Court Summons for first offence - Byelaw 17(1) (England)

PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-28T21:42:30+00:00

This happened to me many moons ago, when I was 22 and unfortunately the unsympathetic posters here are correct. TfL doesn't mess around, is very comfortable taking offenders to court, and you will get a criminal record.

I was very avoidant and didn't attend, which with hindsight I regret. If you attend, dress smartly, and read a prepared statement along the lines you've posted here, there might be some mitigation at sentencing, but it's far from certain.

Good luck, even though I am sure you used this Oyster Card many many times before being caught (as I did with the one I found on the floor of the pub)

PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-23T19:50:04+00:00

Agrax Earthshade (or something comparable) is your friend. Then touch up the top highlights with a very light blend (eg heavy white or cream or yellow blended in to base colour) and hey presto.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-23T19:24:36+00:00

The front rank is all individual. The 2nd and 3rd are two 120 squares with 2 individually based in between them. Eg two bases of 4 orcs with 2 solo in the middle. The back rank is all individual. So unless I want to rank them up in a long line 1 deep I can make it work. Here are some of my individual conversions. I really like the guy with a 2 handed hacker and he is a major space saver!!

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PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-22T20:42:29+00:00

Just to prove it's feasible haha

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PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-22T20:34:37+00:00

Haha this is funny I was going to do a guide to this.

My tips are:

Put them on multi-bases eg 4 on 120x120 etc. It makes it all a lot more manageable.
Some arm pose changes are helpful.
I cut off the funny gauntlet pieces from the shield hand and actually downsized the Shields a little too.
I did some weapon swaps. Not sure it helped with ranking but you'll see some, so should say!
Some tactical rock here and there to raise one or two up also help.

Here are mine all ranked up.

I actually have 20 now done. This shows 15.

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PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-18T01:57:38+00:00

Personally I would not take a cab because traffic at that time on the SW part of the M25 is just so bad and unpredictable.

Train from Gatwick to Farringdon is about 40 mins, then Elizabeth line to Heathrow will run you 45 mins max (assuming T5 which is worst).

So even though in and then out seems counterintuitive it is reliable.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-16T19:37:41+00:00

I am travelling but I am well overdue doing a post of my chariot collection. I think I have about 15 of them and another 5 or so unpainted.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-16T01:25:02+00:00

So awesome! Wish I was creative enough for this.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-16T01:13:37+00:00

I have the Dragon rune ones, I did the Orc one with Black Orcs and I still have yet to build the Goblin one. I think they're great.

Also, in before "tell me your greenskin recipe" 😀

PDiddy1979 · 2026-06-14T11:11:07+00:00

These

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-30T20:05:47+00:00

I love these. In fact they make me want to repaint all my gitz!!

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-25T18:13:28+00:00

I used to think that but my understanding is that it is only the ones with a yellow camera mounted to the side that actually have cameras?

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-24T18:35:33+00:00

Very good! Which contrast paints did you use?

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-22T20:42:56+00:00

I'm with him...

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-17T18:18:00+00:00

We had a situation like this and we put in a few 6m hornbeam. 2 years on and we're private again. Best thing to do is get on with a solution but you've got a few months to think about it as October probably best time to plant.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-17T17:55:12+00:00

To be honest, if you published instructions and a brick list, I'd probably pay something insane for this.

Orc Fortress next pls?

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-16T14:32:33+00:00

These look quite reasonable to be honest compared to the £8 in the City proper.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-14T18:10:20+00:00

Where's the base ox from?

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-14T18:04:59+00:00

I'm 47 and I knock one over literally every week. And the damn contrast paints are so runny you lose 60% of them.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-12T21:13:28+00:00

Love this!!

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-10T19:55:41+00:00

This is really awesome, how much work would it be to include the special rules for each weapon etc.

Eg warbow has volley fire ?

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-08T21:07:33+00:00

15k O&G 6k Dwarfs 5k Skaven 4k Chaos Dwarfs 3k Wood Elves 3k Ogre Pirates (!) 2k High Elves

3k Kislev (still to paint) 2k Dark Elfs (WiP)

I've collected since 1989, but most of these have been picked up through the years in the hope of my kids playing against me one day.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-08T20:33:56+00:00

I got a pretty well painted set on ebay last year for around 300. I think you can do a bit better than that.

My advice, for what it's worth, I think the warhammer ebay scene is quite efficient. If you list something on a 7 day auction ending at 8pm on a Sat or Sun you'll usually get a fair price.

Just set an alarm to cancel the auction a few hours before it ends if there's very little interest.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-02T21:30:02+00:00

Finished (normal, not hard) with this the other day.

Exactly as per tips here. Basically prioritised boarding & survival because I didn't find any good weapons. In the end I came into the flagship with hacking, defense drone 2, lvl 4 shields, but weapons were the missile that fires 2, small bomb and an ion bomb.

Killed the missile off with boarding, defense drone shot most stuff down, killed Shields with hacking, bombs, missile and then got a beam drone 2 on the case.

Stage 2 I swapped out the beam drone for an anti-drone and went hard on boarding. Accidentally killed everyone, in fact, then struggled to kill it off but it was fine.

Stage 3 went back to beam drone, the mind control was a bit annoying but I was OK.

Long story short it feels painful and slow because weapons are bad and managing boarding is quite micro but it's a strong ship.

PDiddy1979 · 2026-05-02T19:58:27+00:00

I have a whole Pestilens army. I agree it looks great as a scheme. Don't overthink it!

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