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Let's See How This Blog Thing Goes.

God, how I hate trying  to format this blog. I hate trying to make the image appear behind it, I Loathe attempting to make the text do all the crazy and magical things that I feel like it should. Be...

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An Update, Excuses about Updating, and some Rants

Heyyyyyyy everybody. Not sure if anyone's really reading my blog, at this point. I  have  no 'followers' according to the right hand  column of the blog, but  it's whatever. Only one real post, no...

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HERE IT IS! My company of the Cadian 8th Regiment, the Lord  Castellan's Own! Most of them aren't all that well painted, I have to admit. I've been working on this army for 8 years. EIGHT. haha. Man,...

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Update, no new pics.

Grettings, minions! Or, minion. I have a follower. That's nice, thanks Hilton. It's appreciated. Time for some updates! The only Guard stuff I have left to paint are two autocannons, 10 Ogryn, and...

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We're Knights of the Round Table!

I'm nothing if not a traditionalist. Got my Bretonnian Battalion last thursday. Started assembling it almost  immediately, haha. Somehow the glue I was  using was drying literally half as fast as it...

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Quick Update

It's St. Patrick's Day, or, as I call it, Amateur Day! Seriously. Play some real Irish music, for heaven's sake. Anyways, neither Ria or I have working internet on our laptops. She had to order a new...

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BLACK TEMPLAR

BLACK TEMPLAR! I have some. Have for years. Tried to paint them in the fall of '08, which is when I started them, now that I think about it. I got really frustrated, because 18 year old me had other...

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Blog Update: No pictures, but News and possibly a Rebirth

It's me again, with news and excuses. Summer is here, but somehow we haven't played much 40k at all. A few of us started playing Flames of War, which is a total blast, but in the past few weeks we've...

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A GAME was played!

It turns out, my friend Robert plays some pretty bastardly Grey Knights. Actually, bastardly isn't the right word. Sledgehammerly? Tough as nails? He plays them well, is the point. My other Grey Knight...

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Re-Writing Cityfight

Some members of our group, myself included, are fired up about Cityfight. It looks like fun, and Dragon's Lair in Austin has all kinds of city terrain. However, the 'codex' is rather out of date, and...

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I LIIIIIIIIIIVE!

Although I am sure that many doubted it. I do live! What have I been up to? Oh, y'know. Dark Heresy-ing it up, playing some 40k, working on some 15mm Carthaginians. I don't have many of them, and...

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Games Were Played!

We still exist as a gaming group! Haha. We haven't played 40k nearly as much lately as we used to. I just got an Imperial Sector for my birthday (from the most amazing fiance in the world) and, while I...

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Musings on Flames of War- Really just List Buildling

I've been looking at playing late war Finns for Flames of War. The first list is a fairly straightforward infantry list, and the second is a... well, I decided to build a Finnish Armoured Company,...

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I bought Evan's Imperial Guard stuff from him. My army expands.

I bought my friend Evan's IG collection. It's added almost half again my original numbers. I have taken and posted some pictures. Please enjoy. If a further sense of scale is needed, that's all laid...

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DELAYS! DELAYS AND EXCUSES

Delay, delay delay! That's what my update plans have come to. I've been Planning on updating this blog for more than a week. And I've been "Meaning to" do it for Months. abuh. But then I remember that...

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Guess Who Finally Took Pictures For My Blog? Me it was me I'm updating finally

My entire collection. Hard to get it all in one shot, haha. Another attempt at the whole collection. A group shot from the flank. These are the models that I have fully painted, I mean 100% done....

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More Carthaginians! Hurrah!

I posted some pictures before of the handful of African/Libyan Spearmen I had painted, but then I painted SOME MORE, so now this is a full, fieldable unit. The shields look pretty bad in the closeups,...

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More Carthaginians!

Now with Slingers and Javelinmen! And slightly more Spearmen!

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My Imperial Fist character for Only War

Battle-Brother Markus Cato of the Imperial Fists won great renown during the Khai-Zhan Insurrection. Traitors and cultists on Khai-Zhan, spurred on and aided by the Night Lords traitor legion, rose in...

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Firestorm Armada Battle Report

Some of us San Marcos sci-fi junkies got together to throw some dice around last night. This was our third game, so we're still figuring things out as we go. Example: The realization that all Dindrenzi...

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Risk: Legacy!

 I got Risk: Legacy for Christmas. I'll be straightfoward, this is a whole new ball game. The game is designed to be played 15 times before the board is 'completed.' Each game changes the world. Cities...

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40K Summer Campaign

"The Night of a Thousand Rebellions" swept through the Segmentum Obscurus in a tidal wave of blood. Through chaos meddling and the aid of the traitor legions, hundreds of imperial worlds found...

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Imperial Guard through the ages

With the dawning of a new era for the Hammer of the Emperor, I thought I'd take a look back at the Imperial Guard from their conception, because why not. I'll go ahead and confess right now to not...

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At Long Last, an Update! Necrons and Krauts

Hello, loyal follower...s? I haven't updated in a couple of months, just haven't had much drive until recently. I don't have much word content at the moment, but enjoy some pictures! The Necrons belong...

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Back in the Firestorm Armada mood

A very brief update: I finally settled on a working paint scheme for my RSN ships for Firestorm Armada. The RSN are basically the state security/ waffen SS of the Dindrenzi Federation faction in FSA....

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