The Middleman

Today I present to you a sneak peek at my latest project, along with two figures that inhabit it. Click the thumbnails. Yours truly... A substance of questionable legality... ... and the full picture. Enjoy, and make sure to share your thoughts. ;)

1. Don't threaten members. 2. Don't double-post. Next time, I'll lock the thread.

Gotta love that new title, Sarg.

I'll pick up all of them, except maybe the TIE Interceptor. The A-Wing has some cool dark red pieces and a bunch of 1x1 slopes, plus a cool mechanic torso. The Slave I is a lot better than both previous versions, and I like the features it has. Lots of useful pieces. The V-Wing has those weird 3x6 wings, and the B-Wing is just plain nifty.

Guilty as charged. :-D Couldn't resist!

*viki* *y* *pirate4* *n* We need a Voldemort.

Welcome aboard, Joe! (again :-D)

Welcome aboard, Joe! Nice to have you with us. PS - check your e-mail when you have a chance!

Happy birthday man!

That is completely ridiculous. It looks like an electric shaver wired to a remote control.

Same here.

It's way too <insert that tiresome argument>. The entire front is made up of those awful wedge pieces.

$20????????? It better be made of gold. Just checked again, it's actually $16. That's still pushing it for me.

This is not going to be worth 20 unless it comes with some FANTASTIC figure...

I live in the US Well, they're on Amazon...

I understand that Denmark is part of Scandinavia, TT, but it's more Germanic than Scandinavian, in my opinion... I'd like to point out this Wikipedia article on Vikings, by the way. They make an interesting point that I believe I've mentioned before.

But Denmark wouldn't be grouped with Scandinavian countries unless it had seized power of them in the 13th-14th centuries. I'm not trying to be clever... merely defending the facts.

Norwegians are p..... (It has been Danish a lot of years) Belgian's can't play football. And the English has allready been beaten once by the Vikings (or Norsemen ;) ) So give up QED Norwegians have fjords and Norwegian Blue Parrots... Belgians have the best frites, waffles, and chocolate. And the English drove back the Norsemen as they attempted to take over the last section of England - hence 'The Last Kingdom', the source I quoted. ;) Anyway, insults take over only in the wake of logic, so I'll take that as concession that you have no argument against what I've said about the origin of 'Viking'... @TT - Norway and Iceland were self-governed until 1262, when Iceland agreed to give executive power to the king of Norway. And then, as I said, in the late 14th century, Denmark in turn seized executive power of Norway and Iceland. And again, it lost that power fairly quickly. Denmark is less Scandinavian in origin than the rest of the countries... it's simply related because of the past rule it had over other Scandinavian countries. PS - Quad Erat Demonstratum doesn't apply to this, John. ;)

Ah, but Denmark is less Scandinavian than Norway! :-D

Indeed it is... I'm 1/4 Norwegian (1/2 Belgian and 1/4 English). And you do know, of course, that Norway was the true center of the Northmen... Denmark simply took executive power of Iceland and Norway around the late 14th century, so it became the unofficial center of Scandinavia. Of course, it lost that power later. TT, I did respond to you on the 1st page... make sure you respond... :-D

TT, Viking is not the correct name for them, even in this day and age. Again, they should be referred to as Northmen, Northumbrians, Danes, etc. Only people ignorant of the actualities of the culture would call them Vikings - that's too much of a blanket statement. Still, if you're talking only of the raiders, then that would be fine. Otherwise, they're not Vikings, even now. ;) If you want to start discussing the governments and the grouping of the tribes within Scandinavia, however, I welcome you to that! Wrote a three-page paper on it just this afternoon...

Historical Note, Page 332, The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell is famed for his extremely accurate historical background information in his historical fiction novels. On top of that, this is from the Historical Note - which traditionally corrects any ERRORS the book may have made historically - so it definitely counts as a viable source.

So you would rather equate Viking to American? Same logic applies.

Ah, but T, there's a flaw in your logic... 'United States of America' might have 'united states' in it, which is in and of itself a generic term, but there's also 'America', after Amerigo Vespucci, the defining noun that sets it apart. The word 'Viking' has no such noun, and remains generic. The term was used for many similar tribes because the tribes all performed raids - however, it was generally not used for the tribes at large - only for the raiders, and only when they raided.