Happy 70th Birthday to Timothy Dalton!
BOND IN MOTION & 007 VEHICLES (Miniature collection)
To celebrate the first day of BOND IN MOTION Exhibition in London, here is a small appetizer of our new blog section "007 VEHICLES", which will be released soon!
Happy 70th Birthday to Timothy Dalton!
Happy 70th Birthday to Timothy Dalton!
Leaving on a Jet plane
Its been a busy traveling month for me. These are shots from my last flight back from Sacramento to Denver (the flip side of the gremlin ride out). This past week I was back out on the east coast in Baltimore again. The whole experience has really gotten more worn out and I haven't really found any serious opportunities to paint. This is a bad thing with Reaper Con coming up towards the end of April I really need to buckle down and get my entries started. Right now I have three picked out and we will see how they go. I would like to do a vehicle entry but I don't now if I can pull that off as well. I have plenty of 15mm vehicles around that I could work on but they typically don't do well in painting competitions, at least not something like ReaperCon. I need to see if I have any mechs around that I could paint up or maybe a larger vehicle kit to work on.
Anyway here are the shots coming back from Sacramento to Denver, it was kind of depressing flight.
Anyway here are the shots coming back from Sacramento to Denver, it was kind of depressing flight.
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| A beautiful day in Sacramento |
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| Heading east into the mountains |
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| This is an open pit mining operation. You can see two of the pits which much be huge since we are currently flying at 38,000'. |
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| Crossing some snow capped peaks |
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| And now the clouds of hidden everything, this does not bode well. |
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| Yep, here we are in Denver, getting to the gate while the snow falls. I still have to hike out to my car after this too! |
Cue Twilight Zone Music
I'm back in Sacramento. I flew out on Monday night and I was an early boarder so pretty much could take any seat I wanted (A 02 for you Southwest flyers). So a window seat up front just forward of the engine. At some point I was looking out and I took a shot of the engine out to the tip of the wing as we were cruising along at 38,000 feet. All I could think about at that point was William Shatner and his episode in the Twilight Zone; Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. It was raining as we descended into Sacramento and I kept expecting to see a little gremlin on the wing above the engine. I think I may have been a little tired.
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| Waiting to leave from Denver International Airport |
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| 38,000 feet, clear sky |
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| Descending to Sacramento in the rain, is that a shadow out there? |
Steve Jackson's Ogre - Its all Mine!
Its been a couple of weeks since Genghis Con XXXV now and I have, finally, fully recovered my voice. Between the six hours of auctioning on Friday and getting sick with a cold immediately afterwards while I was in California its been kind of a struggle. Now I have time to really soak in my biggest score during the convention; a copy of the designer's edition of Ogre by Steve Jackson. The original portfolio game was published back in the late 70's and my friends and I played it to death and happily added on GEV when that was released. I have some incredibly fond memories of playing this little pocket game which was easily affordable on my allowance at the time, unlike some of the other games that had my attention like SPI's Atlantic Wall, and War in the Pacific or even the new Squad Leader expansions like Cross of Iron and Crescendo of Doom from AH. While I know that this has been done to death already by other bloggers, here are my box opening pictures. The photo quality leaves a lot to be desired but my focus was on other things.
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| The shipping box, I may still keep this. |
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| Okay, the box is massive and weighs in at a hefty 30#. That's one of my 18" steel rulers across the bottom of the box. |
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| And now the ruler up the side of the box, let's call the whole thing about 22"x20"x8" |
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| The back of the box with the all important read me first label. |
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| The back of the sheet with all the assembly instructions. It clearly states that you should not punch all the counters out, in that way lies madness. Ha, I'm an old school wargamer and I cut my teeth on SPI monster games. There were certainly not enough counters to scare me off. So I spent a very pleasant evening punching out counters and assembling Ogres of various types. |
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| The Ogre Blueprint, very cool, keeping it in the box for now. I may frame this someday. |
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| The four stacks of counter sheets. I don't count them, I just dove in and released the components from their cardboard shackles |
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| The Ogre Garage, where you can store your completed Ogres and other bits |
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| And the boards and I think I kind of stopped taking pictures at this point. What you are seeing in s the back side of the original boards, underneath them is the counter storage tray and the GEV boards. Maybe I'll get some more pictures taken, I think I'm just going to play the game though. |
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