Upgraded the 15mm Franonian Navy....

.....from an old CIA guy who kept saying his name was Mr.Smith!

Bought these off Timecast, not particularly happy with them, lots of holes in the resin, the lifebuoys are not fully cast on any of the eight on both models, terrible mold lines on the metal parts and you had to supply your own gun barrels????? Now Timecast only sell this from a company called Gomi Designs but what can you do but get on with it!

Am I being pedantic about the barrels, no mention on the site, why don't they supply them?

We have a troop carrier and monitor boat from the Vietnam era, still functional after all these years....

15mm Rebel Minis figure for scale.....

Franonian 15mm Navy River Boats.

What's a Dictator without a Navy? These small beginnings will lead to bigger boats.....hopefully!

15mm resin River Boats from The Scene, very nice resin kits and metal HMG.

Did some scale pics if you hadn't seen these before with a 15mm Rebel Mini miniature and I haven't forgotten your pics Kingsleypark and should have them this week!

Need to find some crew, fancy a life on the river busting pirates?

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 71: Act of Valor 2012 (4 STARS)

Went to see this last night but was hesitant after reading a lot of bad reviews especially from Empire movie magazine (1 STAR), a movie with real Navy SEAL's, could they be right?

No they fecking weren't!!!!!!

This is a movie with real actors playing most of the parts but the Navy SEALs being acted by real Navy SEALs!, it starts off with a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative and turns into a hunt for a terrorist leader and his suicide bomber cell, the action is very good switching from first person to third person, they used live rounds a lot in this movie and it shows....

But it's the SEAL team and it's members that you're interested in, they're not actors and that's obvious (these people have seen and done things that would make actors weep) but they're a team of professionals and friends and you see that, they banter and slag each other as only professionals and good friends can and do....

It's emotional, the SEAL teams really family are also in the movie and what I had never seen before was the two directors introducing the movie (twice) with a description of the movie development and the involvement of the SEALs (they were originally only advisor's), live ammo firing and seeing the bond of friendship among professional soldiers....

The movie is not perfect, the action is sometimes disjointed and the story hops from set piece to set piece quite quickly but it's sometimes more about what's out there in the world and glad to have people who can deal with it but don't set policy but still deal with it....

The scene on the river with the boats, mini-guns and twin .50 cals raised every hair on my body and it's been a long time since a movie did that, the movie reputedly only cost $12 million dollars but with the equipment eye candy on view they navy helped a lot and rightly so!

Never buying Empire magazine again as I don't think they got the point of a going to a movie....I just want to be entertained and took somewhere else for an hour and 50 minutes in this poxy existence I call life!

Some people won't agree but that's who I am and I am never fecking changing!

20mm WW2 Painted German Kriegsmarine.

Some 20mm German Kriegsmarine for my Operation Sealion German forces, the figures were painted by Ray and myself and then dropped by someone and I had to sort them out, the figures are OK and come from the Kelly's Heroes range from Grubby Tanks and they will be used with the landing barges and to add a little colour to the grey.

A little late today due to Area Manager doing my head in and I will be around your blogs in a little while.

Pictures are the usual quality.