Travels and New Armies
Happy New Year all and I hope you had a fine Christmas.
The wife and I had a terrific time up in Washington and Oregon. We needed a get-away after a 2024 filled with headaches and drama.
THE Coast of Washington. Windy, rainy and just gorgeous.
A fine house porter at the Astoria Brewing Company.
We parked here to tour the Flavel House Museum. I immediately recognized the black Jeep from Goonies. Moments later I realized that the building is the jail that Jake Fratelli breaks out of at the beginning of the movie.
BULLET HOLES!
I love the colored glass on this fixture.
And the detail on the central element.
Certainly looks haunted, right?
We of course visited the Goonies house the following morning. You cannot go in, but it's fun to visit such an iconic location from my childhood memories.
A 3-hour drive to Seattle for some more touristing. The Space Needle of Course!
While waiting to go up, there are a couple of scale models showing stages of construction. Appears to be about 1/100 scale judging by the people. Need to get this model into a game somehow.
The views from up top are impressive. The weather was even starting to clear!
The trip was fantastic and aside from wrecking my right knee walking back to the parking garage on Sunday after the Space Needle visit, everything was easy and pleasant. There's a lot to be said for travelling without an agenda.
And awesomely, I had a new pile of minis waiting for me when I got back home. They were ordered just before we left on our trip.
Bolt Action Italians. Huzzah! An opfor for the Canadians for sure. I just couldn't do another German army. I painted a bunch for FOW, pre-blog days, painted plenty of 1/72s and just wanted something different. Canadians and Italians fought plenty in Sicily. The AB41 armored car is a 3d print ordered from XPForge via Etsy. Very nice model.
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