@ashleyrpollard.bsky.social
Past: FASA freelance writer, CB psychotherapist Present: SF writer, model-maker, painter, wargamer Future: I have no idea what the future holds リアルロボ mecha ミニチュアゲーム https://linktr.ee/ARP6Actual
It was, I was fair tuckered out.
And now I've put up a post with the pictures of my afternoon session at Herts of Lard.
I was playing Simon Hatch's What a Tanker 28mm game on a section of Joe Bilton's Caen 1944 table, which as you can see is an outstanding set-up.
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Many years ago (oh my how time flies) I ran a BattleTech campaign called, Operation Sandbox, set on the Periphery planet of Mummerset.
House Steiner seeking mineral rights to mine Boron. The campaign was run using my quick play rules.
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I've put up a post with the pictures I took of the morning session game at Herts of Lard, They mostly come at night…..mostly.
Played with modified What a Cowboy rules, using 28mm Alien miniatures from the boardgame, much fun was had.
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Caveat, I'm mad about mecha, and there are not enough films with mecha, so I'm biased.
We watched this last night, and it had an alien mech chewing up a bunch of Ranger candidates on their last training day.
Total gonzo fun. Hope there's a sequel showing the bigger picture of the invasion.
Worth sharing, watch or don't watch, agree or disagree, you're free to choose.
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It was fun though, because one has got to love a rampaging mech stomping around the countryside lowering property values.
As promised, I have now posted a bunch of pictures on my blog of the Herts of Lard day. I've added descriptions of the games with each picture.
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It was. I have more pics, but need time to sort them out. Will post when I have done so.
Went and had a great day out at Herts of Lard @joewargamer.bsky.social
I get all my Cherryh books from Forbidden Planet in Britain.
In a world where people gloop together some generative spudwazz and consider themselves creative, it does a soul good to see someone think, "Hey, how about recreating the Battle of the Mutara Nebula, but the Enterprise is the TOS one, oh, and it's model work? Yeah, let's do it." youtu.be/rHYVQCaNpjM
Issue three of the 1989 BattleTech fanzine MekTek had ten pages of reader's comments. Heady days.
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It's a feature of the human condition to categorize things together, which is fine in context of science and technology, but unnecessary with regards to whether one likes or dislikes art.
While patriarchal assumptions do erase women, no argument from me, Shelley wasn't trying to write science fiction.
She was SF adjacent, but her work was more the horror of mankind trying to usurp God.YMMV.
Went to Oxford, toured Tokamak Energy's spherical fusion reactor. Read about it here:
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I also report the spam. I don't know if it gets actioned, but what else can one do?
Getting a certain amount of spam that seems to resist the message that I'm not interested in whatever they want.
It's a great read.
My birthday present arrived from Japan today. My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, but this is glorious.
Work in Progress; old school hard surface sculpting. More info here:
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1/9 Comparison of carnivore brains beyond brain size
They compared the brains of 26 carnivore species (including canids, felids, and ursids, among others) using magnetic resonance imaging.
(paper) elifesciences.org/articles/100...
Artwork by Steve Kyte for issue two of my BattleTech fanzine, MekTek. More about the contents of the issue on my blog.
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Progress is being made. Explanation of work done on my blog.
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Posting to gauge interest.
