Sir Tas has thrown down the gauntlet lads! :
ROLL UP! ROLL UP! A GRAND ADVENTURE COMMENCES!
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MODELS!
A CELEBRATION OF MODELLING PROWESS AND IMAGINATIVE ENDEAVOUR!
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen!
In celebration of a glorious two years of this august journal - Huzzah! - a meritorious and magnificent test of modelling mastery is hereby announced.
"To all sportsmen and personages of rank and title, notice is hereby given of the grand Yours In a White Wine Sauce Eighty Day Modelling Challenge!"
Simply put, in Eighty days from today (May 19th 2008) those gentlemen that wish to partake must undertake to complete a VSF themed model or models. The choice of model can be anything VSF related but certain conditions are of course appropriate. For example, an Aeronef fleet should consist of a minimum of 12 models - 6 escort, 4 cruiser and 2 capital. Other forces should be of a similar size.
There is no hard and fast rules per se (other than the restiction referred to) and neither is a deposit of £20,000 at Barings Bank available to the winner. This is merely an excuse to ensure that those projects that never seem to get off the ground will have an opportunity of seeing the light of day in the spirit of friendly and gentlemanly competition.
Entrants should record their preferred contribution within this august journal in order that an indication of what delights will await in 80 days time.
That doyen of the modellers craft - Vanvlak - first suggested this flight of whimsy and it has been heartily endorsed by both Commander Tas and Lord Royston of Rayleigh.
His Lordship was quoted as saying, " Dashed good wheeze and all that! That Vanvlak chappie has really thrown down the gauntlet and only a complete cad or boundah would refuse to take it up! Jolly good show I say, now where is my Madeira.....?"
Commander Tas was oveheard in the corner on his club mumbling over a ridiculously large Cognac:"....of course I shall pariticipate, the Honour of the Colonies is at stake.......but I freely admit, I was very, very drunk!"
Smoke has already been observed coming from the stacks inside Vanvlak Industries secret factorium.
So there you have it, Around the World in 80 models........
Gentlemen, the chronometer is ticking!
10 comments:
Very well, I'm sure The Russians
can have a Landship of some sort ready..)
Excellent! Anyone else then Chaps?
A steam powered walker is
being built by the Fukuoka
Foundries, after wining the
bid for the Imperial Army's
"Steam Samurai" project.
Herr Friedrich Alfred Krupp
has dedicated a vast amount
of his Ruhr facilities to
the building a very large
Land Dreadnought to be
commissioned as the
Frederick IV, of a three
ship class.
A recent report in the
Times Of London broke
the news that the New
York based Maddox Industries
has taken a contract to
build several large steam
powered and armored
conveyances.The paper has
learned only that the
contract was entered into
on behalf of a Doctor S
through a bank in Zurich Switzerland. It was also
learned that these conveyances
will be produced at the
companies' plant in Buenos Aires,
no doubt to evade US governmental
scrutiny. The owner of the
company refused comment, it
should be noted that Maddox Industries motto :
"In Posterus Vacuus Question" translates to "into the
future without question".
Fantastic to see you throw your hats in the ring Genltemen - just what one expects from such upright & jolly-good Chaps!
Tas said...
Fantastic to see you throw your hats in the ring Genltemen - just what one expects from such upright & jolly-good Chaps!
Happy to oblige, you do know that we are building in 15mm?
No I didn't...but why am I not surprised? Bravo lads, Bravo!
Tas said...
No I didn't...but why am I not surprised? Bravo lads, Bravo!
Only logical old boy, we need to use our creations in our games after all.
Don M said...
Tas said...
No I didn't...but why am I not surprised? Bravo lads, Bravo!
Only logical old boy, we need to use our creations in our games after all.
Not Tas fault there bud how was he to expect logic from this bunch...)
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