I’ve created a page listing various 25/28mm Dinosaurs and other prehistoric miniatures. It’s a work in progress and but will probably grow into some sort of monster listing with pics and reviews.

This is the first time I’ve used the Page feature in Word Press and I’m sure I’m missing out on all sorts of features I could be using to make it better.

Which makes bugger all difference to the deadpool game as everyone had him on their list.

… the people who are pointing out that Britney’s “Toxic” wasn’t released on 7″ vinyl?

Like, it could never be rereleased in said format at some point in the next five billion years?

Anyway, a rather mixed episode (oh by the way I’m talking about “The End of the World”, episode two of the new Doctor Who series). Ecclestone’s Doctor is fascinating - with what we learn in this episode it’s easy to see his inappropriate flippancy and rudeness (not to mention his becoming what could be seen as a cold blooded vigilante murderer) as symptoms of post-traumatic shock. But I have a feeling that such an analysis will turn out to be overly simplistic.

The aliens were a very mixed bunch. Cassandra, the trees and the Moxx of Balhoun were excellent but the background aliens, and they looked like background aliens, were shown a little too prominently. Was I the only one who had a flashback to Dune when the Face of Boe was wheeled in? Oh, and am I right in thinking that every character with a speaking part got killed off? Good to see that the high body counts of the old series are being continued.

7/10 (9/10 for effects and acting but only 5/10 for plot)

The telly: “It’s only a mouse dear…”
Me: “Are these the worst ads ever?”
pink_weasel: “No”
“Half price sale at…”
“DFS! DFS ads make me want to kill people”
“Unlike esure ads that make you want to kill one person?”
“Yes!”

Sellers on eBay who don’t leave feedback until after the buyer has left feedback. I mean come on, as soon as the seller has paid he’s fulfilled his end of the bargain, leave feedback then. There’s a real petty mindedness to the “wait and see if they leave a negative so I can leave a negative too” attitude that some sellers seem to have.

Not quite dinosaurs but close, HLBS Co have released a range of deep sea divers and ocean dwelling creatures, including several prehistoric marine reptiles.

There’s not much else available for 25/28mm scale time travellers who like to get their feet wet.

HLBS Co used to have a Tylosaurus and an Elasmosaurus as waterline models and DZ MIniatures had a very large but utterly fantastic waterline Lipleurodon. If you see any these for sale you should first grab as many as you can and secondly let me know so I can grab the rest.

Steve Barber Models do some cavemen mucking about in the water and a Carcharadon Megalodon (rough translation “fecking huge shark with fecking huge teeth”) to gobble them up.

And Flagship Games have a Ictheasaur (sic), that at 8″ must represent one of the 15m giants such as Shonisaurus.

I’ve got a ‘third interview’ for a job that I really want. Apparantly I’m on a short list of one (though I’m not sure whether that’s one candidate from my recruitment consultant or one candidate altogether) and the final hurdle is to spend an afternoon next week with the team to see if we can work together. In other words I’ve done everything I can do to win the job and now I’ve got one last chance to lose it. Gulp.