What's new on the Peter Pig website

[Colonel Kilgore]

More MexRev figures + a new Russian WW2 MMG & crew + a special collectable figure!

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

Since there's no "official" picture on the PP website yet, I've posted one of each of the sculpts of the lovely new German Para command pack into the Forum News banner.

These are all very nice and full of character, but I particularly like the chap checking his watch as he gets ready to fire a Very pistol. Another unique new pose for PP?

Simon

[Stewart 46A]

Thanks Simon


Stewart

[martin goddard]

That looks great Simon.
You have the job.


martin

[Leslie BT]

The picture looks great.

[Colonel Kilgore]

The picture looks great.

Thanks Les. The models are great!

I was (not very subtly, I accept) hoping that Marin might be persuaded to photograph his models henceforth with a dark wash, rather than a grey undercoat. The wash brings out so much more of the lovely sculpted detail, I feel.

I will now get back into my bunker and await the fallout...

Simon

[Leslie BT]

Simon in times past, if I remember correctly that was how Martin used to prepare his figures for their presentation to the World.

[Colonel Kilgore]

That's good to know, Les. Maybe Martin can chime in here and explain the change of approach? I love the way that a simple ink job brings out so much detail on PP sculpts - both on painted figures and raw castings.

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

Today's novelty seems to be a bunch of stuff missing!

Someone has kidnapped all of the German paras and a bunch of the Early War Germans too - all I can see are yellow boxes with no text, figures or cart buttons.

Hopefully these figures will be liberated soon.

Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

Glad to see that the hostages have been returned and normal service has been resumed.

Simon

[martin goddard]

I had not seen that.
Thanks for letting me know.
The problem is that the software is creaking a lot.

It is easy to set up website using Wordpress et al but then they have the website and charge me each month for the privilege.

It seems that software developers are not that interested in making nice easy web programs.
The ones that  can buy are either very limited (no tables) or very expensive on a subscription basis.

Wordpress seems a very popular solution, but that would be £36 a month for ever.



martin

[Administrator]

Wordpress seems a very popular solution, but that would be £36 a month for ever

Thats not quite correct. You can install WP yourself on your server - its pretty robust and costs nothing. You just integrate with something like Woocommerce and bob is your proverbial uncle.

You must have a ISP through which your domain is registered. Quite often they have GUI tools to install it with a click of a button. I know I can install WP and SMF (along with 100's of web applications) really simply

thanks
Simon

[Colonel Kilgore]

Wordpress seems a very popular solution, but that would be £36 a month for ever

I know I can install WP and SMF (along with 100's of web applications) really simply

I think you might just have got yourself a job there, Simon 

Simon

[martin goddard]

Does that mean I can have a wordpress site at no more cost than my present site Simon?
That would be good.


martin

[Big Mike]

Martin,
I have been involved in running our Church website and we use Wordpress. We had used the free option until we realised that the advertising that you have to accept is not always appropriate. Scantily clad ladies and dubious get-rich-quick schemes appeared at random and so now we pay £36 with no unsolicited advertising.
Mike