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Barliman wrote:

Well, the icehouse is still holding out against the temperature at the moment, but how much longer it'll last I wouldn't like to guess. The high temperatures are said to be here for another week yet. I hope that prediction is wrong!

Did see that thunder storms are predicted, but we all know how accurate the Met Office is!!!!

It got up to 40c up here in Minnesota. Although better know for our cool and snow, we have quite the seasonal range! Just two months ago, in early May, we had minus 7c and 30 inches of snow over one weekend. It's almost like store bought pizza: out of the freezer and straight into the oven--no Spring for a gentle thawing out!

Dave, I'll join you for that cold drink, today will peak out at about 33c

Very dry here too - hasn't rained for weeks. Temperature is 27° at the moment, and is expected to reach 29° on Thursday. Ridiculous.

Theme for Talking about Weather forecast ... just to make you jealous guys... in our town 25 degrees. Sea temperaturs is 23 degrees. Perfect for swimming.... and for enjoyment after work... So please can I make order for one beer for me dear master innkeeper...and for any of you in the inn in this moment...
just to finish one relatively good day... cheers

For those interested, without Master Barliman's permission, I have refurbished the Pony. Images in the appropriate places (will have to learn to focus the camera a bit better!)

huoommm ... today I finally started to assemble the pieces of that Lorien Boat ... huom ... now I wish I had not bought it ... I saw how a wonderful idea/suggestion can be totally ruined by that etremely bad quality in the casting process ... huom ... I don't know which apprentice butchered the piences into very tiny parts ... the worst quality I ever held in my hands ... this process could be witnessed about a year with some releases, but this one simply is absurd ... rhhhuuOOOmmmm ... or can anybody explain to me why it should be necessary that such a tiny figure as a dwarf needs to be cut into 4 pieces ... not to forget that butchered Aragorn ... GRRRRRhuom ... when a company claims it fulfils highest standards in quality for an extremely expensive price it should be possible to cast a sitting dwarf in two pieces (body + arm with paddle) ... hom ...
I'm glad that I cancelled my autoshipment about a week ago ... rhuom ...
Master Barliman. I now need 5 bowls of that you-know-what ... hom

Oh, the drink is on me!

And by the way Master Barliman I have noticed this "geometric quality" also. Rectangular bows for example!

In and out without a word..... Hmmmm 
Alright then I'll have a drink with Master Barliman!

huoomm .... sorry, Legolas that is, not Aragorn ... hom ... thanks for the drinks, Master Barliman ... very much appreciated ... rhuom ... no, so far I did not complain at the company, as I'm sure it wouldn't change anything ... rrhuoomm ... once I complained about the Snow Troll concerning similar aspects .... hm ... well, Master Edman offered me the next figure-release for free because my criticism he accepted as he seemed to understand my point of view ... rhuommhom ....
still I don't understand why that boat was casted in 15 parts (!!!!!), some of them very tiny ... grruom ... besides, I forgot to mention that there cannot be seen any details at the boat itself, no structure or something like that ... simply plain surface all around ... and just one bench at the front that is a block, not a bench ... homm ...

Well could all this lack of internal detail and so on be as a result of the "printing" process? I don't have the faintest idea how the process functions, but other companies seem to retain detail and still consist of as few pieces as Mithril models used to. So what the heck's going on?

huoommm ... just had the third and last try today to assemble further parts of that boat-thing ... rhuom ... I'm seriously annoyed by now ... ggrrrûhuom ... Ents are patient, you all know, but ... hoom ... to me it needed a hell of a lot of time to try to make those badly fitting parts joining ... grrruom ... er, sorry, as some of you might know I do have some Mithril figures assembled until now, including very many difficult assemblies ... huom ... but yet never came across something like this boat ... hom ...
But to make it clear: I am and was not complaining about the sculpting of the figures ... huomrhuom ... as far as one can guess from shiny unprimed pieces, they seem to be very nice, but former details might now be covered with glue ... even before priming ... then all the rest of details (?) will be gone ... hmmmmm ... tragic development that is to me...huom
HHHHUUUOOMMM ... well, I know, it's me, the tree who`s wrong... as I'm not skilled enough to cope with superglue and metal jigsaw puzzles and priming... hoooommmmm .... sorry, but feel that I had to add this here ... hom

a last bowl of my special choice, please, Master Barliman



er, huom ... any mug left, Master Barliman? Master Hsf62 drank nearly all me bowls this afternoon ... huom

I fully agree with all the written comments about the MZ645... The general figure is very beautiful. But! It is unnecessarily chopped into small pieces. I also had the same problem with sticking parts, especially that one with hands and oar. I hope future figures will be printed in one piece...

It sometimes seems to me that they are still experimenting with producing of those MZ figuree.