I decided to spray my Plasma bug black today to help speed up the painting. My major issue was that I had already sprayed the bulb white… a quick ponder and out came the cling film.
It worked really well or so I thought. I bet you can’t spot where the cling film was torn!
I gave it a blast with grey to help add some highlights. I was quite pleased as I managed to get get this done before work.
When I got home I did some more on the Light Infantry. Mainly the armour on the troopers as well as a bit of splinteresque camouflage on the sniper.
Still a whole lot to do but I am getting there at a rough rate of half an hour a day… day 17 so far.
Whilst I am painting I have been listening to an audiobook on YouTube…
It is about 30 years since I read it last. My Starship Troopers obsession is now taking me into comics… the first 4 should be with me soon.
I suppose I should make a comment on the YouTube comment, it is in fact quite a big thing… 2 weeks ago my internet download speed was 0.2 at its very best.
I am now sitting at this…
It is amazing how much easier it is to watch YouTube at this kind of speed 🤯
Off to listen to more of my story 😁. 4 hours in and not a bug in sight 🤔
Bogenwald 
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Nice work- I hadn’t have thought of using clingfilm as a mask….
Cheers,
Pete.
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Neither had I until yesterday morning 😁
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Nice mate
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All coming along nicely mate. Can only dream of those speeds. I guess that’s the problem being on the main land!
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We used to dream about them too 😁 we would have been happy with 1.0 tbh. Your time will come 🤞
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I just finished reading Starship Troopers myself a couple of days ago. I found it to be an extremely good book. Good that you are making progress on your forces.
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I am really enjoying the book, the pseudo arachnids are a whole lot different in the book and the film/animated series.
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I’ve never seen the film or any visual adaptations, though from the previews and advertisements I’ve seen I’d say that was my sense as well. The book wasn’t what I was expecting in the sense that I was expecting a bunch of first person combat scenes rather than mainly administrative/command & control issues from a platoon-level officer/NCO.
Without giving away too much for anyone who hasn’t read it, I found the story arc with the protagonist’s father interesting.
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I have just got to the bit where father and son meet up… oh and Dizzy in the film is a girl 🤔
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Huh,I figured they’d have mixed gender mobile infantry teams in the movie, since that fits more with the spirit of the times now versus when the book was written. Still, I do think Heinlein, considering when he wrote the book, did a good job of including women in the milieu doing very important jobs.
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They do, Dizzy in the film is a female, in the book he is a male. I do like the bit about Bulkhead thirty straining to hear an approaching female… as you say although the M.I. are infantry, a lot if the fleet and Pilots are female.
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Good progress! It is a very long time since I read Starship Troopers – I enjoyed it but maybe thought more would happen! I found Joe Haldeman’s “Forever War” more to my liking.
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I’ll have to put that one on my to read list.
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I think you’d like it, Ann, I actually read it twice and that doesn’t happen often! 🙂
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I requested it through intra-library loan, so I should have it pretty soon. It must be pretty good then; the list of books I’m willing to read more than once is a pretty short one as well.
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