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89. Blazing Art and the Sirs · The Euro Legions Podcast

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  My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
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  I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
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  It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
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  fake hammer. Oh.
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  A fake Whoa. As I say, Dick.
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  Welcome to episode 89 of the Euro Allegiance Podcast, another
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  one on the meandering path to Legions Con.
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  And this week we have Blaze Bear and Arthur Sauron and we have
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  Brett Stoddart and Big Greg. So that's going to be fun.
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  Sir Jack himself, along with the search.
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  Stoddart, isn't that what we're going to call them Rich?
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  It is, yes. That's that's my name in
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  convention from both. There you go.
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  You'll see it on Rich's little tagline if you watch the
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  YouTube. So he always comes up with a
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  funny line literally 3 seconds before he joins.
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  So it's never they're never that well thought out, but they
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  always work. How dare you, John.
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  As if I would leave it that late.
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  As if of course, you. And how are you, man?
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  I'm all right, it's Monday, so. It's Monday.
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  Yeah, it's Monday, Monday, Monday.
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  But we have the interviews done, so, you know, that's good.
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  So we just have to record this little, little intro bit.
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  And what brightened up your Monday, Mal?
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  Because I know something that brightened up mine.
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  He's heavy and he's got a gun. That's what she said.
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  He's got a big gun. There you go.
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  Look. And I've already tweaked him to
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  give him slightly different oh as well.
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  You've got, Oh yeah, you got the Bardrick legs and the Crotos
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  arms. So you give him this little
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  orange jumpsuit underneath the armor.
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  Almost. That's it, That's it.
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  And it looks great. It looks like it was almost
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  meant to match, but. Yeah, it's just, it's a that's a
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  beautiful coincidence. This is what's going to.
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  Be the light gunner. I think he's like, I don't know,
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  he's kind of the leader of the Gunners, isn't he?
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  I don't. Just looks cool.
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  Hadn't really thought that far ahead.
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  Slightly less porky Gunner maybe?
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  That's it, That's it. Well, he's just, he's got, you
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  know, he's got, yeah, he's the commander in the back, so he
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  doesn't have the big armor on. He doesn't need to be out
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  risking his life. You can just run quicker than
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  the others. You need, you need a little
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  walkie-talkie accessory for him, or a little or maybe a loud
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  hailer. You know one of those.
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  Going to say it's like I was saying this horror comes by.
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  You don't need to run fast, you just need to run faster than the
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  other people. Exactly that.
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  Exactly that. But yeah, I'm very impressed
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  with this guy. And the pauldrons were, I don't
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  know on mine were just a little fiddly, but I managed to get it
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  and those hoses and when you've got big fat fingers takes a
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  little bit of messing about. But once the you got them in and
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  done pretty good. And this helmet works well on
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  that head. You just need to take off the
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  the little visor piece from the the kind of held the Tusk helmet
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  and you stick it in and it clips in and it's pretty solid.
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  Yeah, it can come off if you try and lift it up, but if you have
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  it on the figure, it'll stay on pretty nicely.
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  And the paint is great, a little bit more matte than I thought,
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  which is great. I love that.
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  So I think under studio lights things tend to look a little bit
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  glossier always. But I'm always happy to see that
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  because you've got plenty of metallic detail with the silvers
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  and stuff like that. And even some of the the kind of
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  brown here is a little bit shiny, like shiny, almost like
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  shiny leather is maybe that's what it's supposed to represent.
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  Yeah. And then the green is kind of
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  quite muted and, you know, maybe good for a little bit of
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  stealthy heavy gun and. Really, really nice green as
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  well. I yeah, wasn't expecting it to
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  be quite as nice as it is. Yeah, I can see how some people
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  might might like it and then other people like me would
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  probably think it's my favorite Tusk I think now.
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  So just because of the color scheme, you know, because the
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  parts are, you know, similar you could make, you know, you can
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  pretty much make this with Sligor.
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  So you know, the parts are all out there and even the red jet
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  has this kind of bulky front piece as well.
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  So yeah, but very nice, very nice little one off and they're
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  still available in store horsemen.
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  So, you know, snap them up if you can.
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  I don't know if they'll be available this Friday when this
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  goes out, but yeah, they're still there.
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  That's. The gun paint app on the gun is
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  really, really well done in loads of detail.
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  It's it's great. Yeah.
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  And I think the way the, that we got those guns, you know, well,
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  we got the regular guns with Legion builders 1st and those
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  guns, all the cosmic guns have a lot of potential for different
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  paint jobs and kind of, you know, from the, from the
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  Horsemen or indeed, if you're brave enough, you can do a
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  little bit of customizing yourself.
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  So that was it. Heavy gunner.
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  So happy to have him. Probably I got 3, but probably
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  would pick up more if they were at the horseman table.
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  You know, depending what else is there of course.
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  But yeah, can't have enough of this guy.
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  Yeah, if I if I like mine as much as you boys when I get back
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  home in a couple of days time then umm yes, I will be looking
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  for more of the table. So yeah, your wife had to take
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  we, they all got delivered at the same day to us.
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  That that was hilarious. And then Rich was away from
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  home, he's up in Wales. So his wife had to take delivery
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  of the box of stuff. So he was delighted with that.
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  It always happens. I can sneak the boxes in if it's
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  me, but no, there's only three figures.
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  So it's not a massive box, but it's it's another box.
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  Yeah. Yeah, and mine arrived very
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  early. Like usually mine arrived in the
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  afternoon from FedEx, but they were here like 10:00 this
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  morning. I was like, whoa, yeah, because
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  I got the, I got the you normally get.
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  I normally get a text message from FedEx when it's out for
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  delivery the morning of. And I got the text and literally
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  half an hour later, it was like the door was ringing.
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  I was like, who was that? Bonjour?
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  Said FedEx. I think it was about 11:00 for
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  me. So yeah, it was.
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  Yeah, they're on the post. They want to get to get this
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  stuff delivered before Christmas.
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  I'd almost be here. I'd almost the opposite thing up
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  here today. I brought some parcels that I
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  sold, stuff I sold on eBay with me to post here.
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  So organized. It's the post he came and
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  collected and I'm in the sticks up here.
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  I mean, let's be honest, This is this is in the sticks.
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  And the postman turned up and it was like, I've never done this
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  before. What am I?
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  So it's like, yeah, I put the addresses on the boxes.
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  Just put the sticks. OK.
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  Yeah, great. OK, Thank.
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  You. All right.
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  Oh, you're doing that ship and from there now as well.
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  Well I just I didn't have time to post the stuff before I left
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  so I just brought them up with me.
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  Very good, yes. So the person Botham will be
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  wondering why the seller says Brits Bristol and the postage
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  says Wales. Wales, Yeah, yeah, one of them,
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  The funniest, the funniest one once was I sold something and
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  again, had to bring it up here to post it and it was only going
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  5 minutes down the road. So that guy must have been like,
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  well I'm going to minute. What?
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  I bought this in Bristol and it said it's been posted from
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  Anglesey, which is 5 minutes away from me.
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  What the hell? I could have done local
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  collection. Save myself you could.
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  Yeah, exactly. I could have just delivered it
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  to his house. Yeah, there you go that.
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  Would have been funny if. I've travelled all the way from
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  Bristol. And then to give you the yeah,
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  you got the, you got the white glove service, Sir?
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  Yeah, and I believe you're you're starting to take pictures
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  of of your your stuff for allegiance can't to put up a
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  little. Post I am, I was wowed by your
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  very professionally done 1. So I was saying to you guys
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  earlier, I got a baking tray and a brown and a black towel draped
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  over it. So using that as my background,
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  rather than trying to get rid of backgrounds on pages, I'm just
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  taking them against black and then I'm going to copy and paste
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  them all together into a sheet and then I'm going to put them
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  up on there. So nothing, well, maybe nothing
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  says professional like a Jones job.
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  It has to be said. Oh yeah, well, you know, a lot
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  of my base photos would the background wouldn't have looked,
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  would have looked worse than a bacon sheep.
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  But they used a bit of a little bit of removed background to
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  magic from an image editor and put them all together and agreed
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  that I agreed that I had actually done the template for
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  last year. So that saved me a bunch of time
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  because I remember doing that grid was a was a bit of a
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  learning curve. So yeah.
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  So I'll just pop up what I posted.
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  So I posted a bunch of heads. These are not all the heads I
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  have because some of them I've shipped off and some of them I
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  hadn't taken photos of so, but it's a good bit of it.
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  So you get to kind of some of them.
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  I did have last year's when there was some leftovers and I
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  took out the ones that I wasn't 100% happy with, touched up some
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  and the rest of them were fine. So they're going back as some of
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  them are older pieces, some retired pieces from Bundry dog
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  toys now. So that's pretty sweet.
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  If you can, if you fancy those, I can pick them up.
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  And you like to paint jobs and some fabulous paint jobs here,
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  John, People, people. As the owner of a lot of John's
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  paint work, trust me, people get them after you've bought from
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  me. Definitely get onto John's
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  stuff. Yeah, and they'll be on the
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  lower end of the price scale if I can manage it, if it doesn't
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  make annoy too many people. So this is the the sculpts we
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  have then as well. We've put these up before, so
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  just to put them up to remind people we have them.
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  And so the regional Mal, the cosmic mercenary.
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  So I think he'd also go good on the heavy gunner, maybe Mal as
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  well we could do. Yeah, yeah.
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  I think he'll, as I say, I think the work.
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  I wish I had kept one of my notes to see it on.
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  And we got the Shanaki, the Leprechaun storyteller, so he's
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  going to be hopefully pretty popular.
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  We got the Big Bear that I painted that Rich gave to me so
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  that we could do a giveaway. So pretty much every purchase
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  until we run out of tickets on Saturday, we'll get entered into
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  the draw for a bear. So we can do the draw on Sunday
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  and then hopefully the people are still there and give the
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  bear over. And yeah, if people aren't
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  buying from us, I'm going to give the the entries to our our
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  booth buddies. But, you know, hopefully that'll
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  work out well. And then a couple of customs
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  that I managed to get finished. So this kind of fiery cosmic guy
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  with, I don't know, swords and cosmetium when they're got
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  flames on them. I think that, yeah.
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  I think when they're flaming, that's fine.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
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  And I did the little kind of lava rock effect on his torso
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  that's actually like a Magnus type torso that I kind of shaved
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  off all the the rivets and stuff and kind of made it kind of
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  flattened out the detail and then put this kind of texture
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  paint over it and stuff. So yeah.
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  And the, the limbs are actually from the Shadow Arc Legion
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  builder. And then that's a yeah, that
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  that's a I think no, like tiger armor that I repainted
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  everything on that. So yeah, pretty.
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  Good. I could think like the job you
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  did on the belt, John. That was awesome.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's not. I was tempted to go a bit, you
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  know, to kind of go even a little bit more.
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  I would you say kind of bright on the belt.
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  And then you know what, there's enough bright.
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  I think the belt needs to kind of just match in and kind of,
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  you know, blend, blend with the armor.
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  So I, I probably made a good decision there.
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  And then we have the Ganics figure, which is from our
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  episode that we did with the enablers on their show where
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  they made us design A figure. So I did the full repaint on all
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  these parts that I had put together for figure.
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  I did this kind of repaint in like Photoshop type thing for
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  their show. So I had it.
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  So it's not exactly I did change out a couple of parts.
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  For example, I'd use the var grist straps and I didn't have
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  an extra pair that I could use for a custom.
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  So I got different ones, but I think they they work just as
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  well. And I changed the boots because
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  I actually had these boots. Now that's originally what I
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  wanted to do. These are Marley boots repainted
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  and I just didn't have I did have a Marley, but I didn't have
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  them like a sperm Marley. I didn't have it open.
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  So that's why I didn't use them for that show.
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  So, and again, I gave him flame sword because why not?
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  You know, I think it's pretty cool.
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  This orc guy, I had the kind of bones of this custom line around
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  for ages, but I finished this bone kind of skull axe with that
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  I'd got when I bought some stuff from Anthony.
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  I got it in one of those orders and the toy forest that is.
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  And so thought that would go well with him.
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  Gave him one of the Shields that I've done before.
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  And then I also kind of did some foliage on his pauldrons here to
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  kind of, and that the cloth kind of plastic cloth Templar stuff
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  there is kind of repainted and kind of made a bit more kind of
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  grimy and orky. So I love that head.
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  That's the arcade from Jason Rodriguez with the Dragon on it.
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  With the dragon. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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  And then this, this is the one with Miles head that we did that
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  he designed with. I do so I did all the other ones
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  in really luminous kind of colours.
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  I thought cool fun for cosmic and I was on a bit of a kick
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  with those, but I did hold one back and I said, OK, I'm going
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  to want to do this one almost. I loved that was a Traxion
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  hunter that we had seen in the in the latest cosmic wave.
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  So I said to do something similar to that and I had bought
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  a bunch of a couple of OLX the the the naked ones.
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  So that's a repaint of that with the brown cloth goods piece,
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  these cool weapons. Not this one on the right, I
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  think, as well as from Toy Forge.
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  I can't remember who the one on the left is from.
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  And yeah, I really like how it turned out.
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  And the belt then as well. Yeah.
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  This was one where. Yeah, this was one where I'd
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  done the whole custom. And then remember, I sent you a
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  message, boys going oh, I found the hands on the table.
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  I've forgotten to clip them onto things to paint, so they never
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  got primed and they never got painted and I did the whole
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  paint job. So yeah, I had to kind of delay
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  a day on sharing it with everybody for because of that.
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  But no, begin the end. And then this I posted before is
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  the leprechaun. I did.
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  It's going to be on display at our table.
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  Not sure if I'm going to sell this guy, but definitely have
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  him there for display. I do like him.
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  I mean, I like them all a lot, but you know, this guy, I think
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  he has a lot of unique stuff that would be hard to replace if
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  I wanted to do him again. So yeah, yeah, might need some
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  convincing on that one. And then this repaint, I think
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  there's going to be display piece in our table.
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  If someone wants to buy it, they might make me an offer, but I
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  don't know if I'll have them for sale as such.
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  But yeah, it's going to be cool to display some of the cosmic
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  stuff on maybe or something like that.
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  So that's what I put up. So sounds fun.
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  Going to be fun at. Least we also got a good stuff,
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  amazing stuff, Absolutely amazing stuff.
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  Yeah, I was going to say if we also got a picture of what Mal
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  showed off this week, not to be selling him obviously, but.
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  Oh yeah. Is R Renault.
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  RI forgot what I called it RN-10D is that all?
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  Right. Yeah, we can bring that up right
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  now. No problem MO.
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  So you did a basically a tribute to Terminator T1000 or was it TT
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  8? 100.
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  So here we go. Yeah, we were.
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  We were talking about doing cosmic skeletons, weren't we?
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  And I was just sat there and it was like, oh, it's so dumb, but
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  I'm going to do it. It's not done at all.
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  I'm actually surprised I haven't seen more of these.
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  And someone did say that on the post.
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  I must admit, yeah, I, I was a bit surprised that, yeah, nobody
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  done it yet. And I mean, it's, it's not the
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  most difficult 1. You know, the most difficult bit
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  is I chose to do the joint prep, so dremeled the joints so that
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  they wouldn't rub. But it was, you know, very easy
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  otherwise because it's just paint everything metallic, wash
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  it and dry brush it. But it looks really good, the
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  eyes. Full repaint of a figure is
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  never easy, no matter what you say.
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  It's just time consuming, isn't? It and I love the weathering you
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  did on the gun here. Yeah, it's worked well.
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  And I tried to do a bit of object source lighting, as they
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  call it, in miniature painting world around his eyes.
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  And I did it on the scope. And then I thought, hang on,
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  it's a scope. It's probably not a good idea
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  that it glows, but it looks cool.
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  Rule of cool, yeah. Exactly.
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  Rule of cool. Definitely Trump's rule of
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  practicality. Yeah.
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  And then rounded it off beautifully with the soft goods
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  from. Yeah, that was sort of a bit of
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  a last minute decision. Well, yes and no.
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  I was toying back and forth with because there are pictures if
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  you look for T800, there's from the later and I'm guessing
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  comics as well, but the later films where they've been in the
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  war and they've got clothes hanging off them and that's.
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  Inspired that a bit, yeah, I love that.
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  So there's an actual. Really well there.
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  An actual link back. Yeah, that's that's really cool.
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  So we're trying to convince Mal to bring that to legions Khan,
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  at least to to have on display and, you know, something cool.
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  He's he's claiming luggage space might be an issue.
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  And I don't know, I think he can sneak that in somehow.
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  Man, come on. I must do it.
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  I'll have rethought that. It's just with Rocket.
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  I know. I mean, of course I'd like to go
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  with an empty bag confirming them, you know, bringing.
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  It back, Yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll see.
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  It won't be for sale like just more so because the soft goods
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  require, yeah, paying for quite an expensive figure to get them
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  back. Yeah, well we have we'll also
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  have an episode where we do an interview with Chris James about
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  the pop and swap event coming up in Legions console.
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  That might be something where there you could pick up some
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  boxes soft goods as. Well, well, if that happens,
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  that may change if because as I say, the restroom is not too
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  difficult and we're getting those other skellies which, you
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  know, could use them. You you have to give Mal parks
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  of soft goods as well as. Cash.
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  Right. Well, we shouldn't go on too
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  long because we do have two quite longish interviews, very
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  good ones and fun ones. So let's get over to those guys.
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  Yes, definitely gets philosophical at some stage.
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  So, you know, watch out for that.
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  But yeah, great, more super talented and super fun people.
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  So looking forward to that. And we'll have more next week as
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  well. So enjoy the interviews.
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  Chat to you again soon. So more awesome people at this
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  time. We've got Blaze and Arthur's
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  from, would you say, north of North New York, both of you.
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  Yeah, people call it upstate New York, but it's.
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  Yeah, sorry. Yeah, my.
• 21:26
  We're not that far from New York City.
• 21:29
  Got you. Yeah, Yeah, I guess.
• 21:31
  Yeah. New York does stretch out there,
• 21:32
  doesn't it? You can get all the way up to
• 21:33
  Canada nearly from New York. So how are you boys doing?
• 21:37
  How are you, Blaze? Doing well.
• 21:39
  Doing all right? Yeah, yeah.
• 21:41
  No complaints. Susie Painting.
• 21:43
  Yeah, trying to and this week didn't work out as well as I had
• 21:47
  hoped. With the.
• 21:48
  You know. Yeah, well, you know what?
• 21:50
  I've seen all the awesome stuff you've posted.
• 21:53
  You're going to have plenty of awesome things to for people to
• 21:56
  enjoy and you are at this. I'm doing fine except getting
• 22:00
  panic mode yesterday I seen. Sure don't need to.
• 22:04
  By the end of this episode, we'll have proved to people that
• 22:07
  you don't need to panic. You'll have you'll have stuff on
• 22:09
  your table and and you guys, so the reason the reason we have
• 22:16
  you on together more than of course we want to talk to you
• 22:19
  and works out is that you've actually travelled to legions
• 22:22
  con together. So yeah, you're kind of partners
• 22:28
  in crime. Yes indeed.
• 22:30
  And do you get, do you ever get to hang out, you know, at other
• 22:34
  times of the year or. I saw her yesterday actually.
• 22:38
  Oh, really? Yeah.
• 22:41
  He's only like, he's about 45 minutes away from me.
• 22:43
  He actually lives in a town that I used to live in.
• 22:46
  My daughter was born there. So I wind up, I pass through
• 22:49
  there a couple times a week usually, so.
• 22:52
  Yeah, that's pretty. Richard, did you tell them that
• 22:56
  when you texted me about this, Blade was just with me and they
• 23:01
  were like, how do you know that? I've got to speak next time.
• 23:05
  That was, yeah. I got the picture back with the
• 23:07
  two of you in it. I was like, oh hi.
• 23:10
  That's a great picture. Yeah, I should use.
• 23:15
  It. I should use it for the for the
• 23:18
  title cover of this episode. That'll that'll work, yeah.
• 23:22
  That was impeccable timing. For sure.
• 23:27
  So why don't we? Use them in right?
• 23:31
  You do you do you do the odd time yeah, yeah, we've had we've
• 23:34
  had a few timing issues here Rich's phone auto correct.
• 23:37
  So spent the time five hours late or too, too, too late.
• 23:44
  Right. Let's go through a couple of
• 23:46
  things just to prove to people like this.
• 23:48
  We'll start with you because we've had a lot of you have more
• 23:53
  pictures than Blaze. So you know Blaze we has a load
• 23:56
  of stuff, but he tried to send stuff that he hasn't pretty sold
• 24:00
  because. Catch up yesterday.
• 24:03
  He told me yesterday, I said Papa.
• 24:06
  I sent John like 8 or 9 photos. He's like, dude, you better
• 24:09
  catch up. I was.
• 24:11
  Like, well, we can also have a look through on your Instagram
• 24:14
  if you have right so at this, and I had to do it into two
• 24:22
  different slideshows for you because streaming has size
• 24:25
  limits and rather than reduce the quality of the pictures,
• 24:29
  I've just split it up. So we I know that you you like
• 24:35
  the kind of elfs and elf scopes. I find them difficult to paint
• 24:42
  because they're smaller and a big barbarian head or something,
• 24:47
  but. Yeah, this year.
• 24:48
  This year says it's my theme because last year was a theme
• 24:51
  for the dwarf and Dwarka, so this year is going to be elf and
• 24:54
  drow. Wow, so there's lots of elf and
• 24:57
  drow friends and they don't get enough love.
• 24:59
  I think in the from the customizing community, probably
• 25:02
  for some of the reasons I said, you know, they, they can't be
• 25:07
  more tricky to paint. So, so tell us about we go
• 25:10
  through some of these. Yeah, first of all, this photo,
• 25:13
  I asked Nate Strong to took the photo from me, so it looked
• 25:17
  better than usual on the I. Was going, I said to the guys, I
• 25:20
  said, I mean, he can paint, he can do everything, he can do
• 25:23
  customs and then he sends you the pictures and they're
• 25:25
  amazing. I'm like you can, you can
• 25:26
  photograph. Not me.
• 25:29
  This is Nate Strong. Right.
• 25:31
  So what did you do? Did you send them over to to out
• 25:34
  to NATO? Wow.
• 25:35
  Right. I I sent, I don't know, like 7,
• 25:40
  I don't remember like 7 or 8 figure to Nate and then asked
• 25:44
  him to to take the photo of this.
• 25:45
  And in the process it was so like, can I have this one at
• 25:50
  least? Yeah.
• 25:51
  Sure. So probably like send send send
• 25:57
  out eight, come back 7. Yeah.
• 26:01
  Lucky you didn't send them to Richard Jones because they'd
• 26:04
  come back None. So yeah, this this had like this
• 26:10
  this year I'm figuring about Mosa Hayes and Robin Bob.
• 26:14
  Most of the head that I'm doing is this also from the artist
• 26:17
  from Thailand watcher in or also known as Action Point Studio
• 26:24
  Nick about and in on his Instagram.
• 26:27
  So I have an extended business trip in Thailand.
• 26:31
  So I was kind of stuck there for two months.
• 26:34
  This is kind of like a emergency plan coming up and up because I,
• 26:38
  I plan to go to see him anyway because we went, we, we, we were
• 26:41
  to go to the class together. So I asked him and we talked
• 26:45
  about this and he he kind enough to help me in producing all
• 26:49
  this. I don't know 60 or 70 heads
• 26:52
  within within 1 1/2 month, which is usually it's going to take
• 26:55
  him like 3 months, so. You put him to work.
• 27:00
  Yeah, I was like. So yeah, we get a better close
• 27:05
  up look at the head. But as you can, I'm not sure,
• 27:09
  but if you look at this photo and through the photo that I
• 27:13
  sending, there's some kind of like style that I change in, in
• 27:17
  the makeup. It's going to get softer and
• 27:20
  more pastel because I'm this is this is what I did before I went
• 27:24
  to class with Butcher in in Bangkok.
• 27:26
  So that class was kind of like how to do the makeup to the
• 27:29
  miniature. So.
• 27:32
  I changed a little bit of my styles, so this one is going to
• 27:34
  be like, you know, like kind of hard.
• 27:37
  Not pastel yeah, but mostly it's like elf and juice.
• 27:41
  A lot of 2.0 body. Yeah, for sure, which can be
• 27:46
  hard to track down. Yes.
• 27:49
  It is very hard. Yeah, yeah.
• 27:53
  So expect to pay the 2.0 premium here folks.
• 27:57
  But lucky that we have like that all the visit two point.
• 28:01
  Two. That's true, yeah.
• 28:03
  Yeah, I they get murdered a lot in my lap right now.
• 28:05
  You. Have a lot of wizard soft cuts,
• 28:08
  yeah, that you can make use of, huh?
• 28:10
  Yeah. Here's that two more.
• 28:13
  Right this is this is two more in the the one in purple.
• 28:16
  I I use 5 Christmas soft good and expert soft good together.
• 28:22
  So make it her help wizard, and the other one would be like a
• 28:27
  brawler something, yeah. Yeah.
• 28:30
  So we can get a closer look there, so.
• 28:32
  I love the look of those one point OO cloth legs, the two
• 28:36
  point O body. It's a great hands we have.
• 28:38
  Your hands. I love it.
• 28:41
  Because it's just something different, you know?
• 28:43
  It's not like, you know, not everybody will be wearing the
• 28:47
  same kind of pants. Right, it is enough.
• 28:50
  I saw this first time in in in Kabali.
• 28:53
  Someone did that and I asked people in the studio, the the
• 28:57
  customized studio, like can we really do that?
• 29:01
  Or I was imagination of something that I saw it
• 29:04
  somewhere and isn't like, yeah, they can do that.
• 29:06
  So OK, let me try. They use a lot of boiled water.
• 29:10
  Yeah, you just got to heat the hell out of them.
• 29:12
  So is it? Is it into the same?
• 29:16
  It's a 2 point O kind of waste ball, you know where that you
• 29:19
  plug into. Yeah.
• 29:21
  OK, so. That's why I said like whoever
• 29:23
  that's come up with this, like have a lot of imagination of,
• 29:26
  you know, the thick and the whole.
• 29:28
  Yes. Come on, I'm.
• 29:34
  Sorry. We can, I can blame the guests,
• 29:38
  the guests. I was just going to say can we
• 29:40
  stop talking about heating up parts?
• 29:41
  It's I'm getting PTSD here, John, John and Mal know, but I
• 29:46
  was heating up some parts the other day for the swigs, my
• 29:50
  swigs for the legions con and I heated them.
• 29:54
  I heated them up on our carpet and I melted part of the carpet.
• 29:57
  Oh. My.
• 29:58
  God, so I've been apologizing non-stop to my wife for the last
• 30:02
  day and a half. Yeah, so a lesson learned there.
• 30:07
  Never heat things up on a I didn't occur to me for a second.
• 30:09
  A copy would melt. So that's due the price of a rug
• 30:12
  doesn't. It it has, yeah, I'll possibly
• 30:15
  meal out at some point. Well, you should always do that,
• 30:19
  regardless of whether the carpet or not.
• 30:23
  Right. So one of these photo was the
• 30:26
  one that needs strong. I mean it's already the ethnic
• 30:31
  strong. OK, so is that the one on the on
• 30:34
  the right side the? With the with the white hair,
• 30:38
  right? Yeah, so.
• 30:40
  I can see why, it's very cool. Yeah, nothing much about this.
• 30:46
  It's the other one was like I decided based on some crazy girl
• 30:50
  who like dragged around with a giant ass.
• 30:52
  That's all. Nothing else.
• 30:53
  She looked cute, but she's a murderer.
• 30:56
  I really like that one, my kind of woman.
• 31:02
  And. Here you can see the quality of
• 31:05
  the photo is changed. So.
• 31:12
  One name 1 is mine. So the.
• 31:15
  Other one was like some kind of like an awk dancer that I show
• 31:19
  in she's very come on the show earlier.
• 31:23
  The other one is the drought priest priestess and I just put
• 31:29
  the soft coat that I asked someone to do it.
• 31:32
  I mean, can I say it? My soft coat then of course,
• 31:35
  kind of like so because the idea was like, I have not seen a lot
• 31:40
  of lace using in in in this. So I was like, yeah, let's try
• 31:45
  that. It's kind of like sexy and it's
• 31:48
  easier. I don't know.
• 31:49
  I don't really find very easy to use.
• 31:51
  So let's just pick someone and I, you know, ask, ask the tailor
• 31:55
  of my sister forced her to do it and then, yeah, now she enjoying
• 32:01
  doing it. Yeah, so pick.
• 32:03
  That up in Thailand art. Yeah, I went to the fabric store
• 32:07
  mall in Thailand and then I, I bought a lot of fabric and then
• 32:11
  I, I asked him to do her to do it.
• 32:14
  I mean, you know, like why wasted an opportunity when you
• 32:17
  go there to Thailand for like 2 months.
• 32:19
  So just find something to do when you know, like tada, I have
• 32:23
  my own line of soft goods, very limited.
• 32:26
  Number and that lace. Looks amazing though.
• 32:28
  Yeah, the lace is is really cool, huh?
• 32:30
  Yeah. Yep, thank you.
• 32:32
  And the the green, did you repaint this this whole body?
• 32:37
  Here or was it Oh no, just just the shin, the shin in the face.
• 32:41
  The whole thing is coming from the the female org.
• 32:49
  What do you call it? The one that come with the
• 32:50
  games. Yeah, the.
• 32:51
  The park builder. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:56
  Yep, that that's all. And the the head and the feet
• 33:00
  come from also come from whatserin.
• 33:03
  I use a lot of his stuff. The soft good is is CJ Singh
• 33:09
  that come from the you know figure.
• 33:11
  Right. Yeah, just yeah.
• 33:13
  And then the last ones, here we have this section, so.
• 33:19
  Right. Also head from Whatserin and the
• 33:23
  the soft good the the red skirt is mine is the lace the other
• 33:31
  the other one is like the sky will come from GCJS in but other
• 33:35
  than that it's complete complete a figure.
• 33:38
  It just makes a match with help Ranger.
• 33:41
  And some areas the soft goods isn't it?
• 33:44
  Yeah. Natural.
• 33:46
  How cool, Yes, so. Most of this is in the is
• 33:51
  incorporate with the storyline in my head about, you know,
• 33:56
  that's as I said on my Instagram that I have a theme.
• 34:00
  So like last year there was a theme for and now I forget what
• 34:04
  was that under dark rising or something.
• 34:08
  And then last year was a Duoger coming, but this year is going
• 34:12
  to be 1-2 mini graph. So all of those figure are
• 34:16
  related to that, like the draft coming up to the surface and
• 34:19
  then in weight and then the human lion and elf lions and
• 34:22
  coming to help. And OK, so we have here love
• 34:29
  herself in the humanoid form because I see a lot of people do
• 34:33
  like half human and a half giant spider.
• 34:36
  So I'm not going to do that. So this is love in her human
• 34:39
  form. And then the other one is coming
• 34:42
  from the folklore around this area.
• 34:45
  It's called the Lady in Black. And by the way, Lady in Black is
• 34:49
  already sold. Freeze sold.
• 34:52
  This is the the one on the left side.
• 34:54
  Here the. Yeah, the one with the the lace
• 34:56
  marks, the veil, right. So all of that is my soft goods
• 35:01
  that I cooked on. Very cool, yeah.
• 35:05
  Yeah, these are both awesome. Yeah, they're amazing.
• 35:09
  Yes, a lot of trial and error and these two are the elf.
• 35:15
  It's the same head but not the same size. 1 is one point O and
• 35:19
  the other one is 2 point O. This is also from Watcher in as
• 35:23
  well. Have to shout out to him because
• 35:26
  I was bucking him for maybe more than two months because he's
• 35:31
  been doing elf like female elf, a lot of female elf and they're
• 35:34
  like I want male. I can't find an e-mail.
• 35:38
  And I was like messaging him here and there from time to time
• 35:40
  until people like, OK, you're done with it.
• 35:43
  So he do the 2.0 first. But the 1.0 there was actually
• 35:48
  kind of mistake because it was his first print.
• 35:52
  So I think the proportion is not right yet when when he do it.
• 35:57
  But it turned out that it's kind of fit right on the 1.0 body.
• 36:03
  So I told him like whatever that he's been first one printing
• 36:07
  that is good enough to tell. Yeah, that's I would take it.
• 36:10
  So he sent me all the picture and he said like, yeah, you just
• 36:12
  circle what you want. So I circled the whole page like
• 36:15
  1. Thing.
• 36:20
  That's a that's a rich move. So I don't even know like what I
• 36:23
  got, I just know that I have it, but I don't know which which
• 36:26
  head or which style because he have like 5-7 heads of style or
• 36:31
  something, Yeah. Yeah, so there's these, these.
• 36:34
  The one on the left is on Mythic Vision's Tactics elf figure, and
• 36:39
  the one on the right is the Zylarian Guard built.
• 36:42
  Yeah. So it's he will have this
• 36:46
  pre-order open somewhere like end of this end of October,
• 36:52
  somewhere like near Lisin Con because so people can go to to
• 36:56
  my table and see the the real thing.
• 36:59
  And if it happened to sold out or something and people still
• 37:01
  want it, you can go to his Instagram and and order it.
• 37:06
  Very good. So there'll be multiple ways to
• 37:08
  to get it. Check arts table first if you're
• 37:10
  going to delete, it's gone. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:13
  Cool. So then we got some dark, some
• 37:15
  dark elves. Yep, that would be the head, not
• 37:19
  just the figure to sell because I, I just try it on.
• 37:22
  I mean, because I think that the shadow elf is, is not very
• 37:26
  difficult to find lately. So, you know, I think I'm just
• 37:29
  going to do the head and sell the head and all.
• 37:32
  Yes, and there's a close up to that head there as well.
• 37:35
  The eyes. The eyes are yeah, look alive,
• 37:39
  in fact. Thank you.
• 37:41
  And this lady, lady here with. The.
• 37:44
  Yeah, this one is another group. Yeah, that is the group of the
• 37:47
  fairy. So, so far I have 4 fairies
• 37:51
  coming out in the in this in this region called this time one
• 37:57
  of them already pre sold. Three of them maybe pre sold as
• 38:02
  we speak. Someone showed interest that he
• 38:07
  might take off 3. Very cool.
• 38:11
  Always good and people was asking me like how did they get
• 38:15
  the wing and stuff and like that's a space and car and space
• 38:18
  and mine worker. You.
• 38:23
  Had some fairies last year as well didn't you?
• 38:25
  Art on your table? You had fairies last year, so
• 38:30
  did you not? Yeah, I have a fat, fat giant
• 38:33
  dwarf. No, not like a tiny dwarf.
• 38:36
  And then I I make him a fairy. Just one.
• 38:38
  Yeah, just a wall. Yeah, big.
• 38:40
  Belly and then he can. Yeah, yeah, I put some lights on
• 38:43
  it so he can. What?
• 38:44
  Wings were they then? A tiny small wing from activist
• 38:51
  2 point O like Oh. They're her wings.
• 38:54
  Yes, yes, yeah. And then these.
• 38:59
  Ones on the right here. Right, those is my other theme.
• 39:03
  So this is kind of like Asian influence theme that I also have
• 39:08
  it last year. So I continue with this year
• 39:10
  because last year I have samurai and I have some of the garnish
• 39:14
  and gods around the world theme kind of thing.
• 39:17
  So this year I have almost like Hinduism influence style figure
• 39:27
  as well as some of the Japanese influence figure because samurai
• 39:31
  will come back like last year for my samurai was 2 was old,
• 39:35
  the other two was not. So I'm going to bring them back
• 39:37
  again. And then I'm going to do some
• 39:39
  more of the Japanese influence, like two more figure, No 3,
• 39:45
  three more figure. And then the other would be like
• 39:48
  what you can see right now in here is is the Hinduism
• 39:50
  influence that one is got of chaos.
• 39:56
  It's called Rahu, which is a black demon with half snakes.
• 40:02
  And the other one is the God garnish, which by the way, he's
• 40:07
  also presolved since Sneaky. He's pretty Byers rich.
• 40:13
  I'm not surprised. He's incredible figure.
• 40:17
  So Rahul was still available, but yeah, the other one was slow
• 40:20
  and down. Yeah, that's I have a few more
• 40:23
  with with this in Hinduism influence, Right, right.
• 40:27
  So this one is also the same, but it's kind of Hinduism
• 40:32
  influence. Also, if you heard about the
• 40:38
  epic called Ramayana, which you know, there's an Indian in
• 40:41
  Hinduism stories and that is also have adopted throughout
• 40:49
  South Asia and Southeast Asia, which is for Thailand.
• 40:53
  We also adopt the the same story of Ramadan Island and we we
• 40:57
  change it into play King Rama, the first of Thailand, which is
• 41:01
  about he, he wrote this as a play way back for like 200
• 41:07
  something years ago. So, and you can still find this
• 41:11
  one as the as a as a play in in classical Thai until this day.
• 41:16
  And we also have like an art on the wall on the grand palace
• 41:21
  about Ramayana. But this is what happened that
• 41:24
  you can see here is I tried to adapt it with the whatever that
• 41:27
  I can find in mythic Legion. So the head I asked Black Forest
• 41:32
  Studio to Oh no, not this head, this head.
• 41:35
  This head is a design, original design from Black Forest Studio
• 41:39
  and I found him and they were like, oh, what is this?
• 41:42
  And you can do more. And then I commissioned him to
• 41:44
  do some other design, which which I will show you later.
• 41:47
  But what you can see here, the peldron and the the hair is
• 41:49
  originally come from backfoot studio design.
• 41:52
  So I incorporate him to do with, you know, all of this.
• 41:56
  Just put on the bling blings. That's all that's.
• 42:00
  Very cool. That's all.
• 42:01
  It's incredible. And then we have some stuff to
• 42:06
  do. Oh, this one.
• 42:07
  Oops, this was supposed to be the latter.
• 42:09
  Anyway. OK, we can.
• 42:12
  Skip it. We can skip it to do.
• 42:14
  It's something to do with the eyes.
• 42:16
  Yeah, yeah. Let's go back to that slide.
• 42:18
  I was just going to tell you. OK, So those are the 1.0 that I
• 42:22
  circled the whole pages from, from whatserin.
• 42:26
  Those are the 1.0 that I have available.
• 42:32
  Nice. And I have.
• 42:33
  Yeah, that's not money. Not so many.
• 42:35
  You got to get in there. Yeah, not so many.
• 42:37
  And then I have 2.04 about 30 heads, but I already paint some,
• 42:41
  some of them I'm not sure if I'm I have time to paint or I might
• 42:46
  have some unpainted for sales and those one per or I might
• 42:50
  have some for sales unpainted as well.
• 42:53
  And the other one is you see the baby hippo over there, so you
• 42:58
  know her. This is Mooding so so it's pick
• 43:04
  me hippo that's with some Internet starve in the last I
• 43:09
  don't know month, something most of the most of the people.
• 43:13
  I heard her. So this is also from what Serena
• 43:17
  asked He he, he made this just just last week.
• 43:20
  And I said like, I need that if I have time, I'm going to paint
• 43:24
  it. But if not, it's going to be
• 43:25
  coming in like unpainted. This is not for sales.
• 43:28
  This is a token of appreciation for the early bird.
• 43:32
  Only 10 people that come to spend on at my table on Saturday
• 43:36
  morning. The 1st 10 will get this as a
• 43:39
  token of appreciation no matter how much you spend because this
• 43:43
  is an early bird token of appreciation, not the big
• 43:46
  spenders appreciation. I love it.
• 43:49
  I love that and. We have 10.
• 43:52
  They're going to have to try and get off the topic I'm making.
• 43:59
  Right. And this one, this one is also
• 44:03
  from butchering. We were talking about this he he
• 44:06
  made it for himself to his own use to practice the eye.
• 44:10
  But they said like this is crazy, this is so good, I want
• 44:13
  some. So he made me some.
• 44:15
  And then we were thinking that we should give this away for,
• 44:18
  you know, anyone who wanted to practice for the eyes.
• 44:20
  So he gave me about 100 pieces. So I'm going to give it out for
• 44:27
  free to anyone that come to my table.
• 44:29
  Oh, wow. You just need to have a.
• 44:31
  Yeah, you just need to have a passwords, and the password is.
• 44:34
  Can I have one please? So be polite people.
• 44:41
  That's that's all you have to be be nice and polite.
• 44:43
  Yeah. So, so and you can see here the
• 44:48
  the stages for painting the eyes.
• 44:50
  So that's what you should follow.
• 44:51
  So screen grab that if you can. Sure.
• 44:55
  It's this big, by the way, just that.
• 44:58
  So yeah, the. The piece is small, but that's
• 45:01
  good because you need to practice that size because
• 45:03
  that's the size there in the figures, yeah.
• 45:05
  Right. And it's actually two sides.
• 45:07
  So you have like 6 slots because one side is have three and one
• 45:10
  slide have another three. The one that you I I have it
• 45:14
  here is five slots. This is one face.
• 45:17
  This is the older version. Yeah, good too.
• 45:21
  OK. And after Art mentioned mudeng,
• 45:23
  I had to Google mudeng. Apparently mudeng means bouncy
• 45:27
  pork as well. What a great name for a baby
• 45:29
  pygmy. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:33
  It's like a anytime I've been in a Thai restaurant where they
• 45:37
  have the menu, which a lot of the region, the regional, you
• 45:42
  know, actual real name for the dishes.
• 45:44
  Yeah, yeah. When it comes to the pork
• 45:46
  section, it's called Moo, which I think is always funny.
• 45:49
  Yes, Moo. Then it's actually like the one
• 45:52
  kind of meatball. Right.
• 45:57
  Yeah, and now we named it as a baby.
• 46:02
  Right. If it's side food, it's bound to
• 46:05
  be tasty. And what we have here is another
• 46:11
  design. This one is the one that I
• 46:14
  commissioned Black Forest Studio to design.
• 46:17
  This is a monkey also for Ramayana storyline and I asked
• 46:25
  Noble Bear Custom to print for me.
• 46:27
  I only have like 20 pieces each for now because I don't really
• 46:31
  know like anyone would know it or likes it or not.
• 46:34
  So it lists my only a few to do it.
• 46:37
  And then the other pages was the soft goods to the pants for for
• 46:43
  the runway and a character. Also, I might have some
• 46:47
  available for sales, but I'm not sure if anyone would like to,
• 46:51
  you know, do it or something, but it would be good for
• 46:54
  anything about Southeast Asia or Indian kind of.
• 47:00
  Star Rich puts his hands up. I know one person interested in
• 47:04
  buying them are. I know there's going to be one
• 47:08
  set missing before it even leaves the car.
• 47:10
  So I don't have it right. I don't have it right now with
• 47:16
  me. It's down to 9 hippos as well.
• 47:18
  Then by the sounds of the chain, there you go.
• 47:22
  Is your taxi fair? So all of this, as you see in
• 47:25
  the photo, is actually took by my sister.
• 47:29
  Taylor cannot make it in time that I left Thailand, so she
• 47:33
  mailed it to me. It's not here yet.
• 47:35
  Hopefully it will reach here in time.
• 47:37
  Or the decent con. Yeah.
• 47:41
  May have a few weeks yet, right? Amazing paint here on these,
• 47:46
  yeah. So this is a monkey.
• 47:48
  What you see earlier was the demon.
• 47:49
  So this is a monkey. This is the good army side.
• 47:54
  It's a story of Ramayana who's like good fight and win over
• 47:58
  the, the evil stuff, right? So, and you can see the, you
• 48:03
  know, the, the gold chain. That is also thing that I I made
• 48:08
  to incorporate with the the character.
• 48:11
  Yeah, it's really. And you said you made them from
• 48:14
  from an actual bigger one that you would make, you would wear?
• 48:17
  Yeah, on the traditional Thai. Right, it is.
• 48:20
  So I just took the whole chain and speak it one by one for for
• 48:25
  the character. Nope.
• 48:28
  I love this red Redhead is here. Yeah, I tried to finish him but
• 48:33
  I can't. There's a lot to do on him so.
• 48:35
  But by the time the Legion con he will become the full figure.
• 48:39
  I'm just waiting for his pants he had no hands on at the
• 48:44
  moment. One postman and.
• 48:49
  Naked monkey. There we go, Brian.
• 48:52
  This one is kind of like, not really Hanuman character that I
• 48:56
  have earlier, but I kind of play around with it.
• 49:01
  If, you know, consider this as a man, but wearing the mask of the
• 49:07
  Hanuman. So he's kind of like a fighter
• 49:09
  or the Whistler, and then as you can see, he have a lot of tattoo
• 49:15
  and then he's wearing a mask. So he's actually the man, not a
• 49:18
  monkey. So you you painted those tattoos
• 49:21
  on yourself or? No, not that.
• 49:24
  No. Not that good.
• 49:25
  This is This is a decal. A decal.
• 49:27
  OK, cool. Also cool.
• 49:30
  And this is the white, white body.
• 49:32
  The white monkey also known as Hanuman.
• 49:34
  But this is not the Hanuman that you, you will see in others
• 49:39
  media because this is Hanuman inspired by the Hanuman from
• 49:43
  Thai literature, the Hanuman from Ramayana version in Thai.
• 49:52
  So he's supposed to be that white monkey with all this with
• 49:54
  top. And because of the limitation of
• 49:57
  the, the resort that I with the tails.
• 50:01
  So he has no tail for now, because I, I don't have the tail
• 50:04
  in the pants, I forget to drill the hole for the tail.
• 50:08
  So he's going to be tailless monkey.
• 50:11
  Oh, someone got art to tell, and here's the last ones we have in
• 50:18
  your pics. Art.
• 50:20
  Right. So this this is also the same
• 50:23
  character from the storyline, but it's a different, different
• 50:26
  monkey. So we have the white, we have
• 50:28
  the the black, and then we have the and the green.
• 50:35
  Yeah, kind of like like that. So this year I'm going to be
• 50:39
  very heavily on something that I have my own design, whether it's
• 50:44
  going to be like the head from the Ramayana storyline or my own
• 50:47
  soft boots and stuff, which is kind of like, I don't know,
• 50:51
  let's see, let's take some risks here, something that people
• 50:54
  doesn't know well about, but I'm not sure if I can, you know.
• 50:59
  No, I think your work is your work is so well done that people
• 51:04
  will want to find out about it, which is I think the best.
• 51:08
  Thank you and from my last show with Trip I also showed it about
• 51:19
  the so the assigned draw. That's right, yeah.
• 51:25
  Yeah, the year of draw, yeah, those 1 is going to be available
• 51:29
  for set. As you know sellers one set for
• 51:34
  anyone who won or any collective individual to buy because I do
• 51:42
  not want to break the set. But hopefully you know I can.
• 51:46
  Yeah, I can understand you not want to break it up.
• 51:48
  It's an incredible set. Yeah, I was like, thank you.
• 51:52
  Can I not break it, like scan someone or can a collective of
• 51:57
  individuals coming in and buy it or something?
• 52:00
  Well, we'll see, because if not, then I'm going to break the set
• 52:04
  on Sunday morning anyway. Yeah, that's it.
• 52:12
  That's a good idea though. You can try to sell whole thing
• 52:14
  on Saturday and then if it doesn't go on Sunday, People get
• 52:18
  a chance at the individual one time.
• 52:20
  Right, that that that's what I did also with the Gawkin sister
• 52:25
  last year. Like the three of them.
• 52:26
  So I was not going to break it until Saturday morning and then,
• 52:31
  you know, bite late Saturday afternoon, someone shamed in and
• 52:34
  like I got that. I take 1 like.
• 52:37
  OK. Thank you.
• 52:40
  Hopefully someone do like that again with all the dwarf.
• 52:44
  I think there's they're very. Very nice a very an excellent
• 52:49
  set, you know. Yeah, it really does.
• 52:53
  It's like, you know, if anyone's got, you know, that money, then
• 52:57
  buy it. And it's an amazing display
• 52:59
  piece to have those sets up. Like, it's incredible.
• 53:02
  Yeah. I was thinking about, you know,
• 53:05
  at first I, I price it about 900 something, but then I say like
• 53:11
  it might be too pricey, but it's 12 pieces.
• 53:13
  So anyway, I just a lot of mark it down.
• 53:18
  Yes. Yeah, it is.
• 53:19
  Yeah. So I mark it down to like 750
• 53:23
  for the whole set, 7:50. And if anyone want to buy an
• 53:27
  individual is like, I don't remember, it's like 65 or
• 53:29
  something. I mean, you look at the Gemini,
• 53:32
  you got 2 heads for 65. Yeah, stand.
• 53:38
  Yeah. And the stand alone is like 35.
• 53:40
  And the head, the head that I charge, which I this year I'm
• 53:44
  charged my head somewhere between 40 to 50.
• 53:49
  So the heads alone is already like more than the the whole
• 53:52
  set. Yeah.
• 53:53
  Most things are like good start to a custom too.
• 53:56
  I mean, it's basically. Yeah, right.
• 53:59
  Like if you want to do something with it, like you know, because
• 54:03
  of I, I use the part that's still available in the market so
• 54:06
  you can complete them into the whole figure.
• 54:11
  The idea that I got this is because of last year.
• 54:13
  I, I have a few Dwork ahead left.
• 54:18
  And so because I think people might not know how to do or what
• 54:21
  to do with it. So I think like maybe I should
• 54:23
  do some guide, you know, as a guidance for people like what I
• 54:27
  can do with this with the head and then get some idea to start
• 54:31
  and then you can start it from there.
• 54:34
  So that is why I produced the bust.
• 54:37
  Yep. Yeah.
• 54:38
  And the we had Mark Calvin recently and he did the yes,
• 54:43
  stands here for you. Yeah.
• 54:44
  Right, kind of commissioned. I, I asked him to, to do it and
• 54:50
  he he's helped me doing this one.
• 54:53
  It's available on his. It's not available on his
• 54:55
  website, but it's available. If you send him a message and
• 54:59
  ask for it, he will do it for you.
• 55:02
  Cool, very cool. I really like the bust sort of,
• 55:05
  you know, the, the chest that's also in the head bit.
• 55:08
  So somebody in the UK not using those stands, different stands,
• 55:10
  but he's done a few like that as well sort of thing.
• 55:12
  And it's just got that real shelf presence.
• 55:14
  They're really good. Yeah, that's what I was.
• 55:18
  That's the idea. Also.
• 55:19
  I I want to do the headstand and stuff also, but some of them it
• 55:23
  might look creepy. So OK, let's do the bus like.
• 55:28
  Very good. Well, OK artist, you can take a
• 55:30
  breath there while we have a look at what place is some of
• 55:34
  the stuff Blaze has. So firstly, we'll have these
• 55:38
  customs that you sent through to me, so talk to us about these as
• 55:42
  we go through them. Well, I'm I'm nowhere near as
• 55:46
  curated as arts. Stuff.
• 55:49
  Mine is much more random. So yeah, I have I had like 5 or
• 55:56
  6 pieces that have sold already. But then I wanted to, you know,
• 55:59
  I want to save a bunch of stuff to, you know, give people first
• 56:03
  crack at. And so this is all stuff that
• 56:06
  you know, that'll be available at the show that I'm not going
• 56:08
  to pre sell. Excuse me, this is a dryad, some
• 56:14
  planetary dog pieces and a head from Corey Shorten.
• 56:20
  Hopper Shorten? How do you say his last name?
• 56:23
  Shorts and. Arthur, thank you.
• 56:25
  What? What that guy said.
• 56:30
  So yeah, he's great, though. He's got some really cool pieces
• 56:32
  and he does great prints. He's a great painter too, but
• 56:35
  so. Yeah, yeah, I got painted one of
• 56:37
  these heads from direct from Corey, actually.
• 56:39
  It's a it's a brilliant head. I.
• 56:41
  Love, I love this figure. I love the colors.
• 56:45
  Green, I love green is my favorite color, so obviously
• 56:48
  going to be a fan of this automatically, but yeah.
• 56:50
  And then the wood. The wood effect is really nice
• 56:53
  here. Yeah, this is one I was debating
• 56:56
  keeping, but I had a lot of people kind of reach out and
• 56:59
  ask. And I kind of, yeah, this weird
• 57:02
  year, I'm trying not to have such an emotional attachment to
• 57:04
  things I'm debating about bringing because I can always
• 57:07
  make them again if I really want to, you know, so.
• 57:10
  Yeah, yeah. It's difficult, but yeah.
• 57:12
  And so here's another one. Yeah, this is a Von Box, I
• 57:18
  think. I think this is an immune head,
• 57:22
  just kind of like a ghoul knight.
• 57:25
  You know, there's not a ton of paint on here other than the
• 57:28
  head and the body weapon, but it's like a Valiant knight kind
• 57:33
  of mixed with the it's from the Red Death body.
• 57:37
  Yeah, it's very good. I really like that.
• 57:40
  It's like creepy. It's like, oh, it's just a night
• 57:42
  coming towards me. Then you get in closer.
• 57:43
  It's like, oh crap, no, it's dead.
• 57:45
  It's a ghoul. And this sword is is just a
• 57:48
  really weathered legion sword or is it a.
• 57:52
  Yeah, yeah, I think it's like that.
• 57:55
  I think it's the sword that comes with the Valiant knight.
• 57:57
  Maybe I just I just did a lot of rust to the effect on it.
• 58:02
  Looks great. This one got a lot of love on
• 58:06
  it. He's hosted it.
• 58:07
  It's amazing, extremely impressive.
• 58:09
  So this is a kind of a Medusa slash.
• 58:16
  Day of the Dead, kind of. Day of the Dead, Yeah, yeah.
• 58:20
  This is what an idea I'd had for since last year at Leeds Con,
• 58:25
  Lenny Kingpin. Lenny had done a bunch of sort
• 58:29
  of Day of the Dead customs that I thought were really cool last
• 58:31
  year. So I kind of had this one
• 58:34
  circulating around the old noggin for a while.
• 58:37
  And then, you know, I just finally got around this.
• 58:39
  It took a lot of time, I mean. Yeah, I mean, just those, the
• 58:45
  like the skeleton kind of stuff, the white on black, that's not
• 58:49
  easy to do without a lot of time, you know?
• 58:52
  Exactly a lot of codes. Yeah, sure.
• 58:56
  A lot of patience. Do you have that?
• 58:58
  It's. Just.
• 59:01
  Do you have that amount of patience?
• 59:03
  Art. That's why I shoot my head.
• 59:11
  The first time we these and these Medusa heads are a
• 59:13
  notorious pain in the arse too. I remember the first time I was
• 59:17
  talking to Art about it, he was like, those are the heads that
• 59:20
  made me want to quit painting. Yeah, that sounds about right.
• 59:26
  Yep. It's and then and then you
• 59:28
  realize you have to do all the eyes on the snakes.
• 59:31
  Yeah, I did not. And.
• 59:33
  The mouths. Yeah, I did 1 and I think I
• 59:36
  looked it over three times and I still, every time I looked it
• 59:39
  over I found an eye that I hadn't done again.
• 59:42
  That's something you know. I have, I have like 8 of that
• 59:46
  head sitting there somewhere in my studio and painted for a
• 59:50
  year. Well, don't.
• 59:52
  Don't do it because we don't want you to quit.
• 59:57
  This is fine. We've.
• 59:58
  Seen this before? Cosmic cosmic mouth.
• 1:00:01
  Yeah, I really, really like this one as well.
• 1:00:03
  I like that helmet that sort of probably initially seems like
• 1:00:07
  it's a mythic helmet, but it works really, really well with
• 1:00:10
  this this build. Yeah, I kind of just this was
• 1:00:14
  another one of those. This is a Mark Calvo stand as
• 1:00:17
  well. And I kind of just wanted to do
• 1:00:19
  a sort of like, you know, like evil looking cosmic, you know,
• 1:00:23
  night creature or something and just, you know, just basically
• 1:00:28
  with a bunch of fodder that I had, you know, different parts I
• 1:00:30
  had laying around. But I think it worked pretty
• 1:00:32
  well. I was happy with the result.
• 1:00:36
  Absolutely. It's cool.
• 1:00:37
  And so is this. What's the kind of thought
• 1:00:42
  process here? This is a kind of reanimated
• 1:00:44
  person. Yeah, yeah, something or like a,
• 1:00:47
  you know, like a kind of like, you know, half Cyborg kind of
• 1:00:53
  creature. Dude, I don't know, kind of the
• 1:00:56
  same ideas, like, you know, what art just showed before with the,
• 1:01:01
  you know, with the bust. So you could kind of, you know,
• 1:01:03
  you could pop it together with a, you know, one of the red jet
• 1:01:06
  figures and make a, you know, full figure.
• 1:01:08
  Or you could leave it like this as a sort of, you know, like a
• 1:01:11
  set of armor on a on a bust or whatever.
• 1:01:13
  Oh yeah. Is this the setup?
• 1:01:17
  Sorry Richard, are you going to say Blaze?
• 1:01:20
  Is this the setup you had with the the vampire head originally?
• 1:01:23
  As well. Yeah, I had shown it with the
• 1:01:26
  vampire head just because I had done those like in the same time
• 1:01:28
  frame, but. Not that I stalk blazes
• 1:01:31
  Instagram account, no. No, we'll, we'll have a quick
• 1:01:34
  look at that. Don't worry, Before we're done.
• 1:01:36
  Yeah. You could stick a jet pack maybe
• 1:01:38
  underneath this little thing at the bottom.
• 1:01:40
  And, you know, he could. That could be his way of getting
• 1:01:41
  around. That'd be pretty scary.
• 1:01:43
  That's a good idea. I love this Batman Dwarf tribute
• 1:01:49
  kind of costume. It's really cool.
• 1:01:51
  Yeah, when Jason Rodriguez showed that said, I was like, I
• 1:01:55
  really dug it because it's kind of like, you know, it's it
• 1:01:57
  definitely has the Batman aesthetics, but it's not like
• 1:02:01
  too over the top where you're like, OK, it's not a dwarf, it's
• 1:02:04
  Batman. It's kind of, you know, it
• 1:02:07
  balances the two well, I thought.
• 1:02:09
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
• 1:02:11
  And that Cape is from where? Get that?
• 1:02:16
  I think from eBay. OK.
• 1:02:19
  Action figure Armory I think it is.
• 1:02:21
  He has really, really affordable, nice quality capes.
• 1:02:24
  Yeah, it looks great. And another Medusa snake person
• 1:02:31
  this time. Yeah, this is these parts.
• 1:02:35
  It's the same. The head is from the same
• 1:02:37
  Sculptor Feel Titan as that last one, but the tail and the torso
• 1:02:42
  are from Blue Inferno. He's working on a Medusa set, so
• 1:02:49
  I'm going to try and have three full.
• 1:02:52
  I have 3 Medusa's done at this point, one of them sold already.
• 1:02:55
  I'm going to try and do one more just to sort of, I don't know,
• 1:02:59
  my crazy head. You have to have the three
• 1:03:01
  Gorgon sisters, so I want to try to bring 3 to sell.
• 1:03:07
  So we've got 2 done. We'll see what happens.
• 1:03:10
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, time's running out.
• 1:03:13
  But yeah, you could kill yourself one more time.
• 1:03:15
  Another of these type of bust figures.
• 1:03:18
  Really cool looking. This is the guy I was trying to
• 1:03:22
  finish before this show, but it just didn't.
• 1:03:24
  It wasn't in the cards I knew. I kind of wanted to do a shadow
• 1:03:27
  work like Brute Scale since, you know, Brute Scale came out.
• 1:03:32
  I think you know a lot of us kind of like that size better
• 1:03:37
  for the works. It does work.
• 1:03:41
  Yeah, so this guy, hopefully he's almost done.
• 1:03:44
  Hopefully, you know we'll be done soon.
• 1:03:47
  Very cool, I love the hair colour, it's really nice, just a
• 1:03:51
  big gives them kind of unique look.
• 1:03:54
  Yeah, it does now. Really.
• 1:03:57
  Right. And then the cosmic minor.
• 1:04:02
  There you go. Sobbing mouth, picky drawer.
• 1:04:04
  I can hear him. Yeah, he's breaking.
• 1:04:06
  Down. Yeah, I realize this guy.
• 1:04:10
  Yeah, it's a really cool set. Yeah.
• 1:04:12
  I mean, this is the planetary dog head that you only get when
• 1:04:18
  you order from them during a certain time.
• 1:04:21
  And you're not guaranteed to get the head, so it's hard to come
• 1:04:26
  by. Yeah.
• 1:04:29
  It's the pulls as well isn't it? Blast.
• 1:04:31
  Yeah, yeah, it's this is the full set except for the wrench.
• 1:04:34
  So you get both the pull rounds that the chest plate and the
• 1:04:38
  head and then the the the like giant hand glove thing is from
• 1:04:45
  rocket fist studio or costumes? I think it's costumes, Rocket
• 1:04:49
  fist, customs. So prepare the wallets for this.
• 1:04:54
  Yeah, you can see there's a lot of paint work on into it and the
• 1:04:59
  raw materials are quite rare and hard to come by.
• 1:05:03
  So yeah, good luck, but excellent.
• 1:05:07
  I love it. I love the color scheme.
• 1:05:09
  I know the the way Cosmic dwarf, it's sweet.
• 1:05:14
  So you've done something here with the legs in terms of that's
• 1:05:18
  the upper half of of. Yeah, it's just the upper half
• 1:05:22
  of a century Tusk, century leg. And then I just plugged the
• 1:05:25
  feet, much like what Art was talking about before with
• 1:05:28
  putting those one point O thighs and a two point O waist.
• 1:05:32
  You can kind of jam those feet on there if you get them hot
• 1:05:34
  enough. Right.
• 1:05:37
  So, you know, it's kind of like a shortcut to cosmic dwarf legs.
• 1:05:41
  So it's the, it's the kind of thick plug that goes from the
• 1:05:45
  ankle up into the lower leg that you get into the knee part, is
• 1:05:49
  that right? Yeah, it's the peg from the knee
• 1:05:52
  joint going directly into. The oh, going directly into the
• 1:05:55
  foot, OK, right. Well those pegs are hard to get
• 1:06:00
  in and out as it is so. Yeah, yeah, you really got to
• 1:06:03
  heat the heck out of them. Yeah, melt your.
• 1:06:06
  Carbs can be salted by eating stuff.
• 1:06:08
  Please for the love of God I'm sorry.
• 1:06:11
  Looking at it as well, it's like, Oh no.
• 1:06:16
  So we also have your, let's have a look through your Instagram
• 1:06:21
  page. So you post very regularly
• 1:06:23
  different paint jobs that you're doing.
• 1:06:26
  First thing I like is that it's kind of the pictures are all
• 1:06:28
  uniformly the same. So it's like the same
• 1:06:32
  background, the same framing. So I think that really stands
• 1:06:37
  out because firstly, it just looks like a picture from you.
• 1:06:39
  And secondly, then it's easy to compare the the stuff and but
• 1:06:44
  yeah, I mean, obviously you could see here, you don't need
• 1:06:46
  me to tell you these are really, really amazing.
• 1:06:51
  Yeah, most of these will be the outrageous Khan.
• 1:06:53
  The majority? Of that one second on the right
• 1:06:57
  blaze. Is that one of them one Burke
• 1:07:01
  heads? Yeah, the one, the Darth Maul,
• 1:07:03
  Darth Vader kind of looking one. Yes, yeah.
• 1:07:06
  Yeah, that's yeah. I got two of those from him, so
• 1:07:08
  I wanted to, you know, at least bring one with me.
• 1:07:12
  That's a nice sculpt. Yeah, it's a cool sculpt.
• 1:07:15
  I like. It's kind of, you know.
• 1:07:17
  I like it. It's and you can also tell it's
• 1:07:19
  a it's a Brian Burke's Gupti has a style and yeah, which is very
• 1:07:24
  cool. I love this type of thing you do
• 1:07:27
  here with the. So this is obviously see through
• 1:07:31
  resin or kind of yeah, translucent resin that you've
• 1:07:34
  used and painted around. Yeah, I think I've.
• 1:07:41
  Got this word translucent. I was going to say John, don't
• 1:07:44
  use the word translucent. You know you know it triggers
• 1:07:45
  Mal that. Triggers and to buy stuff yeah,
• 1:07:49
  so this is so how do you how do you do it?
• 1:07:55
  Do you just paint around it? Do you mask it off?
• 1:07:58
  Do you? I I sprayed the whole thing with
• 1:08:02
  like a gloss, a clear gloss gloss coat and then I just
• 1:08:07
  around all. The just a resolution, yeah,
• 1:08:10
  gotcha. We never mask.
• 1:08:13
  I never, I never mask anything. Human, I never mask.
• 1:08:17
  Yeah, it's, it's in the end, it's more work than it's than
• 1:08:21
  it's actually saving your son. This is a this is another mental
• 1:08:27
  head, I mean, and that whole symbol under around her eyes
• 1:08:31
  that was all done freehand or. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:35
  As soon as I saw this head, I was like, it just was screaming
• 1:08:37
  Gene Simmons to me. Not that I'm even like a big
• 1:08:40
  fan, but it just, you know, it gives that vibe.
• 1:08:43
  So I knew I wanted to do one in this kind of style.
• 1:08:47
  It just, it's one of those things, isn't it, that is a bit
• 1:08:49
  off the wall, but actually it really, really works as a as a
• 1:08:54
  painter. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:57
  And those are always the best ones, the bonkers stuff.
• 1:08:59
  I can't believe the symmetry you got in the in the face paint.
• 1:09:03
  That's the. First time that I saw this I was
• 1:09:05
  like what good do you? Yeah.
• 1:09:13
  It does look amazing. It it does.
• 1:09:15
  Yeah. Batman here.
• 1:09:16
  Is he gone? Now he's available.
• 1:09:19
  He was like a personal sort of project, but I think I am going
• 1:09:23
  to actually bring him with me. Yeah.
• 1:09:25
  So that's. First appearance Batman, isn't
• 1:09:27
  it? Yeah, yeah, I always had a soft
• 1:09:29
  spot for that kind of purple gloved, you know, Detective 27
• 1:09:33
  look. Yeah, it's really cool.
• 1:09:38
  So much good stuff here. We could be.
• 1:09:39
  We could spend all day. Is it right now?
• 1:09:42
  It's you guys Mallorich. Want to?
• 1:09:44
  Yeah. I was going to say, if you click
• 1:09:47
  on the the two robots, because you, you did sort of the the
• 1:09:50
  paint for the prototype for Anthony and for this newest
• 1:09:55
  Droid or robot or whatever you want to call it, didn't you?
• 1:09:57
  I think it's it's Fanta. I think that metal heart
• 1:10:02
  Chronicles line is a really cool idea.
• 1:10:04
  And your paint out there was a really good really.
• 1:10:08
  Thank you. Yeah, Reynolds crews did the the
• 1:10:11
  one on the right, the original. Excuse, just going to ask how
• 1:10:15
  how do you left? How do you put the ball joints
• 1:10:19
  together on this on this robot? Because I got a kit but I can't
• 1:10:23
  put it together the one that doesn't.
• 1:10:26
  Yeah, the one the new, the one I just did is all magnets, those
• 1:10:31
  little arms. The older one, but the old one.
• 1:10:35
  Yeah, the old one you need, it should have come with like a
• 1:10:38
  tiny Allen wrench and then everything just kind of screws
• 1:10:42
  in together. Yeah, the screw, the screw in
• 1:10:44
  parts work, but those parts where you have to put ball
• 1:10:47
  joints together. Yeah, they can be a little
• 1:10:50
  teddy. I had to sand them down on mine
• 1:10:52
  to get them to work because otherwise they were just not.
• 1:10:55
  They were tough. Maybe that's what I need to do
• 1:11:00
  right? And then else, guys, this is
• 1:11:02
  always a popular head this. Katamari head that's.
• 1:11:08
  Katamari head from collections. Yeah, and this is Noah's head.
• 1:11:14
  It's very cool. Yes, that one I'm keeping, but I
• 1:11:19
  still have another one. No, wait, that one I'm bringing.
• 1:11:22
  I haven't done one that I'm keeping.
• 1:11:24
  I've got two. Yeah, so.
• 1:11:25
  I've got this head on my bench to paint so I'm looking for a
• 1:11:31
  nice classic fibre Dom here. Really cool.
• 1:11:36
  And then I think we go. Last but not least, our 2 heads
• 1:11:41
  for Legions Khan. I've actually shown these before
• 1:11:44
  on the show, but really, how did you find paint in these?
• 1:11:49
  They were both a lot of fun. The leprechaun was obviously a
• 1:11:53
  bit more work, but I I. Apologies.
• 1:11:57
  No, that's not a bad thing, you know.
• 1:12:01
  Yeah, I liked that. I'll.
• 1:12:03
  Definitely be picking up another one from you guys at the show.
• 1:12:06
  Oh, definitely. Come and see us.
• 1:12:08
  Yeah. And this is the one that cosmic.
• 1:12:12
  And I love the eyes on this. Really, really cool.
• 1:12:16
  Yeah. Yeah, this is a fun head.
• 1:12:18
  You can kind of you could you could go all all out and like
• 1:12:23
  spend hours, you know, doing all the small little details, you
• 1:12:26
  know, kind of or you can do a kind of a more speed paint
• 1:12:29
  method where it'll still look awesome.
• 1:12:32
  And then you just, you just need to kind of maybe do the teeth
• 1:12:36
  and the eyes and stuff in the straps and you'll have an
• 1:12:39
  awesome paint job. So I think every level of
• 1:12:42
  painter is going to get a lot of fun from this sculpt.
• 1:12:46
  In particular the leprechaun is a little bit more.
• 1:12:50
  Yeah. Can be frustrating if you're, if
• 1:12:53
  you're not quite experienced. So yeah.
• 1:12:58
  You Scroll down just a bit more job.
• 1:12:59
  Oh. Really.
• 1:13:03
  My wallet is sobbing. Which one crying?
• 1:13:08
  Which one do you? Want to look at Richie?
• 1:13:12
  Keep going. OK, I just kind of shout out
• 1:13:14
  these. I love these cosmic ones secret.
• 1:13:18
  They're awesome from Borderland Horde.
• 1:13:20
  We had these those guys on a while ago.
• 1:13:23
  Great those. Guys have been filling with some
• 1:13:25
  great yeah. They're not far from you guys
• 1:13:27
  either. I guess they're up in Is It
• 1:13:29
  Rhode Island? I think so.
• 1:13:32
  Rhode Island or Connecticut or. Yeah.
• 1:13:35
  So they're they're kind of over in that corner though.
• 1:13:39
  So not Yeah, I'm scrolling Rich, I'm scrolling.
• 1:13:42
  Yeah, yeah, it's that one on the top left as it was now.
• 1:13:45
  This one. Now you're going past it.
• 1:13:47
  Up one up. OK.
• 1:13:49
  That's amazing, but the one? Oh yeah, I can see this Viking
• 1:13:53
  on Dead. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:57
  So cool. Yeah.
• 1:13:58
  You don't want Viking. It's rich.
• 1:13:59
  You just like dead ones. I can have Vikings, just as long
• 1:14:05
  as they're not associated with Noble Bear.
• 1:14:10
  Yeah. So I think everyone knows by
• 1:14:12
  now, Blaze, I think last year people didn't owe you as well.
• 1:14:16
  I mean, you'd obviously put we're posting stuff in the
• 1:14:18
  community, but consistently this year you've just posted Austin
• 1:14:25
  paint job after Austin paint job, which as a painter myself
• 1:14:28
  as is inspiring and also like my God, I need to my game.
• 1:14:36
  I guess you feel the same artist sometimes.
• 1:14:41
  Well, it's like that with all of us.
• 1:14:42
  I think we all kind of, you know.
• 1:14:44
  Oh yeah, You know, I think you have to firstly say, yeah, it's
• 1:14:48
  amazing and you know, I have to appreciate it.
• 1:14:51
  And then from from within yourself, you have to go, right,
• 1:14:56
  can I do as well or can I, you know, improve, improve to do
• 1:15:00
  something that cool? Or do I just have to say right,
• 1:15:02
  I'm going to buy that often? I got chatting to Blaze when he
• 1:15:09
  came over to our table last year and he's oh, nice to meet you.
• 1:15:11
  And he's like, oh, I'm just over noble bad thing.
• 1:15:13
  And I walked around, looked at his painters like, oh God, there
• 1:15:15
  goes, there goes money. Yeah, I mean it's like, you
• 1:15:21
  know, will I you know, will I do Asian inspired customs now?
• 1:15:26
  No art is you know he's he's always going to be better at
• 1:15:29
  that. You know, certain types of
• 1:15:32
  tribute figures. You got people that are just
• 1:15:35
  knocking it out of the park and those so you have to kind of
• 1:15:38
  find your niche the. Very niche this year.
• 1:15:43
  It's great artists people are going to love it.
• 1:15:45
  So I think with that thank you very much for your time.
• 1:15:50
  It's been all apologies again, Rich about the the time mix.
• 1:15:54
  Yes, so I'm I'm I'm holding my. Hand up, that was, that was my
• 1:15:58
  fault. I'm glad that we made this work
• 1:16:00
  and we'll look forward to releasing this episode and
• 1:16:04
  everyone can get to see what we've just seen right now.
• 1:16:08
  Thank you. Cheers.
• 1:16:10
  Cheers. And we're back with more cool
• 1:16:19
  people, more super cool people. This time we have a Brett
• 1:16:23
  starter, our buddy from across the pond.
• 1:16:26
  This this part, this interview is going to be more about what
• 1:16:29
  it's like to be at Legions Con as one of the fun people.
• 1:16:33
  And later on, we're going to have Big Greg as well popping in
• 1:16:37
  to kind of add to the conversation.
• 1:16:40
  So how are you, Brett? Doing well doing well John,
• 1:16:43
  thank you very much beautiful Sunday morning here in
• 1:16:47
  Pennsylvania won't complain you're.
• 1:16:49
  In Pennsylvania, is it? Yes, Sir.
• 1:16:53
  Who who were you near then? From the the community.
• 1:16:58
  Everybody in southeastern Pennsylvania, Jesse Anthony,
• 1:17:06
  it's too many to name, really. It's really the very centrally
• 1:17:10
  located area. I'm 100 miles from the studio.
• 1:17:14
  I'm 40 miles from Retro Con. I just goes on and on.
• 1:17:19
  I will get up on a morning of the show, drive out.
• 1:17:23
  No show that's around really more than two hours.
• 1:17:28
  Now, I do go on those longer trips like the the Sea Mall over
• 1:17:31
  in Muskegon, but very centrally located.
• 1:17:35
  All that happens and all the people like land is not that far
• 1:17:39
  from Greg really in the grand scheme of Greg's, not for sure.
• 1:17:44
  Now, I grew up in the Midwest where everything is, you know,
• 1:17:47
  5-6 hours apart. Out here, 5-6 hours put you in
• 1:17:51
  four different states. Yeah, true.
• 1:17:55
  Yeah, true. And a couple of a lot of big
• 1:17:56
  cities there. You got to Philadelphia, I
• 1:17:58
  guess, New York, and not that far from where else, Washington.
• 1:18:04
  Again, DC is not far Baltimore. Not far, oh, Atlantic City.
• 1:18:08
  I can get up at 3:00 in the morning and be on the beach in
• 1:18:11
  Atlantic City well before sunrise.
• 1:18:13
  Wow, that's pretty good. So with all those wonderful
• 1:18:18
  attractions around, how come you're into all this nerd stuff
• 1:18:22
  for you? We're sitting in big halls and
• 1:18:24
  out of the sun I. Don't know, I could ask you the
• 1:18:27
  same thing, but you know, it's more my speed.
• 1:18:30
  Yeah, it's very good, Very good. So how long have you been going
• 1:18:35
  to legions con then? This will be my second one.
• 1:18:39
  So you know, last year was the inaugural one for me.
• 1:18:42
  Actually, I I didn't even get into horse and products until
• 1:18:46
  November of 22 and it was just after the 22 regions con.
• 1:18:51
  A couple weeks after that, I got my first ones and, well, it's
• 1:18:56
  been uphill, downhill, black hole, rabbit hole, whatever you
• 1:19:00
  want to call it, a fun ride, a wild ride, an amazing ride in
• 1:19:05
  just under two years. Never.
• 1:19:07
  Never in a million years. What I thought that that a toy
• 1:19:10
  would have brought so many people and together.
• 1:19:13
  And, you know, you hear it all the time.
• 1:19:16
  Come for the toys, stay for the community.
• 1:19:17
  And, you know, I got those first figures and I was playing with
• 1:19:21
  them and then I learned we could take them apart.
• 1:19:23
  And then that customizing the ditch.
• 1:19:25
  Yeah. No.
• 1:19:26
  Oh, by the way, there's 6000 other people right here in this
• 1:19:29
  one central place that do the same thing.
• 1:19:31
  It's like I found it. And for me, you know, one of my
• 1:19:35
  first memories of koi collecting of in form was actually when we
• 1:19:40
  were living in Bovington, down near Wool, Dorset area, and I
• 1:19:46
  was in the hospital and my mom was bringing me a Lego set a
• 1:19:50
  day. And so Lego was the first thing
• 1:19:53
  I ever really started collecting.
• 1:19:55
  And then when I saw people hopping apart a legion, I'm
• 1:19:59
  like, that's just a giant Lego thing.
• 1:20:03
  I can take the hands, the arm, the head, the legs, the hips and
• 1:20:07
  put them back together. Oh, they don't come with capes.
• 1:20:12
  Run outside and grab a rose petal, Pop it on it.
• 1:20:16
  It's got a Cape. I made my own soft goods.
• 1:20:18
  There's a 5 year old lad. That's the one with the with the
• 1:20:23
  cupcake thing for a skirt, for a skirt, for a figure.
• 1:20:27
  Was that you or was that somebody else?
• 1:20:29
  No, that was somebody else. OK.
• 1:20:31
  But that's a brilliant idea. That's that's.
• 1:20:33
  An amazing idea, yeah, because you can get the.
• 1:20:35
  Tinfoil ones too, and then just. Yeah, shiny, shiny.
• 1:20:40
  You have a skeleton and a Tutu. For sure.
• 1:20:44
  Yeah. So, yeah.
• 1:20:46
  So what's your plans for for allegiance cons here?
• 1:20:50
  Well, I'm going to start off by going to intern Shmur
• 1:20:53
  Bergenberg. Berberger is taking me as his
• 1:20:57
  plus one. So yeah.
• 1:20:59
  So shout out, shout out Greg there.
• 1:21:02
  So I'm going to hit the ground running show.
• 1:21:07
  Great show. I love the intro.
• 1:21:08
  I just absolutely love. I can put that on repeat over
• 1:21:12
  and over. It's just there's something
• 1:21:14
  about the way he's talking and what he's saying.
• 1:21:18
  Just it's heartwarming. So actually I'm going to be
• 1:21:22
  coming in Wednesday night after work.
• 1:21:25
  I'm just going to leave right from work.
• 1:21:26
  It's it's only about 70 miles and then it's coming in from
• 1:21:30
  work. Stay Wednesday night at the
• 1:21:31
  hotel. Thursday it's going to be the
• 1:21:33
  intern, you know, hobnob and rubbing elbows, catching up with
• 1:21:37
  people checking out what's new at the studio.
• 1:21:41
  Really looking forward to the the Armory knife builds for it's
• 1:21:45
  there and then, you know, Friday get up whatever G Con and
• 1:21:54
  probably not too long after G Con ends and then in the night's
• 1:21:57
  festivities again, I might just bring my cot out into the hall
• 1:22:01
  in front of the door. That's going to be for the
• 1:22:03
  Armory experience and sleep right foot.
• 1:22:05
  Oh. Wow.
• 1:22:06
  Yeah, Brett's. Brett's one of these absolute
• 1:22:08
  lunatics that like, queues up all night for stuff.
• 1:22:11
  You know, last year I was getting up and going down and
• 1:22:14
  getting in line when all the fellows were just finishing up
• 1:22:16
  their their evening festivities. They're picking up bottles,
• 1:22:20
  they're putting everything away. You know, Dennis Derby and I
• 1:22:23
  were two ships passing in the night.
• 1:22:24
  He was going to bed and I was going down in the line.
• 1:22:30
  But yeah, Rich is right. I'm one of those.
• 1:22:32
  Crazies in those queues. Or is it you know?
• 1:22:35
  Sometimes you get about 1520 here and there but you know I I
• 1:22:39
  take a mid afternoon nap. OK, I was going to say, you're
• 1:22:42
  going to have to I'll. Take a 234 hour little siesta in
• 1:22:47
  the middle of the day and then do it all again.
• 1:22:51
  Well. Last year was, I was going to
• 1:22:55
  say intern. Last year was where I met Brett.
• 1:22:58
  So yeah. So he was a star from the off
• 1:23:01
  last year, which is, you know, another reason we got you on
• 1:23:03
  Brett. He gave me David Thomas and Sam.
• 1:23:06
  I think he squeezes all in. Yeah.
• 1:23:07
  Yeah, there were four. Of you to the hotel.
• 1:23:11
  Plus all of our boxes and all of our suitcases.
• 1:23:13
  All of our luggage they're standing out in.
• 1:23:16
  The studio they. Were standing out in front of
• 1:23:19
  the studio waiting for an Uber that was going to cost them, I
• 1:23:21
  don't know, something ridiculous like 70 bucks to get to the
• 1:23:24
  hotel and there's just me and my and my big Jeep Grand Cherokee.
• 1:23:28
  And I'm like flipping at them, like get in and we just shoved
• 1:23:32
  everything slay on the door down.
• 1:23:36
  Yeah, people have boxes on the laps and also stuff.
• 1:23:40
  It's like we will get this all in.
• 1:23:41
  We will. I'm.
• 1:23:42
  Like the hell they're gonna pay that price to get from the CEO
• 1:23:45
  to the hotel. No, no, get in.
• 1:23:47
  We'll make it work. You basically shaved saved them
• 1:23:50
  their shipping fees. Huh?
• 1:23:51
  No, exactly. This is where Brett's a better
• 1:23:54
  person than any of us three who don't look out the window, flick
• 1:23:58
  people the peas and laugh as we drove away.
• 1:24:03
  The British way, wanker. Our our charge to figure maybe
• 1:24:08
  to Yeah. What have you done for me
• 1:24:11
  lately? Do not dispersion's my way, you
• 1:24:16
  know, but you. Know that's just one part of
• 1:24:17
  what this community is, you know, it's, it's just helping
• 1:24:20
  each other out and just making sure that everybody's having fun
• 1:24:24
  and safe and getting what they need and where they're don't.
• 1:24:28
  For sure, for sure. And you hang out with as well,
• 1:24:32
  for one of our big friends of the show, Stephanie Orkin.
• 1:24:35
  Yes. He's a good day.
• 1:24:37
  Yours I guess in day up as well. Dave and Steph both.
• 1:24:40
  We went down to Ishkhan together.
• 1:24:42
  We met Dave, Steph and Jesse in a parking lot of a Walmart.
• 1:24:46
  They left their cars. We headed down to ISKCON.
• 1:24:48
  Spent spent three days down there.
• 1:24:52
  Had a fantastic time and great little road trip.
• 1:24:57
  I love the Little Rd. trips like that.
• 1:24:59
  Yeah, I mean that that's, I'm more jealous of that than like
• 1:25:04
  just the fact that you can go to these shows, you know?
• 1:25:08
  We have a little mythic meetups, like all the time and pop down
• 1:25:12
  and go. Yeah, this is what the podcast
• 1:25:17
  is for us. This is our little mythic meet
• 1:25:18
  up. You got to say, you guys do a
• 1:25:22
  wonderful job and I can't wait for every Friday morning that my
• 1:25:26
  commute, I can, I can listen to you more often than not.
• 1:25:29
  I'm like wanting to be to engage in all the conversations.
• 1:25:33
  You guys will bring up a point. I'm like, I want to stop down on
• 1:25:35
  that and talk about that with you guys.
• 1:25:38
  Then I sit there in the car talking to myself about it.
• 1:25:40
  But yeah. You should just make message
• 1:25:42
  anytime you know especially rich.
• 1:25:48
  If it's a little. Oh, cheers, John.
• 1:25:50
  Yeah. You know, it's like, you know,
• 1:25:54
  how dare you saying about the noble bear?
• 1:25:59
  It'll be nothing like that, nothing like that.
• 1:26:01
  And it's usually something that's just random for you'll
• 1:26:04
  start talking about something random and it it like something
• 1:26:09
  goes right along with that. Yeah, but you have, you've
• 1:26:15
  lived, have you lived in the UK for a while or?
• 1:26:18
  My dad was in the army, so we he was stationed at Bobbington,
• 1:26:23
  which is the the long armor courts down there with where the
• 1:26:26
  tank museum is now. So when I was four or five years
• 1:26:30
  old, I was running around watching live fire tanks, gold
• 1:26:33
  boom, boom, boom up into the lower Cove.
• 1:26:36
  And you know, I climbed dirdle door and did all that fun stuff.
• 1:26:40
  Cork Castle, you know, I absolutely loved Cork Castle as
• 1:26:43
  a kid. You know, I had more Dorset
• 1:26:46
  cream teas than I can count. And so, yeah, we, we lived down
• 1:26:50
  there for a couple years and I've been, I've been back more
• 1:26:55
  time than I can count. I, I absolutely love England.
• 1:26:59
  We would go all over, you know, into Wales, up to Scotland.
• 1:27:04
  Unfortunately never made it to Ireland.
• 1:27:05
  John, that is a big regret. Yeah, still time.
• 1:27:10
  There's still time. Just pop pop.
• 1:27:11
  Over. Oh, absolutely it's.
• 1:27:14
  The next time you're in the UK. But there, there's a lot of
• 1:27:17
  Stoddarts up in Scotland and come to find out that's, you
• 1:27:21
  know, where the bulk of my family actually from.
• 1:27:23
  And there's a cemetery on, I want to say it's the Isle of
• 1:27:27
  Man. Is that the one that's north?
• 1:27:30
  No, that's is a Isle of Man is right in the middle, kind of,
• 1:27:35
  yeah. Right off the hills of.
• 1:27:36
  Scotland. Yes, that one, OK, there's a
• 1:27:39
  little cemetery and it's 90% started.
• 1:27:43
  And I, I, I was, I was flabbergasted because I never
• 1:27:47
  knew that side of history of my aunts and I got to claim them
• 1:27:53
  because, you know, same odd thing.
• 1:27:56
  So, but yeah, so I, I was last in the UK.
• 1:28:01
  We went there for a Star Wars Celebration, so that would have
• 1:28:05
  been 222323. Yeah. 2323, April 23.
• 1:28:13
  And then, you know, hell, I I spent the night in Bristol.
• 1:28:18
  I know, yeah, if we if we'd known each other a couple of
• 1:28:20
  beers. We had only known each other
• 1:28:23
  then, you know, and I drove up through, through Birmingham on
• 1:28:25
  my way up to Liverpool. But yeah, so live there, have a
• 1:28:33
  very much of an affection for it.
• 1:28:36
  A lot of friends over there. I think that's probably probably
• 1:28:43
  like listening to you guys because it reminds me of my
• 1:28:46
  friend. Awesome.
• 1:28:47
  Yeah, it's interesting about the Isle of Man because it's a red,
• 1:28:49
  you know, it's a good size island, but population is not
• 1:28:52
  massive, right? Coincidentally, my wife's
• 1:28:54
  grandmother who's from the who's from the Isle of Man.
• 1:28:56
  So awesome, another way. I don't think she was a slot ask
• 1:28:59
  but I will double check that now.
• 1:29:03
  You know, it's a small island, not very many people.
• 1:29:05
  There's possibility though, there's a diverging line there.
• 1:29:11
  And going back to your Dorset cream tea thing, scone or scone,
• 1:29:15
  be very careful how you answer this.
• 1:29:17
  It really depends on who I talk to.
• 1:29:20
  If I talk to most Americans it's a scone because they don't know
• 1:29:22
  what the hell a scone is and even some people in UK certain
• 1:29:27
  regions they feel call it a scone but it's usually scone
• 1:29:31
  like gone. Andrew.
• 1:29:33
  There we go. That that balances out the fact
• 1:29:36
  you're an Edison fan, Brett, you're going back towards the
• 1:29:39
  light side. There we go.
• 1:29:41
  I appreciate. Thank you very much.
• 1:29:43
  But you know, the a scan over there is more like a biscuit
• 1:29:47
  here. Yeah.
• 1:29:49
  As you call it biscuit. Yeah, biscuits.
• 1:29:51
  And gravy is a good one. Exactly.
• 1:29:53
  I just watched The Funniest Thing on YouTube a week ago and
• 1:29:56
  it was a bunch of British high schoolers trying biscuits and
• 1:30:01
  gravy for the first time. Yeah, we.
• 1:30:02
  Saw that as well, yeah. They're.
• 1:30:05
  All talking about that, it looks like vomit, looks like vomit.
• 1:30:08
  And then they chased it and they're like, what is this
• 1:30:10
  magical, delicious treat? To be fair, I'm impressed with
• 1:30:16
  the kids that they actually tasted it.
• 1:30:17
  You know, because the kids would just go right.
• 1:30:19
  I don't like the look of it not happening.
• 1:30:21
  Run, Yeah. Yeah, so I was impressed.
• 1:30:25
  Incidentally, Isle of Man has no speed limits.
• 1:30:27
  I heard that once. Oh well, now I need to get back
• 1:30:30
  and rent a car, yeah. Exactly.
• 1:30:31
  Yeah, it's probably a bit too small to to to do much damage,
• 1:30:35
  but I know they have a motor motorcycle race there every year
• 1:30:38
  by the man TT. They do the TT, yeah.
• 1:30:40
  Although my problem is if I rent a car and drive over there, I'll
• 1:30:43
  drive like a 90 year old grandma because it's on the wrong side
• 1:30:47
  of the car and on the wrong side of the road.
• 1:30:49
  When I was driving around the last time, I was just hokey,
• 1:30:51
  pokey, pokey because I'm not used to, yeah, the distances and
• 1:30:55
  in clearances. So as I'm going around corners,
• 1:30:57
  I'm like really careful. Yeah.
• 1:31:02
  Well, I learned on that side and now I mostly drive on the same
• 1:31:06
  side as American on the right side over here and and I find
• 1:31:11
  it. Weird.
• 1:31:11
  Does that mean sometimes you don't drive on the correct side
• 1:31:14
  over there? John, you said mostly, so I
• 1:31:16
  imagine like once once a week I just drive completely wrong.
• 1:31:20
  If I go back to Ireland, obviously you know, but the
• 1:31:24
  thing I always found hardest about changing over and so now I
• 1:31:28
  think if I went back to a left hand side, so UK or Ireland, I
• 1:31:32
  find it more difficult just to get used to.
• 1:31:35
  It's coming out of a one way St. onto a two way St. that is like
• 1:31:38
  a death trap when you're when you're driving on the other side
• 1:31:42
  to what you're familiar. You're so used to it and
• 1:31:44
  familiar with it. Being.
• 1:31:46
  Judging distances from the one side or the other.
• 1:31:49
  And yes, that's exactly how I felt, Don.
• 1:31:52
  Like, oh crap, I have to turn. No, can't I find a different way
• 1:31:56
  just to be? Oh, yeah, totally.
• 1:31:59
  And there was, there's one airport in Ireland.
• 1:32:02
  And when I'd been here a long time, it's Shannon Airport.
• 1:32:04
  So used to be a flight down there.
• 1:32:06
  And it's a bit closer to where I'm from.
• 1:32:08
  And it was years ago. My dad collected me and I'd been
• 1:32:10
  over. I hadn't been home in a year,
• 1:32:12
  I'd say, to Ireland. And he collected me and we drove
• 1:32:16
  down the roundabout. But you know, 100 yards from
• 1:32:18
  where he picked me up. And I, I like, I like put my
• 1:32:21
  hands to my face. As he was going into the round.
• 1:32:23
  I was that you're going to kill us.
• 1:32:26
  So used to going the other way. He's like, what's wrong with
• 1:32:29
  you? And then I realized I was like,
• 1:32:30
  no, nothing. Sorry.
• 1:32:32
  You know, my sense of humor, you know, so good.
• 1:32:37
  Yeah. All those little small things.
• 1:32:39
  Yeah. But yeah.
• 1:32:40
  It's like languages, you know, This is why it's, it's, it's
• 1:32:43
  always more complicated over here than in America because.
• 1:32:48
  French. German.
• 1:32:51
  There's 3 three official languages where I live, and I
• 1:32:54
  can drive to two other countries within two hours.
• 1:32:57
  That's two more languages. Yeah, and I tell people over
• 1:33:01
  here, it's like imagine if jury spoke a different language from
• 1:33:04
  New York, from Delaware, from Pennsylvania.
• 1:33:08
  And it's it's mind blowing over the everything, you know, I was
• 1:33:13
  in Wisconsin this last week's or the state of Wisconsin is about
• 1:33:16
  the size of Germany. Wow.
• 1:33:19
  And it's, it's over here and you know, now how long did it take
• 1:33:24
  you guys to get from Nate's house and outside Detroit all
• 1:33:27
  the way over to Muskegon? Oh, I can't remember.
• 1:33:33
  It wasn't 3 hours of it. But it was, yeah.
• 1:33:35
  So a bit more maybe, but but yeah.
• 1:33:38
  John's in a circle of four countries in that amount of
• 1:33:40
  time. Oh.
• 1:33:41
  Yeah, yeah, definitely. I'd be down in the Alps if I
• 1:33:44
  drove that far down Switzerland or somewhere.
• 1:33:47
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 1:33:49
  And and and we're all we're we're so much more compacted
• 1:33:53
  together in terms of population size.
• 1:33:54
  I mean, obviously on the east, East Coast there of America,
• 1:33:58
  there's there's plenty of big population centers, but.
• 1:34:01
  It's one Mass from Boston all the way down to, you know,
• 1:34:05
  Florida. I guess Wisconsin being the size
• 1:34:07
  of Germany, I guess it doesn't have 60 or 70 million people.
• 1:34:11
  Now there. Nope, Nope, not even quote.
• 1:34:14
  Yeah, absolutely. And so you're staying in the
• 1:34:18
  hotel then the whole time? I am coming in Wednesday evening
• 1:34:22
  and even Monday morning. Monday morning.
• 1:34:24
  Oh, cool. So we got the Sunday night as
• 1:34:26
  well, yeah. Absolutely, Sunday, the night
• 1:34:28
  that I'm going to not not go to bed early and have to get up on
• 1:34:33
  Monday so I'll be able to stay out late half my normal bedtime.
• 1:34:38
  Nice, nice. So we have nice.
• 1:34:39
  Watch out for Brett on the Sunday night.
• 1:34:43
  Yeah, for sure you'd have been into queue for is there.
• 1:34:46
  What about Saturday night then? You don't need to go queuing on
• 1:34:48
  Saturday night as as of yet. That we know well.
• 1:34:53
  It depends. It depends on if I want to get
• 1:34:56
  the Armory experience a second time or you know what the what
• 1:34:59
  the figure fair is all about. Do I want to be one of the 1st
• 1:35:03
  and the figure fair? Do I want?
• 1:35:06
  You're going to get the Armory experience intern for a day as
• 1:35:09
  well. Oh, I know, but I have a plan.
• 1:35:11
  I have a list of I sent it to you guys IG at your Instagram
• 1:35:17
  and I'm like this is what I want to get and I.
• 1:35:21
  Fair enough, Rich is. The same plus the all and you
• 1:35:25
  know, I I don't go rich. Oh, that's another thing.
• 1:35:29
  Every time you talk about a spreadsheet, I want to show you
• 1:35:31
  my spreadsheet. I like spreadsheets.
• 1:35:33
  You know, I have my displays are set up by spreadsheet that it's
• 1:35:36
  like the number of figures in this shelf and the numbers
• 1:35:39
  better equal a little master list or else I've got running
• 1:35:42
  around. Damn circular reference again.
• 1:35:46
  Show me next month. Right shout because I keep a
• 1:35:49
  copy on my Dropbox so I can play with them on my.
• 1:35:52
  Phone. Do you want me to set you up a
• 1:35:54
  little sub, a little sub family podcast of just, you know,
• 1:35:58
  riches, spreadsheet bodies? You know, we can get Matt, we
• 1:36:01
  can get Matt Drake in here as well.
• 1:36:04
  He can. He can just do.
• 1:36:05
  Maybe monthly would be enough for that show to be fair.
• 1:36:08
  Shooting the sheet. There you go.
• 1:36:12
  That's my that's my only fans cycle Mal.
• 1:36:17
  And the Welsh edition is called Something the sheep.
• 1:36:28
  Well, Brad, anyway, to bring it back to mythics and cosmics and
• 1:36:33
  all that, I, I know that you're a keen photographer So and I do
• 1:36:38
  know that you're not that much on Facebook anymore, but you are
• 1:36:41
  on Instagram. So I'm just going to pull up
• 1:36:44
  your Instagram here to have a look.
• 1:36:47
  Look at the. Photography is hard.
• 1:36:50
  I thought it was going to be easy.
• 1:36:51
  I thought that, you know, oh, they don't move.
• 1:36:53
  I can just put them there. No, with toy photography is
• 1:36:56
  hard. I shooting people with a lot
• 1:36:59
  easier job. Yeah, I guess you guys are all
• 1:37:04
  familiar with the song, right? Yes.
• 1:37:07
  OK, I got them. That's.
• 1:37:09
  YMCA, isn't it? That's YMCA, yeah.
• 1:37:11
  It is. I had to.
• 1:37:12
  I couldn't. I couldn't not do the YMP.
• 1:37:15
  That's brilliant. Those pointing fingers are so
• 1:37:18
  much fun. Here's another cool one.
• 1:37:21
  Dummy DOS skeletons are so great.
• 1:37:22
  And yeah. I found someone 6 shackles on
• 1:37:27
  Amazon and they fit perfectly on these guys.
• 1:37:31
  Cool, cool, so not I guess they weren't even that expensive so.
• 1:37:35
  They came out of China. It was like 10 of them for 6
• 1:37:37
  bucks. Happy days.
• 1:37:40
  Excellent. We need to get ourselves some of
• 1:37:42
  them. Oh my, look at that.
• 1:37:45
  I like the red jet. Yeah, very.
• 1:37:48
  Cool. And I don't know Mal, you, you
• 1:37:50
  have a keen eye for cosmic. You see what I did on that trio?
• 1:37:53
  How you? Going, I'm looking, I'm on your
• 1:37:57
  Instagram, so let me look closer.
• 1:38:02
  No, I'm not seeing it other than the swap of heads.
• 1:38:07
  OK, look closer at the the body part, the limb.
• 1:38:11
  Oh yeah, you've done the the leg swap where the cloth parts the
• 1:38:15
  arms and that for the yes. And look at the guy in the
• 1:38:18
  centre. Sorry.
• 1:38:19
  Yeah, I should have said you've put the yeah, you put the non,
• 1:38:22
  the non cloth parts on it. Well and the cloth parts.
• 1:38:26
  So the two on the outside have the have the black cloth part
• 1:38:29
  and the one on the inside has the minor armor.
• 1:38:34
  Nice, it looks really, really good, doesn't it?
• 1:38:37
  The minor armor with it as well. I like it's a little bit of
• 1:38:40
  black contrast instead of the full solid red.
• 1:38:44
  Yeah, I think it gives them more, you know, more of a kind
• 1:38:47
  of an elite rather than if they're full red, might just be
• 1:38:52
  a bit too much red. Yeah, you got some more cosmics
• 1:38:57
  here. Look at that.
• 1:38:59
  I really like that he's in my great.
• 1:39:01
  Figure as well. Yeah, he's an awesome figure.
• 1:39:03
  Yeah. Yeah, you could.
• 1:39:06
  So many options. And then, oh, Indiana Jones.
• 1:39:11
  Yeah, another one of those had to do it.
• 1:39:14
  So. Good, I missed this one.
• 1:39:16
  That's an amazing shot, right? I love it.
• 1:39:20
  If another had had to do it. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:39:24
  I did one with the guy who with his face melting and I never
• 1:39:29
  posted anywhere, I just took the picture.
• 1:39:31
  My favorite one is actually the Five Red Death.
• 1:39:33
  Yeah, I was going to say the Red Death.
• 1:39:35
  That is a special place for you, Rich with the.
• 1:39:38
  It does. Brett was incredibly kind and
• 1:39:41
  and sent me a mask of the Red Death, which is on my.
• 1:39:45
  Don't say on your podcast that you're missing something because
• 1:39:47
  it may just show up. Well, I was missing that gold
• 1:39:51
  bullion bar. No, it's.
• 1:39:56
  Incredible expensive. The ship, they're heavy.
• 1:40:01
  Yeah, Mal can say that Man United are missing a few points.
• 1:40:05
  Hey. Awesome SO.
• 1:40:14
  When I started it with the mythics was right there at that
• 1:40:16
  skeleton. That was one of my first ones.
• 1:40:20
  Nice. He was a great figure.
• 1:40:22
  He's a. Gross.
• 1:40:24
  He's an awesome figure. And that was like the first ones
• 1:40:27
  and I was just blown away. And at the time I was just
• 1:40:30
  raving about this figure and somebody said wait till you get
• 1:40:33
  one that has actual paint. I wasn't, I wasn't understanding
• 1:40:38
  what they meant. I'm like, well, this looks
• 1:40:39
  painted for me. And then I got one with actual
• 1:40:43
  paint and I was again blown away for the second.
• 1:40:48
  Yeah, well, we got, oh, what is this?
• 1:40:51
  There's the heads pack and this is some barrier parts and some
• 1:40:56
  of the Furious 4 parts. Yep, and his name is Bloodhorn
• 1:41:02
  because those are the Borgas horns.
• 1:41:04
  So the Bloodhorn Stonewood. Nice little He's got a nice
• 1:41:10
  little spiked ball weapon with a bit of blood on it.
• 1:41:15
  Very nice. Very cool.
• 1:41:18
  And you also do some non toy photography as well.
• 1:41:27
  This is your other profile talk. Particularly well on it.
• 1:41:32
  Well, if you, if you look at, if you look, I mean it's our
• 1:41:36
  guests, you know, but if you look on Brett's title there on
• 1:41:39
  the screen, you can see he has both the handles for for these.
• 1:41:43
  So the picture of the day this is my.
• 1:41:45
  L Tidy. Photographer page, if you will.
• 1:41:49
  I haven't posted a real stuff, but I've been doing a picture of
• 1:41:53
  the day 2, 1000 and 8:00-ish on that time frame forever for a
• 1:42:00
  long time and it's just picture of the day every day.
• 1:42:08
  Keep it going. It's something that I've been
• 1:42:11
  doing and I don't know, every year I have this existential
• 1:42:14
  crisis at the around the December 30th ago.
• 1:42:18
  Do I keep it going for another game?
• 1:42:19
  Do I keep it going for another game?
• 1:42:21
  So I, yeah, I keep doing that. And actually the first year of
• 1:42:25
  each of my daughter's live from day one to day 365 or 366, I did
• 1:42:32
  a picture of the day of them as well.
• 1:42:35
  So I have their whole entire first year of their live in
• 1:42:39
  effective form. And you know, when they're that
• 1:42:42
  little, they just change. So yeah.
• 1:42:45
  So it's now easy to go back and look and go.
• 1:42:48
  So and usually, John, if it's either sky or ground or
• 1:42:52
  something, if I'm sitting in a hotel lobby or but it's forces
• 1:42:57
  me to get the camera out of the pocket, take the picture and
• 1:43:01
  actually do something or see something different.
• 1:43:04
  And I love the nature stuff. Yeah.
• 1:43:07
  So you use your phone, do you have, do you do you have any
• 1:43:09
  camera gear as well or? I do, I just haven't gotten it
• 1:43:14
  out in a while. If you go to let me put in a
• 1:43:18
  link in in the chat for you. All of my quote UN quote real
• 1:43:32
  stuff is still in a in a page on Facebook.
• 1:43:39
  I haven't done much in the last couple of years. 20/20 was was a
• 1:43:48
  lot here. I didn't I didn't even get my
• 1:43:49
  camera out. 1/20/20 and 21 was was not much better and 22 I got
• 1:43:56
  out a couple of times to shoot. 23 I haven't done any.
• 1:44:02
  Right. Oh, cool.
• 1:44:05
  So these are these are really cool.
• 1:44:09
  Wow. And I actually spent three days
• 1:44:12
  in Chernobyl in 2018. Oh wow, So just oh wow not.
• 1:44:17
  Long for. The stuff kicked.
• 1:44:20
  Out there for the 14th time and then unfortunately I don't think
• 1:44:25
  I'll be going back there anytime soon.
• 1:44:29
  No, no, I don't think any of us will, unfortunately.
• 1:44:33
  Wow, these are amazing. So proper, that's a kind of a
• 1:44:38
  bit of a collage of them. Nope, that's not mine.
• 1:44:43
  I don't know what that is. Oh.
• 1:44:44
  That's not yours. OK, Sorry.
• 1:44:45
  Oh, somebody tagged me here. Yeah, go to album.
• 1:44:48
  Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 1:44:50
  Albums. There we go.
• 1:44:53
  Yeah, and if you want to see the Chernobyl, you can Scroll down,
• 1:44:55
  but I shoot a lot or did shoot a lot of abandoned buildings, lost
• 1:45:01
  architecture, if you will, urban decay, Wu and porn, whatever you
• 1:45:06
  want to call it. But architecture and in details
• 1:45:11
  and lines and and stuff like that always grabbed my artistic
• 1:45:15
  eye. Even as a kid.
• 1:45:16
  I I love to draw the perspective draw.
• 1:45:19
  Got you. That's.
• 1:45:23
  Amazing. So where?
• 1:45:24
  Where's the Chernobyl 1 then? It keeps going down, right.
• 1:45:29
  OK. Where it says Revelation 8
• 1:45:30
  verses 10 and 11. Yeah.
• 1:45:33
  So a little bit about that. In the Bible, in Revelations
• 1:45:37
  chapter 8 verse 1011, it says a star will come down and turn the
• 1:45:43
  water bitter and blah blah blah. That's that.
• 1:45:46
  The other thing and the star shall be named Wormwood.
• 1:45:50
  And the old Ukrainian word for Wormwood was Chernobyl.
• 1:45:57
  Oh wow, so. The Russianized version of it
• 1:46:00
  was Chernobyl. And I'm like, OK, that's a
• 1:46:05
  little eerie. Not that I'm like, you know, I
• 1:46:08
  don't go to church every weekend, but that's just kind of
• 1:46:11
  eerie that that a biblical verse would would have some impact on
• 1:46:17
  a star blowing up a city. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:46:26
  Well, these are great pictures. Amazing.
• 1:46:28
  It was an, you know, we're all children of the Cold War.
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  And, you know, we, we learn propaganda from one side, but
• 1:46:36
  actually going there, seeing it, understanding what those people
• 1:46:42
  live with and under gave a whole new perspective growing up in
• 1:46:49
  that, you know, every citizen over there with issued a gas map
• 1:46:53
  with the evil aggressive Americans were going to gas up.
• 1:46:57
  You know, the signs posted in places of all the, all the
• 1:47:02
  military forces of NATO saying This is why we must protect
• 1:47:07
  ourselves. You know, and it's like our
• 1:47:12
  history was was prejudice by the the the propaganda we grew up
• 1:47:19
  with, much like there's was. So it was just really, really
• 1:47:23
  interesting to actually experience that first hand, even
• 1:47:26
  though it was abandoned and evacuated.
• 1:47:30
  But you know, 1986 right at the height of it all, you know we
• 1:47:35
  were caught in school nuclear drill.
• 1:47:37
  You know, run out in the hall book or your hand over your head
• 1:47:41
  in case your ass goodbye. And how did you get get close to
• 1:47:47
  it or is it was there a zone that you?
• 1:47:51
  So you have to get a guide of some sort to take you in and
• 1:47:56
  they handle all of the paperwork and the pre clearance and you
• 1:48:01
  have to send them in your passport.
• 1:48:02
  You have to get your documentation all around.
• 1:48:04
  You go through the 30 mile exclusion zone and they check
• 1:48:08
  all the paperwork, they make sure you're legit, blah blah
• 1:48:11
  blah. And then you go through another
• 1:48:13
  checkpoint at the 1 kilometer and from there I was 150 feet
• 1:48:18
  away from the new safe confinement and just marveling
• 1:48:24
  that I'm standing 150 feet from where the actual reactor is
• 1:48:28
  being covered now. He only stayed there for about 5
• 1:48:32
  minutes, which is about as much radiation as three dental X-rays
• 1:48:37
  before we got a little further away.
• 1:48:39
  But it was just my mind blown because, you know, it was, it
• 1:48:47
  dominated our lives for quite a bit of time.
• 1:48:51
  For sure, yeah. And this is one of those things
• 1:48:54
  I always wanted to see in person.
• 1:48:56
  And I get it. And the day I got done, I nearly
• 1:49:01
  wanted to go back wow and spend more time.
• 1:49:07
  Well, from that to another big man from.
• 1:49:11
  Eastern Europe. What's going on, gents?
• 1:49:16
  Good, yeah. What's up?
• 1:49:18
  Another wonderful Sunday afternoon.
• 1:49:19
  How you doing, Greg? Not not bad, not bad hanging in
• 1:49:22
  there, you know? So how are you preparing for
• 1:49:26
  allegiance, Khan? I'm not.
• 1:49:30
  I mean, trying to save every single penny and dollar.
• 1:49:36
  I got to turn in some quarters and Dimes and nickels that I've
• 1:49:39
  been saving up over the past year.
• 1:49:40
  I kind of do that every year. Yeah.
• 1:49:43
  Every batching out all the cars that come into the dealership.
• 1:49:46
  Oh yeah, I mean, that's, that's always, you know, I always get
• 1:49:49
  the cup of change in there. Yeah, you got the shakedown.
• 1:49:52
  The shakedown? See, I guess you're working
• 1:49:56
  today as well. Or on a Sunday.
• 1:49:58
  No, I'm I'm off on Sundays. I'm off Sundays.
• 1:50:01
  Today's my only day that's I'm actually fully off from the day
• 1:50:06
  job in the studio because the studio had opened on Sundays.
• 1:50:09
  So otherwise I thought what would have been there doing
• 1:50:11
  something? When's the next time you're
• 1:50:12
  going in to unload a container? And how big is the box for the
• 1:50:21
  dragon? The good thing about that is
• 1:50:24
  that I don't know till the week off.
• 1:50:27
  Yeah. When they're like, we got to
• 1:50:30
  continue coming in and like. Be here on Wednesday afternoon.
• 1:50:35
  Yeah, Wednesday. I'm usually Wednesday mornings
• 1:50:37
  every Wednesday. I think it's it's also probably
• 1:50:40
  fun for you to be surprised as well, Greg.
• 1:50:42
  You don't want to know too much, you know?
• 1:50:45
  Yeah, I mean, it's still, it's still nice.
• 1:50:47
  Like, I still get spoiled all the time and it's still a great
• 1:50:50
  like, oh shit, you know, moment. Yeah.
• 1:50:54
  Well you probably have to see them in in various stages of of
• 1:50:57
  planning and pre production and and mid production.
• 1:51:01
  Most figures I see final, yeah. Most and then the final is just
• 1:51:05
  a surprise to you. It's a surprise to everybody
• 1:51:08
  most of the time because nobody really sees it put together
• 1:51:10
  until the end. You know, maybe in the in the
• 1:51:13
  main picture of it put together, but the actual figure it's
• 1:51:17
  usually just pieces that is spread around and you don't see
• 1:51:21
  it put together to G Khan or a reveal.
• 1:51:24
  So you probably walked by your tribute 100 times looking at
• 1:51:30
  each individual bit and Bob and and not even realize it was you.
• 1:51:34
  Yes, so when I first saw the the Olga night put together, I was
• 1:51:37
  like, oh shit, we're getting Olga night.
• 1:51:40
  I'm stop. I can't wait.
• 1:51:41
  I'm going to put my head on it. That was like the first thing
• 1:51:43
  that I said and a couple heads turned like with little smirks.
• 1:51:48
  And I never really put one-on-one together with the way
• 1:51:52
  certain people looked at me when I was saying certain things
• 1:51:54
  until afterwards. I'm like, ah, you little.
• 1:51:58
  Sneaky little buggers, aren't they?
• 1:52:02
  Mutter under my breath. Jeremy, you're just such a
• 1:52:04
  sneaky little bugger. Yeah.
• 1:52:06
  And, and, and, you know, they, they do a good job of keeping
• 1:52:09
  everybody like in the not in the loop.
• 1:52:12
  So a lot of people don't know until the day of either, you
• 1:52:16
  know, only like a small, not even I can say a handful of
• 1:52:19
  people, it's like a half a handful of people that know
• 1:52:22
  what's exactly going on. It's like the Manhattan Project
• 1:52:25
  and putting together a first nuclear bomb.
• 1:52:27
  You know, these guys had guidance, these guys had pay
• 1:52:30
  what these? That's pretty.
• 1:52:33
  So, Greg, tell us what's your what's your role this this year
• 1:52:37
  at Allegiance Con? I get.
• 1:52:38
  Are you working the the tape, the horsemen table, the Armory?
• 1:52:42
  Right now it looks like I'm going to be at the Armory.
• 1:52:45
  Me and Joe are going to be manning the armories.
• 1:52:48
  We got the Brute squad. Yeah, I'm not sure what else who
• 1:52:51
  else is going to be doing what, but and you know, and then
• 1:52:55
  between that, I'm going to probably be running around
• 1:52:58
  helping doing this. It's it's usually a madhouse.
• 1:53:01
  So it's, you know, I think this. Year there to do whatever you're
• 1:53:05
  asked. Is that how it works?
• 1:53:07
  Yeah, like last year, you know, we it was a little rough
• 1:53:10
  carrying all the supplies from one end all the way to the other
• 1:53:13
  end of the show, which kind of sucked.
• 1:53:17
  So this year I think that part is kind of better planned out
• 1:53:20
  and figured out. You know where it's going to be
• 1:53:23
  less time of us having to run around and and hunk around hand
• 1:53:29
  trucks or boxes across the whole entire show.
• 1:53:32
  Oh yeah, moving your storage right behind the curtain of
• 1:53:36
  where you're selling it this year.
• 1:53:37
  Yeah, that's going to help a lot, you know, because I wasn't.
• 1:53:41
  Able to be. Working.
• 1:53:42
  I was supposed to be hanging out last year, and when I went by
• 1:53:46
  the table and I saw my boys in a madhouse, I said all right,
• 1:53:52
  clocking in. Time to roll up the sleeves and
• 1:53:55
  get there. Yeah, I just, yeah, I just went
• 1:53:57
  in there, you know. The new layout is, is really
• 1:54:00
  great. I think it's it's awesome the
• 1:54:02
  way they they they did that and that, you know, they, they put
• 1:54:05
  the experience in the figure fair and, and the studio
• 1:54:08
  connected people in in that side room there and, and the whole
• 1:54:13
  atmosphere is going to change because now you've got one big
• 1:54:16
  community room and you know it's going to be going to be a nice.
• 1:54:21
  Change. Yeah, it's going to be a, it's
• 1:54:23
  going to be very, a lot of fun. And like I said, as as the cons
• 1:54:27
  go in, they tweak them little by little just to make it that much
• 1:54:30
  better, you know, and I think this year is pretty, pretty well
• 1:54:33
  tweaked. But we won't know anything until
• 1:54:35
  it's Showtime. Like the hard drive.
• 1:54:37
  Elaboration. Showtime.
• 1:54:40
  So is your is your reward for work in the Armory that you're
• 1:54:43
  going to get one of each build? I.
• 1:54:46
  I wish. All 240,000.
• 1:54:48
  I will beg, I will. I will plead, I will, I will beg
• 1:54:53
  again. Yeah, because you're you're a
• 1:54:57
  bit of a completist I guess at this point, or a.
• 1:54:59
  Little bit, you know, I'm not one of everything, you know,
• 1:55:02
  Pretty much, you know. Just so this is the one that's
• 1:55:05
  going to buy some completists, I think with all.
• 1:55:08
  Even just the. Official bills.
• 1:55:10
  In fact, to a few completionists and it's like, how do they
• 1:55:13
  manage this? And I'm, I'm looking at it from
• 1:55:16
  my point of view and I'm trying to tell them, you know, don't
• 1:55:19
  worry about it. If not, it's not part of.
• 1:55:21
  If there's no BIOS, there's no corrections, you're just
• 1:55:26
  building a. Lego.
• 1:55:28
  You're building your own characters.
• 1:55:29
  It's it's all the parts that you have just painted a little
• 1:55:32
  different, you know, and they are going to be releasing a lot
• 1:55:35
  of them single packs. I don't know what the build out
• 1:55:39
  is going to be. So you know Jeremy?
• 1:55:40
  Posted it last weekend. Like, OK, so everybody knows the
• 1:55:44
  build out. So what I suggest there's build,
• 1:55:47
  build what they don't offer. Yeah.
• 1:55:50
  That's what I that's what I would do.
• 1:55:52
  That's what I if. You're completist.
• 1:55:54
  If not, just build what you want.
• 1:55:55
  You know if. Not build what you want, but if
• 1:55:58
  you really want to be the completist, make a bill that
• 1:56:01
  they're not going to offer and that's the bill that you want to
• 1:56:03
  make an initial. When they offer, you get the
• 1:56:05
  other ones and then you can actually Mitch Max and make your
• 1:56:07
  own at the time. For sure.
• 1:56:10
  So I, I wanted to highlight because we, we actually went
• 1:56:14
  great big Greg kindly invited us back to his place last year on
• 1:56:18
  our way back to the airport and obviously took some photos.
• 1:56:21
  So I'm just going to bring up a few of those now.
• 1:56:24
  So your room could have could have changed around a bit since
• 1:56:27
  then, Greg. Or it's evolved a little bit.
• 1:56:29
  It's evolved quite a bit. But we can see what we have
• 1:56:33
  here. So he has, I mean, for the
• 1:56:36
  amount of space you have, this is probably the best display
• 1:56:39
  room I've ever been in because it's, it's not a huge room, but
• 1:56:42
  the use of space is incredible, you know?
• 1:56:46
  Yeah, I try to really maximize my use of space in here.
• 1:56:50
  Yeah, I said it, sometimes it look like.
• 1:56:51
  How can I add something else? Like going into a fish store and
• 1:56:57
  just seeing all those individual aquariums.
• 1:57:00
  Yeah, just populated with it. With it.
• 1:57:04
  Here's here's the reef here, here's a reef from there, here's
• 1:57:07
  here. It's just everything is
• 1:57:10
  thoughtfully curated and wonderfully out there.
• 1:57:14
  Yeah, it's the, it's the way it's it's presented.
• 1:57:16
  I mean, if you look at a picture like this, you got just very
• 1:57:19
  similar themed figures together. Some of Chris's demons.
• 1:57:23
  D 13. My green shell.
• 1:57:25
  Yeah. Dude, when you posted that at
• 1:57:28
  Powercon there was a there was a mad dash to Christmas table.
• 1:57:33
  Oh, yeah. When I yeah, I went straight to
• 1:57:36
  the room and you know, it's funny, the lighting in the room
• 1:57:38
  was so good, like right on a little in front of the TV and I
• 1:57:42
  said they had like this little LED kind of light.
• 1:57:44
  And it was really, I couldn't, even when I came home, I tried
• 1:57:47
  to take that picture over again with a background.
• 1:57:49
  I couldn't get that same damn lighting because it was so damn
• 1:57:52
  good in that room. I was like damn it lit
• 1:57:53
  everything up so well. Yeah, so I mean you have things
• 1:57:57
  here like Fury Shelf, you know, that's I mean, that's a dream
• 1:58:01
  display there. We got a bunch of the what are
• 1:58:06
  these called? 7th Kingdom figures, Kingdom
• 1:58:08
  stuff. Yeah.
• 1:58:10
  So this is some of the rare, rare stuff and got a bunch of
• 1:58:14
  had to get a bit of Star Wars in there.
• 1:58:16
  We. Got some Star Wars?
• 1:58:19
  It's so these are black series mostly Greg or?
• 1:58:23
  Yeah, Black Series for the most part, Yep, maybe like one or two
• 1:58:26
  figure arts might be in there somewhere that that top shelf
• 1:58:29
  still looks the same. I haven't.
• 1:58:32
  I haven't gotten to that yet. So we got very cool like you see
• 1:58:38
  throughout the whole thing dials is is the key thing your
• 1:58:41
  display. Yes, just having some kind of
• 1:58:44
  background, you know, try to create little worlds.
• 1:58:47
  So I guess every every one of these kind of cons, you end up
• 1:58:50
  at your mate, you're probably Navin a dial here or there off
• 1:58:53
  somebody over the years. That's pretty much, yeah.
• 1:58:56
  That's, that's pretty much what it is.
• 1:58:57
  Patience, you know everything. Everything looks great, but it
• 1:59:00
  takes patience just to get the little pieces, just to put some
• 1:59:03
  together. For sure TMNT love this one.
• 1:59:09
  That got bigger. Rich I took several pictures of
• 1:59:16
  that when I was there and I've spent so much time looking over
• 1:59:18
  them because I'm I'm trying not to get into the neck of TMT, but
• 1:59:21
  your display obviously had loads and together.
• 1:59:23
  So I keep looking the pictures going.
• 1:59:24
  Do I do I? No, no.
• 1:59:26
  So if I ever do, it's your fault.
• 1:59:29
  Wait till you come over this year, you're gonna be like Oh my
• 1:59:31
  God, multiple sores. How many sores this guy got?
• 1:59:36
  Oh, you can crawl into them. Look.
• 1:59:39
  Yeah, there's. Extension of the.
• 1:59:42
  Yeah. So, so if you if you pack, Yep,
• 1:59:45
  I'll show you how that looks now.
• 1:59:49
  Oh wow, oh wow. That's, that's gotten a sewer
• 1:59:54
  and then there's another sewer over here too.
• 1:59:56
  I have I have. I have 3 sewers now.
• 2:00:04
  Amazing. And we need to stop.
• 2:00:05
  Doing these recordings, it's costing me.
• 2:00:10
  Money. That's another show.
• 2:00:16
  I'm very familiar with that show.
• 2:00:17
  I've helped them with a few episodes, but that's still
• 2:00:19
  another show. They're awesome people.
• 2:00:21
  And here's another awesome mythics display.
• 2:00:24
  That's the legion of our theory, Of course.
• 2:00:28
  This was one of the first ones I think I whenever we went into
• 2:00:32
  the room and, you know, we kind of settled in the corner to
• 2:00:34
  start looking and this was the first one I saw, I was like,
• 2:00:36
  whoa. See, I've got that American
• 2:00:39
  world in London that's in the middle in my display now.
• 2:00:41
  And I thought, I thought it was a good idea, but now I'm
• 2:00:43
  thinking, did I see a Greg's? And subconsciously I was just
• 2:00:46
  like, yeah, that I'm going to buy that, Yeah.
• 2:00:49
  Do you have two though? I don't have two now.
• 2:00:52
  Mine's in mine. I agree, yes.
• 2:00:55
  Yeah, yes. That's.
• 2:00:57
  Chases. That's that's changed now.
• 2:01:00
  That's not a, that's just all skeletons now.
• 2:01:03
  Oh cool. Yeah, get those Knights out of
• 2:01:06
  there. I love those.
• 2:01:07
  Play though, with all the fighting and that was just.
• 2:01:09
  Like the vampires, Rich. This, this.
• 2:01:12
  So good, so good. That's got more populated.
• 2:01:18
  But it's just like the race. You see, you see what anywhere.
• 2:01:20
  You see a little bit of floor space there around the figures.
• 2:01:23
  You know he's going to stick more figures in there.
• 2:01:25
  More. But it's just the things like
• 2:01:28
  the the predator bodies hanging down and that sort of stuff, it
• 2:01:31
  just gives it our extra oomph. Yeah, yeah, it's oh, good.
• 2:01:36
  Thank you. Definitely made me do a double
• 2:01:38
  take. Or things like the little moon
• 2:01:40
  in the background here, just on the on the top left.
• 2:01:43
  Yeah. It's a little bad.
• 2:01:44
  Yeah, it. Just looks so cool.
• 2:01:47
  This one was one of I think Miles favorite is the Magnus
• 2:01:50
  with if you can see there the Alf and then all the all the
• 2:01:54
  little test tube aliens of the aliens obviously here at the
• 2:01:59
  front. That shelf, almost that shelf
• 2:02:01
  almost got put away. Not it's just more aliens and I
• 2:02:05
  do my predators in there too. So it's like an aliens kind of
• 2:02:08
  verse Predator. I need to tighten it up.
• 2:02:10
  I just kind of threw them in there a little bit and said, all
• 2:02:13
  right, I'll see you guys later. So Greg, can I ask how much time
• 2:02:19
  would you say a week that you spend on your room and in the
• 2:02:22
  displays and that sort of? Stuff honestly not enough it's I
• 2:02:25
  got to really be in the in the mindset to get in here for a
• 2:02:29
  couple of hours yeah, because the problem is you come in to do
• 2:02:34
  one thing and then you I end up touching this one I'm touching
• 2:02:37
  that one. I touched this one up.
• 2:02:39
  I fixed this shelf up and then next, you know, two hours went
• 2:02:42
  by and I didn't even get to it. I would originally came in to
• 2:02:45
  do. You know, something falls over
• 2:02:47
  and then you've got a whole new kind of work that you didn't
• 2:02:49
  think of. Like my galactic stuff, stuff I
• 2:02:52
  just fell right now, like not too long ago.
• 2:02:54
  It's like, oh great. Yeah.
• 2:02:56
  And then the last one we have here is Wolverine and Deadpool.
• 2:02:59
  Obviously that's quite topical for the last month or two.
• 2:03:04
  And you know, that was before Deadpool versus versus
• 2:03:07
  Wolverine. I already had them.
• 2:03:08
  Together. This this was last November.
• 2:03:11
  So, yeah, yeah, that's, I mean, for being that type of a
• 2:03:16
  collection and the way you've set up, but that's worth
• 2:03:17
  visiting on its own. You know, if you could somehow
• 2:03:20
  magically move your display room just into one of those little
• 2:03:24
  hallways, allegiance can, you know, charge people 5 bucks and.
• 2:03:30
  That would take me a year to. That would take me a year to set
• 2:03:33
  up and leave it. Yeah, that's the.
• 2:03:34
  Problem. Yeah, it's not a, it's not
• 2:03:36
  something that can ever be set up at a convention because it
• 2:03:39
  would just, it would take 50 people, you know, 10 hours to
• 2:03:43
  set it up. But.
• 2:03:45
  Yeah. After the con, I was had a
• 2:03:47
  little a little folder on my phone with all my pictures and
• 2:03:51
  screenshots and that sort of stuff from Legions con.
• 2:03:53
  And I couldn't figure out why I had literally hundreds and
• 2:03:56
  hundreds and hundreds of photographs.
• 2:03:58
  And then I clicked into it and it's like, oh, grippy Greggs.
• 2:04:00
  Yeah, OK, that explains. I took so many photographs in
• 2:04:04
  your display. Room.
• 2:04:05
  That's like 50 right there. Oh, it was well over 100.
• 2:04:10
  I would click crazy. Yeah, and I'm.
• 2:04:13
  Looking forward to having you guys over again this year.
• 2:04:15
  Oh, if we can manage it, we definitely will, yeah.
• 2:04:18
  Absolutely, yeah. Definitely.
• 2:04:20
  We'll try to set up what are you guys flying in?
• 2:04:23
  So Wednesday afternoon, I think most of us.
• 2:04:27
  Are you a bit later richer? Yeah, I'm sort of even Wednesday
• 2:04:31
  evening sort of things I'll be. So we're all going to intern.
• 2:04:34
  Everyone here is Guy. You're an intern as well, Greg.
• 2:04:37
  I will be there, yes. I'll be manning the the tables
• 2:04:41
  and stuff over there too, kind of like I did last year when you
• 2:04:44
  guys place the orders and then we run and we pull everybody's
• 2:04:47
  orders. And making sure nobody like Rich
• 2:04:50
  sneaks into the wrong room. A.
• 2:04:55
  Lot of things changed this year. You guys going to see a lot of.
• 2:04:59
  OK, it's it's. As this room progressed, so has
• 2:05:02
  the studio. But I know that last year they
• 2:05:05
  had a lot of boxes, you know, because they had a lot of
• 2:05:08
  containers. Maybe that is, has that been
• 2:05:11
  kind of cleared out? Yes, yeah, yeah.
• 2:05:15
  So it's, yes, it's going to be, it's going to be a lot of, it's
• 2:05:17
  going to be a lot of fun. I can't wait for everybody to
• 2:05:21
  see everything. Very good, very good.
• 2:05:24
  Well guys, we've got a another round of guests to chat too.
• 2:05:28
  So it was great to get some of your time today and great to
• 2:05:33
  chat to you and can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks
• 2:05:35
  time. Yes, Sir, Done.
• 2:05:38
  Stay safe. The.