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<title>Blog posts for blackfly</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com"/>
<updated>1969-12-31T16:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
 
    						<name>blackfly</name>

  						</author>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blackfly/</id>
<entry>
<title>Flesh Recipe Showcase, Zulus, and Flying Daggers</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1375"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1375</id>
<updated>2009-10-19T17:05:46Z</updated>
<summary>All this and more (well, not realy that much more at the moment!)  over at  my new blog, which actually works as expected</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The New Frontier!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1308"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1308</id>
<updated>2009-06-13T15:46:11Z</updated>
<summary>I will no longer be blogging on the archaic and annoying coolminiornot system</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>He aint brotherly, he's my heavy</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1305"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1305</id>
<updated>2009-05-31T22:45:57Z</updated>
<summary>Finally got some more time spent on the last fig for the halfling band, the ogre</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where it all began.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1294"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1294</id>
<updated>2009-05-21T21:39:17Z</updated>
<summary>Actually, it all began with painting  green plastic army men with my Testors  model paints</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Inn of the Green Man</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1291"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1291</id>
<updated>2009-05-13T23:15:01Z</updated>
<summary>Here's the Inn, all finished up:

More views and details here</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jiggity Jig</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1287"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1287</id>
<updated>2009-05-11T09:08:45Z</updated>
<summary>This piece is nearly done now</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gimme Shelter</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1282"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1282</id>
<updated>2009-05-07T23:01:35Z</updated>
<summary>This waddle and timber house (Armorcast) is about 75% now</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cruisin' for a bruisin'</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1281"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1281</id>
<updated>2009-05-05T23:29:10Z</updated>
<summary>This former Bloodbowl bruiser is getting a new job as a designated smasher with the halflings</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>war pigs of the power. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1280"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1280</id>
<updated>2009-05-04T22:20:12Z</updated>
<summary>These fighting swine will be some of the strongest troops in the halfling warband:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>when you have to shoot, shoot!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1278"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1278</id>
<updated>2009-04-29T22:39:38Z</updated>
<summary>A lively little archer from Harlequin miniatures</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Slings and Arrows</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1271"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1271</id>
<updated>2009-04-23T08:05:59Z</updated>
<summary>Color came out wierd on this one for some reason, oh well</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>all things great and small</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1262"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1262</id>
<updated>2009-04-12T22:48:12Z</updated>
<summary>I took last weekend off to go to the mountains and had a host of things going on this past week, but I finally got a little brush time this weekend</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One small step. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1255"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1255</id>
<updated>2009-04-01T23:27:38Z</updated>
<summary>The fellow on the left will be the leader of this warband</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oh to be young again. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1253"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1253</id>
<updated>2009-03-29T22:45:25Z</updated>
<summary>These guys will probably be my 0-2 youths in the Halfling warband</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The little things in life</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1248"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1248</id>
<updated>2009-03-28T17:15:41Z</updated>
<summary>I'm now full swing into this halfling warband for mordheim, and it is proving very satisfying</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Equinoxical</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1241"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1241</id>
<updated>2009-03-24T17:40:04Z</updated>
<summary>Round the horn! Here's to the demise of winter for one more year</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Halftime</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1240"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1240</id>
<updated>2009-03-20T19:34:49Z</updated>
<summary>It is the time of the half man</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inch by inch leaf by leaf</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1225"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1225</id>
<updated>2009-03-11T22:11:58Z</updated>
<summary>I'm getting back at this painting biz a little bit more now and again</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Black Hats</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1188"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1188</id>
<updated>2009-02-17T15:37:25Z</updated>
<summary>So now that I got the hats straightened out, I was able to get some final photos of Marshal Ney and staff</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mistaken Identity</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1182"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1182</id>
<updated>2009-02-15T00:02:06Z</updated>
<summary>It was pointed out to me today when I shared the final pictures of the Taco General Staff that I had in fact failed rather stunningly in my limited research into the correct uniform colors</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The return of Commander Taco</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1176"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1176</id>
<updated>2009-02-11T21:17:48Z</updated>
<summary>I know, I know, I'm supposed to be working on the elf</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Going Stag</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1162"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1162</id>
<updated>2009-02-08T22:39:14Z</updated>
<summary>Costochondritis is pretty much destroying my productivity of late</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stag's Leap</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1154"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1154</id>
<updated>2009-02-01T22:20:45Z</updated>
<summary>I wasn't sure how the fur and hide pallette was going to come together, but I'm happy with how this is working out</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stag Party</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1142"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1142</id>
<updated>2009-01-27T21:33:28Z</updated>
<summary>I'm doing this conversion for a friend's wood elf lord</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Outbreak</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1134"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1134</id>
<updated>2009-01-14T10:18:56Z</updated>
<summary>These are for the Frothers game at Salute09</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There will be blood. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1129"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1129</id>
<updated>2009-01-13T10:36:15Z</updated>
<summary>The funnest part of zombies is almost always the goreification</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Those about to rock.  . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1125"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1125</id>
<updated>2009-01-10T14:31:17Z</updated>
<summary>I've had this chunk of laminated foam sitting around in a box since Ben and I built our hills years ago</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the new flesh</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1124"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1124</id>
<updated>2009-01-10T01:09:18Z</updated>
<summary>Finally got my order in from Litko- 200 bases for about 22$</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Landscape First Aid</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1117"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1117</id>
<updated>2009-01-05T11:17:39Z</updated>
<summary>One of our hills got left near a radiator and the foam warped pretty badly underneath</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FS: Warmaster Undead starter army.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1116"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1116</id>
<updated>2009-01-04T12:26:30Z</updated>
<summary>Sorting through my collection I found this Warmaster army I never finished, and don't need</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#34;By our deeds we are known&#34; -28th G.I.R.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1113"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1113</id>
<updated>2009-01-02T18:08:47Z</updated>
<summary>MadPonies Charity Auction:
28th Gloucester Regiment Officer - 1916 and 
28th Gloucester Regiment Officer - 1805</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Day (of the dead) Tripper</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1111"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1111</id>
<updated>2009-01-01T22:45:44Z</updated>
<summary>Zombie stoner #2, done for a friend of mine</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bits and bobs</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1093"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1093</id>
<updated>2008-12-14T22:46:41Z</updated>
<summary>After 6 long weeks of no painting, I finally took a break from putting our house in order and laid brush to lead today on some random projects</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Fool Is Back!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1080"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1080</id>
<updated>2008-12-08T11:47:37Z</updated>
<summary>   Well, sort of at least</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Brief Hiatus</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1043"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1043</id>
<updated>2008-11-03T00:14:59Z</updated>
<summary>I have to pack and move</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>commander taco</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1039"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1039</id>
<updated>2008-10-29T23:34:46Z</updated>
<summary>It took all of my restraint to not paint the fella on the right's bicorne in tortilla-brown and the ruffed fur edging as lettuce and cheese</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>2 down, 1 to go.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1031"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1031</id>
<updated>2008-10-26T22:27:12Z</updated>
<summary>The Barbarian chariot is done, can I get a witness?  So the original archer is pinned to be swappable with Red Sonja here</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>at the gates</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1029"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1029</id>
<updated>2008-10-26T00:34:46Z</updated>
<summary>Hopefully I'll get this chariot photgraphed properly tomorrow, now that it's done</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Buttons of improbable coloring.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1028"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1028</id>
<updated>2008-10-22T00:10:41Z</updated>
<summary>I've been informed these buttons should be more pewter</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>spit and polish</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1023"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1023</id>
<updated>2008-10-19T23:20:31Z</updated>
<summary>This fella is lookin' sharp to me so far



</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>By Our Deeds We Are Known</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1021"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1021</id>
<updated>2008-10-17T22:07:21Z</updated>
<summary>Working on this officer from the 28th Regiment of Foot (Gloucester), for a charity auction</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Screaming in the rain</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1015"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1015</id>
<updated>2008-10-13T22:02:16Z</updated>
<summary>This fig is super fun to paint</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the lead walk among us</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1012"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1012</id>
<updated>2008-10-13T00:16:06Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>night of the living lead</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1010"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1010</id>
<updated>2008-10-12T00:24:56Z</updated>
<summary>For a massive zombie fight game at Salute 2009
 Great sculpts from BillT@Musketeer</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>junk in the trunk</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1005"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1005</id>
<updated>2008-10-05T23:16:05Z</updated>
<summary>Mostly just need to finish up the horses and make a chariot base, and this project is ready to shelve till the sale</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>better Red than dead</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1003"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1003</id>
<updated>2008-10-04T19:19:02Z</updated>
<summary>I finished this lass shortly after taking this</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sonjafication</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1001"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=1001</id>
<updated>2008-10-04T00:40:37Z</updated>
<summary>Turns out a hairdryer is just the right amount of heat to get the resin pliable, but not droopy or dangerously maleable</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Baby Got Chariot</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=998"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=998</id>
<updated>2008-09-29T23:05:46Z</updated>
<summary>The CMON shop exceeded expectations (not hard to do) and delivered SJB's latest barbarian lady in time to include her in this project, which I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do or not</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>thug life</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=990"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=990</id>
<updated>2008-09-26T01:12:25Z</updated>
<summary>Big burly barbar's! quick-n-dirty work on some Harlequin chariot crew:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Charioteers ho!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=982"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=982</id>
<updated>2008-09-22T13:41:58Z</updated>
<summary>Full images here and here</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hogwash!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=975"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=975</id>
<updated>2008-09-20T01:36:12Z</updated>
<summary>These are nearly done, and so is the chariot</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wargh-on-a-mission</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=973"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=973</id>
<updated>2008-09-17T23:32:10Z</updated>
<summary>Test fit the orcs tonight</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Orcus Maximus</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=969"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=969</id>
<updated>2008-09-14T23:42:15Z</updated>
<summary>Appearing soon in the chariot races:



</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Honorable Col. Marbles</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=965"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=965</id>
<updated>2008-09-13T16:19:10Z</updated>
<summary>Shown in the patrol uniform of the 69th Infantry Regiment</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>. . . the time of the orc is at hand</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=964"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=964</id>
<updated>2008-09-12T13:42:03Z</updated>
<summary>#2</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The time of men is at an end</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=963"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=963</id>
<updated>2008-09-11T12:47:42Z</updated>
<summary>Orc diversion #1 &#38;amp; 2 are finished</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>a dark secret</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=958"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=958</id>
<updated>2008-09-08T22:53:11Z</updated>
<summary>unspeakable things are happening at Madponies</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cabin Boy (with no chance of promotion)</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=947"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=947</id>
<updated>2008-09-03T19:45:09Z</updated>
<summary>He'll be swabbing the decks for all time!
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pirate Party</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=944"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=944</id>
<updated>2008-09-01T23:11:12Z</updated>
<summary>The undead pirates are partying down because they are all done being painted, and thus the crew is ready to get underway</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fear the Dead-Pirate Roberts</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=938"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=938</id>
<updated>2008-08-28T23:32:38Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the deadest deckhands</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=934"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=934</id>
<updated>2008-08-27T08:50:08Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Minor detour to the chaos wastes</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=932"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=932</id>
<updated>2008-08-24T22:30:23Z</updated>
<summary>Random chaos thug</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>First day with the hook. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=918"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=918</id>
<updated>2008-08-18T23:19:07Z</updated>
<summary>(punchline to a great pirate joke)</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Vrooooom!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=898"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=898</id>
<updated>2008-08-03T23:07:17Z</updated>
<summary>I'm off for a week</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Guns of Nava-Bone!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=890"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=890</id>
<updated>2008-07-29T22:58:22Z</updated>
<summary>wah wah!



</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>boomtime</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=888"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=888</id>
<updated>2008-07-27T22:01:54Z</updated>
<summary>These guys are just about ready to roll:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rag Tag Fugitive Guncrew</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=875"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=875</id>
<updated>2008-07-23T16:49:56Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Man from M.A.D.P.O.N.I.E.S.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=872"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=872</id>
<updated>2008-07-20T22:14:16Z</updated>
<summary>
I had a great time with this smooth operator from Mountain Miniatures</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>old and rusty, but still shootin'</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=871"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=871</id>
<updated>2008-07-19T00:19:04Z</updated>
<summary>

</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deadeye</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=855"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=855</id>
<updated>2008-07-10T00:25:24Z</updated>
<summary>undead sharpshooter! duck!
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the quick and the dead</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=851"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=851</id>
<updated>2008-07-07T23:21:09Z</updated>
<summary>Been out in the woods for a few days so not much painting, but I finished this one after work today
This little fella looks like a quick draw:

</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dead Men Don't Reload</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=843"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=843</id>
<updated>2008-07-02T23:59:24Z</updated>
<summary>More undead pirates</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Undead Pirates Seeking Adventure and New Seas to Plunder</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=842"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=842</id>
<updated>2008-06-30T22:03:02Z</updated>
<summary>These guys are up for sale  on ebay</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rome's Enemies Greatest Hits, Vol. 1</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=840"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=840</id>
<updated>2008-06-27T14:22:41Z</updated>
<summary>still finisihing up the bases</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Arrow Storm!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=821"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=821</id>
<updated>2008-06-11T09:11:28Z</updated>
<summary>Here are the rest of the archery mob: </summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Arrows cost money</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=819"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=819</id>
<updated>2008-06-09T21:51:20Z</updated>
<summary>I finally finished the bases on these</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Under the Black Flag</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=789"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=789</id>
<updated>2008-05-14T23:42:35Z</updated>
<summary>who knows if you'll ever be able to read this entry thanks to the cmon blog system being totally bolloxed up</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>toe bones connected to the. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=787"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=787</id>
<updated>2008-05-13T23:44:25Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>foot bones connected to the . . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=784"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=784</id>
<updated>2008-05-11T23:01:53Z</updated>
<summary>toe bone</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ankle bones connected to the. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=778"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=778</id>
<updated>2008-05-07T23:12:35Z</updated>
<summary> </summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>shin bones connected to the. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=777"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=777</id>
<updated>2008-05-06T00:09:51Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dem bones</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=775"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=775</id>
<updated>2008-05-04T16:42:25Z</updated>
<summary>Got inspired to do some skeleton pirates from Bronze Age &#38; Moonlight</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Archers 2, Electric Boogaloo</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=772"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=772</id>
<updated>2008-05-01T23:19:25Z</updated>
<summary>made some more dents in the old archers:



</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>loose!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=771"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=771</id>
<updated>2008-05-01T09:10:09Z</updated>
<summary>Some english archers I've been mucking about with</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Space 1889: The Final Figure</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=755"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=755</id>
<updated>2008-04-20T23:35:19Z</updated>
<summary>I finally finished this martial artist, which is the last in long project I've been working on for a customer's RPG game</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Get off my lawn.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=751"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=751</id>
<updated>2008-04-18T23:07:16Z</updated>
<summary>I just finished this silly little terrain piece given to me by my wife, back when we'd only been dating a short time</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the flowing robes of Xiao Li</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=749"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=749</id>
<updated>2008-04-17T09:14:42Z</updated>
<summary>Working on getting the hakama going with the right amount of vibrance</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The iron fist of Xiao Li</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=747"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=747</id>
<updated>2008-04-15T21:39:07Z</updated>
<summary>This is the last figure for the VSF project- A chinese serving woman / body guard for the Victorian lady</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Poor Knights of Christ</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=735"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=735</id>
<updated>2008-04-08T08:54:27Z</updated>
<summary>Brian De Jay, knight Templar</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The  Land that Time Forgot</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=731"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=731</id>
<updated>2008-04-07T16:21:17Z</updated>
<summary>The last of the beasties are done for this project:   </summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Soldiers of the Earth</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=727"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=727</id>
<updated>2008-04-06T13:23:01Z</updated>
<summary>So I finished the Germans, and went back and finished the Brits' bases as well, and got them all properly photgraphed:



</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the tomb of god</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=718"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=718</id>
<updated>2008-04-03T23:59:16Z</updated>
<summary>My Templar Knight and his two Sergeants are just about done, and ready to start causing rumours to lasting 800 years</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>spike bonnets for the win</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=715"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=715</id>
<updated>2008-04-02T22:58:27Z</updated>
<summary>The trim on the pickelhaubes finally makes me think 'Prussian' when I look at these</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cavalry are comin'</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=714"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=714</id>
<updated>2008-04-01T23:08:56Z</updated>
<summary>WIP knight and two sergeants</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the mailed fist of the Kaiser</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=713"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=713</id>
<updated>2008-04-01T09:28:18Z</updated>
<summary>Getting into the home stretch on these Germans</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Trouble With Scotland. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=712"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=712</id>
<updated>2008-03-31T17:37:01Z</updated>
<summary>Is that it's full of Scots!
Did these archers for my Rebellion collection the other night</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>To Command the Very Air</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=710"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=710</id>
<updated>2008-03-30T18:01:33Z</updated>
<summary>Finally finnished this Illyad Aeromancer comission:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Free, Strong, Men of the Nation</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=682"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=682</id>
<updated>2008-03-18T00:20:31Z</updated>
<summary>leather doodads and widgets abound on these fellas:</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>for Kaiser and Country</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=677"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=677</id>
<updated>2008-03-15T17:59:57Z</updated>
<summary>Back from vacation, and back to work</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The last of the redshirts</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=650"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=650</id>
<updated>2008-03-04T22:43:08Z</updated>
<summary>English cannon fodder, all done aside from the bases:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Queen's Own . . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=647"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=647</id>
<updated>2008-03-02T17:56:24Z</updated>
<summary>I've been lacking updates lately, so here's a shot of the colonial troops:


</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Don't Look. . . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=635"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=635</id>
<updated>2008-02-29T09:00:31Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>filthy english pig-dogs!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=622"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=622</id>
<updated>2008-02-25T18:22:48Z</updated>
<summary>For my scots-rebellion English:  Sir Charles le Brun, his faithful hound Snoup&#233;, and his trusted standard bearer Linus VanPelt, Esquire</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Parliament of freehand</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=576"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=576</id>
<updated>2008-02-12T13:58:14Z</updated>
<summary>The shields from this unit</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Scion of Athena</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=571"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=571</id>
<updated>2008-02-11T09:47:56Z</updated>
<summary>The leader of the band of warrior women: Boobs just for you, Jericho</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>more amazons: all greek to me</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=567"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=567</id>
<updated>2008-02-10T01:46:28Z</updated>
<summary>The Cult of Athena's standard:

The greek on the standard is from the ~7th centrury BCE 'Homeric' Hymns</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Amazon Champion</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=565"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=565</id>
<updated>2008-02-09T01:51:13Z</updated>
<summary></summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Naked and the !Dead</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=564"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=564</id>
<updated>2008-02-08T08:52:08Z</updated>
<summary>more amazons: </summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>amazons finished</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=559"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=559</id>
<updated>2008-02-07T10:19:29Z</updated>
<summary>part 2 of the boobies showcase :p</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>let them have boobs</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=557"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=557</id>
<updated>2008-02-06T14:53:00Z</updated>
<summary>Since the boob related posts are obviosuly the most popular, and in demand, I give you The Warrior Cult of Athena</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deinonychus, party of 4. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=551"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=551</id>
<updated>2008-02-04T23:47:04Z</updated>
<summary>I'm really happy with the way these came out</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jurassic Pork</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=545"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=545</id>
<updated>2008-02-03T22:05:37Z</updated>
<summary>I'm tackling 4 Deinonychuses now:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Darksword WIP</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=544"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=544</id>
<updated>2008-02-03T15:37:15Z</updated>
<summary>This is going to be 'Hamar' a charcter for one my clients' RPG</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Leapin' lizards</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=543"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=543</id>
<updated>2008-02-03T00:24:09Z</updated>
<summary>I finished the Reptilliad unit today:

Next up I think will be the Brits</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>loads a' lizards</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=539"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=539</id>
<updated>2008-01-31T23:05:48Z</updated>
<summary>These guys are moving pretty well as they have verty little kit on them, and are only being done to 'cannon-fodder' quality

bit more close up here
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lotsa lizards</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=535"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=535</id>
<updated>2008-01-30T22:14:48Z</updated>
<summary>Starting on the repltiliad group for this VSF</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Of Pallas Athena, Guardian of the City, I begin to sing.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=526"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=526</id>
<updated>2008-01-29T21:46:16Z</updated>
<summary>The last three, finally</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>long live the new flesh!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=523"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=523</id>
<updated>2008-01-28T14:43:38Z</updated>
<summary>while I'm 1) sick, and 2) waiting for my hand to heal, I've taken off from working on comissions for a few days until I can concentrate and have a steady hand</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lidocane, betadine, and blood, oh my!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=511"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=511</id>
<updated>2008-01-24T22:09:50Z</updated>
<summary>3 stitches, left index finger knuckle</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tea for 6.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=501"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=501</id>
<updated>2008-01-21T17:43:16Z</updated>
<summary>Well the PCs for this Space1889 group are all done, aside from one that is still on back order</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>stiff upper lip</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=497"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=497</id>
<updated>2008-01-21T00:37:43Z</updated>
<summary>more doughty VSF Chaps</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pith helmets and sabers</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=494"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=494</id>
<updated>2008-01-20T00:21:48Z</updated>
<summary>There will be a lot more pith helmets and swords to come when I get to the Queen's Own Regiment, but I'm enjoying these two dashing fellows at the moment:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>3 to the wind</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=487"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=487</id>
<updated>2008-01-16T22:44:19Z</updated>
<summary>Enough of that web-wrangling, time to get back to painting</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The DaNerdi Code</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=484"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=484</id>
<updated>2008-01-16T09:17:39Z</updated>
<summary>I've been working on re-formatting and redesigning my website slowly for a few months</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Verdigris</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=476"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=476</id>
<updated>2008-01-13T19:23:46Z</updated>
<summary>Issue #3 of Wargames Painting and Modelling is finally out, and includes an article I wroute about painting verdigris</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On trousers</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=445"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=445</id>
<updated>2008-01-06T22:57:40Z</updated>
<summary>Had a busy weekend in non-painting activities, so only a little progress to update</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Vicky Flesh</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=431"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=431</id>
<updated>2007-12-31T16:58:26Z</updated>
<summary>Started in on the Victorian personalities' skin</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>overwhelming</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=429"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=429</id>
<updated>2007-12-30T12:51:46Z</updated>
<summary>Here is the Space:1889 Victorian Sci-Fi project, all based and primed</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>helmet head</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=428"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=428</id>
<updated>2007-12-30T12:12:40Z</updated>
<summary>I had a bunch of greenstuff mixed up to fix some bases on the VSF project</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>break from the break</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=425"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=425</id>
<updated>2007-12-29T12:47:24Z</updated>
<summary>Okay, yuletide happenings are finally done, time to get back to work</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Onward Painted Soldiers!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=414"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=414</id>
<updated>2007-12-15T17:34:41Z</updated>
<summary>Knocked another 7 out:

</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the knights go marching 2x2</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=406"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=406</id>
<updated>2007-12-11T23:24:51Z</updated>
<summary>hurrah, hurrah!
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pants!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=402"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=402</id>
<updated>2007-12-09T22:56:18Z</updated>
<summary>I finished the hose of all the remaing reiksguard I have primed at the moment</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>guardians of the new frontier</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=400"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=400</id>
<updated>2007-12-08T16:54:20Z</updated>
<summary>
I'm quite pleased with these</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pride of the reik</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=398"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=398</id>
<updated>2007-12-08T00:31:22Z</updated>
<summary>I'd forgotten how much I really like these miniatures</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the mailed fist of the emperor</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=394"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=394</id>
<updated>2007-12-07T00:00:20Z</updated>
<summary>the amazon cheerleaders had to take a dip in paint thinner</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>baby got back</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=385"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=385</id>
<updated>2007-12-04T08:36:22Z</updated>
<summary>Or actually, my back is making me feel like a baby</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Need some Iliad figs</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=382"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=382</id>
<updated>2007-12-03T13:08:11Z</updated>
<summary>I'm trying to track down 3 figures from the now defunct Iliad games: Murata, female Aeromancer of Heraklyn, and the Air Elementals</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>amazon pep squad</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=379"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=379</id>
<updated>2007-12-01T18:14:51Z</updated>
<summary>the musician and standard bearer for the warrior women are underway

go team, go!
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Samurai, Martial Artists, &#38; Assassins, Oh my!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=374"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=374</id>
<updated>2007-11-30T19:36:37Z</updated>
<summary>Finally finished this batch:


The assassin an be seen  here for now, and the other 4 have full pics on CMON, here,  here, here,  &#38; here</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Samurai out, Amazons in. . . .the revolving paint shop.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=367"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=367</id>
<updated>2007-11-29T23:33:59Z</updated>
<summary>Finished this samurai tonight</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>one on every corner.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=364"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=364</id>
<updated>2007-11-28T14:41:04Z</updated>
<summary>I have too many ideas for random games</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the assassin's creed</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=356"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=356</id>
<updated>2007-11-26T23:30:23Z</updated>
<summary>finished this guy</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Warriors from the East</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=355"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=355</id>
<updated>2007-11-25T20:59:59Z</updated>
<summary>I'll be able to finish this fella as soon as the sand dries on the base</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>night of the assassin</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=354"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=354</id>
<updated>2007-11-24T22:15:53Z</updated>
<summary>I've had this guy on my desk, partially painted for months</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FU!UK-Tarts: Finished</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=351"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=351</id>
<updated>2007-11-24T00:19:15Z</updated>
<summary>The FUUK-Tarts gang is also done, yay!


Some closer pictures of the  foot soldiers, the  bikers, and a closer look at the  gang leader</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gun Street Girls - Finished</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=350"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=350</id>
<updated>2007-11-24T00:14:21Z</updated>
<summary>Finally got the finished figures photographed under better lighting:

Bigger pics  here and  here</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Turkey Tarts</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=347"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=347</id>
<updated>2007-11-22T16:05:06Z</updated>
<summary>finished off the 2nd biker in between making casserole and dressing today:


And I got started on the last gang member:

Now it's time to got eat turkey</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More FUUK-Tarts</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=341"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=341</id>
<updated>2007-11-22T01:44:11Z</updated>
<summary>Made good progress on the other biker tonight:
</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title> . . .man eaters on motor bikes</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=339"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=339</id>
<updated>2007-11-20T23:03:32Z</updated>
<summary>3/5 of the gang is done</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vrooom!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=332"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=332</id>
<updated>2007-11-20T09:32:35Z</updated>
<summary>A little progress on the 2008 FK-1 </summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>we are the hell-cats nobody likes. . .</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=328"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=328</id>
<updated>2007-11-18T23:12:51Z</updated>
<summary>This project is another bunch of girls, to be sent off to the UK for the Frothers gang-fight demo at Salute '08</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>and the leotard makes 8</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=327"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=327</id>
<updated>2007-11-18T23:05:34Z</updated>
<summary>It's finishing touches time on the last of the Gun Street Girls </summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the Girls of November</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=321"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=321</id>
<updated>2007-11-17T02:04:37Z</updated>
<summary>Been another sporadic week, but I finally settled down and finished this lot this evening</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lead slinging ladies</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=302"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=302</id>
<updated>2007-11-08T23:05:41Z</updated>
<summary>It has been a bit sporadic this week</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>just a bunch of girls.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=280"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=280</id>
<updated>2007-11-03T23:04:47Z</updated>
<summary>I really like the way these came out</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gun Street Girls</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=279"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=279</id>
<updated>2007-11-02T23:11:13Z</updated>
<summary>I originally got these to do as a street gang for a demo-game to be run at Salute next year, however I came up with a different idea that I liked better for that project, so now I have a bunch of Mr</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>penultimate amazons</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=275"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=275</id>
<updated>2007-10-31T19:17:18Z</updated>
<summary>I've been jacked up on cold medicine for two days, so I haven't trusted myself to do the freehand on the last 4 shields</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tired of hearing about amazons yet?</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=269"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=269</id>
<updated>2007-10-29T22:16:18Z</updated>
<summary>I woke up sick this morning</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Amazons</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=264"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=264</id>
<updated>2007-10-28T23:32:19Z</updated>
<summary>metals, crests, &#38; hair done</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Amazons, the second coming</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=259"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=259</id>
<updated>2007-10-28T01:16:05Z</updated>
<summary>The rest of the Amazons are underway


</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Athena WIP - the end is nigh</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=257"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=257</id>
<updated>2007-10-25T23:26:43Z</updated>
<summary>Finished the metals, re-did her crest, and finished the shield (motif  based on Athenian coins )</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Naked Ladies</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=241"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=241</id>
<updated>2007-10-22T11:20:57Z</updated>
<summary>Its frustrating when I discover I need a color of paint that I don't have once a project is going, rather than before I start it</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>artemis WIP 2</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=240"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=240</id>
<updated>2007-10-21T12:47:26Z</updated>
<summary>I worked out the midtones, and took the edge off the shadows a bit, and now I am quite happy with her flesh tones</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Athena (n&#233;e artemis)</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=237"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=237</id>
<updated>2007-10-20T12:14:05Z</updated>
<summary>A quick sneak peak at Hasslefree's Artemis, who is going in with my Cult of Athena / amazons</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Eulen nach Athen tragen  (amazon WIP)</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=234"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=234</id>
<updated>2007-10-18T23:50:58Z</updated>
<summary>I'm doing these 'amazons' as a warrior cult of Athena</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Need advice on Amazons!</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=233"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=233</id>
<updated>2007-10-18T10:46:07Z</updated>
<summary>I'm working on a batch of  Amazons from Fortress Figures and having a bit of painters block</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Spoiled Rotten by Hasslefree</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=229"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=229</id>
<updated>2007-10-17T13:33:53Z</updated>
<summary>As I sit here and wait for orders from two companies in the UK, I realize that HF have spoiled me</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Progress  of varying sorts.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=226"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=226</id>
<updated>2007-10-16T22:55:41Z</updated>
<summary>I didn't actually get any painting done tonight, but I did finish my verdigris tutorial!

 Juno is proofreading it, and after whatever edits need to be made after I get it back from her, it'll be done and ready to go</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Copper Acetate;   It's the water.</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=224"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=224</id>
<updated>2007-10-16T10:28:57Z</updated>
<summary> I'm about 80% done with a tutorial I'm writing for 'Wargames Painting And Modelling' on verdigris</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lame</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=222"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=222</id>
<updated>2007-10-15T21:00:36Z</updated>
<summary>nothing seems to render right in Firefox</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the good the bad and the primer</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=221"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=221</id>
<updated>2007-10-15T20:52:43Z</updated>
<summary>GW changed their black primer a while back</summary>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The sound of one hand blogging</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=220"/>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blog.php?user=blackfly&amp;note=220</id>
<updated>2007-10-15T20:39:52Z</updated>
<summary>So I get a blog since I support CMON</summary>
</entry>
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