Hurrah the Proxxon is built and working…
A large amount of swearing was involved. Dropped the washers, dropped the nut, the wire spool unwound itself as I opened it.
But in the end, wahoo…. I was cutting foam about 2mm thick.
After taxing my brain I couldn’t be arsed to do much more..
What is one thing you can’t live without?
Well top of the list I would say is oxygen.
Followed in order by Water then food.
But if I need to be a little bit more… I was going to say sensible there, but in fact I was being.
Never mind, if I answer the question in the way it was meant then I would have to say… people.
By that I mean human contact. Yes I know I quite like my own company and too much peopling makes my head hurt.
In history, castaways and people lost have really struggled having no-one to talk to. It’s why solitary confinement is sometimes used to break someone’s will. Pirates marooned were given a loaded pistol and a bottle of rum. Pistol was for when the loneliness became to hard to bear. Yeah starvation and thirst too, but a number did survive and we’re picked up by passing ships. Ben Gunn from Treasure Island was a literary example of real people.
Let’s not forget the great book Robinson Crusoe. Eight and twenty years alone on an island. Defoe would have heard of many such stories and possibly Alexander Selkirk was one such tale.
Poor Alexander spent four years and four months on an uninhabited island. Now interestingly he asked to be left there as he deemed the ship he was on was unseaworthy. Sadly for everyone else he was proved right. He did however try to get back on the ship but was refused by the captain… Lucky old Selkirk. Six survivors of the ship were picked up by the Spanish and sent to the mines.
Here he is, reading his bible and singing psalms. He hunted feral goats, tamed feral cats and generally made a life for himself. He was however incoherent with joy when rescued by the British.
Thinking of a couple of films here…
Castaway with Tom Hanks… Wilson the volleyball becomes a personified object.
I can no longer watch the bit where poor Wilson gets washed overboard… Heart breaking! In fact Wilson won an academy award for the best inanimate object ever. I concur with the decision.
Will Smith in I am Legend gives the display mannequins names and talks to them when he goes shopping…
Finally in the Film genre we have Hell in the Pacific…
Two enemy combatants who after spending a bit of time trying to kill each other. Learn to trust and then rely on each other.
Sorry for the rambling post….but yeah although they annoy me, I would have to say people.
I am still KerfuctundBuggered as they possibly say in Germany. Really having a motivational set back.
So I decided to do some research for my Aliens RPG… AKA I have spent a lot of today playing Alien Dark Descent…
Doing Research honest… Joking aside it has actually given me a whole host of ideas…
The above is the map for Berkeley Docks. Basically this is street level. There are other floors on all maps.
Gist of the game is,… Good old Wey-Yu are up to their shenanigans on an orbiting space station above a terra formed moon of Lethe.
Deputy administrator Hayes is the only survivor. To stop the WY ship escaping she sets of a planetary quarantine weapon named Cerberus… Basically nothing in, nothing out Hayes is saved by a squad of Marines but…
Three ships are in the kill zone. The Wey-Yu one, a gas transporter and a Colonial Marine warship. Due to its armour the military vessel crash lands on the moon and that’s just the start of their problems.
So far I have lost one Marine. She was executed… my bad, I thought they would just throw her in the brig for having positive thoughts towards the nutters in the Xenos cult. I am on day fifty-something…did I mention they are going to nuke the planet to make sure nothing gets off.
I am seriously running out of time!
To be honest I am really enjoying this, it is full on Aliens, some great cut scenes. My favourite has to be the Marine gunship going head to head with the Wey-Yu commando one.
Even has working Joe’s that were bought by Wey-Yu and may or may not have had a bit of a memory upgrade…
After 4 days of full-on training I decided to give my head a bit of a break. I had glued two bits of corrugated card together yesterday to make a base as another test run.
It’s quite thick. I made sure to glue them so the corrugations ran perpendicular to each other.
This evening I trimmed off an edge with my knife and strengthened them with masking tape.
There is a funky shadow from the building.
I will faff around with things tomorrow when my brain is not feeling like it’s stuffed with cotton wool.
What’s a completely useless fact you love sharing?
My absolutely favourite useless facts are:
The only person to speak in Mel Brooks’ film ‘Silent Movie’ was Marcel Marceau the famous mime.
In the first edition of the Hobbit Bilbo is given the ring by Gollum for winning the Riddle game.
Aragon in the Lord of the Rings started out as a hobbit named Trotter.
What’s a book or movie that genuinely scared you?
I suppose if I had one film that scared me then it would be Jaws… Love sharks but really, really don’t like Dark water and also absolutely detest seaweed on both the shoreline and in the water.
A film that Disturbed me a great deal was the 2004 film Downfall. A pretty accurate depiction of the last Days of Hitler.
So I built a second building that was bigger then 1.0…
Stuck some simulated tin sheeting on the roof. Better for 28mm miniatures.
This one is 40mm to the roof where the first was 30mm. Again all made from scrap card and glue. I will do another one tomorrow and try for a thatched effect.
Well this evening I did a little proof of Concept with some cereal box card (and a teeny bit of foam).
This is about the size I was thinking… Not 28mm unfortunately. I could upscale everything a bit and the size shown could be the attached byre height.
I will have a bit of a think on this and see what I think.
What’s a song that changed your life?
Seriously, one Song…. Not a chance, no one song has changed my life.
Even Desert Island Disks give people 8 tracks….
Not life changing but I do love them…
Jerusalem… Starting strong or maybe not…. William Blake’s 1808 poem put to music.
Streets of London, Ralph McTell’s Song was nearly streets of Paris… Maybe why I such a Lefty!
Where do you go to: Peter Starsted…
Spirit in the Sky, most versions to be honest
We Didn’t Start the Fire: Billy Joel
An Odd One…. A Melanesian choir …jesus you lewa blong mi.
Gaudette by Steeleye Span
City of New Orleans…Arlo Guthrie version is my favourite.
But to be honest this is just scratching the surface…
Well as of now the course is not running. I needed a minimum of four and got two.
They have asked me to do a taster session at the end of the month so I have agreed. My good lady suggested a croft house, make it a snow scene and put a flickering LED tea light inside….
So this was my rough sketch to get some ideas down. It will be about 4 inches long (ish).
Thatched roof and attached byre/shed…
I will mock one up this week. Really not sure what I will make it out of, foam will be easiest, but they might want me to go down the found materials… As the tutor I can technically set the rules.
I also got my field undercoated…
I will get it painted sometime, no real rush for Saturday now.
