Dremel *whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir*
IGOTADREMELWOO!
I decided to buy my Birthday gift to myself a little early this year and ended up at Home Depot picking up a Dremel XPR400 superkit(the deluxe kit just included a bunch of bits that I'd never use). It has the cool extension arm/pen grip attachment that will make cutting through small pieces of soft pewter, and grinding away at the unwanted legs/arms/heads/insignia of my small metal legions a breeze. I picked up some cool saw attachments as well as a set of decent looking drill bits for dropping pins into my models to hold them stable. If I ever buy that digital camera with macro capability that I've been wanting for ages I'd actually post some pictures of the stuff I work on in my basement lair.
Two weeks without World of Warcraft
Yeah I stopped playing for the most part. I've still got my account active, I just haven't logged in for raids. Of course Eve still has been, which has made it all the more difficult for me to try and cut myself off from it completely. I've somehow found myself going from "I'm stopping altogether" to "Maybe I can cut down to like one or two nights a week". Sigh, I'm an addict. :(
Hordes!
Lately I've been getting into this cool tabletop game called Warmachine. Set in the Iron Kingdoms it's kind of a Warhammer 40,000 meets Magic: The Gathering as far as the systems go, and it's STEAMPUNK(I <3 Steampunk). I thought it was cool in that $40 nets you a starter set with between 3 and 5 figures that consitutes a complete starter army that you can actually sit down and play the game with(unlike warhammer where it's at least a $120 investment just to play a very small, very unfun game. That $120 is a very liberal estimate btw, it's usually a lot higher).
Anyhow Hordes is the new game from the makers of Warmachine. It's basically just like Warmachine, only instead of giant steam-powered robots you have huge hulking monsters. While it is sort of a Warhammer Fantasy to Warhammer 40,000 sort of deal, Hordes and Warmachine actually take place on the same world, at the same time. The rules systems are completely interchangable and a Hordes force can play against a Warmachine force with no issues. I'm really fond of that part myself. ;)
So I picked up a Skorne starter set. Joel got suckered into Legion of Everblight, and Tor(the one responsible for my descent into the Warmachine world) picked up the Trollbloods box.
If you've never heard of either Warmachine, Hordes, or the Iron Kingdoms(a D20 setting). www.privateer.press Is where the info is at.
Guild Wars: Factions
If you were into Guild Wars at all and have not checked out Factions(the new pseudo-expansion/thing) I'd recommend it. I found it to be far more entertaining than standard Guild Wars. It's a little more lenient on the solo player, the two new classes are pretty neat(I've always been fond of assassins however), and the new artwork in the game is pretty much stellar.
I decided to buy my Birthday gift to myself a little early this year and ended up at Home Depot picking up a Dremel XPR400 superkit(the deluxe kit just included a bunch of bits that I'd never use). It has the cool extension arm/pen grip attachment that will make cutting through small pieces of soft pewter, and grinding away at the unwanted legs/arms/heads/insignia of my small metal legions a breeze. I picked up some cool saw attachments as well as a set of decent looking drill bits for dropping pins into my models to hold them stable. If I ever buy that digital camera with macro capability that I've been wanting for ages I'd actually post some pictures of the stuff I work on in my basement lair.
Two weeks without World of Warcraft
Yeah I stopped playing for the most part. I've still got my account active, I just haven't logged in for raids. Of course Eve still has been, which has made it all the more difficult for me to try and cut myself off from it completely. I've somehow found myself going from "I'm stopping altogether" to "Maybe I can cut down to like one or two nights a week". Sigh, I'm an addict. :(
Hordes!
Lately I've been getting into this cool tabletop game called Warmachine. Set in the Iron Kingdoms it's kind of a Warhammer 40,000 meets Magic: The Gathering as far as the systems go, and it's STEAMPUNK(I <3 Steampunk). I thought it was cool in that $40 nets you a starter set with between 3 and 5 figures that consitutes a complete starter army that you can actually sit down and play the game with(unlike warhammer where it's at least a $120 investment just to play a very small, very unfun game. That $120 is a very liberal estimate btw, it's usually a lot higher).
Anyhow Hordes is the new game from the makers of Warmachine. It's basically just like Warmachine, only instead of giant steam-powered robots you have huge hulking monsters. While it is sort of a Warhammer Fantasy to Warhammer 40,000 sort of deal, Hordes and Warmachine actually take place on the same world, at the same time. The rules systems are completely interchangable and a Hordes force can play against a Warmachine force with no issues. I'm really fond of that part myself. ;)
So I picked up a Skorne starter set. Joel got suckered into Legion of Everblight, and Tor(the one responsible for my descent into the Warmachine world) picked up the Trollbloods box.
If you've never heard of either Warmachine, Hordes, or the Iron Kingdoms(a D20 setting). www.privateer.press Is where the info is at.
Guild Wars: Factions
If you were into Guild Wars at all and have not checked out Factions(the new pseudo-expansion/thing) I'd recommend it. I found it to be far more entertaining than standard Guild Wars. It's a little more lenient on the solo player, the two new classes are pretty neat(I've always been fond of assassins however), and the new artwork in the game is pretty much stellar.