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I was asked in the comments section of one of my posts if I had seen the Burn In Design western buildings. I actually have several of these buildings, most of which I haven't completed. While they are still a quality product they just don't fit in with the buildings from other manufacturers. In fact I don't think they are designed for our 28mm miniatures. I half believe that these are actually 1/48th scale or pretty close to it. I didn't even finish the simplest of the buildings that I bought.

These are still quality laser cut products so if they will work for your gaming needs then I would recommend them in that respect. They just don't work for me. They also hit me in one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to laser cut buildings, no instructions. Now the little saloon should have been a snap to put together even without instructions but I still couldn't quite figure out how everything was suppose to go together and I gave up in complete frustration with one of the two story buildings. Now I fully admit that my patience level was probably not set to its usual level since I already knew that I wouldn't be able to use these.

If you think this will work for you here is the link, they also make several other ranges of buildings that look pretty cool for more modern and science fiction buildings. Burn in Designs

I snapped a few pictures with my favorite female huckster from Reaper Miniatures as well as one of my mounted Norman knights that I need to repaint.

Female Huckster, Savage Worlds Line, Reaper Miniatures

The Adobe Saloon from Burn in Designs

Mounted Norman Knight, Gripping Beast

Last Thursday, the day after the rains started (beautiful today though) my younger son was in a bit of a fender bender. Fortunately he is fine, sore, but fine and he wasn't at fault either. Remember, turning traffic never has the right away unless its a green arrow! The gentleman that hit Alex had his vision obscured by a car in the other turn lane, Alex was going straight through on the green. Based on the extent of the damage I don't think he even slowed down when he started the turn into Alex's lane.

Alex's car, the good side. The front bumper is in the backseat

The not so good side

And the driver's door still won't open

The bad car

I think this one is even more heavily damaged, definitely not a 15 mph collision,

I believe many of you know that I live in Colorado. I have been relatively unaffected by the rains that have been falling pretty steadily for the past five days. I have kept a close eye on my family that live here as well as we have been quite fortunate to escape major damage at this point. I came across a gallery of images though that show just how damaging this series of storms has been to the area.

Colorado Flash Floods

I have been looking for some replacements for my corner clamps. They are old, and a little awkward to use. I needed something that would clamp together and still let me add glue easily to the joint. Well I found a couple of possible replacements on my favorite tool site; Micro Mark.

I don't really have anything to use them on at the moment so I grabbed a plastic kit just to see how I might be able to use them. I'm curious to find out how thick a piece the magnet Rite Way clamps can handle in reality. I didn't have a problem with the thin plastic of the kit, hopefully they will work just as well through mdf and plywood. The big right combo clamp should come in handy for those thicker pieces. I'll need to get another one when I get another paycheck under my belt, yea these were that expensive.