Been out walking quite a bit recently, with a few of the guys I've met on a few of the compulsery courses for the Bennefits people.
Got to say that most of the time I have enjoyed being in the wilds, away from the trappings of meodern life, and just able to relax. This isnt anew thing for me, I've always enjoyed being in the Great Outdoors.
Anyway, one of the guys I've been walking with for a while has just bought himself a GPS unit. Fine in itself, I have no problems with technology, I can see the use of GPS as a tool in conjunction witha Map & Compass, but the bloke cant read a Map.
Yeserday we went out on a walk in the peak district. Having been etrusted with the sole map of the walk I set about guiding the rest of the group. about 2 miles into the walk, he turns round with his GPS in hand and tells the entire group I've got them lost.
He didnt say "I Think" or "Maybe we should have turned off there", he out and out tells everyone I've got them lost. I reach for the map, and my OS map and start tracing out walk since leaving the carpark, at which point I'm told by the rest of the group, "Dont dout the GPS Syd, Its never wrong" wwell, I kept my mouth shut and followed the rest, and he leads us to the midway point of the 9 mile walk, but he did'nt follow the walk, he headed out in a strait line, the same when we left the Toilets and picnic area.
Strait across fences, walls, brooks etc, by which point My back is well and truely killing me, so I stop for a few moments to get some pain killers down me. By the time I have put my ruckack back on, the rest of the group are no where to be seen, they just carried on.
At this point I was well and truely irked, so I dropped off the hill and followed the main road back to the car park, ariving 30 mins before them.
So what pissed me off was, Not Walking at the slowest members speed, Not using Common sense when following the GPS, Not even looking at maps etc to see how we were doing, charging ahead like a bull in a china shop, but then expecting everyone to be happy about waiting while he stopped fo hours to take photos galore. But most of all, the constant "Dig Deep" and "Dont make "X" pissed off" everytime i stopped to check out position on the map, or take a photo I'm not in the army and this isnt a speed march, so why bother saying that?
Monday, 21 February 2011
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Futre Wargaming and Bug hunters
Since I've not been upto much(hence the no updates in the past weeks) I've started building a 25mm force for the Futre War Commander set of rules, using 25mm Gripping beast Marines.
All was going well, ordered the grunts, and all their kit, and in looking for the drop ships, the only one I could find that was any good was the Games workshop Valkyrie. In the traditions of GW, the model should be a double anything anyone with a brain would willingly pay, so I started trawling 2nd hand sites, and found 4 dropshis for about a 3rd of what they would cost new, nice one.
Or not. literally hours after the parcel arrived, I found a close 25mm scale Scotia Grendal copy of the Aliens ship, for the same price. Bugger. Well, since these are in the same county they wont be all that expensive with shipping, so its more next month.
Also from the same place are the APC's, also by scotia, or a close copy as well.
Well, thats the armour taken care of, now the figures. Gripping beast do "Sci Fi Marines" army deal for £25 complete with smart gun (X2), sentry gun(x1), flame throwers(X2), Missile Launcher(X1), troopers(X8), Pilot/APC Crewman(X1), Officer(X1), Trooper with Shotgun(X2) so thats pretty much a section, well I've got two of them coming so along with the 3 APCs & Drop ships thats a formidable force.
Pretty much everything I've allready got from Pendraken in 10 mm, so hopefully I'll be able to field a platoon level force, and a company force.
Anyway, thats all I've been upto recently, so over to you.
Red 36 Actual Out.
All was going well, ordered the grunts, and all their kit, and in looking for the drop ships, the only one I could find that was any good was the Games workshop Valkyrie. In the traditions of GW, the model should be a double anything anyone with a brain would willingly pay, so I started trawling 2nd hand sites, and found 4 dropshis for about a 3rd of what they would cost new, nice one.
Or not. literally hours after the parcel arrived, I found a close 25mm scale Scotia Grendal copy of the Aliens ship, for the same price. Bugger. Well, since these are in the same county they wont be all that expensive with shipping, so its more next month.
Also from the same place are the APC's, also by scotia, or a close copy as well.
Well, thats the armour taken care of, now the figures. Gripping beast do "Sci Fi Marines" army deal for £25 complete with smart gun (X2), sentry gun(x1), flame throwers(X2), Missile Launcher(X1), troopers(X8), Pilot/APC Crewman(X1), Officer(X1), Trooper with Shotgun(X2) so thats pretty much a section, well I've got two of them coming so along with the 3 APCs & Drop ships thats a formidable force.
Pretty much everything I've allready got from Pendraken in 10 mm, so hopefully I'll be able to field a platoon level force, and a company force.
Anyway, thats all I've been upto recently, so over to you.
Red 36 Actual Out.
Monday, 24 January 2011
Bet you thought I'd forgotton
First off, I didnt realise it had been a year. I bet you thought I'd forgot all about the blog did'nt you?
Whats happened since my last update? Well I was found fit to work at a medical in april, and Won an apeal against the descision at the begining of December. So that now means I can get on with the business of re habilitation without the worry of whether or not I will have to get a job. Happily, the doctors have finally refered my to a physio, so hopefully it wont be long now.
I've decided to convert all my Games Workshop Cadians to give them West Wind German heads, and paint them up as Africa Corps, At first it was going to be field grey germans until someone pointed out I might lose posible opponents because of the nazi nature of the army, strange when I dont get any problems finding opponents in flames of war with my swastica festooned german tanks, but hay ho, if thats the feeling at the gaming club.
Reluctantly, I havent been Airsofting since early April, partly due to the money the DWP havent been paying me, The Last Airsoft game I attended was the Airsoft International Tour of Duty game at Elite Action Games near Dorking. I was running arround in my Austrailian Infantry gear, SLR, Greens etc, for the most part with only Tom, who was in an Austrailian SAS loadout, using the superior Range of the SLR to flank the enemy, but occasionally taking part in larger assaults to bolster the firepower of the 3 rifle sections with M16's & M60'. Bloody Yanks.
Although I havent had the money to go airsofting I have been Larping, only once, but its almost enough to contain my lust for excessive violence & gun play. I was crewing the July event for Stargate LRP. I was asked to play a Sheriff, along similar lines to the bloke in the Firefly eppisode "The Train Job", although I decided to play him as a cross between Gene Hunt & Jack Regan. Although much hilarity ensued when a player told a ref he wanted to interogate my prisoner, whithout telling me or the prisoner, leading to me givving him a gene hunt style beating in front of a load of the Stargate Charicters, only for the ref to come back and say "Ok, that didnt happen" Never mind.
Still wanting to go to one of the stargate events organised by the fight school, hopefully this year will be the year for that.
Anyway, more later. Red 36 Out.
Whats happened since my last update? Well I was found fit to work at a medical in april, and Won an apeal against the descision at the begining of December. So that now means I can get on with the business of re habilitation without the worry of whether or not I will have to get a job. Happily, the doctors have finally refered my to a physio, so hopefully it wont be long now.
I've decided to convert all my Games Workshop Cadians to give them West Wind German heads, and paint them up as Africa Corps, At first it was going to be field grey germans until someone pointed out I might lose posible opponents because of the nazi nature of the army, strange when I dont get any problems finding opponents in flames of war with my swastica festooned german tanks, but hay ho, if thats the feeling at the gaming club.
Reluctantly, I havent been Airsofting since early April, partly due to the money the DWP havent been paying me, The Last Airsoft game I attended was the Airsoft International Tour of Duty game at Elite Action Games near Dorking. I was running arround in my Austrailian Infantry gear, SLR, Greens etc, for the most part with only Tom, who was in an Austrailian SAS loadout, using the superior Range of the SLR to flank the enemy, but occasionally taking part in larger assaults to bolster the firepower of the 3 rifle sections with M16's & M60'. Bloody Yanks.
Although I havent had the money to go airsofting I have been Larping, only once, but its almost enough to contain my lust for excessive violence & gun play. I was crewing the July event for Stargate LRP. I was asked to play a Sheriff, along similar lines to the bloke in the Firefly eppisode "The Train Job", although I decided to play him as a cross between Gene Hunt & Jack Regan. Although much hilarity ensued when a player told a ref he wanted to interogate my prisoner, whithout telling me or the prisoner, leading to me givving him a gene hunt style beating in front of a load of the Stargate Charicters, only for the ref to come back and say "Ok, that didnt happen" Never mind.
Still wanting to go to one of the stargate events organised by the fight school, hopefully this year will be the year for that.
Anyway, more later. Red 36 Out.
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Thining Out the collection
Well, I've made it to the weekend.
I've finallyt got rid of my broke MP5, although I'm keeping the Front end and the stock because I have another on the way. Classic Army MP5 Sportline for £90, so I can drop them strait on that. I've also been looking at the ICS cosmetic parts, I dont want the new MP5 to go the way of the old one(Snapped body when I landed on it) so I want to replace the plastic for metal.
As for my M4, which has been in bits for the last couple of years, Its finally getting a new lease of life. A crane stock is on its way from Hong Kong(£20 Delivered), and I'm looking for an M4 RIS front end and Barrell to buy next time I get paid. After that it will be good enough for the only modern game I'm playing this year, Stirling Airsoft's "Operation Trident"
Red 3-6- Actual Out
I've finallyt got rid of my broke MP5, although I'm keeping the Front end and the stock because I have another on the way. Classic Army MP5 Sportline for £90, so I can drop them strait on that. I've also been looking at the ICS cosmetic parts, I dont want the new MP5 to go the way of the old one(Snapped body when I landed on it) so I want to replace the plastic for metal.
As for my M4, which has been in bits for the last couple of years, Its finally getting a new lease of life. A crane stock is on its way from Hong Kong(£20 Delivered), and I'm looking for an M4 RIS front end and Barrell to buy next time I get paid. After that it will be good enough for the only modern game I'm playing this year, Stirling Airsoft's "Operation Trident"
Red 3-6- Actual Out
Thursday, 25 March 2010
The weekend That was
Well Last weekend was fun, to say the least. I went airsofting on saturday. God knows why, but I turned up to a rain soaked Yorkshire site wearing green shorts and short sleeved shirt, which caused much mirth.
At about Half nine I allowed myself to be persuaded to get changed into my stand by cloths, plain green jungle shirt and trousers.
I was devastated when I chrono'ed my SLR, it hit 390fps, so that went strait back into the car, not to be played with again, or so I thought.
Game on was at around ten, there were some Rules of engagement in play, where one side(Government Forces) could'nt shoot anyone who was un armed, this caused some really class Rope Play by both sides, with accents that bad it was histerical. I remember one lad, who must have been about 14, tried to charge at me with nuthing but a rubber knife, I saw him from the corner of my eye, spun round and Blam, shotgun muzzle strait in his shoulder.
About half an hour before the Lunch break I went back to the car to see if I could tweek the SLR to be a reasonable FPS, Chrono'ed it and bang, 343 +/- 2fps for ten rounds. So game on, I was using it for the rest of the day.
It really was an epic day, had great fun all round, even though half of the rebel team left at dinner.
Sundaystarted out as a good day, well rested from saturday, but got worse.
About 4o'clock I lost it big style at my sister, and emptie a jug of water over her laptop. At the time I was washing the pots, sorting out the washing machine and coocking her tea, all along every 30 seconds nag nag nag.
Normally it would have been fine, just put it to one side to dry for a few days, but the silly sod plugged it into the mains within 30 seconds, so it is well and truely fragged.
I went to the local grave yard and just sat quiet for a bit, went home later and I was a wreck, I calmed down a little and took a couple of slleping pills. That was it, lights out till monday morning.
At about Half nine I allowed myself to be persuaded to get changed into my stand by cloths, plain green jungle shirt and trousers.
I was devastated when I chrono'ed my SLR, it hit 390fps, so that went strait back into the car, not to be played with again, or so I thought.
Game on was at around ten, there were some Rules of engagement in play, where one side(Government Forces) could'nt shoot anyone who was un armed, this caused some really class Rope Play by both sides, with accents that bad it was histerical. I remember one lad, who must have been about 14, tried to charge at me with nuthing but a rubber knife, I saw him from the corner of my eye, spun round and Blam, shotgun muzzle strait in his shoulder.
About half an hour before the Lunch break I went back to the car to see if I could tweek the SLR to be a reasonable FPS, Chrono'ed it and bang, 343 +/- 2fps for ten rounds. So game on, I was using it for the rest of the day.
It really was an epic day, had great fun all round, even though half of the rebel team left at dinner.
Sundaystarted out as a good day, well rested from saturday, but got worse.
About 4o'clock I lost it big style at my sister, and emptie a jug of water over her laptop. At the time I was washing the pots, sorting out the washing machine and coocking her tea, all along every 30 seconds nag nag nag.
Normally it would have been fine, just put it to one side to dry for a few days, but the silly sod plugged it into the mains within 30 seconds, so it is well and truely fragged.
I went to the local grave yard and just sat quiet for a bit, went home later and I was a wreck, I calmed down a little and took a couple of slleping pills. That was it, lights out till monday morning.
Hello
Well, to start off, I'm new to this I suppose I have too much free time So I'll bore you all silly, but If your reading this I suppose that says something.
I think of myself as a Military Historian, thats a posh way of saying a miniture wargamer, re-enactor, Live Action Role Player and Airsofter.
Miniture wargaming is as old as the ark, with two people facing each other over a table representing some form of battlefield, with figures they have painted and collected. I'll play anything, Sci Fi Fantasy or historical.
Re-enactment wise I have been involved with groups portraying WW2 German panzer units and British Airborne Units, although at the moment I'm on a sabatical from WW2, and re-enacting a Austrailian Infantry man from the vietnam war.
At the moment I play a Stargate larp system as a chatictor called Cpt Troy O'kief, and the Mealstrom system as Balian Hammerfist. Feel free to come and say hello if you see me.
As for airsoft, well, Simplified it is a posh way of playing soldiers in the woods with your friends. It started in the 80's as a few colectors buying Replica BB guns of what items they couldnt get in this country for whatever reason, by the 90's the replicas were getting more sophisticated and able to fire in automatic, and now has quite a cult following.
My main passion though is military history, at the moment it is the Vietnam War that really fills my time, but also includes WW2 and the Peninsular Wars and the ACW.
Well, thats me, more to follow.
Red 6 Actual Out
I think of myself as a Military Historian, thats a posh way of saying a miniture wargamer, re-enactor, Live Action Role Player and Airsofter.
Miniture wargaming is as old as the ark, with two people facing each other over a table representing some form of battlefield, with figures they have painted and collected. I'll play anything, Sci Fi Fantasy or historical.
Re-enactment wise I have been involved with groups portraying WW2 German panzer units and British Airborne Units, although at the moment I'm on a sabatical from WW2, and re-enacting a Austrailian Infantry man from the vietnam war.
At the moment I play a Stargate larp system as a chatictor called Cpt Troy O'kief, and the Mealstrom system as Balian Hammerfist. Feel free to come and say hello if you see me.
As for airsoft, well, Simplified it is a posh way of playing soldiers in the woods with your friends. It started in the 80's as a few colectors buying Replica BB guns of what items they couldnt get in this country for whatever reason, by the 90's the replicas were getting more sophisticated and able to fire in automatic, and now has quite a cult following.
My main passion though is military history, at the moment it is the Vietnam War that really fills my time, but also includes WW2 and the Peninsular Wars and the ACW.
Well, thats me, more to follow.
Red 6 Actual Out
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