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[Darren]

Not as cool as yours but heres a baby I picked up for 11 Euro at Mont St-Michel (France)




I love it

Isn't that the bladed chucking thing from that "Krull" film?   

[Argonor]

Idunno, Hammers, you never know when those tricky Danes might try to pull something again;)

Fat chance - as I pointed out earlier, we have VERY restrictive weapons legislation 

AND the Swedes have a secret weapon:

http://www.thearmpitoracle.com/

[Wirelizard]

Not a toy in the pointy sense, and I've had this for a couple of years - and it's been in the family since 1914 - but I finally got a photo taken of a piece of family history:

More info & links on Flickr - briefly, this is a tin that was given to Allied troops for Christmas 1914; one of my great-great-uncles was in the South African Infantry in France at the time, and this made it's way back to the family after he was killed in 1918. It's been in my grandmother's possession for many years, and knowing of my interest in history she passed it on to me a few years back.

I've got a letter he wrote home in 1918 too, a few months before he was killed.

The background, by the way, is the reproduction pre-WW2 map I first mentioned on this thread.

[answer_is_42]

I recently got a Fez, does that count?
I do like hats...

[Bako]

Nice find. Now why can't flea-markets here have stuff as cool as that?

[Argonor]

One angry midget....

[Westfalia Chris]

One angry midget....

http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/3/38_16_06_09_8_15_56.JPG

Good Lord! It´s the Hellokittinator!

[Argonor]

One angry midget....

http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/3/38_16_06_09_8_15_56.JPG

Good Lord! It´s the Hellokittinator!

You might be more right than you think. The fist is made of some kind of rubber foam and shoots from the arm.... and we DO have a cat.... 

[Westfalia Chris]

One angry midget....

http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/3/38_16_06_09_8_15_56.JPG

Good Lord! It´s the Hellokittinator!

You might be more right than you think. The fist is made of some kind of rubber foam and shoots from the arm.... and we DO have a cat.... 

You may have a cat, but you have nothing on the cat:

[Prof.Witchheimer]

[Argonor]

Interesting... I own a 'The Crow' lighter (and a heap of shots glasses) from my time managing a comics/games store.

I never smoke, but lighters are cool.... 

[Hammers]

A reproduction medieval dagger and a eating knife to add to my costume...



The reason is that my new adopted hometown Visby with its medieval core and world heritage city wall (as I have mentiond before) has a medieval themed week at beginning of August each year. Jousts, a huge market, taverns serving capon on cabbage and rotisserie hog of the bone, blaring music, lectures and what not. It is quite good, I am sure, even in continental European and British terms since the town is preserved to an unusual degree. There is a LOT of people coming over and most dress up in medieval garb. There is even a tent town with baldachins south of the town where hundreds of the die hard [wiki=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Creative_Anachronism]SCA [/wiki] people camp out.

Being new to this we thought we'd dress up Fiver as a monkey with Mrs Hammers as a gypsy woman and me as a jester but later chose something more befitting out social status (hrm...). I hope to post a picture eventually.

One of the things which struck me as odd was that although there were plenty of reenactors (@Grimm: even Landsknecht, these events attract all kinds of weirdos, don't they? ) there was not one table top game nor a single miniature pertaining to the period to be found during the whole week. Maybe there is a niche for me there, I am hoping to make a project out of it. More of that if and as it procede.s

[Hammers]

A Schleich Sea Life Collection humpback whale whot I got for fiver, son of hammers. I am thinking about casting a waterline model from it to to use with, for example, Johnny Inuit there in the picture or my steamer project.

[Aaron]

Wow, if I could find something that cheaply here I'd invest in a fleet of Eureka whaleboats and see if Moby Dick couldn't give Ahab the Jonah treatment!

[Lowtardog]

Well not really exciting but some dice, hit location e.g. head left arm etc and some emotocon dice...I have some plans for adapting these for rules after playing a cracking Afghanistan game last weekend where they were used.