Author: Felix

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull out on DVD

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is now out on DVD. Get Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull from Amazon.co.uk.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Though I know a lot of people were disappointed and some reviews were bad, I really enjoyed it.

I am guessing that as a result of the reactions and reviews I had lower expectations than those cinema-goers who went in the week of release and had really high expectations.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Was it perfect?

Well no, but I liked it, I liked the nod to the previous fims (ie Marcus) and even the Young Indiana Jones’ Chronicles.

As for “nuke the fridge”, I am afraid I do agree with the internet community sentiment on that.

From a gaming perspective, lots of wonderful ideas. I do like the idea of using Soviets as the bad guys.
I am already working on and planning an Area 51 scenario as a result of that scene in the film.

Grot Bomb Launcha

I am in the process of painting my third Grot Bomb Launcha. This will take me to a battery of three of them. So far one is fully painted, the other on it’s way.

With the third one I have given the model an undercoat. Some parts were given a black undercoat and the remaining a white undercoat.

The black undercoated parts will be drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal, whilst the white parts will be painted with a sand colour.

See the full workbench feature on this the third Grot Bomb Launcha.

Imperial Guard Hellhound

This is Simon’s Imperial Guard Hellhound.

He has made a few changes which make it look more like the Churchill Crocodile variant from the Second World War. Rather than have the external fuel tanks on the back of the Chimera, he has added an external fuel trailer.  This is from the Ork Skorcha model with an additional fuel drum added. In combat this would have the advantage that if the main flame weapon was taken out (or ran out) they could drop the trailer for greater speed and better manoeuvrability.

In our games we do use the Apocalypse flame template and this earlier posting explains why.

More pictures of the Hellhound.

David Tennant quits as Doctor Who

BBC reports that David Tennant is to quit playing Doctor Who.

David Tennant is to stand down as Doctor Who, after becoming one of the most popular Time Lords in the history of the BBC science fiction show.
Tennant stepped into the Tardis in 2005, and will leave the role after four special episodes are broadcast next year.

He made the announcement after winning the outstanding drama performance prize at the National Television Awards.

“When Doctor Who returns in 2010 it won’t be with me,” he said.

For me, David Tennant was a most excellent Doctor and probably one of the best ever. It will be difficult to fill his shoes.

Wot no Spooks?

I knew Spooks was coming back this autumn, however not watching much on the television recently meant I didn’t see any trailers. Nor did I get a newspaper either, so didn’t know that it was on tonight at 9pm.

Years ago it would have been a problem as I would have to wait until repeats.

Now we have a few technologies which make it much easier.
I could wait until it appears on DVD, though generally with BBC programmes it takes a long time to get onto DVD.

With Freeview I can watch repeats on BBC Three later this week…

And of course BBC iPlayer means I can watch it now, less than 30 minutes after it finished on BBC One.

Cool.