I've made up a few Russian village sections for WWII (although they'd do fine for Napoleonic too) These are mostly MDF kits from "Things From The Basement" in the USA with a few more extra bits from the excellent Charlie Foxtrot models here in the UK
Love these...2 cabins, and high fences All lovely models, easy to construct, and fun to paint. One of the things which attracted me to them was how there are very few lugs on display - most MDF kits have these rather unsightly points where the various bits fit together- These don't- makes them look so much better- I thought it would be more fun to put these together as based village units, to allow a little bit more detailing and customisation.
Simple Russian barn, but will do for pretty much anywhere
Pigs..... Couldn't resist this...the little pigsty base is from TFTB, pigs from Pegasus
Small cabin, rough fencing- Warlord Russians! The bases are all slightly different sizes, but generally about 10' square, big enough to make an impact on the wargames table and to allow the addition of more "stuff" to pretty them up
Larger Villa with small garden These are for sale....feel free to contact me if you wish for prices etc- I'm going to be making a lot more terrain and buildings over the next few months, if you have a specific request just ask, or keep an eye out here or look for CAC terrain on facebook
Smaller cabin and woodshed by Charlie Foxtrot, Everything else from TFTB. Love the well.
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Asia is pleased to announce SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris for PlayStation 4, XBox ONE and PC via STEAM.
Based on the season 3 of the anime adaptation, the franchises biggest story arc, SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris features a stirring story faithful to the original anime, supervised by the renowned author Reki Kawahara. SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris embraces the medieval-fantasy world of the Alicization arc – with players able to wield great swords, meet knights and come face-to-face with mythical creatures.
This new chapter will take place in a mysterious virtual land - The Underworld. Players will play as Kirito and visit this new realm, meeting his friend, Eugeo. They will embark on a quest to save Alice, their childhood friend who disappeared after violating the laws of The Underworld.
"SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris will feature new gameplay experiences from those seen in previous SAO titles, ensuring the game will enchant existing fans as well as new comers" said Yosuke Futami, Producer at BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. "Lycoris is a word borrowed from the botanic vocabulary, the Lycoris Radiata. It's a beautiful flower, that symbolises loss, separation, reunion and passion, something perfectly fitting of the story of the Alicization Arc!"
SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris will be available on PlayStation 4, XBox ONE and PC via STEAM.
You want to be selected for the 2019 Protea Team, then read this. MSSA's 2019 Mpumalanga Provincial Championships is part of the process of selecting the 2018 Protea teams that will attend the various World Championships and participate in various test matches. All gamers are reminded that MSSA's 2019 Gauteng Provincial Championships are an open championship. In other words any registered player is entitled to enter the championship – no matter where they live, or their category of membership. You may contact MSSA at mindsportscorrespondence@gmail.com Details are as follows:
While retro video games and consoles have been getting the digital treatment in the forms of emulators, PCs and services like the Virtual Console, buying hardware to specifically play retro games in a digital form (as opposed to a clone console) is a relatively recent phenomenon. There has been a draw for people who want to really use their cartridges on a high quality, high definition system using a modern TV. There has also been a market for people who want a plug-and-play box where they don't have to fiddle with emulator options. Most modern TVs use the HDMI connector for passing digital content through to a LCD panel's display processor. HDMI licensing issues aside (search my blog for information about those issues), most of these retro devices support a maximum resolution of 480p, 720p or 1080p. While some of these devices support 1080p, many only support 720p or 480p. which can lead to thorny problems with lag and image resizing. Let's take a look at the issues in this blog article.
First, here is a list of current or actually released retro-centered solutions by the maximum resolution they support :
Occasionally someone will want to print one of my web pages, even though it means losing access to all the interactive parts. There are a few things I do to make this work better:
I try to start all my interactive diagrams in a state where it's informative without interaction. This is not only helpful for printing, but also for people skimming the page. I haven't always done this in the past so I've been trying to go back through my older pages and change them to work this way.
I have a "print stylesheet" using @media print { … } that changes the page style when printing. It changes the font, removes background colors, removes text shadows, and instructs the browser to avoid breaking the page inside a diagram.
(Added today) When printing, I display the URLs for the links on the page. Since you can't click the links, it's useful to display the URLs.
This makes the links display in Markdown format, as [text](url).
Unfortunately, many URLs are quite long. Markdown has a footnote/endnote-style format which works better for long links: [text][1] followed by [1]: url. It's not something I can do in pure CSS. I would have to edit the HTML to make this work. But I'm not actually writing HTML directly. I write XHTML that is transformed into HTML using XSLT. Can XSLT do this transformation for me? Yes! I was able to adapt this XSLT technique to work on my pages.
First, create an XSLT rule that applies to all links:
This will find links of the form <a href="url">test</a> and turn them into <a href="url">test</a><sup class="print-endnote">[3]</sup>. The count="//a" parameter to xsl:number will generate a counter for all <a> elements, and format it with brackets: the third link will be [3].
Then, at the bottom of the page, make a list of all the links:
This works! Throughout the page, links are annotated with a number like link[3]. Then at the bottom, it displays [3]: url.
However, as usual, there are details that make things more complicated in practice.
I want to exclude relative links (which are often to the same page) so I changed the pattern to match a[starts-with(@href,'http')] instead of a. This is in five places; it would be nice to abstract this somehow. [Update 2019-01-01: looks like XLST 2 might let me abstract over this, but XSLT 1 does not.]
I want to exclude links in the nav bar and table of contents. Due to the page structure I use, these are outside of a <section> element, so I changed a to section//a. Combined with the previous rule, it's now the ugly pattern //x:section//a[starts-with(@href,'http')].
I want to exclude links in the footer, which is inside <section> on some of my pages. I did this by adding a test, <xsl:if test="count(ancestor::x:footer) = 0"> for both the endnote marker and the list of urls. These links still receive a number with xsl:number though; I wasn't able to find a way to avoid that. However, since they're at the end of the page, it's not a problem in practice.
All of these rules messed up the weird whitespace handling rules I have in place. I ended up having to make two passes over all the elements, once to expand <a>, and once to apply the whitespace rules. Even then, it is now applying the whitespace in slightly the wrong place. The printed page has link [3] instead of link[3]. [Update 2019-01-01: I was able to fix this.]
I'm a newbie with XSLT so there's some cargo cult involved. I'm simultaneously impressed that XSLT is able to do this, and horrified by how ugly it is. Someday I hope to revisit all of this, either improving the XSLT or moving away from it, but for now, it works reasonably well, and I'm happy with it.
See screenshots I posted on twitter, or try printing one of my pages to see how it looks. If you run into glitches, please let me know!
Update Here's a slightly different implementation:
Instead of adding a new element in XSLT, add an attribute:
The advantage of this approach is that I don't have to add a new element. The downside is that the underlining of links will apply to the :after element so these superscripts will be underlined. Another downside is that the superscript is purely visual instead of using a semantic tag like <sup>. More CSS, less HTML.
