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For me the prepping process of getting miniatures ready to paint can really be a drag especially for an army. I was hoping to have all the Bicorne Miniatures Cavalry ready to prime by today. That is not going to happen, between working late every night this week and discovering that the previous owner must have used a bottle of glue on each one he assembled progress has been slow. Not being able to get the riders off...

Way back in my posts is one about games that define us, included in my list was Traveller (now referred to as Classic Traveller) published by GDW. I haven't paid much attention to the Kickstarter projects out there but I stumbled on a Traveller 5th edition project by Marc Miller (the original creator). I'm pretty stoked about this one so I'm going to through into support my first Kickstarter project and get my hands...

I have been going through these miniatures this weekend and picking out which units I would like to have ready for the army painting competition at the convention. I was sorting through the cavalry first. There is a ton of Wargames Foundry Cavalry in here and its significantly smaller than the Bicorne Cavalry. In addition at least half the horses are missing for the WF Cav. Which is a shame, I'll have to see if they...

The Thirty Years War is a period that I have always wanted to do and a year or so ago I picked up the FOG rules and Warlords plastic stuff. I got a lot of that together and just decided that I didn't like the looks of the plastic and they weren't much fun to paint so they fell to the wayside. Over the last two nights I have picked up a couple of collections of ECW/TYW miniatures, mostly Bicorne and Wargames Foundry...

I don't want to make this a news channel by any means but I would like to emphasis that fact the Colorado is facing a tough dry summer. The High Park Fire is at almost 60,000 acres and has destroyed 189 structures making it the most destructive fire in Colorado history. The biggest fire destroyed some where in the vicinity of 139,000 acres but did not approach the structure count that High Park has. I found a very good...

Yes, its seems like an odd kind of festival but, of course, its not what you think it is either. Hobby #2 as stated in the Blog title is railroads, but I can get much more specific about it than that. I'm currently modeling a small area of Los Angeles known as the warehouse district by the locals but as the Patch by the crews that worked it. That's my  modern day (relatively anyway) model railroading. My first...

I have managed to catch up couple of more BNSF coal trains heading south (full) and north (empty) coming through Denver near Broadway.BNSF 9377 (SD70ACe) and BNSF 6243 (ES44AC) heading a northbound coal train BNSF 9924 SD70MAC BNSF 6223 (ES44AC) and BSNF 6075 (ES44AC) pushing a southbound coal train BNSF 6075 ES44AC BNSF 6117 ES44AC BNSF 6430 ES44AC BNSF 6223 ES44AC BNSF 5927 ES44AC BNSF...

I have finally got started on the first of my Rohan warbands. I admit that I have lost a little steam because the tournament I was looking forward to playing in has been cancelled. The organizer had to move to Grand Junction for a job. So I'm through the faces, hair, helms and a start on the armor. So here are the first results (not very impressive, I might go back and rework a few things...