An experiment in recycling wasted potential
I may not have been doing a lot of blogging, but I have continued painting. I’ll follow up in a later post with the state of my French Foreign Legion project, but I thought I’d use this post as a general catch-up. Last December, I entered the Analog Hobbies Painting Challenge. It’s a friendly competition of …
Read More The Army of Charles the Bold
In lieu of a longer post, I just wanted to get up some pics of the first batch of French Foreign legionaires. This figures are Artizan and like most of their stuff I’ve painted they’re not bad sculpts, but the casting is a bit dodgy. Lost of flashing left, and the faces tend to be …
Read More French Foreign Legion — First Batch
For a while I’ve wanted to paint some French Foreign Legion colonial-period figures and the publication of Sharpe’s Practice 2 a few months ago, got me motivated to start the project. Strictly speaking it’s a black powder rule set, but it looks like it could work for the slightly later era with some minor tweaks. So …
Read More Tuareg Raiding Party
A few weeks ago I was in Pittsburgh (for my Fantasy Football draft, naturally) and had an hour to kill downtown. I was looking for a donut shop, but I found this. I’m not sure I’d ever had a $5 milkshake before, but to the “brain” part of my brain, it didn’t seem like a …
Read More On the Upper Limit of Milkshake Pleasure
