Apocalypse Cow

Whilst We're On The Very Popular Subject Of Armageddon
Really, people do seem to like reading about how the world might end, as we have featured a few scenarios featuring Fracking And The End Of Days.  About that particular method - I've been over to the website "Exit Mundi" and there seems to be a lack of information there about how we're all going to perish because the Treasury gets pound signs in it's eyes whenever it hears the F-word.

Look, Treasury!  What you love more than life itself -

     Here an aside.  Many years ago I remember reading a blurb at the back of several science-fiction novels about another novel, one that featured an attempt to drill down to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, and one line stuck with me - " - and the trapped nitrogen blows."  This causes a global catastrophe - Man Mucking About With What He Ought Not To With A Drill again, don't you know.  The thing is, I cannot remember the author nor the book title.  I'll find out eventually I suppose, but no doubt only after Cuadrilla split the Earth's core wide open, and someone remarks "Oh isn't it just like that science-fiction disaster novel ..."

"Little Plumpton would never be the same again ..."

     "Yes, but - the cows!  Where do the cows come into it?" I hear you warble.  "Tell us about the cows!"
     Okay, you asked for it.  Next time you sit down to guzzle a beefburger, remember that YOU ARE KILLING THE PLANET!  Yes, you, and the cows.  One of the major contributors to atmospheric pollution and the thinning of the ozone layer is methane.  And which animal farts methane mightily all day long in large amounts?  Hmmm.  No, I don't think you can blame this on the Naked Mole Rat.  Cows!  Cows are the evil critters here.  

They were warning us

     Okay, time to lasso the motley and tie it to an ox in the paddy field!

Getting The Lead In
Not just lead, tin as well.  For these two metals are what pewter is made of, and I'm telling you this because I dug out a tub of 6mm French figures and vehicles from the recesses of a cupboard.  "6mm" being also known as 1/300th scale, meaning your average infantry soldier is 6mm tall, or one three-hundredth of real life.  Art?

     Not sure where the pins came from.  This lot have been primed with a white spray paint, and they now need to be blue-tacked to a long thin strip of wood in order to be painted, which will take absolutely ages.  Then they need to be glued to a base and the base textured and painted, and then I can use them to practice taking over the world wargaming.  At least it keeps me from vandalising bus-stops.

After Cows, Dogs
Which is not to say that our canine chums are plotting to take over, once they learn how to get the lids off tins of dog food, just that this is today's update about the Wunderhund.  Breaking with tradition, your humble scribe dedicated 20 minutes of his lunchtime to taking the rambunctious tyke out for a stroll in the autumnal air.  Art?

Investigating via nose

     One of her habits is to stop and sniff at every patch of grass on our route.  A consequence, one supposes, of being such a small dog: her nose is in perpetual close proximity to the ground.

You Remember Yesterday -
And Conrad's rather citric response to those who claim a tank will be useless in the Zombie Apocalypse when it arrives.  Okay, back in the Second Unpleasantness in the Pacific the South Canadians (plus assorted others) were fighting the empire of Nippon.  This was no cakewalk, as the average Bushidobot made the toughest SS trooper look like a snivelling milksop.  They were pretty hard to halt, so the SCs came up with a real man-stopper of a tank round: shrapnel balls embedded in a block of resin.  Art?

The one on the left

     Running into one of these would crimp the hairs of the toughest opponent, indeed, and it would be just as effective against zombies.  If you don't have any of these antidotes, then simply scoop up all the disintegrated links from your machine-gun belt by the shovelful, stick them in the barrel and then whack a high-explosive round into the breech.  Zombies go bye-bye in bits.
     BOOJUM! - we'll help you survive the Zombie Apocalypse!*

Finally -
Just so you know, those little pewter figures are very heavy and cost lots in postage.  Plastic figures would be far lighter and probably less brittle and prone to having bits break off if you drop them (for Conrad is a clumsy great oaf, if we're being honest).  So why is white metal so prevalent in the industry?
     I thought you'd never ask!  Art?

White metal casting machine

     These are a snip and can be gotten for the modest price of £10,000, probably less if you know the ex-owner.  A plastic moulding machine?  Oooh blimey.  Art?

Somewhat larger

     Can cost up to £100,000.  Hence white metal figures.

*  With no charge, but prepare to be enslaved afterwards.  Sorry.  Bit of a downer, that.