Esparto grass string?

[tombear]

The inch and a half job would be for the clay ones. I think as the lead glands average out at 2oz each those fishing weight moulds look about spot on, if you remove the "2" especially. I may wait to get one second hand or borrow one as I'd only want some lead ones for display rather than use so it would be pretty much a one time use. And I'm cheap!

If they shrink roughly the same each i do not mind at all. Truth be said I'm such a lousy shot, have such poor timing and aim I'm probably going to a lot of trouble for consistency ill just be wasting. It was letting dry and baking in the sheds mini oven I was thinking of.

now it's time to cook breakfast as we are doing the great toy shopping expedition. Thankfully most of what they want us so obscure we have to order it off the net but some still has to be done by hand.

i may be gone some time....

Tom

 

[British Red]

Have fun Titus

 

[tombear]

Well after seeing what Games Workshop was going to charge us when we got to the till there was a certain tightening of that particular sphincter.....

happily we then hit a real wargames shop and the middle son blew most of his money on 28mm Anglo Danes and a skirmish game that looks fun then a old school model shop where they went mad and actually bought some stuff I'd have had myself at their age. Th eldest got 28mm Normans to continue their blood feud and the artistic youngest his own mini compressor and half decent Aztec airbrush. We were both nervous of using my compressor and Badgers i lucked out getting in a sale so now he has is own. Must knock up a spray booth for him.

ATB

Tom

 

[British Red]

You'll have to show us his work - my gaming days are long gone but I like to see others at it!

 

[Huon]

You'll have to show us his work - my gaming days are long gone but I like to see others at it!

I'd be interested in seeing them as well. I've just started running a D & D campaign over here as a way to help people polish their English. I think the range of language used while role playing make it great for this.

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[Alreetmiowdmuka]

Yeah me too I used too like the warhammer fantasy stuff

 

[tombear]

So far he's only used (closely supervised) my air brush to spay nice even base coats and metallics on "Necrons" which are like terminator robot skeleton things. When he's done some practice pieces I wil put them up. He's quite good at brush work as is, a lot better than I was at 11. The Dark ages stuff will rly push there skills along, shading and high lighting cloth and furs. I'm quite looking forward to doing the buildings. Ill just have to go to West Stow now and do some research....

Now D and D was my sort of thang back when I was a student...


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Tom

 

[British Red]

I liked D&D too - back when I wasn't a student

I loved playing weirdly aligned characters (Chaotic Neutral is my favourite and close to me in real life I suspect). Odd character classes (like Bard) were fun too

 

[tombear]

Here's a rubbish ipad pic of one he's left laying about. I'm so glad they are trying some real period stuff now.

ATB

Tom

 

[Huon]

I liked D&D too - back when I wasn't a student

I loved playing weirdly aligned characters (Chaotic Neutral is my favourite and close to me in real life I suspect). Odd character classes (like Bard) were fun too

I'm enjoying returning to my youth. I last played in the late 70s and early eighties. Lots of different classes but mainly chaotic good.

It was AD & D when I finished. I'm running with 3.5 now though.

It seems to work well as a language teaching tool and it is more fun than standard classroom stuff.

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[Huon]

Here's a rubbish ipad pic of one he's left laying about. I'm so glad they are trying some real period stuff now.

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Tom

That looks good. Well done to him!

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[Alreetmiowdmuka]

Yeah that's the stuff.hes obviously got some skill already.

 

[tombear]

Heres a blast from the past, I finally got around to putting the leather pouches onto a couple more slings herself plaited for me.

She used Jute string on these two 12 strands doubled I think. For some reason plaiting, knitting and similar confuse the hell out of me so I grovel to herslf for any thing like that.

The pole sling is fixed to a 5 foot hazel rod a little over a inch thick, the sling itself is about 18 inchs either side of a six inch wide ( if you follow the curve ) pouch.

Truth be said Im having trouble finding a suitable place to learn to use them. I'm thinking a completely deserted beach. Thankfully thers plenty of websites etc to show you the basics.

ATB

Tom