I will no longer be blogging on the archaic and annoying coolminiornot system. I have moved the blog to http://blog.madponies.net via blogger.com which is far more user friendly. I'll miss the random comments I got from people who saw my posts via the CMON sidebar, but if you've ever enjoyed looking at my stuff, why not come along and subscribe to the RSS feed at new place? I'll still be posting finished work to my cmon gallery, but current project logs, WIPs, etc, will now be over there...

Actually, it all began with painting green plastic army men with my Testors model paints. Then the viking game pieces from Crossbows and Catapults. Then I bought the 30 MK7 marines box. Thats where this whole thing really started for me. I had some craft paints, and after paging through a friend's copy of Rogue Trader I decided the dark angels looked cool. A trip down to the basement turned up the pieces; I had to glue him back together for this shot:
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Round the horn! Here's to the demise of winter for one more year. To celebrate, I finished the Elf on Stag. Well actually that was finished because the recipient's birthday is this week, so it seemed timely to get it wrapped up. Proper pictures will follow tonight. My Empire forces got to trot out to a lopside (1100 vs 1400) battle this weekend and snatched a victory from the Dogs of War in our fledgling campaign. No newly painted units were fielded for either army, though my Rebellion archers continue to show up in 100% of the games I've played since they were painted. Here is a look at the battle field and the forces arrayed against me:...

So now that I got the hats straightened out, I was able to get some final photos of Marshal Ney and staff. (also votable)

MadPonies Charity Auction:
28th Gloucester Regiment Officer - 1916
and 28th Gloucester Regiment Officer - 1805.