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<title>Blog posts for blackfly</title>
<link href="http://blog.coolminiornot.com"/>
<updated>1969-12-31T18:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
 
    						<name>blackfly</name>

  						</author>
<id>http://blog.coolminiornot.com/blackfly/</id>
<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>2008-07-19T02:19:04Z</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>2008-07-10T02:25:24Z</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>2008-07-08T01:21:09Z</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>2008-07-03T01:59:24Z</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>2008-07-01T00:03:02Z</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>2008-06-27T16:22:41Z</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>2008-06-11T11:11:28Z</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>2008-06-09T23:51:20Z</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>2008-05-15T01:42:35Z</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>2008-05-14T01:44:25Z</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>2008-05-12T01:01:53Z</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>2008-05-08T01:12:35Z</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>2008-05-06T02:09:51Z</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>2008-05-04T18:42:25Z</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>2008-05-02T01:19:25Z</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>2008-05-01T11:10:09Z</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>2008-04-21T01:35:19Z</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>2008-04-19T01:07:16Z</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>2008-04-17T11:14:42Z</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>2008-04-15T23:39:07Z</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>2008-04-08T10:54:27Z</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>2008-04-07T18:21:17Z</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>2008-04-06T15:23:01Z</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>2008-04-04T01:59:16Z</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>2008-04-03T00:58:27Z</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>2008-04-02T01:08:56Z</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>2008-04-01T11:28:18Z</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>2008-03-31T19:37:01Z</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>2008-03-30T20:01:33Z</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>2008-03-18T02:20:31Z</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>2008-03-15T19:59:57Z</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>2008-03-05T00:43:08Z</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>2008-03-02T19:56:24Z</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>2008-02-29T11:00:31Z</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>2008-02-25T20:22:48Z</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>2008-02-12T15:58:14Z</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>2008-02-11T11:47:56Z</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>2008-02-10T03:46:28Z</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>2008-02-09T03:51:13Z</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>2008-02-08T10:52:08Z</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>2008-02-07T12:19:29Z</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>2008-02-06T16:53:00Z</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>2008-02-05T01:47:04Z</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>2008-02-04T00:05:37Z</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>2008-02-03T17:37:15Z</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>2008-02-03T02:24:09Z</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>2008-02-01T01:05:48Z</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>2008-01-31T00:14:48Z</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>2008-01-29T23:46:16Z</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>2008-01-28T16:43:38Z</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>2008-01-25T00:09:50Z</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>2008-01-21T19:43:16Z</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>2008-01-21T02:37:43Z</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>2008-01-20T02:21:48Z</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>2008-01-17T00:44:19Z</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>2008-01-16T11:17:39Z</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>2008-01-13T21:23:46Z</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>2008-01-07T00:57:40Z</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>2007-12-31T18:58:26Z</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>2007-12-30T14:51:46Z</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>2007-12-30T14:12:40Z</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>2007-12-29T14:47:24Z</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>2007-12-15T19:34:41Z</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>2007-12-12T01:24:51Z</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>2007-12-10T00:56:18Z</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>2007-12-08T18:54:20Z</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>2007-12-08T02:31:22Z</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>2007-12-07T02:00:20Z</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>2007-12-04T10:36:22Z</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>2007-12-03T15:08:11Z</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>2007-12-01T20:14:51Z</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>2007-11-30T21:36:37Z</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>2007-11-30T01:33:59Z</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>2007-11-28T16:41:04Z</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>2007-11-27T01:30:23Z</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>2007-11-25T22:59:59Z</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>2007-11-25T00:15:53Z</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>2007-11-24T02:19:15Z</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>2007-11-24T02:14:21Z</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>2007-11-22T18:05:06Z</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>2007-11-22T03:44:11Z</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>2007-11-21T01:03:32Z</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>2007-11-20T11:32:35Z</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>2007-11-19T01:12:51Z</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>2007-11-19T01:05:34Z</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>2007-11-17T04:04:37Z</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>2007-11-09T01:05:41Z</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>2007-11-04T01:04:47Z</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>2007-11-03T01:11:13Z</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>2007-10-31T21:17:18Z</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>2007-10-30T00:16:18Z</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>2007-10-29T01:32:19Z</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>2007-10-28T03:16:05Z</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>2007-10-26T01:26:43Z</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>2007-10-22T13:20:57Z</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>2007-10-21T14:47:26Z</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>2007-10-20T14:14:05Z</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>2007-10-19T01:50:58Z</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>2007-10-18T12:46:07Z</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>2007-10-17T15:33:53Z</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>2007-10-17T00:55:41Z</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>2007-10-16T12:28:57Z</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>2007-10-15T23:00:36Z</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>2007-10-15T22:52:43Z</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>2007-10-15T22:39:52Z</updated>
<summary>So I get a blog since I support CMON</summary>
</entry>
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