31 August 2009

Real Life and searching TMP in Firefox

It has been a short while since I added anything here due to real life getting in the way of the hobby.  Between holidays and my daughter passing her exams and getting a place at Bradford University I’ve had no real time for any hobbies other than spending a little time on TMP between tasks…

One thing I have done though is move over to Firefox from IE 8 (too many crashes) and created a search via Google for TMP.  To use this just copy the text into a file called TMP.XML in the C:\program files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins folder and restart Firefox.  You will now have a search option for the TMP site.

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>TMP</ShortName>
<Description>The Miniatures Page</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
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<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&amp;client=firefox&amp;hl={moz:locale}&amp;q={searchTerms}"/>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
  <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms} site:theminiaturespage.com"/>
  <Param name="ie" value="utf-8"/>
  <Param name="oe" value="utf-8"/>
  <Param name="aq" value="t"/>
  <!-- Dynamic parameters -->
  <Param name="rls" value="{moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}"/>
  <MozParam name="client" condition="defaultEngine" trueValue="firefox-a" falseValue="firefox"/>
</Url>
<SearchForm>http://www.google.com/firefox</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>

First FlockI do have one quick photo – I have managed to get the first part of the Battlesuit board flocked ready to have bushes and trees added.  The dual flock matches better in real life than under the harsh light here and I am really pleased with the terrace – the steps are visible but subdued so they do not look too artificial!

Also shown here are two 6mm ruins from SPC in Newcastle via eBay.  The ruins are a little old for the future games but will fit fine once cleaned and painted.  The larger of the two arrived broken – the brown resin does seem fragile but a quick glue will fix this fine.

ASPC Ruins closer view is here but due to the brown resin very little can be seen at this time – once painted though these two will show the fine details they have.

Next up will be the Woodland scenic trees and bushes for the base.

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