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Anecdotally, I've just spoken to a couple of Conservative voters I know. Both said the same, "He has to go."

If I was Keir Starmer, I'd probably hope that Johnson limps on for a few months, damaging everyone around him.

Agree let him limp on and affect more people around him and in the party and hopefully make them unelectable for a good few decades. (But it won't 🙁)

They(the tories) could let him stay until the May elections and use that and any bad results as an excuse to get rid of him instead of punting him out in "Disgrace"  and officially tarnish the party?

Middenface McNulty

Lenny Zero

Fantastic your army will look awesome- a ragtag bunch of kickass orcs

This Ork is from one of the older 40K boxed sets, where you got 18 Ork Boyz, but quite a lot of repeating melee weapons, guns and heads. There are three body types, so I set about making sure nobody had the same head, melee weapon or gun. This guy's one of my favorites:



- The snaggle-tooth head is from an Orc (i.e. the fantasy range).
- The right arm is from a spear-carrying Orc (I amputated the original Ork arm), but the spear tip was kind of stone age and tied on with twine, so I cut that off and replaced it with a spear-head from the Boar Boyz kit, which looks a bit more modern. Orks tend to go with big blades, axes and chainsaws - but I liked the idea of a mad throwback with a spear.
- The gun has been modified with the dangling ammo-belt, which I think is from a Chaos Marine Rhino sprue. (And I drilled out the gun barrel, of course.)

That's great Funt.
It's the ingenuity and imagination used I love. Making mini's to your own taste makes them more interesting.
I keep all my "cuttings/spares" just Incase I can use them on a future build.
Now you just have to get round to paint them 👍🏻😁.

That's some going in the comics business.

For someone who's been a fan since 1980 In my opinion it's been the most consistently high output of characters and storylines and would (controversially fighting my inner voice) say this is my favourite era in tooth history.

We are truly blessed to have Matt as the current Tharg.

Weekend Tickets for me and the Mrs bought 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻- We did 2019 and thoroughly enjoyed it so I'm looking forward to this road trip 😁

Thanks guys but my hope is that this thread would winkle out more model makers (amateurs like myself).

This board is full of talent from the short stories, Dread heads, sketches, Lego builds etc I can't believe I'm the only one trying his hand at model mashups!

Great work on the Lawless models.

I do like to convert miniatures, and nearly all of mine are Games Workshop kit (classic Warhammer and 40K). I hate the idea of two models in a squad being identical, so I do conversions to make them unique. I'm really bad at finding big blocks of painting time, though, so most of my work is either pre-undercoat or undercoated and gathering dust. Not the best things to show off - but I enjoy the process of Frankensteining the minis all the same. 

I have discovered that over-used blu-tac sort of decomposes over time - becoming both yucky smelling and terribly difficult to remove from the minis.

I too have a stack of Dredd mini's to paint but doing the small batch for the Christmas tree was fun adding the baubles and Santa hats.
I have the same feeling about having too many figures the same it means that you have to keep things consistent so a wee tweak here and there adds interest.
I'd like to see your tweaks as I'm always looking to pinch others ideas 😁.

Thanks guys for the kind comments. It's good that others can appreciate the characters brought to a 3D format. In my house they are just looked upon as dust gathers 😂😂😂.

I'm quickly running out of space so have to think carefully when picking my next characters or I'll have to move some on or my boy out so I can get my own man cave.

I'd never bought a regular prog and I just caught up through trades until last year when my kids got me a years prog hard copy and the anticipation I had every week was something I didn't expect but enjoyed very much. However my limited shelf space means that I could not repeat this year on year. So with the 50% off I got last year I filled in a huge gap in my trades - all digital and I asked for a double digital sub from Santa.
I have no issues reading of my galaxy tab and I can take this on holiday. So I'd recommend going digital to anyone with limited space.


(I still squeeze in the occasional HC that tickles my fancy)

Happy New Year all Squaxx
Been working on my latest effort off and on since August. With the free time over Christmas and (requested) lockdown up here in Cal-Hab I've finally finished my version of "Kill-a-man" Jaroo. Who goes nicely with my Marshal Lawson as you will see below.

Jaroo was modelled from a toy "King Kong" bought off eBay and after a few adjustments to its stance, adding a waistcoat, hat, goggles and a shed load of hair around the fore arms and feet I was happy with the results. I again used my goto medium of milliput.

As usual I have posted pictures of Jaroo primed, base coated and finished. To give the scale of the two figures I have photographed them together and I think I have pretty much lucked out as they look good together. Sorry for all the pics.

I have 3 other projects slowly on the go so I should have them completed throughout the year.

Still waiting on fellow Squaxx to post their creations.

Arh Trooper McFad your continuing ingenuity is a wonder. That is fantastic.

Thanks Colin

My next figure will be dropping in the next few days (been at it off and on since August) just got the base to finish.

Well as us Squaxx in CalHab have been asked to limit our outside contacts I can consider myself "trapped" so as my kids got me a dart board for Christmas and Mrs McFad allowed me to set it up in the spare room/office instead of outside under the canopy where the old one is I whipped up my latest project.
I had a couple of bits of plywood lying about and used some of the old progs (low grade) which I had bought for a previous project.This time it was only Dredd and all coloured pages.

I still need to get a portable score board rather than a bit of paper. But chuffed with the result and I can practice in the warmth

A bottle of Bunnahabhain, Highland Park and Port Askaig all single malts but the only reading material I got was the complete Cam Kennedy's HC. So I'll have to purchase some more material in the new year to see me through those malts 😁

Oh and socks!

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