoning too loudly at the moment and he will have to wait until he gets back to start on them.
Well, that's it for now!
Catch you soon.
Bags are packed, the motorbike is in storage and farewells are in the process of being made.
This blog will be a bit quiet from now on as Inso is preparing to launch off into the wild blue yonder.
The next entry will be sent from the sunny Gulf and will be distinctly different to what you are used to. Not a lot of hobby and probably not a lot of anything else. Just babble to let us know that there is still life in the old dog.
Yesterday, Inso got a very nice little present from a friend over at the Forum of Doom. It was a packet of 10 little cavalry miniatures called Fubarnii. They have been made and cast up by a guy called Carcharoth and they really are fantastic. It was all Inso could do not to unpack his hobby stuff and get to work on them...but alas, real life is beckoning too loudly at the moment and he will have to wait until he gets back to start on them.
Well, that's it for now!
Catch you soon.
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Tuesday...the finality of it all...
Well, that's it. It has finally happened. Inso has packed all his hobby stuff away and has started preparations for his little trip abroad.
Gone are the paints, the putty, the brushes.
Gone is the newspaper and water glass.
Gone are the Grymn and cats.
Gone is the lamp and photo screen.
The table is bare.
What it all means is that there will be no more painting/sculpting posts for a couple of months. There may be the odd rules or fluff post but from now on the posts will be few and far between.
Inso would like to thank all those who have visited his site over the last few months and says that he will have plenty of stuff to write about when he gets back in July.
I doubt very much if there will be further posts over the next few days as preparations continue for his trip.
Catch you later.
Gone are the paints, the putty, the brushes.
Gone is the newspaper and water glass.
Gone are the Grymn and cats.
Gone is the lamp and photo screen.
The table is bare.
What it all means is that there will be no more painting/sculpting posts for a couple of months. There may be the odd rules or fluff post but from now on the posts will be few and far between.
Inso would like to thank all those who have visited his site over the last few months and says that he will have plenty of stuff to write about when he gets back in July.
I doubt very much if there will be further posts over the next few days as preparations continue for his trip.
Catch you later.
Monday, 21 April 2008
Monday.
Today has been a lazy day for Inso. He has sorted out his lap-top for his travels and has been shopping for things like travel sickness pills and batteries.
The post Salute messages have kept him busy as well so he has been on-line quite a lot. Deals have been brokered and parcels have been wrapped and sent.
Today has also been the start of lots of 'real world' chores that will lead to a long drive to the air port on Friday so things are getting a bit melancholy. As the hobby stuff gets packed away, Inso will get more and more depressed so I doubt if there will be too much info coming out over the next few days...and then for the next two months!
Catch you later.
Maybe...
The post Salute messages have kept him busy as well so he has been on-line quite a lot. Deals have been brokered and parcels have been wrapped and sent.
Today has also been the start of lots of 'real world' chores that will lead to a long drive to the air port on Friday so things are getting a bit melancholy. As the hobby stuff gets packed away, Inso will get more and more depressed so I doubt if there will be too much info coming out over the next few days...and then for the next two months!
Catch you later.
Maybe...
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Sunday...everybody is home.
I would apologize for not posting over the last couple of days but I'm not going to because there is one word that will explain everything:
SALUTE.
Inso's Salute thing goes like this:
Friday: travel up to stay with family in Buckinghamshire: takes 6 hours and everybody nearly gets killed by a lorry pulling out without looking.
Saturday: up at 6am, train into London, stand in Q-busters Queue for an hour and enter show. Do show and leave at 5pm to travel back to Bucks. Stay up until 12-30am trying to fix father-in-laws computer.
Sunday: travel back to sunny Cornwall.
So...the show.
What did Inso buy?
Lots and lots of Grymn, and some Kiergi from Hasslefree miniatures.
Some Aliens and weapon sprues from Black Scorpion miniatures.
Some Grey aliens from Copplestone castings.
Some Grey aliens from Griffin miniatures.
Some Dinosaurs from Magister Militum.
Some Dvarg (space Dwarfs) and a super hero called 'Armourdillo' from Black Hat miniatures.
Some plastic ACW miniatures from Perry's miniatures.
What else happened?
Inso met a lot of people from the Forum of Doom and put faces to a lot of names. They were a great bunch and lots of chat went on. He also met up with Sally, Kev and Neil on the Hasslefree stand and swapped ideas, shared chat and generally got on very well with them.
There was a lot of cool stuff on display. The action man scaled, radio controlled tanks were great (sound effects, smoke...awesome!). There were so many cool games going on that it was difficult to take them all in. Games of note were the Frothers gang fight, OP MARKET GARDEN (1/35 scale!), Wargods of Olympus (lots of big miniatures, and Wendigo) and all of the vast armies for the ancient wargames (from toy soldiers all the way down to 6mm scale).
There were people dressed up as Daleks, Stormtroopers, Stargate troopers, Romans and US army WWII. There were also a few of the fairer sex dressed in very gothic and 'interesting' pirate gear (there were some male pirates...but they weren't as noticeable!).
There was also a lot of new stuff on show...too numerous to mention (although the US power armour for Secrets of the Third Reich was very nice).
So.. a great day!
Catch you later.
SALUTE.
Inso's Salute thing goes like this:
Friday: travel up to stay with family in Buckinghamshire: takes 6 hours and everybody nearly gets killed by a lorry pulling out without looking.
Saturday: up at 6am, train into London, stand in Q-busters Queue for an hour and enter show. Do show and leave at 5pm to travel back to Bucks. Stay up until 12-30am trying to fix father-in-laws computer.
Sunday: travel back to sunny Cornwall.
So...the show.
What did Inso buy?
Lots and lots of Grymn, and some Kiergi from Hasslefree miniatures.
Some Aliens and weapon sprues from Black Scorpion miniatures.
Some Grey aliens from Copplestone castings.
Some Grey aliens from Griffin miniatures.
Some Dinosaurs from Magister Militum.
Some Dvarg (space Dwarfs) and a super hero called 'Armourdillo' from Black Hat miniatures.
Some plastic ACW miniatures from Perry's miniatures.
What else happened?
Inso met a lot of people from the Forum of Doom and put faces to a lot of names. They were a great bunch and lots of chat went on. He also met up with Sally, Kev and Neil on the Hasslefree stand and swapped ideas, shared chat and generally got on very well with them.
There was a lot of cool stuff on display. The action man scaled, radio controlled tanks were great (sound effects, smoke...awesome!). There were so many cool games going on that it was difficult to take them all in. Games of note were the Frothers gang fight, OP MARKET GARDEN (1/35 scale!), Wargods of Olympus (lots of big miniatures, and Wendigo) and all of the vast armies for the ancient wargames (from toy soldiers all the way down to 6mm scale).
There were people dressed up as Daleks, Stormtroopers, Stargate troopers, Romans and US army WWII. There were also a few of the fairer sex dressed in very gothic and 'interesting' pirate gear (there were some male pirates...but they weren't as noticeable!).
There was also a lot of new stuff on show...too numerous to mention (although the US power armour for Secrets of the Third Reich was very nice).
So.. a great day!
Catch you later.
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Thursday WIP...
Just to show that he has been doing something over the last few days...other than surfing the net...Inso sent this WIP pic of his heavy squad (with hanger on):
The armour and camouflage gear is done but the rest is still to be finished. It's a start but there needs to be a whole lot more finished if he is to get them done before he goes to Iraq.
All that is on his mind is Salute at the moment...
...you should try talking to someone when all they want to think about is Salute...I might just as well bang my head on the wall!
Catch you tomorrow.
The armour and camouflage gear is done but the rest is still to be finished. It's a start but there needs to be a whole lot more finished if he is to get them done before he goes to Iraq.
All that is on his mind is Salute at the moment...
...you should try talking to someone when all they want to think about is Salute...I might just as well bang my head on the wall!
Catch you tomorrow.
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Wednesday; day of Catachan Green
Apparently, and I'll quote Inso here...
"Catachan Green paint is like painting with watered down choclate".
From that, you'll gather that he has been painting armour today. He hasn't got too far because of what he just said. He got fed up with the paint drying out so quickly that it didn't go on very well.
Apart from that...he has put his revised Salute pre-order into Hasslefree. Here are the new Salute releases (all the pix on the linked page):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8055.0
He would also have loved to have pre-ordered some aliens from Black Scorpion but they aren't taking pre-orders. Here's a link to the aliens (scroll down to find them):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8064.0
I would list his pre-order but it's mostly Grymn...as expected.
Apart from all that, Inso has been mostly surfing the web today so didn't get much done. It's great to be on holiday!
Catch you later.
"Catachan Green paint is like painting with watered down choclate".
From that, you'll gather that he has been painting armour today. He hasn't got too far because of what he just said. He got fed up with the paint drying out so quickly that it didn't go on very well.
Apart from that...he has put his revised Salute pre-order into Hasslefree. Here are the new Salute releases (all the pix on the linked page):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8055.0
He would also have loved to have pre-ordered some aliens from Black Scorpion but they aren't taking pre-orders. Here's a link to the aliens (scroll down to find them):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8064.0
I would list his pre-order but it's mostly Grymn...as expected.
Apart from all that, Inso has been mostly surfing the web today so didn't get much done. It's great to be on holiday!
Catch you later.
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