Sir Norman Ray

Hey, he's got my vote. Nah, I just like to look at it and such. Reminds me of what I need to do etc.

Hmmm, a block of red infantry. They have backpacks, Shako's, muskets, basic faces, only thing they lack are yellow shoulder pads but I have spare. Problem with this is, so many soldiers I might be tempted to start a third company...

I don't know whether to bite. I do need some more materials to finally have Two Companies. But, money will be tight soon having just moved...

Impressive army, I like the Zulu look myself. The South Essex (SAH!) is, unfortunately, only half that size but its more dedicated to being a Napoleonic army, so thats my fault. But well done on making an impressive army. Very detailed as well

Heh nice. Yeah, it's always gran-WHATTHEHELLISINYOURPICUTRE!THATSCREEPY!-d to find old gems.

Recently, I've been packing as I'm moving into my new house, which I own partly. (Well, 40%) I meant to take a pic of my LEGO form, The South Essex and my American Squad. Alas, I didn't remember, and they currently sit a mile away in a box. But, in clearing out my wardrobe today, I found my old Cub Scout (Shut up, it was fun and we got burn things) blanket, and one of the many badges on it (Cub badges, swimming badges) was this: Ah, memories. Even then I had LEGO on the brain when I was trying to work out how to get the fire going. But enjoy this old school image of LEGO.

Not at all. We'll get them firing! We'll crush the enemies with ease!

Damn ye! I was just getting over this addiction! Very nice work mate :)

No, sorry. I didn't think to take any pics of those. They are cool to show off to customers. But I don't plan to go back to that shop for a while. I have a 9-5 job, and I did that spell as a favour for my mum, dad and uncle. (Dad not well, Uncle on holiday and my mum doesn't like me arguing because I win.) Surprisingly, we have had offers for these bits, but to be honest... "Hey dad! How about you cut back on the family business and only try to catch these rare items whilst fending off EU inspectors and the occasional German mine!" "... shut up boy." (Seriously, our boats have had 11 mines get caught in the nets, and 1 in ten are still live...)

To be honest, no. As I said, my dad and uncle's boats catch a lot of pots, bottles, kettles, jugs and plates. Baring in mind that we used to have a Garrison in this town, the British army/Navy having a testing area not far from us and that the town was bombed in WW1 and mined in WW2, it could be any age. It's condition is pretty good, as the second ball in the shop, though smaller, has begun to crumble slightly, with large, loose bits. They could have come from the Garrison, the testing ground, we have the Worlds Longest Pleasure Pier since the Victorian Era so it could have fallen overboard, like the coal we get. There are only two shipwrecks off of our coast, one was a freighter from a few decades past and the other is the SS Richard Montgomery, which is a WW2 wreck. Sorry, but it could be any age.

No idea. Only scales I had was for fish weighing, so yeah, old rusty ball on food scales, bad idea... Thanks anyway though!

"I assure you sir, the French won't have ANYTHING as big as this. This is just the cannon ball!" So, I was down my dad's shop today where we sell seafood, frozen fish and fresh fish, covering for my brother. I knew I was gonna be down there, so I thought what the hell. My dad and uncle often dreg up a lot of things. Bottles, jars, pots, smoking pipes, coal etc, and they stick it all on show in the shop (cleaned up of course.) And there's 4 pieces that intrigue me, two big gun shells (both have the firing pin still, no shells themselves though) and two cannon balls. The one here is twice the size of the other, and I thought it'd make a small giggle.

I dont like using mutants and zombies as an enemy. I prefer the idea that mankind is bad enough as it is. But thank you anyway, support is always greatly welcomed.

Once again, agreed. The only reason why I got my army was by bidding high on Ebay. I had the funds as I worked and didn't spend my money really. And I set a clear goal on what I wanted. Hell, I'd love another 800 Redcoats, it would actually give me a Battalion of men opposed to the two companies. But I think we need to know whats going on.

Agreed. What the fluff are you up to? Nobody has that much, even I only have 200 odd Redcoats.

Thanks!

Dust stirred under wheels. The wheels were attached to two motorbikes, one with a sidecar. They drove through the tight ravine, the bridge long collapsed since the last Great War. Bikes, whilst running on the rare petrol allowed gangs and travellers to move quickly in the wasteland formally as the USA. The bikes came to a stop in the ravine, blocked by a barrier. The barrier looked old, but maintained by somebody. Near the barrier sat a wooden shack, a ladder leading up to the roof with a water barrel on top. Near the shack sat an outhouse with a few flies. The first cyclist dismounted his hog near the barrier itself and began to look around. “Jeez boss, what’s going on?” Where the barrier stopped a fire pit flamed before leading into a small but empty dust field. The boss, sat in the sidecar, just shrugged at his grunt. “Simple boy, this is a toll booth.” Three heads turned to see a man standing at the doorway of the shack, a drumstick of some bird in his hand, cooked. Obviously, two motorbikes wouldn’t disturb a man’s dinner. “You see boys, the government decided it needed to maintain the road round here.” The young man walking around laughed. “Old man, there hasn’t been a real government in years, but this is a dust track!” The man shrugged, grease dripping off his dinner. “Rules are rules boy. You can go round the barrier, but that’s an old mine field there. Who knows what may still be alive.” The young man swore, and reached into his trousers. “To hell with you old man!” He whipped out an Uzi, but a bullet smashed through his neck before he could pull the trigger. His body flew backwards and crashed into the dust, his life slowly ebbing away as he slid slightly. Suddenly a large explosion erupted, ripping the top half of the boy to bits. The old man stood there, the smoking handgun in his hand. “It’s the rules...” Back at the other bike, the driver was reaching for his assault rifle before his passenger placed his hand on his arm. “No Dan, this man’s right.” The boss leant back and picked up the backpack and threw it at the toll man, landing with a jingle. “Go right ahead sir. I’ll deal with the young man and his bike.” The boss nodded as the barrier was raised and sped off towards the coast. Yeah, more on my post apoc stuff. The sub titles say it all really. But it was fun building the shack and the outhouse. Also, its fun to build whilst lsitening to games of the same genre Full Throttle.) Thanks for looking

Man, I wish I could walk into work and get a load of free LEGO. Where in God's name do you work!

Thats a point actually. I popped into a local shop in my town to buy my first LEGO set in a decade (Indiana Jones bike chase) and outside the front door of this toy shop was a giant LEGO pirate made of LEGO, about three foot tall. I shrugged at it at the time, thinking "Ah, this place is just getting all the old throw backs" or "It's that stupid, under 4 sets." But now you;ve said that, I'm wondering...

"You don't do the budget Terry, I DO!" ... I shall leave now...

Cannon from the Pirate and Western sets. Ok, its my own fault for buying sets on Ebay that came with them, but I seriously have no need for more artillary then, erm, something with a lot of guns...

Thanks for sticking my Post Apoc scene in the index! I wasn't expecting it to get there. Also, is this where WW2 based bits would go? If so, you missed my Para's looking for HQ. Thanks again though!

Nice work on these! My personal favorite is the SWAT team. God, I loved it when they were called in. Spiderman and XMen had those generic, purple clad goons with plasma rifle things. Batman had a SWAT team that rushed out of an APC armed with Thompson/Sten gun hybrids. "Look, up there! It's a butterfly!" "KILL IT!" (More Pics http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6141/huthut1wr8.jpg http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1917/huthut4gi2.jpg ) So yeah, great job and keep up the great work!

Erm, the men on the left are the mercenaries, the men on the right is the army.

Thanks! Nope, the soldiers are all BA