Finally got around to getting a new camera. And finally got around to updating the site! Picked these guys up at Origins 08, been slowly working on them since then... Now they're about done, just need to finish up the bases. And I wanted to see how the new camera handles pics of minis. So here we are!

• Pics of some Rackham minis I pickd way back in July at Origins
• Pics of a large terrain piece I have in progress right now

Well, as usual been too busy to give this site the time it deserves! I can't even remember the last time I painted any minis or worked on terrain. In the good old days I'd be approaching prime time for that sort of thing during the Christmas break, but these days I only get a few days off during the holidays. With a full time job plus a side business, not much time!

Plus it doesn't help that the new XBox 360 update came out - I'm not much of a console game, but the netflix tie-in is awesome - I've been watching Heroes that way, plus going through all sorts of odd stuff I've found and added to my instant queue.

And as usual after some time away I've gotten back into Hearts of Iron II - this time playing as the USSR in the TRP (The Realism Project) mod. I'd briefly tried the mod a while back, but my old computer just couldn't run it at a playable speed. The new one has no problem at all, so I thought I'd try it out. 

My first try as Italy didn't go so well, and I burned out. Basically, I got sucked into war with Germany by an alliance with Yugoslavia. And the Allies weren't helping at all. I probably could have gotten a stalemate, but that's boring.

So I restarted as the USSR, always one of my favorites because you're a major power with lots of resources, and hardly any navy to screw around with. For some reason I have a hard time managing navies in the HoI2. This game is interesting - Germany initially got held up about a year before taking out France. Then, instead of turning on the USSR, they invaded the UK! Never see that before HoI. Bored, I decided to attack while they were busy with that.

It's 1945 and I've managed to take all of poland, and to knock Hungary out of the war. But Germany and I are more or less stalemated, and I've been working on taking Romania and Yuogslavia out of the war. One problem I had is that the tech tree is quite a bit different in the mod, and I found myself in 1945 with 1939 armor units! Not helpful for the offensive, that's for sure. So with some concentrated research perhaps I can finally break the stalemate and make the world red :)

• Fallout 3
• Total War Empires
• Fable II
• GTA IV and Bully (PC editions)

I recently bought and have been playing the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft. So far I'd rate it "more of the same", but I haven't even hit 71 yet. Some of the vehicle missions are pretty fun! I've also played the demo of Left 4 Dead - pretty sweet! Makes me want to run a zombie game. I did buy All Things Zombie , but as with so many things, I never manage to get time to pay it, even solo much less with others.

Plus I've been wanting to work on some more gaming terrain. Real life just keeps interfering. And with the holidays approaching, I doubt things will get any better!