Ancient Roman D20
Critical hit! $18k for a ancient roman d20
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June 13, 2008
June 12, 2008
Great interview with William Gibson
One of my favourite authors
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Yesterday William Gibson rolled into San Francisco to do a book signing for the paperback release of 
April 15, 2008
Building Do-17 Pt2
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March 11, 2008
Springtime
Spring has sprung. The daffs are poking their heads through the overgrown grass in the back garden.
I’ve planted out quite a lot of veg this year. Some in a raised bed, leeks, carrots, chard, onions and scallions.
Cabbage and carrots and onions straight into the ground. The rose hips I took from the park are germinating. That is pretty amazing from one rose hip you could grow a whole rose garden, there must be fifty to a hundred seeds in each one.
Got to get some garlic and spuds. I’m going to try growing the spuds in tires or a bin to get max yield.
Do-17 Fuselage halves closed
Here are some pictures of the cockpit with the fuselage halves closed. The “reading the seams” thread in the beginners section of the forums is a great education as to how cement is actually supposed to work as opposed to how I’ve been using it.
Spent an hour or so last night cleaning up the the seams on the fuselage and engines, then fitted the wings.
No locater pins on the fuselage or the wings but after lots of test fitting it went together very nicely. Will need a little filler around the wings but otherwise looks passable. Far easier than the old sb6 and i-153 kits I’ve made recently, they had massive steps.
Next, clean up the wings fit the canopies and apply masking to all that glass, hmmm wonder if there are commercial masks for this? oh yes! eduard do one. Ooh and Extratech do PE flaps too. Tempting… need to find a site that does both, or maybe the local shop might piggyback them on their next order.
Tags: modellingdornier
March 5, 2008
Building Do-17
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December 20, 2007
Reading: Shooting War, Kidnapped
Since there is a new library opening near me soon, and it’s construction is way behind schedule all the brand new books bought for it are in my local library. I got a few of them out.
A graphic novel about blogging, the reporting of war, media bias, and the trauma of war in Iraq. All beautifully drawn and scripted.
Ripping yarn set in post Rebellion Scotland and in and around the Forth, written in the most wonderful language, a real pleasure to read.
November 13, 2007
October 23, 2007
Scotland to Italy
I took myself off for four weeks on my bike. My only restriction was I had to get back to Belgium to get the ferry home. I went down to Italy rode the bike through the Swiss and Italian Alps, down into the Black Forest. Had the motorbike stolen damaged and repaired. Met some wonderful generous and hospitable people and some very unhelpful people too. In the end I took an extra week anyway.
In fact I’m enjoyed that freedom so much most of my trips end out like this now.
See more progress on: go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
August 8, 2007
Chooks
Hannah, our nieghbour and the girl that runs Emmet’s nursey has just got two chickens. Now I have something to trade my veggies for! Next in the garden will have to be flowers for cut flowers as their trading value, or brownie points value is so much higher.
Also dug a flower bed in the back garden and planted some herbaecous plants in it, that Michelle picked in the garden centre. It gives us a start but I want to get the rest for free.
Joined Eurozone gym on Monday, so for the next three years I’ll be getting fit and happy.
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