Friday 12 April 2013

Kra Vak APC

I am one of those people who struggle to finish projects. There is always something I can add, alter, re- paint or improve. Today my 15mm Kra Vak from "Ground Zero Games" force nudged along just that little bit further. On the run up to Salute I am not looking to spend any money so I am trying to get a few pieces that have been hanging around finished off.
This Kra Vak Armoured Personnel Carrier uses gavatic power as a means of propulsion (most Kra Vak vehicles on the battle field do), which explains the flying base. It also gives a reason for painting the underside blue!
This vehicle can carry a full squad of the alien race. While not massively armed it does have a small, one "Man", turret with some undetermined armament. I won't go into all the technical stats that are on the GZG web site but needless to say it's fairly well balanced and can hold its own against other human APCs.
As with the few Ground Zero vehicles I have put together there were no instructions, but there are only a limited number of configurations. Which leads to very little head scratching as all the components do fit together quite well and instinctively.  This is where some bright spark tells me I have got it wrong and such a piece is upside down or in the wrong place. If that happens to be the case, so be it and OH Dear never mind!

That's it for today. As despite not looking after my nephew I am STRUGGLING with the N.H.S. E-Learning. So far despite numerous attempts and several e mails and phone calls I have failed to log into the web address I have been given. I know I am not alone as the local NHS trust is doing a "drop in E Learning Clinic" on Tuesday because out of 3500+ employees only 200 have managed to complete the training. Utterly Ridiculous!

Anyway have a good weekend and I'll probably blog again on Sunday, Well that's the plan..... now back to banging my head against the keyboard and swearing at the E Learning protocols.

Best Wishes Clint

12 comments:

  1. Nothing wrong with a little swearing mate!

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    1. BLEEPING well no-Bleeping-thing Bleeping wrong with a Bleeping little Bleeping swear-bleeping-ing!

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  2. Nice troops ol' boy, I do love a bit of E learning...he he he!

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    1. Well feel free to do my E learning for me. It's on "Information Governance!".

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  3. For some reason I'd read the Title as Krak Vak and assumed it was about some cleaning device, but it turned out to be quite a beautiful model, sighs of relief followed.

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    1. I have just had to check the title now! Phew! No cleaning devices on this blog today. A "near miss"! Beautiful well I don't know about that, but GZG do some good stuff!

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  4. Very nice job Clint, I'm trying to clear off my own stuff in anticipation of the KS arriving in June. E Learning sucks I have to do it all the time working IT new products get released and require a online exam so that you can officially take them apart and put them back together again!

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    1. Yes E Learning does suck! I would not mind doing it IF I could log on! They have given me 3 different Login IDs and 3 different passwords in the last 2 days and I still can't get in. Still weekend off so I can put that aside for now.

      Glad you are getting ready for the KS stuff. Should be good when it comes.

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  5. Great job Clint, love the blues and purples.

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  6. I still don't have 15mm scifi yet, but I'm still looking! Those look really nice!
    I've been in the E- training at work and now the Army has moved into it as well.
    I have more password and user names than I can keep track of, not to mention each course has a different list of browser or software requirements....I seem to remember being told in the 80's that computers would help make work easier. ;)

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    1. I seem to remember being promised that we would evolve into a "Paperless office" and yet we have more hard copies of things than ever before. It's so much easier to send copies of things to everyone now and they print it off and file it. All I'll say about passwords is that passwords and dyslexia just don't gel together! Still enough about work whinges!

      You can't have every thing and when you are ready I am sure you'll get some 15mm Sci Fi. Personally I like it, but others prefer their figures larger!

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