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Welcome back to the blog! Well, I spent a lot of time, and a lot of effort to get my lovely zeppelins done for the Mechanicon '10 in (West Chester, PA). I had spend a lot of late evenings, adding fiddly bits to the models and painting, painting, painting. So much so I made myself sick from lack of sleep and probably too much caffeine.Well what for? Why go through all of this trouble? To make

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Hi all and welcome back! So today I finally got my model kits of the zeppelin airships completed. I just finished my rivets on the engine mountings and took everything (sans airbags) out to begin priming them for painting tomorrow. I will be working on the cockpits first with the 2 crew for each one, then placing the aircraft glass in and gluing the ceilings on and beginning the exterior.The

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Well, A few days ago, I posted about my getting back to the modeling of my zeppelins. Its been one week and I am almost all but done! All of the rivets are in place and just the engine mountings remain. I am used sooo many magnets that I am sure my poor hemoglobin will never be the same again. Today I had spent the better part building the additional weapon mountings I would need if I want to

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Over the summer I would set aside my Xacto knife and bitz and get out into the fresh air and go hiking, camping and hit people with swords. I participate in Live Action Role Playing. The LARP I currently play is called Alliance. The chapter closest to me is the headquarters chapter in northern Pennsylvania. I am a staff member there and I am the head of their props department. I am responsible

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For those of you who followed my blog and then watched it drop off for the summer; fear not! I am back for another season of modeling converting and hobbying. I have completed my obligation to Alliance LARP one more season and I can get back to some of the things I have wanted to do, but haven't had the time. First thing on my roster of stuff I want to do: Zeppelins. I promised that I was

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Hi All. It's been quite a while with my summer being rather busy. Now that things are slowing down and I am getting more into the modeling mindset I will be posting some new pictures of my continuation of project Zeppelins! I have build the hulls and put 20 magnets into the structure so I can break it down for storage. I am hoping to the the non-gasbag parts into two army transport trays. (

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I promised that I would tell you guys a little more about the work I do for Alliance LARP. About 5 or 6 years ago my girl friend had been taken to play the live action role playing game (at that time called NERO, now called Alliance). She had a great time and loved it; and there for I gave it a shot. She had gone all out and bought a nice set of leather armor from some site online for about

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Well here we are for another installment of the bitz box. A friend of mine had seen the suggestion about pre-heresy jump / flight packs. He went on and on about how we could probably use the thrust stabilizers from a Drop pod or Valkyrie model. So I was given the task of seeing what could be done. So I didnt have any extra stabilizers floating about at this time, so I had to resort to making

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Hi All. I have been remiss in my duties of blogging on the internet due to the affairs of many obligations and not enough time to do it all.For the store we have been doing a lot of spring cleaning. I have been working on a news letter for the store called "This week at the Guild" where I promote the events at the store, local gaming clubs, conventions, a classified section. Since I am the guy

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Back in the saddle again. Tonight's installment will be showing you guys how I have been going about my zeppelin air bags to help keep my guys in the air. The frames for my bags were made of foam core. (illustration board sheets with a thin layer of foam in between. My test frame was made with three side ribs. Although it let me figure out how I would make the side supports, It was in no way

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I have been a little remiss in getting new picts up here. It's my fault, totally. With the store newsletter I have been spending all of my night time on getting it up to speed. Now that I have it more under control I can show you some of what I have been working on when I have a little down time during my "day work" hours. I included a shot of the completed Multiple Launch Rocket Pods for my

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Well I am finally back to the zeppelins. After much searching online for bits and pieces for my upcoming kits I had managed to score a mess of parts I will need for momre of my future conversions. Will all of the hubbub at the store over the last two weeks, surfing the web and dreaming at night over a coldly lit computer screen was all I have been able to do. The store newsletter has taken

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We have a newsletter we have recently reestablished at the Adventurers Guild again. In our letter "this week at the guild" we have begun a "tale of four gamers" series of articles. We have had a great response to our call and a bunch of the guys are committing to doing pre-heresy armies. I had promised to do the Thousand Sons when I got other guys to begin making pre-heresy stuff as well.So I

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I have not gotten much done this past week as I was really busy in the store handling customer issues and getting our D&D World premier day coupled with a 30,000 point Apocalypse style game. A customer for a very long time was also back for his week of spring break from West Point to spend time with his family and to get in a few games at the store.The reason I am writing all of this? What does

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Welcome to part two of my foray into the world of IG airships. Today I will be showing WIP of the control deck and cabin. I wanted my WWI airships to have a feel about them of being pulled from a pulp adventure a little more than from real life. To this end I am making a cabin large enough to have two souls within. The Airship Captain and his First Gunner. The airships hull is going to be

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This next piece is my side project I had begun some time ago. I was going to redo my Tau army. I had created an Invader Zim style army, where the tau had green skin, little antennae, and red eyes. The were fantastic. I took them to the Baltimore GT back in 2002(?) I think. On with the show... I had decided to redeux the army based on a Slann theme. A Slann was going my Ethereal, Skinks

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Zeppelin you ask? Well, let me explain. I have been working on my Vostroyan IG Army, off and on, for the last two years. I get caught up in the muse and I go for a while. I get a mass of creativity down, then with the weight of the store on me, slow down and move on to another project that I needto do for a customer or the store.I had always wanted to make Valkyries for my army, but since I was

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Here is the next installment from out of the vaults from my mighty Vostroyan Archive. This is my Hellhound / Chimera chassis. I wanted to take the look from the FT-17 light tanks of World War 1.These two man tanks were some of the first light tanks. These are perfect for my chimera chassis. Why go with something so small? Where is the transport capacity?There is something on the transport

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Well I tried to take a further step into the aether know as the blogosphere. to quote Charlie Brown "Aaaaargh!" I wanted to include a slide show of picts of my painted Vostroyan Army. I went to add the gadget and opened an account in photobucket... and I can not grasp the concept of getting it so sync up with my blog, find my pictures once I loaded them on a general search, or just be able to

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For my next installment I want to show a piece I did for my patron, Tammy Little. Tammy is a very nice woman who for a time absolutely adores dragons.This was the first project she ever contracted with me. It was a vinyl kit that she purchased from the internet. It turned out that the kit was a copy of a vinyl kit. (sadly a knock off) . I was contracted to assemble and paint this kit for

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This is the fortress of the Eagles. It was built for a Apocalypse game we had at our store, the Adventurer's Guild. The fortress was over 6 foot long with roughly 20 Imperial Bastions, 2 Shrines of the Aquila, 1 Landing platform, and additional parts from the Plastruct line of plastic products.It took me and my assistant (Brad) over 4 weeks to get the design down. we worked with the apocalypse

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With my Vostroyan army being built in full swing. I set upon my greatest task to date. My demolisher tank, affectionately known as "the beast". In the process of me developing my army I like to make lots of sketches and to work through the process of my desires vs. reasonable practical application. my desire was to create a tank that was reminiscent of a MKI Tank from WWI, but with a turret on

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Now that I have begun my foray into the blogging world. It's time for me to begin showcasing some of my old work before I show some of my current projects. I like to think of it as showing you some of what I have done; a work history if you will, letting you get an idea of how I process this sort of thing and work through my problems. So on with the show!This is Bertha. The basilisk for my

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For some time now I have been modeling and converting figures. I have most spent time converting predominantly warhammer 40,000 figures. I love the Imperial Guard. For the romanticism of basic humans defending the Imperium without genetic modification, and without the coolest technology to help them in their noble task. But I also love the look of them! Imperial Guard by far have more different

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