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Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:02 pm
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Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:20 pm
cheers lads
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:39 pm
Ad7 wrote:False wrote:little model shop near me has been open for 31 years but shutting down today because the old lady who owns it is on her way out and no new buyers
nipped in to buy a few little bits and models as a peace out
only place for miles and miles where you can just drop in to get odd bits, rip another to amazon
That's so sad
There used to be several of that kind of place near me when I grew up, which all just became generic tat newsagents and then eventually closed.
That is sad. There's one of these not far from us and I'm amazed it's still going - must be a similar situation to the one near False in that it's costing them little to keep it running but anyone new coming in would be screwed.
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:36 pm
I went in game earlier and got a few bits
Stein's Gate zero for PS4 for £6
The Sexy Brutale for PS4 for £5
Project Cars 2 disc in a plain case for Xbox one £5
And WWE 2k18 missing front cover for PS4 for 49p best bit it had the Kurt Angle code in it and it worked, he is one of my fave wrestlers ever.
Stein's Gate zero for PS4 for £6
The Sexy Brutale for PS4 for £5
Project Cars 2 disc in a plain case for Xbox one £5
And WWE 2k18 missing front cover for PS4 for 49p best bit it had the Kurt Angle code in it and it worked, he is one of my fave wrestlers ever.
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:50 pm
also the little one spent £4 on one of the space marine hero lucky dip boxes and pulled the rarest one worth like £50 lol, making her mind up if she wants to sell it or cut the sprue more
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:13 pm
lucky girl
Tamiya is the shiz, but I also rate Revell. Airfix/Humbrol is very hit and miss, it depends if you get a new mould or one from the 60s etc. which usually have awful instructions (such as missing all text so just exploded diagrams with no directions at all) and flashing etc.
Sad about the shop but yeah Amazon, ridiculous amounts of stock they can afford to hoard but also supporting lots of small sellers on Marketplace so that's partly to do with it (some large proportion of the stuff on Amazon is marketplace or fulfilled by amazon so the business owner sends their product into their warehouses in batches).
It is viable in some rare formats though, tabletop gaming and D&D etc. needs associated stuff so gaming parlours, LAN etc. to scoop up all the nerds, in a city, there's one an old friend from computing class runs called Dice Saloon in Brighton. Check it out, their prices are actually pretty fair although their online shop could use some work (nobody is uploading product images) and they have some distribution rights on stuff like bases, scenery, table mats etc. Good for paints and non-citadel stuff, but not really any traditional model kits (all tabletop).
I think it's telling the GW in Brighton has been renamed "Warhammer" though, it's all anyone's ever called it so I'm not sure why they waited so long. Anyone else seen that? Or maybe it went independent, no idea (they'd still ned permission to use that trademark surely?)
Tamiya is the shiz, but I also rate Revell. Airfix/Humbrol is very hit and miss, it depends if you get a new mould or one from the 60s etc. which usually have awful instructions (such as missing all text so just exploded diagrams with no directions at all) and flashing etc.
Sad about the shop but yeah Amazon, ridiculous amounts of stock they can afford to hoard but also supporting lots of small sellers on Marketplace so that's partly to do with it (some large proportion of the stuff on Amazon is marketplace or fulfilled by amazon so the business owner sends their product into their warehouses in batches).
It is viable in some rare formats though, tabletop gaming and D&D etc. needs associated stuff so gaming parlours, LAN etc. to scoop up all the nerds, in a city, there's one an old friend from computing class runs called Dice Saloon in Brighton. Check it out, their prices are actually pretty fair although their online shop could use some work (nobody is uploading product images) and they have some distribution rights on stuff like bases, scenery, table mats etc. Good for paints and non-citadel stuff, but not really any traditional model kits (all tabletop).
I think it's telling the GW in Brighton has been renamed "Warhammer" though, it's all anyone's ever called it so I'm not sure why they waited so long. Anyone else seen that? Or maybe it went independent, no idea (they'd still ned permission to use that trademark surely?)
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:34 pm
The GW iin cardiff is called warhammer now iirc.
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Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:01 pm
Its a whole chain thing, some are gw some are warhammer - don’t know the decision process
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:51 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:59 pm
stop, get some help
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 6:49 pm
I'd still like to get the Gengar Pokemon design at some point.
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:51 pm
Bought a new RaspberryPi and some electronics stuff. I want to make a automatic plant growing system.
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:56 pm
Lex-Man wrote:
Bought a new RaspberryPi and some electronics stuff. I want to make a automatic plant growing system.
Have you heard of the parallela? It's a 16 core RISC microcomputer like the raspberry pi running Linux, it's a completely new architecture designed for supercomputer style parallel processing. The thing is this is exploitable by someone who knows bare metal level C and assembly etc so there's not a great deal I can do with it. Let me know if you're interested.
They normally go for around £100, I have two but no idea what to do with them. Someone gave me a bunch of stuff including about 12 microduinos and 5 Spark cores (now called Photons). A few Onion Omegas as well. I've only used arduous before but I'm probably going to do some networked sound installation stuff that fills a room because most of these modern boards have wifi built it. I also have a few Xbee Bluetooth modules so useful for RC robotics etc.
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:08 pm
Green Gecko wrote:Lex-Man wrote:
Bought a new RaspberryPi and some electronics stuff. I want to make a automatic plant growing system.
Have you heard of the parallela? It's a 16 core RISC microcomputer like the raspberry pi running Linux, it's a completely new architecture designed for supercomputer style parallel processing. The thing is this is exploitable by someone who knows bare metal level C and assembly etc so there's not a great deal I can do with it. Let me know if you're interested.
They normally go for around £100, I have two but no idea what to do with them. Someone gave me a bunch of stuff including about 12 microduinos and 5 Spark cores (now called Photons). A few Onion Omegas as well. I've only used arduous before but I'm probably going to do some networked sound installation stuff that fills a room because most of these modern boards have wifi built it. I also have a few Xbee Bluetooth modules so useful for RC robotics etc.
Hmm, I am quite interested what would you want for them?
Are the Spark cores the systems that Sun use to make before they were taken over by Oracle?
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:39 am
Chocolate-Milk wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:
Vermilion wrote:
My fellow weebs! New Ukiyo-e Uniqlo designs are on their way!! https://www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/pages/ut/coming-soon.php
Women get fewer designs but I like some of the tee colours more than men's.
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:48 am
Saint of Killers wrote:My fellow weebs! New Ukiyo-e Uniqlo designs are on their way!! https://www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/pages/ut/coming-soon.php
Re: Pick Up Post - Share Your Latest Purchases!
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 9:41 am
I like that one with Mount Fuji on the pocket 
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:38 am
Lex-Man wrote:
Bought a new RaspberryPi and some electronics stuff. I want to make a automatic plant growing system.
Similar to this?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piplan ... h-monitor/
That's excellent.
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:50 am
Mafro wrote:I like that one with Mount Fuji on the pocket
I wonder if it's Mt. Fuji in the summer... (it seems light on snow)
This is one of my first ones
Only available in M and S now.I think I'm going to get all 3 all over prints and the 2 pocket designs.
Thank floop I don't buy games any more
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:24 am
how do you guys find uniqlo tees fit? true to size? baggy/tight?