It has been a little time since I have updated my blog. Had to take a break from a couple different things and have not really had much of a chance to work on this lately.

Things that I have been working on or looking to work on:

Stargrave: The new game system from Osprey has recently come out and I am super interested in it. The fact that it uses generic science fiction figures to do a sort of progressive campaign small crews is what is pulling me towards it. I will more about that a litt...

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Yesterday, I did the final touches for the Kasrkin. At this point they are complete.

On Monday it was all about getting the basing done. I focused primarily on getting all the materials on the miniature’s bases. I started off with some small size rocks for the bases. I attached them with white glue and let them sit overnight. When they had dried the next morning, I then applied the sand to the base of each of the miniatures. Applying the sand, I used white glue mixed with some Brown paint...

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Today was all about doing details on the Kasrkin. to start today off I wanted to kind of get all the bits and pieces done that I've been meaning to do but have just been like niggling little details I haven't had time to actually sit down in iron out and figure out.

I started with the scopes where I take and put red with the yellow highlights on the camera lens. The yellow on the red turned out to be a hefty contrast so I decided to take some red ink and put it over the whole thing. I think ...

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Back about 15 years ago I used to be big into the tournament scene particularly for Warhammer 40K but there were times I would play in other tournaments as well. At the time there was a large program that games workshop used to run called the Rogue Trader tournament program. For those of you who were not around back then the rogue trader tournament system consisted of tournament packages that were supplied by games workshop mostly to stores but on occasion to clubs that would run tournaments ...

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It is Friday and the week is over, and I think I found a solution to my Kasrkin command problem. Been kind of searching here and there for different options. I think I found two of them I am going to work with.

First off, I found a Sergeant On eBay that looks kind of interesting and it was not hugely expensive but the only thing that's kind of a bummer about it is that shipping is going to take a while because it is coming from Russia I believe. But it gives a couple different options for he...

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Coming back into 40K the last sets of games I played were 4th edition which was quite a while ago. I did kind of dip my toes and start with 8th edition, but the pandemic hit I never actually got any games to the table. During the pandemic 9th edition came out and I managed to score myself a rule book. Now I'm going through this and taking a look at the new rules and trying to figure out what's different between these 9th edition rules and what I used to play and 4th Ed.

One thing I find inte...

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Got started today on my new commissar for my Kasrkin Imperial guard army. This one is made by Grim Skull and it's called the Imperial iron commissar. Looking at it it's got some good detail it's all resin very clean cast. Very minimal cleanup needed.

When I was looking at it I was wondering if I should actually go and pin pieces together but when I stuck the sword arm into the arm it went in there with a nice little peg that stuck in there pretty well without any glue and was pretty solidly...

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2-23-21

Making slower progress on the Kasrkin. For the most part I have been doing detail work. On the helmets I did the visors. On the rifles I did the scopes.

Did the skin tones on the sergeants as well.

The picture above is with the base coat and eyes done.

The next thing is the gloves and the data pads. I am starting them by priming them white. Still haven’t figured out what I am going to after that.

On the other hand, I also added some new pieces to the army. In this case I picked...

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Back to the Imperial Guard.

For those that knew me back about 15-20 years ago when I used to play lots of 40k I played a lot of armies. I built a lot more than I played. But there was always a consistent army that I built and played over and over and that was Imperial Guard or as it is known these day Astra Militarium. I lost track of how many plastic Cadians I did but they easily numbered in the 1000s and built dozens of vehicles from the little Sentinels to the Mighty Baneblades. I have ma...

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Last January my buddy Wayne and I got a booth for the GK Flea Market at the Mountain View store. (Little did we know that this was going to be the last Flea Market any of us would ever attend there).

We are setting up our table there and as we are doing so, a guy across from us along with his wife are setting up boxes and boxes of GW products. He then puts a sign up saying that everything on the table is free.

I had been interested in getting back into it for a while, so I go an ask him a...

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Haven't really done much on this page in a bit. I think that it has been nearly 2 years since my last post. Lots of things have happened for us since then. Been playing  lots of board games. Not as much as I would like but we have been doing a bit.

I have been able to acquire some of my Grail games. Some of those include:

• Libertalia
• A Bridge Too Far: Operation Market Garden

• Dune
• China Town
• Wasabi!

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