tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post4725316280218589256..comments2024-03-29T02:18:02.207-07:00Comments on The Mad Padre's Wargames Page: Ottoman Spahi Command GroupMad Padrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-87797106245148115682014-06-02T00:25:43.133-07:002014-06-02T00:25:43.133-07:00Love those Ottomans! I can't get into my work...Love those Ottomans! I can't get into my work laptop as it has locked me out and all the information on how to contact the help desk is...in my laptop! Grrr!legatus hedliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-64525303120392729562014-05-30T20:02:45.918-07:002014-05-30T20:02:45.918-07:00I really like how colorful these units are. You d...I really like how colorful these units are. You did a great job making them each colorful and unique. Please accept a Liebster, on me.AHunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08148857673973402238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-19130372731881764272014-05-22T19:31:15.921-07:002014-05-22T19:31:15.921-07:00Thank you Tamsin.Thank you Tamsin.Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-5347488475774570722014-05-22T14:24:12.306-07:002014-05-22T14:24:12.306-07:00Actually no it's not Flightdoc, I'm a fell...Actually no it's not Flightdoc, I'm a fellow Canadian wargamer from Montreal that frequents your blog, and has been inspired to start my own "Platoon Forward" campaign with Chain of Command come mid-June. Always on the look out for WW2 wargamers at least in the same time zone as myself. I usually play solo as it difficult to find others to play in my area. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-41066161871003133162014-05-21T12:49:09.874-07:002014-05-21T12:49:09.874-07:00Thanks Edwin. It actually turned out much more ha...Thanks Edwin. It actually turned out much more happily than I deserve.Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-25506311973859724062014-05-21T12:48:34.161-07:002014-05-21T12:48:34.161-07:00Thanks Simon. I knew a soldier who dropped a bran...Thanks Simon. I knew a soldier who dropped a brand new iPhone into a rank and malodorous ports-loo at the end of a long exercise. The poor lad was practically in tears and his mates were in tears of laughter. So sad.Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-68141372877000505712014-05-21T12:47:18.265-07:002014-05-21T12:47:18.265-07:00Thanks Thomas. I think in future I'll keep m...Thanks Thomas. I think in future I'll keep mugs of hot fluids in a separate building from my laptop. I have six more castings to do to finish that unit of Spahi, and once I do I shall indeed put them on the gaming table, where, if the tradition holds, they will be massacred and the survivors will rout.Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-20703828159345349882014-05-21T12:45:48.925-07:002014-05-21T12:45:48.925-07:00Thanks Ion. The advantage of the old school desk/...Thanks Ion. The advantage of the old school desk/tower PC arrangement is that one could spill all manner of things on the keyboard and at worse you had to replace it. The laptop is a perilously vulnerable thing. <br />I do agree that with these Spahi chaps, bright is beautiful.<br />You have been busy indeed. I don't really admit it much, but most of my running has been trying to make it to bars before last call. Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-1472613591719897852014-05-21T12:43:28.640-07:002014-05-21T12:43:28.640-07:00Thanks! Is that you, FlightDoc? Yes, I would lik...Thanks! Is that you, FlightDoc? Yes, I would like to revisit Denis Audet in Normandy. I think Chain of Command might be the mechanism I'd use for combat. His platoon got severely decimated last time I played a game with him. I have been thinking abut some sort of reassignment.Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-43770203321649343692014-05-21T12:22:51.013-07:002014-05-21T12:22:51.013-07:00Great looking figures. Seriously bad luck with the...Great looking figures. Seriously bad luck with the tea accident! We've had simliar tech woes with phones being dropped down toilets in the past!Simon Quinton https://www.blogger.com/profile/18001946192905517180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-20590694825072631512014-05-21T10:26:54.565-07:002014-05-21T10:26:54.565-07:00Tea is a fickle mistress, not to be mixed in with ...Tea is a fickle mistress, not to be mixed in with applemacs or (In my case) microwave ovens. Thankfully, my replacement Microwave oven was far cheaper than your Apple computer repair though! <br /><br />I'm loving how individual all these Ottomans are turning out. Must make for some very enjoyable painting not having to push yourself through uniform after copied and pasted uniform. Daihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04978439841611727387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-60868151038740876712014-05-21T03:57:38.524-07:002014-05-21T03:57:38.524-07:00Splendid looking chaps, well worth the price of a ...Splendid looking chaps, well worth the price of a cup of tea. <br /><br />I rather like the shade of purple on the fellow carrying the horse tails.<br />Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-50844758161963990762014-05-21T01:20:39.224-07:002014-05-21T01:20:39.224-07:00Oh now that's not good news! The cavalry real...Oh now that's not good news! The cavalry really are lovely though.Michael Awdryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07049982879661559305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-71061464495312052202014-05-21T01:05:21.601-07:002014-05-21T01:05:21.601-07:00And that, Padre, is why my mug resides on a separa...And that, Padre, is why my mug resides on a separate table, still within easy reach but separated from the computer by four very important inches of open air. Those figures are truly wonderful, make sure you get us pics once they see the elephant, as it were.Thomas Nissvikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635793244352536541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-65541773885678623922014-05-21T00:14:52.491-07:002014-05-21T00:14:52.491-07:00Nicely done!Nicely done!Sean McLachlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09778503397743759469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-1517838319103887932014-05-20T17:46:01.672-07:002014-05-20T17:46:01.672-07:00Lovely Spahi command! Just the way I'd picture...Lovely Spahi command! Just the way I'd picture them with great color choices. <br /><br />My wife once spilled a vase of water holding a bamboo shoot (hotel) on our laptop and it was ruined. I suspect it was not an accident since the laptop was 7 years old. Montyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094254709103687259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-24313775882738168742014-05-20T17:42:25.632-07:002014-05-20T17:42:25.632-07:00Isn't it wonderful the advances in technology:...Isn't it wonderful the advances in technology: providing us with unimagined new ways to break down, gang agley, or go phut. Or, if it is small enough, to get left behind in a plaza in Kuala Lumpur, left in the pocket of an about-to-be-laundered trouser, dropped down the jakes at work... Entertaining stuff, and such delights are not cripplingly expensive, unless you are financially on the bones of your b--. Being a humourless, crusty old coot, I spare myself such rib tickling amusements by not having such devices, but my PC, into the keyboard of which I have only the once shoved in a cup of really hot sugared tea.<br /><br />That is a very fine and colourful command group Mike - you certainly wield, if you'll forgive my saying so, a demon brush! Like you, I reckon model soldiery ought to be bright and colourful, and if the historical prototypes themselves went in for the sartorially spectacular, so much the better. <br /><br />Seeing your programme over the last year reminds me...<br />Painting (figures)... mostly Army Men types - maybe 100 figures; plus a few Napoleonics<br />Modelling ... some half-done refurbs, and a few cardboard vehicles and guns (Army Men project); oh, yes, and a half dozen or so buildings (Army Men project again);<br />Painting (vehicles) ... a few.<br />Kilometers walked ... a fairish number - double figures at least - some of it in hilly country, but not nearly enough...<br />Kilometres run ... 0.006 approximately - enough to cross a road once or twice in moderate traffic...<br /><br />Looking forward to more -<br />Cheers,<br />IonArchduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-24486457134079390482014-05-20T17:28:28.085-07:002014-05-20T17:28:28.085-07:00Very nice and colorful. Apple doesn't consider...Very nice and colorful. Apple doesn't consider anyone who can't assess the internet because say there Mac isn't working, not worth talking too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04802420094217299660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-17001695658489653042014-05-20T17:11:58.506-07:002014-05-20T17:11:58.506-07:00beautiful brush work! Sorry to here that your MacB...beautiful brush work! Sorry to here that your MacBook, on the other hand that whole thing of booking an appointment only by internet does make want to bring the title of "Genious Bar" into question. On another note, can we expect to see Audet in action in the near future?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-81681572123421087352014-05-20T15:14:41.080-07:002014-05-20T15:14:41.080-07:00That was a rather expensive cuppa Padre. Glad to h...That was a rather expensive cuppa Padre. Glad to hear you got it sorted.<br /><br />Those Spahi command group figures are splendid.TamsinPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11759947520907448060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519665561624985779.post-55783558051254279722014-05-20T14:42:14.114-07:002014-05-20T14:42:14.114-07:00Ouch! Sorry to hear of your tech troubles.Ouch! Sorry to hear of your tech troubles.Diplomatisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04154642903216207181noreply@blogger.com