Luft46's Blog

This is a nice little kit presented in a very tight box, well its hard to open if you get my drift. You get five main sprues,  two being duplicates for the wheels and running gear. One sprue is the main underside,  anothe being various bits and the final one beingthe track and road bed. Personally I am not a big fan of these road beds as they always look a little artificail, I will be making my own using model railway stuff. There are three other minor bags being a clear window sprue, and two for the cabin and main body. The remainder is the instructions and a nice painting guide in colour on nice paper.

All in all a good package that I intend to get stuck into soon.

Down to the last three figures in my LOTR party, Im not going to win any prizes but I have had lots of fun on this exercise, relearning old techniques.

Another one finished, next up is Frodo

Just finished Pippin today with others going well. The difference between doing Luft46 models and LOTR figures – 50 shades of grey versus 50 shades of brown!
The Me 334 went back to the cupboard with very little done, but it did inspire me to go back to the LOTR stuff as it is SO….. Much easier. Anyway another old favourite is back in the Special Weapons Dalek, evidently it has even been resurrected on the new Dr Who.

Went to the EB Games Expo yesterday with Thomas. Mostly I left him to his own devices with a mate of his meeting up occasionally during the day. I was around when he played COD Black Ops 2 because he is just under 15 and needed an adult with him. Scored a tshirt for my troubles, the 80 minute wait was a bit over the top for the opportunity to have 10 minutes gameplay but he loved it. The opening presentation was impressive including dancers and motorcycle stunts indoors with a good presentation on the top 5 games for the each of the last 15 years EB have been around. This was on a very large screen with a good soundtrack. The only downside was the 5min speech from the Pommy CEO. Just boring and irrelevant, the audience was not corporate,  just gamers and their families.
Nice to see some Australian developers given a chance, pity it wasn’t in the main building but it is a good start. Most of them had good handouts including pamphlets and some demo disks which I will be trying out.
Lots of games on show plus lots of gaming gear. I particularly liked the new Tomb Raider beta and another game,  a RTS called Compnay of Heroes 2, then again any game that has Aerosans in it cant be too bad. I have a code to download a beta version so will be giving this a go soon.
What surprised me was the number of booth babes, I thought this had gone away but evidently not. There were also a lot Cosplayers there also.
It was nice to do something for Thomas and a pleasant day out.
Nearly forgot tomention the South Park game,  should be bizarre!