Something for the Weekend: Molly Peters 1942-2017

I have done a post on the Thunderball actress Molly Peters who died this week.  It is on my adults only Legatus' Wargames Ladies blog here.

Something for (what's left of) the weekend: Eurovision babes.

My eagerly awaited analysis of some of the key Eurovision babes is here, on my Legatus' Wargames Ladies blog.  No painting this weekend due to jobs and work (and writing about Eurovision babes), sadly. although I did base half a dozen Perry Afghans.

Something for the Weekend: Saucy Pulp covers by Norman Saunders

Some saucy pulp covers for the weekend over on my adults only Legatus' Wargames Ladies blog.  They aren't really adults only (I would have loved them when I was eleven years old!) but that is how we have to classify them for repressed, puritan Blogger!  

Something for the weekend...things I haven't done

Never been to a cricket match, either

I was pondering writing a post on things I haven't done, given my friend's incredulity that I hadn't been to a rugby game and only one football match.  I started thinking about other things I hadn't done which most of my friends have, when I went out to dinner with another friend on Tuesday. I hadn't really thought about it before but he thought some of my omissions were odd too.

In parallel with this, I was thinking I needed to post some more objectified ladies on my Legatus' Wargames Ladies blog, as I do enjoy an objectified lady. Speaking to my freind A, this afternoon, she suggested I combine the two with a post on things I haven't done, illustrated with pictures of underdressed ladies.  Brilliant!  So it is here! Naked ladies, of course.

Something for the Weekend: Saucy pictures by Angus McBride from Mayfair

Just before he started producing the first of his marvellous illustrations for Osprey in 1975, Angus McBride produced a number of illustrations, cartoons and a comic strip for Mayfair magazine.  You can see these very politically incorrect works on our adults only Legatus' Wargames Ladies blog here.

Something for the Weekend: Saucy figures from Greenwood & Ball

An old Mayfair article on Cliff Sanderson sculpted ladies in 54mm and 80mm on my Legatus' Wargames Ladies blog.

Something for the Weekend: Happy Hallowe'en

More about our pin-up witch on my Legatus Wargames Ladies blog here.

Something for the Weekend: Beaujolais Nouveau featuring Holly Madison

I picked up a bottle of Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau yesterday, which I had hadn't done for about twenty years.  You can read about it on the Legatus' Food and Wine blog and see Miss Madison treading grapes and having a shower with her friends on my Wargames Ladies blog.

Something for the Weekend: Pirate women by Norman Lindsay

We haven't had something for the weekend for a while but given that I have just signed up for the North Star pirates pre-order I thought I would post these sensuous pirate pictures by Australian painter Norman Lindsay.

They are on my "adults only" Legatus Wargames Ladies blog here.  It's not really an adults only subject, of course, and the Legatus does not think that naked bodies are rude but some people (including a lot of Americans) do, so we have to be careful our blog isn't deemed objectionable by the puritans at Blogger and are required to flag it as adults only.  I like Americans and travel to their country reasonably regularly but they do have a much less relaxed attitude to nudity than Europeans, which I find rather odd.  As a pertinent example, in 1940, Lindsay's wife took 16 crates of his work out of Australia as they were worried about a potential Japanese invasion.  They were on a train in the US on which there was a fire.  The crates were hastily evacuated and the contents, as a result, were discovered by American officials who promptly destroyed the whole lot as "pornography".   The word Philistines does not even come close.

Something for the Weekend: from La Vie Parisienne

Who says that wargamers don't get the girl?  Well, this young lady doesn't seem to mind that her friend has a table full of toy soldiers but then again he is in uniform, which many women seem to find irresistible.  The Legatus' mother wanted him to join the Royal Navy, largely because of the uniform, but fortunately I did an aptitude test during school careers week.  It showed I was completely unsuited to an armed forces career on account of the fact that I was incapable of taking orders.

This being a 1915 illustration from saucy French magazine, La Vie Parisienne, which often got its illustrators to produce pictures of its pin up girls in appropriately morale raising ways, the German soldier is surrendering to his French adversary.

This picture is by Georges Léonnec (1881-1940).  The son of a cartoonist he was already doing newspaper illustrations by the age of twelve.  He began his long association with La Vie Parisienne in 1907.  Called up into the French army in 1914 his job in ancilliary services in Brest was far from the front line and enabled him to continue his illustration work; the effects of which on troop morale were no doubt more worthwhile than service as a poilu.

Something for the weekend: Kendo girl

For those of you working on figures for Ronin here is a young lady to serve as inspiration...  She is on my adults only Wargames Ladies blog here.  Nice katana.

Something for the weekend: Caroline Munro

Sinbadalicious!

Here, particularly for The Angry Lurker, is Miss Caroline Munro on our Legatus' Wargames Ladies blog.

Have a nice weekend!  The Legatus is off to Edinburgh to deposit the Space Cadet at the university for five years of astrophysics.  How we pack all the shoes she wants to take is proving to be something of a puzzle, however.