Sucks to be a Clemson fan.

One of these kids doesnt belong here.  HAH!  Look at his buddy to the left.

Some more SWTOR pictures

Got a few more pics from SWTOR from this weekend's beta test

First off, a couple from the Imperial Fleet

Huttball - totally awesome.  A game where you try to get the ball past the goal line.

The arrival/departure gate on Dromund Kaas.  You can see my companion, Kaliyo Djannis, to the left.

I think I still have a few more pics.  Ill try to get them up tomorrow.

More zombies, and The Walking Dead

Holy shit!  Did you see TWD last night?  A great way to end the mid season finale (WTF is a mid season finale????)

Some zombies I completed over the holiday - I think they are Victory Force miniatures?

Manchester City Football Club

Ive been a closet soccer fan most of my life, but over the past few years, ive really loved watching the Premier League in England.  At the time, I picked a team that was good, but not the best, and that was Manchester City.  The more I watched them, the more I started to love them - especially Carlos Tevez (now, come to find out he is a whiny asshole).  Now, im more of a David Silva fan - he is my type of player - always looking to pass, flashy, but no too much so, and appears to be a good team player

But anyway, in tribute of my "fandom", I have painted a starting 11 - 25mm from Eureka Miniatures

Goalkeeper Joe Hart

Defensemen Micah Richards, Vincent Kompany, Joleon Lescott, Alexander Kolarov

Midfielders Samir Nasri, Yaya Toure, Gareth Barry (the hair on GB is a little crazy!), David Silva

Forwards Edin Dzeko, Kun Aquero

Gore-Rot

Im going to enter a contest on the Miniature Heroes website.  The rules are one Reaper Miniature of any kind, and specifically, 'Gore-Rot' from Mannequin Miniatures.  I have several Reaper Minis painted already, including Superman that I did a few weeks back, but I think Im gonna go with the barbarian I painted a few months ago.

Here is Gore-Rot - finished him up yesterday.  He turned out REALLY well, but the pics dont really do him justice.  My mom is coming up for Thanksgiving, and Im gonna see if she can get better pics.

 

and, the barbarian - guess I have to go look him up to see what his name is before I enter him.  Hehehe I said 'enter him'

Holy shit, I cant wait for SWTOR

Future sniper

A random pic for the day

Some pics from the SW TOR beta

Got a chance to play in the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta this weekend.  While, what Im about to post is technically breaking the beta agreement, I dont think its anything too 'spoiling'.

Any of you interested?  Its a great game - very much WoW in the Star Wars universe in my opinion, but I thought WoW was great too until I lost interest - not to mention the last I heard, there were well over 6 million paying customers.  Hard to beat that right?

Anyway, the game is playing great right now (due out Dec 20th here in the States).  I had a few minor crashes to desktop, and minor lag in a few places, but my laptop is older (5 or 6 years?) and it ran the game fine (I did have to turn the graphics settings down a bit, but not too much).  It could easily be released today, and it would be fine.

I was pressing Prt Scrn like crazy (most games have a screenshot folder), but sadly, much to my chagrin, that isnt implemented yet.  These are just a few that I manged to put in MS Paint and save.

Without further ado:
I played as Raptoria, the Twilek Sith Inquisitor, and quit when I got my lightsaber around level 10.  She seemed pretty gimp as far as damage goes, and she had no healing powers yet.  Cool class though - a Sith Sorcerer, one of the advanced classes of the Inquisitor would be Darth Sidious.

Next up was Kale, the Zabrak Imperial Agent.  The IA brings some pretty heavy firepower.   I was easily finishing off groups of mobs that were at my level, taking very little damage (with one shot, maybe 2).  The IA also brings darts, grenades, and the technological might of the Empire.

Nemro the Hutt's cantina

I had originally planned on playing this game as a Bounty Hunter (who wouldnt want to pretend to be Boba Fett????) but after my time with the IA, im not sure thats the way its gonna go.  Ill be playing in the next round of beta testing - ill have to give the BH a go then.

Fall in North Carolina

The winters here are cold and icy, and the summers are hot as Hell, but in my opinion, the spring and fall here (although short!) are some of the prettiest in the US.

Here are a couple pics from my front yard this morning as I was taking out the trash

October 2011 Totals

I cant believe October is done so quickly.  Seems like just yesterday I was making a post about September.  This month was a good one as far as painting little men goes.  Did some more 2009 US Marines, some WW2 Paratroopers, 5 superheros and finally, a couple casualties.  Also finished the big ass game board for Takur Ghar.  Overall, this has probably been my most productive month EVER for painting the little guys!

Jesus H - I spent more money this month.  If my wife is reading this, sorry honey :)  Hah!  No im not!  I spent 25 bucks on Reaper 'super heroes' and another 10 or so on several heroclix figures that I intend to repaint.

Completed, for October, 2011:

20mm infantry completed: 24
10 US Marines (Elhiem Miniatures)
12 US Paratroopers WW2 (SHQ Miniatures)
2 US Casualties (Wartime Miniatures)

28mm infantry completed: 5
4 'super heroes' (Reaper Miniatures)
1 Heroclix Repaint (Hero Clix) 

AND, 1 TERRAIN GAME BOARD!!!!

In progress, October/November, 2011:
20mm Infantry in progress: 8
8 US DEVGRU (Elhiem Miniatures)

As I said, great month for me painting miniatures.  I managed to paint something nearly every day.  Im working on some DEVGRU, but Im waiting for some paint from Caliver Books (which normally takes FOREVER).  Hopefully, that stuff will come soon.

Next up after that, I dont know - I have some 20mm zombies and police from Elhiem that look really good;  some 25mm soccer teams from Eureka that ive been wanting to try my hand at; and also some 28mm Macedonians from Sgt Major Miniatures.  Not to mention a million 20mm figures....

Yearly Completed Totals:

25-28mm infantry completed: 49
25-28mm cavalry completed: 3
20mm infantry completed: 135
15mm infantry completed: 33
15mm armor completed: 1
1/1200 naval vessel completed: 1
1/72 armor completed: 11 
1/72 aircraft completed: 1
Turtle Tank completed: 1
1/285 armor completed: 5 
Buildings completed: 1 
Gameboard completed: 1

Purchases in October, 2011:

Super Heroes (Reaper Miniatures and Heroclix) - ~$35

Total Purchases, 2011

~$1452

Damn, im creepy :)

One more pic from Halloween