What's on your workbench?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Just learned this morning that the phrase "lick something/someone into shape" comes from the belief - still prevalent even in Shakespeare's time - that baby bears were born as a shapeless lump and had to be licked into shape by their mothers.

Ahhhh.....

[grizzlymc]

True, what's the issue?

[goat major]

That’s how you make 6mm figures from 28s isn’t it ?

[grizzlymc]

Good if you have a zinc deficiency. I'd suggest nuts.

[Buff Orpington]

You just want someone to lick your nuts for you.

[grizzlymc]

If the almighty had given me an articulated rib cage, I could lick my own.

[RMD]

It's taken me around 18 years to get on with it, but I'm finally flagging up a large SYW Austrian army that was left to me by my mate Doug when he carked it. They're bloody awful Mk 1 & Mk 2 Lancashire Games figures, but well painted and quantity has a quality of its own (around 800 infantry and 500 cavalry). Around 75% of the (painfully weak) flagpoles have snapped off and the surviving flags were (badly) printed by Doug on his 1990s bubblejet printer. So they're all getting replaced with brass flagpoles (I've just done 44 infantry battalions) and nice printed flags from Fighting 15s and Wargames Designs.

[World2dave]

Sounds like a great army, and one to share with some tasty pics once you've sorted the flags.

[Essex Boy]

Yes, indeed. What Dave said.

[RMD]

Sounds like a great army, and one to share with some tasty pics once you've sorted the flags.

Yeeeess... From a distance...

To be fair, our mate Gareth did a cracking job of painting what are bloody awful figures and they do look pretty spiffing en masse. They have actually been in Wargames Illustrated in the far, distant past. We did demo games of Lobositz and Kolin. Lobositz especially got a two-page spread in the mag (sometime 1996ish).