Gamecocks win!

The Rose Farm in 10mm

The Rose Farm was the site of some of the bloodiest battles of Gettysburg.  On the second day of the battle, Confederates occupied the farm house and the barn, using them as cover and a field hospital.  The area known as 'The Wheatfield' occupies this property where over 6,000 soldiers were killed or wounded.

This is a 10mm set of buildings from Buildings In Turmoil.  Im not QUITE finished yet (im going to arrange the buildings, add some fencing and some trees, and finally finish it as a piece to use on a 10mm battlefield) but the house and the barn are totally painted and ready to go.

 

 

Cool pic of the house on the left, barn on the right (the barn burned down in 1910)

Painting depicting battle at the Rose Farm

Just another day in Mebane, NC

I took this yesterday.

First of all, to my knowledge, I dont OWN a 'sleepin'

Second of all, this is the reason I believe every one should have a personal defense weapon.  Not only do I not know what 'creepin' is, I want a pistol in my bed stand when this douche bag wants to start creepin around my house in the middle of the night!

If you see this Douche Bag - c'mon in!!!!  Smith, Wesson, and I will be waiting on you!

Dark Lord Of The Sith

My stormtroopers needed someone to lead them against the Jedi!

More tiny ACW

Im back on the 10mm ACW kick (at least until my perceived ADD changes that!).  This is some combined Pendraken and Blaze Away miniatures.

And, for my less scale oriented friends

On a different note, I watched one of my all time favorite movies this weekend....easily top 10, maybe top 5

  

My wife is gonna laugh when/if she sees this!  Ive seen DWW a gazillion times - literally!  I know most of the lines by heart, and Im pretty sure I can speak Lakota Sioux!!!  But, whenever its on, I have to sit down and watch it!  Besides, its a great 'painting' movie!

An entire leeeeeegion of my best troops

Stormtroopers, Bucket heads, Boys in white - many different names for stormtroopers in the Star Wars universe.  I now give you Those Certain Fellows!

Kerbal Space Program

My current 'Game of the Month' is Kerbal Space Program.  This is a game that is basically in beta (maybe even alpha) status, but its been opened up to its users.  Its a fun little game - maybe not everyone's thing - but it has kept my attention for a while.  Geared towards the NASA space heads, you build a rocket with tons of different components, and head out into the Kerbal universe (somewhat modeled after our own solar system).  I highly recommend KSP if you were ever a fan of space flight as a kid, are old enough (and liked) Lunar Lander, or are just in a lull between video games :)

My current goal has been to get a Kerbal (creepy little green guys who pilot these rockets) landed on the Mun.  It has taken me the better part of the month (granted, not being able to play much) to get an intermediate understanding of the physics of space flight (again, modeled on our solar system), sustaining orbits, and initiating transfer orbits to other planets (in this case, the 'Mun' is like our Moon).

Last night, Jebediah Kerbal became the second Kerbal to land and walk on the Mun!  (The first was Bob Kerbal, RIP)

Liftoff of the Pegasus Mk 3 Munar Landing Vehicle!

First two fuel tanks peeled away

Low Kerbal orbit achieved

Transfer burn to the Mun complete, and Mun approach

Successful, if not bumpy, landing!

Mun walk

The 'Sea Of Mebane'!

Sadly, or not, ole Jeb didnt have enough fuel to make the return trip to Kerbal, and is currently stuck on the Mun until the Kerbal Space Program can attempt a rescue and recovery mission (read: until I come up with the time to build a space craft big enough to have a pilot and room to pick Jeb up!).  Not to worry!  Jeb has plenty of food and water!

More M1A2 Abrams pics

I finished up the other two Abrams tanks last night.

The tanks are from Khurasan, and they are great models at any scale, but especially nice at 15mm!  The tank commanders/gunners are from QRF, and are frankly disappointing.  In my opinion, they take away from the awesome work that is the armor.

Next up on the painting table are 15mm T90s and Those Certain Fellows!!

Khurasan M1A2 Abrams

I cant seem to get enough time to complete several projects im working on.  This weekend was no exception, but I DID manage to complete on 15mm Abrams tank from Khurasan.  This is a great little kit, and extremely detailed in 15mm.

Ive got a couple more that Im nearly finished with, and should have those posted up tomorrow.