Not sure if this is meant a bit tongue in cheek or not. So no matter where you are in the world I am sure you will see wild animals. Maybe not some solitary confinement cell deep underground, but anywhere else I would say yes.
A starling is a wild animal, so is a cockroach and a fly. To be fair, I have never seen a wild cockroach.
Living where I do, I regularly see Arctic hares (well they turn white in winter), otters, a whole host of migratory and non migratory birds. The odd Orca, seals a plenty oh and fish too.
I am sure some people will see a whole host of other wild beasties.
One animal I would absolutely love to see is a moose. I have never ever seen one. Nope I don’t know why either!
The short answer to the question is to help me with my hobby projects. It started off with blogging about something I had painted. In 2017 I started this blog and have now posted 2395 Times. The Longest streak was 960 days, which frankly is bonkers. The Longest blog streak prior to starting this one was 3 days.
I have ‘met’ some amazing people via this blog and follow a lot back. This is definitely a supportive community.
I am about half way through my allocated space allowance so I reckon I have got about another five years to go.
As for the long answer… that will have to wait… I need to go to sleep!
Well when I was South I picked up the game for £12. This evening I decided to give it a try. The premise was cool. Third person Alien shooter, various missions co-op or single player.
Frankly, I was disappointed. Now it definitely isn’t Alien Isolation, this one is more of a shooter and for me it got boring very quickly. I persevered and got a fair old way through the first mission, managing to fire around a whopping 1500 rounds on the old pulse rifle. That in itself says it all… disclaimer… my accuracy wasn’t brilliant on the swarm levels!
I stopped using the pulse rifle and switched to my shotgun for those close encounters.
Basically the game is as follows:
The game contains four story campaigns with three missions each, and the player is accompanied by two allies who can be controlled by another player or by an AI. There are five levels of difficulty and twenty types of enemies, and weapon customization and character progression are present within the game.
The synthetic marines were quite interesting. Sadly there were some other synthetics in the game that reminded me of the Working Joe’s in Isolation. At least these ones fell over when shot.
I will play some more this weekend and see what I think. I basically got it for further ideas for my Aliens RPG.
Well as promised here is what I purchased whilst off gallivanting.
So left to right:
A couple of Victrix Roman Legionary sets (one advancing, the other attacking). These will be used against my celtic types. Yes I know, they should probably be late republican, but hey, this was my first reenactment period so I am biased.
Middle top four 1p movement trays that cost me 20p a shot. Some Game Forge spray paint to try out and some mdf casualty markers.
Top right- some Perry metals. The only mounted Hundred Years War command pack that was left (well that I could see anyway). This one has Jean D’Arc, La Hire and the B*stard of Orleans (Jean de Dunois). These really need a good clean up.
An ox cart suitable for the Romans and below that a 6-8mm ruined city block set. I have decided to get out my 6mm road wars stuff and try to get it all finished.
Part of me wishes I had picked up a set of Roman Auxiliaries, but these came in separate cavalry, spear armed and bow armed sets. It would have helped to have had smaller pack sizes. I could have got a Pack of light field artillery too. If I had have got the above then the Romans would have outnumbered the barbarians.
As I mentioned in Saturday’s post. I really could have spent a whole lot more money.
Tomorrow my Wife and two eldest head off on their trip. My son and I are going to binge watch as many war films as we can… starting with one of these: ‘The Guns of Navarrone’, ‘The Longest Day’, ‘The Battle of Britain’ or ‘Zulu’. Starting with the classics.
Yes we are on the boat, still an hour to go but I think it is going to be busy so we decided on food earlier rather than later.
So we will be piling off tomorrow morning at 07.30. We will head straight off from Aberdeen and have Breakfast in Dundee. About an hour and a half depending on traffic once we hit the rush hour at the Dundee end.
Well, I was watching YouTube last night, I must have dozed off (getting old lol). So I woke up and noticed a video pledging that you would be able to paint your Warhammer miniatures without skill. Made me think, it is actually possible… it is called dunking said miniatures in a pot of paint. Otherwise skill is involved. I was too tired to watch it and now I cannot seem to find the video now. Too tired again.
So in yesterday’s post (basically 2 hours ago) I was waffling on about how I may have kept the wrong Speedpaints ie gave away the 2.0 and kept the 1.0. I now don’t think I fiddle, but a red paint kept reactivating. On the scouts I used a red and decided to take a photo of the paint bottles I used (primarily in case I forgot). Lo and behold these are the paints I used…
Now the question is, did I use these for the original miniature or not… secondary consideration is the white paint I used… it was a pretty gunky white that I used a pile of medium in to make it more liquid… looks like it need to do some testing.
So says one of my favourite Terry Pratchett characters ‘Granny Weatherwax’.
So what have I been up to in my hiatus… sod all really. Well okay, I have discovered Fallout 76, as well as rebuilding in Fallout 4.
To be honest being knackered all the time hasn’t helped. I ended up back in the doctor’s yesterday because of it. So more blood tests are taking place next Tuesday, and a chest x-Ray sometime soon. Everyone is flummoxed as to what is wrong with me, including me. It could be a extension of the poly myalgia. The doctor is basically ruling out everything else. Thankfully we have the NHS, otherwise I would be skint.
So the bit of a bugger on the horizon is that the school will be closed in June and all of my staff and I will be redeployed elsewhere. Sadly, not together. Technically we are being mothballed, but….!
Funnily enough the doctor did wonder if there is a bit of a correlation between school closure and my poor health.
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