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[mikailborg]

There is a pipe-and-drum corps outside my window playing "Scotland the Brave". They're pretty good, too! That's a kind of music which is 100x better live. Some of the lady pipers are only slightly bigger than their instruments. Again today, it's sunny and warm and a perfect day for this... makes it hard to go back inside and do work. (So I'm blogging about it instead.)

I'm unavoidably reminded of the Northwind Highlanders from the Battletech universe. They had a habit of advancing on an enemy while playing bagpipe music over the external audio of their tartan-enameled mechs, and marching the 20- to 100-ton machines in lockstep to the drumbeat. Many an opponent quailed and ran away when faced with this :)

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[rattrap.livejournal.com]

Many an opponent quailed and ran away when faced with this

As well they should!

(Says the Highlanders player who continues his quest for a "Caber".)

[jdunson.livejournal.com]

One of these days, I'm going to complete (by which I mean "start") my Ogre Mk. V "Regimental Musician" conversion, in which the back missile tube / VLS deck is edited to become an atomic-powered BPC pipe organ. It then gets painted in the "Vatican Guard" colors (royal purple with gold accents, basically).

1812 Overture as a solo piece, anyone? Outdoor venue recommended... :)

(This sprung from a conversation I was in some time ago, in which we were discussing that certain miniatures companies, particularly the British ones it seems, end up having some sort of unit musician special figure available for just about every sort of figures they have, even when it's a real stretch to come up with a logical one. Later, I happened to be looking at a Mk. V mini, and it struck me that all those tubes on the back could be something other than missiles...)