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Corvus Belli Infinity Combined Army Charontid

Corvus Belli Infinity Combined Army Malignos

Corvus Belli Infinity Combined Army Morat Vanguard

Darkson Designs AE-WWII American Buffalo Power Armor

Darkson Designs AE-WWII American NCO

Darkson Designs AE-WWII American Rocket Trooper

3/31/08 - For anyone waiting for my S.C.A.H.M.S. California Show coverage I am afraid I must report there will be no photo report this year. Just as I was leaving for the show I had a minor family emergency and unable to attend. I've broken my streak of nearly a decade of coverage. Sorry.

3/12/08 - A new gallery has been added to The Ward for Darkson Designs game AE-WWII. Also the Corvus Belli section has been exampled to include my Infinity Combined Army.

1/18/08 - I got off my duff and wrote a new article. Check out the latest addition to The Eldar Project, The Fire Prism.

8/2907 - What? You want MORE IPMS show coverage? Well then check out another 900+ photos on the KitMaker Network. You need to register to view them, though.

8/26/07 - The I.P.M.S. Nation Convention and Dragon Expo 2007 is over and I got over 800 (Eight freakin' Hundred!) photos. I have never seen so much plastic in one room. I was there for two days and I still didn't see the entire exhibition hall. I missed all the automobiles and most of the plane kits, but I got photos of figures, dioramas, armor, ships, anime, Gundam, fantasy, space, sci-fi and paper models.

Check out all the photos here. I had to ditch the Kublacon 2006 coverage to make a little room, but it hardly made a dent and I've likely overloaded my server. Since no one else wanted to host the photos I may have remove them after a few days. Enjoy them while you can!

8/1307 - I've mentioned it before, but I have a new found love for plastic model kits. In the past I never really got into plastic modeling, but now that I have a really nice display cabinet, I need big models to fill it. I started with some 1/72nd Dragon armor. The quality of the kits is outstanding.. with the exception of a Russian T34 that I almost tossed in the trash after getting to "step 3". That hiccup got me to try 1/48th scale and I am currently working on a Hobby Boss T-34 and a Tamiya M10. I've also started working with large amounts of photo etching. I think I'm going blind staring at those teeny tiny pieces. I've already sacrificed 3 bits to the carpet gods.

In two weeks I will be going to the International Plastic Modelers Society (I.P.M.S. bad abbreviation, I know) national convention in Anaheim California. This particular convention travels around the nation and I think it hasn't been in So Cal in like 20 years. I am super excited that I get to attend just as I'm getting into the plastic scene. The cherry on top is that Dragon Expo, another plastic modeler's convention, is taking place next to I.P.M.S. on the same weekend! Dual-convention glee!

I am planning on spend at least two days at both conventions, taking a ton of photos throughout the day. They will be posted here, but I am looking for some cross promotion. My non-miniature gaming convention coverage tends to get largely ignored. For example, I really enjoy photographing SCAHMS every year, but I get disappointed so few people enjoy it. This time I am looking for a co-host. If you have, or know of, a popular plastic modeling site that would enjoy hosting a massive amount of photos from the I.P.M.S. convention and Dragon Expo, please drop me a line.

On a related note, several of the Guests of Honor at both conventions will be holding an autograph session at Brookhurst Hobbies on Wednesday, August 22nd from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. There are too many to list here, but they are all artists, authors and modelers that have worked with Osprey and Dragon. Plus there will be raffle prizes!

3/22/07 - It's that time of year again! Another SCAHMS California Show has past, and once I got the snaps of all the magnificent miniatures. The lighting at the show still sucks, but I went with a new camera this year and the results were not too shabby. Enjoy!

3/05/07 - I'm still here! I have been taking a long break from painting hence the lack of updates. As summer rolls around I get more free time so you'll see more updates soon. Right now I have been just grinding out Battlefront tanks. Lots of repetitive work and not real update-worthy material.

My main reason for posting is to let you all know the site is not going away. Our server is having problems for the past several days and the site has been more often down than up. Also my email is kaput. I am told that everything will be fixed..., uh..., yesterday.

10/24/06 - Quick Battlefront gallery update. I have been building some Dragon 1/72th scale plastic tanks recently and I've come completely addicted. I never liked building 1/35th scale tanks because they were too large, and most smaller scale plastic tanks I've bought were uber cheap, quality-wise. However Dragon's new "Pro" series are incredible. The Sherman tank to the left is a little over 3 inches long and is made of more than 100 teeny tiny pieces! Glee!

8/15/06 - Today we have not one, but TWO new articles! First off, read up on how to Paint a 15mm M5A1 Stuart Tank. Next, learn how to get the waterslide transfers onto that tank, or any other model, with Applying Decals and Waterslide Transfers.

8/09/06 - Remember the Golden Toadstools? Good! The GTs used to be co-hosted between The Painting Clinic and Electric Ocean, with discussions taking place on Yahoo! Groups. Unfortunately, I had to bail out of the co-op after I redesigned my site. In addition, the GTs have gone under a slight revamp.  Electric Ocean is still the place to enter, but now discussion takes place in the Fungal Forum at coolminiornot.com. Check them out!

I am still working at updating the Referrals. While checking out sites to add, I have found myself spending an extensive amount of time at the Kit Builder Network. There is an incredible amount of painting advice to be found on the five major partners, not to mention the other 1200 member sites!

8/08/06 - Lots more miniatures now available on eBay!

8/01/06 - I have begun a new article called The Eyriss Project in The Lab. It is my quest to build a  better Eyriss for Warmachine. I will be updating as necessary with my progress. However, I am currently working on a few other items, so do not expect much right away.

7/30/06 - At this very moment I am trying to update the Referrals section (only two people emailed with links, grrrrr) while watching "So You Want to Be a Superhero" on the Sci-fi channel. It is very difficult to work while one is laughing hysterically and rolling on the floor. Check it out. Fat Mama with her belt-o-donuts. Now that's a hero!

7/20/06 - I think it's about time I update the Referrals section. I know there are a bunch of helpful painting sites out there that I do not have listed. However I decided to take a lazy route and let you guys do the update. If there are any painting sites out there and you visit regularly or have helped your l33t painting skillz, send me some mail with the link.

Please note the purpose of the Referrals section is to help fellow painters, not pimp merchandise, painting services, or provide free advertising so you can make a buck. You can promote your painting services by joining my webring, instead. I may make exceptions for painting services that also have a decent amount of self-help advice.

Get to work!

7/05/06 - It's figure cabinet clearance days! Check eBay for lots of painted goodies up for sale.

7/02/06 - Holy. Freakin'. Crap. Dragonlance movie in the works.

6/30/06 - To make up for the lack of updates I have uploaded a few photos from last month's Kublacon in Northern California. The photos mostly feature a 8,000 point Warmachine game and the painting contest. If you look carefully you will also find an unannounced, secret, here-is-your-first-chance-to-see-it, Crocodile Games Wargods "miniature". Remember, you DIDN'T see it here first. GOT IT?!

UPDATE: Wayne Rogers has more excellent photos from the Kublacon painting competition.

6/15/06 - There are a bunch of new and improved photos in the Battlefront section of The Ward. I've had an American tank force for over a year, but just recently started playing Flame of War. I'm enjoying it and I am quickly building up a larger, more diverse army. The game is a good balance between historical accuracy and just plain fun. On Sunday, June 18th Brookhurst Hobbies will be holding a World War II day, with all sorts of WW2 games. Hopefully I can get a few pick-up games. Stop on by and whoop my ass.

6/09/06 - The entire site should now be back up. I thought I was going to go need to remove a bunch of convention photos to save on web space, but it turns out that was not the case. I discovered the gallery generator I was using was taking up a huge amount of space. It was more than twice the size of the new gallery, with the same number of photos. Personally, I do not like the format of the new gallery, but with over 10,000 photos on the site, my options are limited.

Oh, and most importantly, the Firefox problem has been fixed.

6/04/06 - Over the next week I will be bringing down The Ward and Reports galleries and replacing them with a format that is easier to update. Also, web space has become an issue recently, so I will also be eliminating some galleries from the Reports section. Likely this will be the Games Workshop Grand Tournaments and Gen Con reports. Enjoy them while you can. I will also try to fix the Firefox problem at the same time.

5/25/06 - At the last moment I decided to take a trip up to San Francisco for the Kublacon convention. This will be my first non-working convention in a long time. Normally at cons I am selling stuff at a booth or painting miniatures under bad, flickering florescent lighting while giving painting demos and/or advice. Having a chance to actually play and have fun at a convention without any responsibilities will take some getting use to.

If all goes well I hope to get a bunch of people drunk so we can go to San Jose and beat up the nerds at the Anime convention. It will be an Anime Dweebs vs. Gaming Dorks rumble! Eat power fist, Inuyasha!

5/16/06 - Tuesday night is the season finale of Boston Legal. I have never watched the show, but I was at the filming of the episode. I have been on the set of several TV and film shoots, and I always end up thinking the same thing. I am in the wrong line of work. To be fair I am sure the work is a lot harder than it appears, but when you watch people standing around for 40 minutes to shoot for 10 minutes before taking another 40 minutes break, you start to question the whole "nose-grindstone" work concept which applies to most of us office-type workers. I watched some guy standing around holding a fake boom mic for a fake news report, which was taking part in the background of a shot. With all the union regulations, I bet he was getting paid the same as the guy holding the real boom mic. Another guy's job was to sit in the news van. That's it. Just sit there. It must of been a fascinating job interview. "Well, you can stand pretty well, but what are your qualifications in sitting?" That's showbiz.

Saw Bill Shatner. Damn, he's old. I can't believe he used to have sex with green women.

Archived News

3/12/08 - The Ward: Corvus Belli

3/12/08 - The Ward: Darkson Designs

1/18/08 - Operations: The Eldar Project Fire Prism

8/26/07 - Reports: I.P.M.S. & Dragon Expo 2007

8/09/07 - The Ward: Odds & Ends

8/09/07 - The Ward: Warmachine Khador

7/28/07 - The Ward: Warmachine Khador

7/28/07 - The Ward: Warmachine Others

7/28/07 - The Ward: Odds & Ends

7/21/07 - The Ward: Warmachine Khador

7/21/07 - The Ward: Battlefront

10/24/06 - The Ward: Battlefront

8/16/06 - Applying decals and Waterslide Transfers

8/16/06 - Painting a 15mm Stuart Tank

8/01/06 - The Lab: The Eyriss Project

7/01/06 - Reports: Kublacon 2006

6/15/06 - The Ward: Battlefront Americans

6/15/06 - The Ward: Hordes Circle

6/15/06 - The Ward: Warmachine Khador

5/11/06- The Ward: Warmachine Khador

5/11/06 - The Ward: Hordes Circle

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