Old West number 8. Dark brown!

Another 'western' color...

This guy sort of looks like a 'Pinkerton'

More Western

Still working down my western 'pile'....

Im gonna be a cowboy, baby

Another old west fig

Got nothin' else in the pipe for a while.  Might be a bit before another blog post!

Tiny T90s

Finished these up over the weekend for the 'Armor' Group Build over at 'The Guild' link

The lighting from my camera setup has sort of washed out the greens and you can barely even see the black (part of the camo!), but its ok.  They look pretty cool in person.

T90s from GHQ

Vipers and Raiders. Oh my!

Finished my BSG menagerie.

Viper MKVII.  In the new series Galactica had about half of these, and half of the MKII (that I posted last week).  Pegasus only had the MKVIIs.

Next up, Cylons.  These are regular raiders.  They are pretty cool, but there is nothing like the old school raiders.

Finally, these are cylon bombers.  They appeared in a couple eps of BSG

Tomorrow, some 6mm T90 tanks, and later this week, more Old West!

Sum'more

Two more western guys this morning.  This will be the last ones for a while.  I do have 7 more primed and ready to go on my desk, but, ive got several other things going on too.  Taking a little break from Western so I dont burn out!

Wild west continues

Another from Foundry - I really love the old west sculpts, but coming up with colors to paint these guys so they dont look all the same is tough!!!

Vipers

Galactica's Viper contingent

Ive got a stack of Mk VII Vipers and Cylon Raiders sitting on my desk waiting to be primed and painted.  Hopefully, ill get to some of that tonight.

A couple weekend movie reviews

Saw a couple movies this weekend.

First up, Lone Survivor
 
My favorite part: the guns.  The firing guns sound like CANNONS going off, just as they do in real life.
My least favorite: the end.  If you dont know the story, I wont ruin it for you, but I have a feeling Hollywood and Marky Mark got involved here at the very end.
EDIT - I just found this article Slate.com movie inaccuracies (dont read until you have seen the movie though!  Extreme spoilers!).  It seems that from the moment Luttrell is discovered by friendly Afghanis, the movie goes off the rails from realism....about the same time the movie loses a little bit of 'heroic' for me.

This one is extremely brutal.  Steer clear if you are queasy around realistic violence.

I dont really even need to give a review of this one.  Go see it.  5 out of 5 Raptors Claws.  They should show this one in public schools.

Next up, Olympus Has Fallen

This one is such a total piece of unbelievable bullshit thats its not even funny.  Totally impossible, improbable, yada yada yada.  After all, there is no way the American President would be taken hostage like a total pussy, putting others lives on the line for his own.  Oh wait, that part is totally possible :)

That all being said, I loved this one!!!!

So, the story - King Leonidas is tasked with rescuing President Two Face from some North Korean terrorists after the king has let Wynonna Judd's sister fall off a bridge.

Moment after moment of this one brings more totally impossible scenarios to the table.  Once again, like the reboot of Red Dawn, North Korea becomes the antagonist, even though they have no way to get troops on the ground here in the US - at least in Red Dawn, it was the pacific coast and not the east coast!!!!!  The terrorists take the White House (Olympus) and the President and several aids and advisors. 

Gerard Butler (long story short) is a 'disgraced' secret service agent who just happens to be available to take the White House back.  He is awesome in this one - some cool one liners, kicking asses from the East Wing to the West, and a mastery of all weapons!

I have to assume that if you watch this one, you arent going in for the reality.  Im sure this one would have been a great summer flick to watch.

Four out of five Raptors Claws, taking away one claw for the total silliness.

Apocalypse now.

I quickly painted up a figure for the Lead Adventure forum's Apocalypse painting club.  Every few months, they do a 'lets paint a bunch of a specific thing, and once we get to 100 'things' we are done'.  Ive always wanted to do it, but it always finishes too damn quickly!  Well, I beat them to it this time!!!

So, this guy is 'apocalyptic'.

Not my best paint job - probably a bit too hurried, plus the figure wasnt one of my favorites (from Copplestone Castings).  Oh well.  Its done, and im 'in the club' now!

Next up - check out what Im wearing today:

Alshon Jeffery played for South Carolina, and has taken the NFL by storm this year, gaining over 1000 yards receiving and hitting several highlight reels along the way.  He was also just named to the PRO BOWL!!!!

You may know him as


I know him as
 

More wild wild West

Continuing with my Old West ADD

Catching Fire movie review

Caught Catching Fire last weekend

 

This is the sequel to The Hunger Games.

I was actually pleasantly surprised by this one!  I enjoyed the original Hunger Games, and I had heard lots of good things about Catching Fire, but I guess I was expecting a sequel slump.

Ive gotten to the point where I really like Jennifer Lawrence who plays Katniss Everdeen (or, as I have heard 'Hotness Everpeen' - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!!)  I first saw her in Winter's Bone (heheheheh) which I guess was her 'breakout' movie, and I assumed she would have been a flash in the pan.  But, I have since seen her in several more movies - both of these Hunger Games flicks, the XMen, and Silver Linings Playbook.  She really is a great actress!

Lots of other huge names in Catching Fire - Donald Sutherland (who never gets old), Woody Harrelson (who really is a spectacular actor, and if I really think about it, is one of my favorites), Elizabeth Banks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Stanley Tucci (who plays an AWESOME Caesar Flickerman!) among others.  Another who stands out to me, who isnt an actor is Lenny Kravitz!  He does a great job as 'Cinna', Katniss' stylist.  My wife saw him in concert a few years back, which leads us to call him 'just a cool little black man'.  That dude has just got 'it'.

A couple more actors who deserve mention, but not in a good way - Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson.  If you happened to catch my review of Red Dawn a few weeks back, im on Hutcherson like stink on shit!  Neither of these home boys can act for shit.  And Peeta is a giant pussy.

The scenery, effects, and costumes are dead on.  I read all three books (as most everyone in the world evidently did!) and the scenes are just as you imagine them as you read them.

Finally, one last negative that sort of isnt the movie's 'fault'.  I dont like the way this one ends.  I know its the middle of a trilogy (have you seen that Mockingjay is gonna be TWO movies????) but this one just sort of 'stops'.  It definitely bridges over to the next movie, and I guess if you have read the books you expect that, but I just didnt like something about the way it abruptly changed gears.

Im going to give Catching Fire 4 out of 5 Raptor's Claws - once again, losing a claw for casting Josh Hutcherson!  When will they learn?!?!?!?

Raptors!

Continuing with the BSG theme today, here are a set of 5 raptors I completed to go with my colonial ships

Next up, I was looking at the homebrew rules that Jim Fox at Fox Miniatures created for BSG.  It requires quite a few missle and nuke markers.  I took some 'fancy toothpicks' and cut the back ends off of them, and carved small nose cones.  This is what I came up with:

The ones with the red and white tips are 'missles':

The ones with the nuke symbol on the tip are, well, you guessed it, nukes