As I've said earlier, although I initially found Roden kits to be difficult because they were highly detailed, I do find the finished product to be excellent. They take paint well and look very effective. The Italeri product is quicker to assemble, but when placed side by side with the Roden, looks more simplistic. The Italeri kit is cheaper and certainly much more easily purchased - remember, I ordered the Roden kits from the Ukraine! Even this is changing, though - as hobby shop proprietors are assembling these Eastern European kits for themselves and seeing the quality, they are increasingly stocking them. I'm becoming increasingly attuned to detail, so I would buy more more of the Roden without hesitation.

In the close-up profile photos, you should be able to clearly see that the tracks are too short to fit the kit. This is my only gripe, and I mentioned it in the previous post. Another centimeter would have been fine - another two centimeters would have allowed for good track sag. The tracks are good quality vinly one-piece items - they didn't have the anchoring pins on them to join them into loops like the Airfix, Matchbox or ESCI kits do, so trimming off some leftover was not going to stop a track being made into a proper loop. Trimmed pieces could be used in a diorama or for a kitbash...

The Opel Maultier was developed by the SS and was so effective in the mud and then snow on the harsh Eastern Front that there was, in time, a good number of them. With all that snow and ice in mind, I've decided to paint them with a simple Dark Yellow coat and then give them some poorly-applied Winter whitewashing, so they don't stand out too much and make themselves inviting targets. The technique I employed for the plaster inside the railway station will be given another try. Whitewash was often slopped on with whatever came to hand, so it should be lumpy and uneven. Applying lumpy, semi-dried paint off an overloaded cheap brush should model this perfectly.

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Before Priming I changed my weapon and armory load out for the Cannoness, giving her Jump wings and changing her bolt pistol for an Infernal Pistol:

Sister Mary Elizabeth was also primed:

I'm actually very excited about this...Iron Wind does good work, so we should see some serious improvement in the quality of the sculpts and especially the castings.

http://juniorgeneral.org/

http://www.thefantasytrip.org/characters/

http://www.darkcitygames.com/pieces/

So it begins:

The models:

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01 Stepmother Was a Rubber bandage Planter
02 (There Goes) The Old Medal Colored person
03 Nectarous Mollye(Keen desire expel persist no end of Fiendlike)
04 Silver-plated Bells
05 If The Nature Master't Rags Tomorrow(Yourselves'm Forthcoming Afterward Them)
06 A Parochialism Harmony Your District
07 Our lightly Colored person Wedgwood blue
08 Caro-Lyn
09 Husky Run
10 After a time That
11 Spiral
12 I'll Under no circumstances Speak My Lovemaking Only too Adjust to

Pay up'n' be responsible for alter ego! [160kbps public-address system Arrow LP MG 20806/1963]
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Leave a comment here to let me know if you have any requests or recommendations. Any burning questions for the game company reps? Anything special you're dying to see from the exhibitors? Which companies or personalities do you most want to hear from? Also let me know if you plan to be there. I'd love to meet some of our readers in person.

Of the 6 figures - I'm most satisfied with the three in the front rank.  The primary color pattern is much cleaner than the three brown figures in the back row.  I really like the red - but a whole army in red robes would look too much like some chaos death cult.  On the next set of figures, I need to revisit the brown & see if I can create a softer result.

Paint List

All figures primed white and washed with a brown ink.

Spears:  Vermin Brown (GW)

Bows:  Tan Yellow (V)

Green: Orkhide Shade (GW), Snot Green (GW), 50/50 Snot Green/Ivory (V)

Red:  Burnt Cad. Red (V), Flat Red (V), Beige Red (V)

White:  Astronomican Grey (GW), white

Blue:  Ultramarine Blue (GW), 50/50 Ultramarine Blue/Ivory

Flesh:  Medium Flesh (V), Gryphonne Sepia (GW)   (Borrowed this wash hint from Five Armies)

Brown:  assorted combinations of Calthan Brown (GW), Iyanden Darksun (GW), Bubonic Brown (GW), Ivory, Sepia and Devlan Mud (GW)

June progress on the Painting Pledge...

Purchased: 30
Painted: 13

2008 Totals

Purchased: 451
Painted: 313

Net: -138

Yikes, I fell further behind. My excuse is that we had 3 out-of-town weekends in June. I actually managed to take some paints and minis with me on one of the trips and still get some painting done. A moral victory to be sure. I'll definitely start traveling with a painting project.

I any case, I got a platoon of Germans finished, and I started on my WWII Soviets. In anticipation of completing the Soviets, I've begun purchasing Goths/Saxons for my next WAB project. Another photo of the Germans...

Sumpfmuster. That just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Sumpfmuster. Anyway, the colors I used for this variety of German WWII camouflage are

• Vallejo Model Color (VMC) 988 Khaki
• VMC 888 Olive Grey
• VMC 846 Mahogany Brown
• Cover with wash made from Burnt Umber and Future Floor Polish

Not perfect, but I'm shooting for the notion of camouflage. So I didn't spend lots of time getting the pattern right. I just used streaks of green with blobs of red-brown over a khaki base coat.

Image source: An exhibition of a private collection displayed at the Library of Castilla in Toledo, via the Miniature Book Society

Miniature books, most of which are less than three inches tall and some of which are smaller than a penny, have delighted readers for centuries.  Popular because they are easily carried or concealed, these delightful books range from Shakespeare's classics to tiny Holy Bibles, politics to presidents, illustrated children's books and more...

Image source: 4000 Years of Miniature Books, online exhibition, Indiana University

What Is a Miniature Book?
According to the Miniature Book Society, Inc., in the United States, a miniature book is usually considered to be one which is no more than three inches in size--height, width or thickness. Some collectors do occasionally acquire slightly larger books. Outside of the United States, books up to four inches are collected as miniature books. Miniature books continue to be published and collected today. Go here for a Gallery of Books from Modern and Contemporary Presses.

Books the size of a playing card, a postage stamp or your thumbnail have beguiled Julian Edison since his college days. Today he has a library of many thousands of these remarkable miniatures spanning 4,000 years, almost all 3 inches high or smaller, which fill bookshelves in his library. Some might be hard to see: His smallest book is less than 1 millimeter high, printed by the Tokyo-based Toppan Printing Company in 2000. "Miniature books have been produced for reasons of practicality, curiosity and aesthetics," he says. "Many people think of these as novelties which can't be read, and for the most part nothing could be further from the truth. Most of them don't require a magnifying glass to be read. The type size and the size of the book don't necessarily correspond." Harvard's Houghton Library held an exhibition of highlights from the collection in 2005. In 2007, the Grolier Club in New York held an exhibition of highlights from it, to coincide with the publication of Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures (Harry N. Abrams Inc.), which Edison co-edited with Boston rare book dealer Anne C. Bromer.

L'amour et les belles, Paris 1818. Le petit chansonnier, Paris 1842. Plaisir et gaîté, Paris 1824. Miniature books from the collection of Julian I. Edison.

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If you ask me, these developments are long overdue. And I'm glad to see Fantasy Flight on the vanguard of this trend. I've been intrigued by a number of collectible games out there—miniatures in particular—but I just can't get over the concept that I'm being asked to spend my money without being told what it's for.

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I was playing a drop pod version of a Dark Angels army:

I fielded Belial, with a Deathwing Terminator Squad, a single Ravenwing Bike squad, with 5 bikes, the Sergent, an Attack Bike and a Land speeder with assault cannon, two Tactical squads of 10 with Drop pods, and a Dreadnaught with a Drop Pod.

My opponent was an Eldar players, fielding a  Fire Prism, a unit of Dire Avengers, two units of Guardians with Star Cannons and Warlocks,  A Farseer, an Autoarch.  In reserve he had a unit of Scorpians mounted in a Wave Serpent, a Unit of Fire Dragons mounted in a Falcon and another Falcon.

We rolled for scenario and ended up facing each other from the long table edges fighting over two objectives, one each placed into our respective deployment zones.

Rules we had to get use to were the Line of sight (so how do cover saves actually work for the unit or the individual).  Blast templates not rolling to hit, but rather deviating (so how is this effected by Plasma cannons which overheat on a 1 - where do you roll for the one now?).  Vehicles get shaken frequently (I mean you roll a 1 or less then they are shaken, and this is the minimum that any glance or penetrate will do).  Initial assault tends to be bloodly, but against equal opponents, they you can get bogged down like we had with a unit of space marines versus the Dire Avengers.  One of our objectives was a bunker, which would have had an armour value of 14, which would have made digging the 5 space marines out it very hard for the Striking Scorpians heading toward the bunker on turn 5.

The randomn length game came into play here by allowing the space marines to hold their objective uncontested, but due to the Dark Angel first turn terminator assault the Eldar objective remained contested the entire game.

In the end, the Eldar were able to kill Belial and his Terminator Squad, all the basic bikes, immobilize the Dreadnaught, and 1/2 of the first of the Tactical squads.

The SMs were able to kill the Autoarch, both of the guardian units, the Fire Prism, The Fire Dragons.

We got to see the armor penetration table in use a lot.  Fairly easy.  A falcon behind your dreadnaught is not a pretty site.  When you miss with a blast weapon, its not fun.

So, no more how many of your units did you kill, versus how many did I kill.  Straight forward, what was the objective.

I like 5th edition.

• Miniatures Rules: Classic Battletech by Catalyst Game Labs
• Miniatures or Miniatures Line: Titania's Fury by Dragonfire Laser Crafts
• Collectible Card Game: Legend of the Five Rings by Alderac Entertainment Group
• Historical Miniature Game: Check Your 6! by Skirmish Campaigns
• Historical Miniatures Line: Romano-British 15mm by Splintered Light Miniatures
• Historical Board Game: Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery by Tropical Games
• Non-Fiction Publication: Hobby Games: The 100 Best by Green Ronin
• Fiction Publication: Astounding Hero Tales by Hero Games
• Game Accessory: Call of Cthulhu Dice Set by Q-Workshop
• Roleplaying Game Supplement: Codex Arcanis by Paradigm Concepts
• Roleplaying Game: Aces & Eights by Kenzer and Co.
• Traditional Card Game: Zombie Fluxx by Looney Labs
• Board Game or Expansion: Starcraft: The Board Game by Fantasy Flight Games
• Hall of Fame Inductees: R.A. Salvatore, Vampire: The Masquerade by White Wolf, and Paranoia by Mongoose Publishing

I'll put in a personal recommendation for Hobby Games: The 100 Best. The book is comprised of 100 essays, each written by a different established professional in the games business to describe their individual choice for best hobby game. You may not agree with all the entries, but the collection provides fantastic insight into the breadth and history of the hobby games industry.

I've started glueing the tracks onto the other two, so I'll let you know the outcome. I can't work on anything tonight becuase I've done extensive glueing this afternoon and I want everything to cure.

By the by, the Australian Open & Scale Modelling Championships were on this weekend. This morning was the swap&sell. I made the pilgrimage and it was well worthwhile - 6 kits and 3 books. My best yet!

Althea directed me toward a video showing her being interviewed and actually knitting. I couldn't find a way to upload it so I will just have to link you to it. It's really wonderful so make sure you check it out. It is the June 28, 2007 Knitted Art.

She also passed around a small scrimshaw box that I believe she said she created at a workshop. Inside the box were some knitted gloves she had also created. I have two photos of the gloves so you can really see and appreciate the detail and how small they are. You can click on them to make the photos larger.

The last photo is a doll that another artist created with the character wearing the sweater that Althea had knit.  Make sure once you have clicked on this photo you click again when the little + sign shows so you get the absolute largest photo possible.

Everything about the doll is pretty amazing. All the details are so precise. It truly was time well spent and enjoyed to see and hear all that she had to share.

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