daddyo
Senior Member

if you saw my login, it was because my wife was using my computer.
it's been a year-long recovery, and i hope it goes well.
there i was, minding my own business, and watching the rest of the knuckleheads at work (a US naval shipyard). things were looking good. i was walking down the pier, headed to test some comm gear on the ship when a poorly rigged pallet of materials fell from the gantry crane 50 feet onto the pier. and guess who was in the bounce zone?
we wear different

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Hmmm. Maybe I should have been a little more explicit in my photo captions. But, I actually have had a couple of comments on them. Yes, I know the pics are crappy. They were most likely taken after a long night at Trafalgar's Club in Athens (throwing darts and drinking free kamikazes). And, yes, I am fully aware that "Spot the dragon" is shown unpainted. I apologise for his nekkidness on a minis-painting forum. He was in the batch, and got loaded up with the rest of them. If you could

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Okay, so I'm lazy. Or just too busy at the moment doing other stuff. Who knows?Anyway, I have managed to find some old (ca 1988 or so...) pics of some of my ealry efforts. As soon as I can get scanner time, I'll get them posted. Then let the criticism begin!I really need to get a digital camera. Film is great, especially when I break out the macro lenses, but I never seem to get the films developed. Thus the box containing some 65 or so rolls of film. Who knows _what_ is on them...The cold has finally

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Hello? Is this thing on?Okay, so this is a noob's first attempt at making some kind of sense out of this blog thing.I've been painting figures (oops, sorry - they're called minis now) for nearly as long as I've been playing D and D. It was called Chainmail then.  (1975) Yes, it rather dates me, but I don't give a monkey's armpit about opinions on that subject, and it is not up for discussion. (My son says I was there when dirt was a prototype. No, I was on the test team though.)What I will

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