Latest Acquisitions (2022)

[Airborne01]

Her name is Betty - and she's my ex! Where did they get permission to use one of our old photo's!
Steve

[Peter Gillson]

Not very exciting for most people, but it means I will be back sculpting soon!



Peter

[Guest]

I'm in love :smiling3:

Is this before you tell Rach ? :smiling2::smiling2::smiling2::smiling2:

[Guest]

Another busy day yesterday for the post room.


There is paper inside to make into the cover for the street, don't fancy using that, so going to see what material might be used.


Tim , these should please you .

[Tim Marlow]

Another busy day yesterday for the post room.

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There is paper inside to make into the cover for the street, don't fancy using that, so going to see what material might be used.

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Tim , these should please you .

Zut alors , mes amis sont arrives……formidable…..with apologies to any French speakers, I studied it at O level, failed completely, and that was approaching fifty years ago….

[wotan]

Le pretre, le gendarme, le boulanger, le banquier et le retraité rentraient dans un petit bistro. Complete the phrase.....

John

[Tim Marlow]

…are you sure there isn’t an Englishman, an Irishman, a Welshman and a Scotsman in there somewhere as well John…..

[Guest]

Somebody mentioned elsewhere that Lidl in the Netherlands had these at the moment:

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A ring-shaped photographic LED lamp with adjustable colours and brightness, including a tripod and smartphone holder (not pictured), though I doubt I’ll have much use for the latter Not sure if it will actually prove useful for taking model photos, but for all of €8.99, I’m willing to take a gamble.

[Tim Marlow]

Something I found in a charity shop this week….


Should be a good read…..I’ve always loved these sort of illustrations…..look…..there is an Arado dropping a torpedo, what’s not to like…..

[Jim R]

Hi Jakko
I bought one of those lights when Lidl had them a year or so ago. It is surprisingly useful.
Jim

[adt70hk]

Somebody mentioned elsewhere that Lidl in the Netherlands had these at the moment:

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A ring-shaped photographic LED lamp with adjustable colours and brightness, including a tripod and smartphone holder (not pictured), though I doubt I’ll have much use for the latter :smiling3: Not sure if it will actually prove useful for taking model photos, but for all of €8.99, I’m willing to take a gamble.

Someone on here a while ago got one very similar from the UK Lidl.... Not sure how it worked out.

Will be very interested to see how you get on and if it makes a big difference to the quality of pictures.

[adt70hk]

Hi Jakko
I bought one of those lights when Lidl had them a year or so ago. It is surprisingly useful.
Jim

I knew someone got one!!!

[Guest]

Something I found in a charity shop this week….
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Aren’t most of these comics from the 1950s–70s or so, though? I was looking for scans of comics about the Second World War for something (remixing/repurposing them, essentially) some years ago, and found out that during the war, American comics were mostly actually comic (as in: funny) and superhero stuff, not war stories about the Good Fight™ like I kind of expected.

[Guest]

I bought one of those lights when Lidl had them a year or so ago. It is surprisingly useful.

My main problem with it right now is where to put it for photographing models I have this little photo booth that stands on a table in my hobby room, but there is no room in front of it to put the tripod, so I may have to improvise some kind of clamp to stick the light onto.

[Tim Marlow]

Aren’t most of these comics from the 1950s–70s or so, though? I was looking for scans of comics about the Second World War for something (remixing/repurposing them, essentially) some years ago, and found out that during the war, American comics were mostly actually comic (as in: funny) and superhero stuff, not war stories about the Good Fight™ like I kind of expected.

The cover shots are yes, but mainly because UK “comics” of that time (and up to one hundred years earlier) that dealt with that sort of content were not picture books. They were known as papers, and contained written word stories, not illustrated storyboards. UK picture comics of that period were also of the “funny” type and just lampooned or stereotyped the nations enemies. The actual fighting wasn’t illustrated. The commando type picture war stories didn’t really start appearing in the UK until the sixties.
I’ve read the first chapter, and there is far more depth in there than the cover suggests. The book actually starts by discussing the origins of the comic industry during the Victorian age. War stories of that time were initially based around the Napoleonic era, moving on to the Crimea and so to the fringes of empire and colonial wars as time went on. They were apparently designed to give a sense of service and moral guidance. Amazingly some of those early papers had circulations of over a million copies per week. The UK population of the time meant they must have been read by a large number of adults as well as children.