The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Constable Bertrand]

While this is getting pretty far from GW.
In Denmark a "Paddy wagon" is called a "Salatfad" this translates into "Salad dish". Supposedly because they used to be green and it was said that the policemen were sour as vinegar.

Lol . That's a great story! What an amazing and varied world we live in. What characterful and creative ways we come up with to cope/define the world around us.

Wish we called ours salad wagons here in Aus too, much better than paddy/divi

Cheers
Matt.

[eilif]

We still use the term "Paddy wagon" here in Chicago. We've got big history of Irish Cops, so it's not surprising.


Funny to hear about "divvy Van" useage.  Here in Chicago Divvy vans (Mostly Dodge or Mercedes Sprinters) are the vehicles that transport bikes for the cities "Divvy" bike sharing program.

[Archie]

In Scotland they are "Black Marias" (I think I have the spelling right) ... singular being 'Black Maria' (possibly 'Moria'

[OSHIROmodels]

To get back on topic, do they still have the Flikr pool where members of the pubic could post their pictures of painted GW figures and a selection was posted on the main website?

cheers

James

[matthais-mouse]

To get back on topic, do they still have the Flikr pool where members of the pubic could post their pictures of painted GW figures and a selection was posted on the main website?

cheers

James

Not that I have seen. Which is a damn shame as it could be very inspirational.
Their new site is just too much about selling and not a good site like the old. Hell the old one even hard a multitude of articles which were fun to read....

[beefcake]

I find it quite hard to navigate to something I want to look at.

[OSHIROmodels]

I had a little look on my phone last night and gave up after a couple of minutes 

cheers

James

[pocoloco]

Seen pics of the mod kit By Vic's minis and if I was still collecting IG that would be the only acceptable way to greatly improve otherwise horrible looking model.

Regarding the names of paddy vans etc, here the police vans are called mustamaija, term used since the 1920s-1930s, direct translation from Black Maria used in the days of old in English speaking countries. It's still used today even though the police vans are getting more and more whiter, the newest ones have more bright neon yellow (according to studies the colour most easiest noticed in traffic) than dark blue over the white.

[joroas]

For many years our local police cars were white with a thin red stripe running the length of the body.

As a result they were known to everyone as "jam sandwiches".

These were the fast response cars, we called them Zulus as in Zulu 1, 2, 3, etc:



Patrol Cars were called Pandas, for obvious reasons, and they had a Mike call sign:



and then there is:

[Constable Bertrand]

Joroas, that is one heavy piece of police equipment. :0

Our guys are lucky to have a Toyota land cruiser and a van.


Our paddie wagons are less vans and more utilities.


Over the last year's our highway patrol has changed its markings. Making them very OH&S safe from behind, and stealthy from the font as they 'ping' speeding motorists from behind bushes.


Now back to discussing how borning the latest GW website is, and how they don't have any online articles anymore.

I never paint in a GW store. But I was having a chat to a mate on the weekend and he was saying how they now ask customers to cease and desist if they are painting in-store with any non-GW product! They asked him to put down his unofficial paintbrush!!! 0_o

That's seriously too far, and why GW has no friends.

Cheers
Matt.

[OSHIROmodels]

I never paint in a GW store. But I was having a chat to a mate on the weekend and he was saying how they now ask customers to cease and desist if they are painting in-store with any non-GW product! They asked him to put down his unofficial paintbrush!!! 0_o

That's seriously too far, and why GW has no friends.

Cheers
Matt.

That really isn't on. I would hope that the older managers (the few I know have played 'other' games) would be a bit more sensible to that 

cheers

James

[YPU]

That really isn't on. I would hope that the older managers (the few I know have played 'other' games) would be a bit more sensible to that 

I think this has been discussed before, but in my experience you get two flavors of GW managers. The hardcore fanboys and the guys who played other games, maybe even ran a store and are doing this as a "steady job" in the war-gaming business (which there are not that many of)

[LordOdo]

I keep them black.
Have experienced with green edges, but IMO that needed flock as well to look really good

[Lawful Evil]

I was using brown, but these days I prefer black. I guess it depends on whether you want something that blends in to the terrain (brown), something retro (green) or something that looks neat and crisp (black).

[beefcake]

I like black.