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<p>... taken from &quot;Liar, Liar&quot;, The Movie.</p><p>Here's photo I promised showing the finished powerklaw. Pretty eh? I'll finish the bottom blade after it's affixed to the model. The only thing that bothers me in the photos is the shine, but I know it'll be knocked out when I Dullcoat...

<p>I'm sure you folks are getting as bored of the Stormboy Nob as you are of the Amazons. At least the Amazons are naked, right? :-)<br /> <br /> I put in an hour last night and finished some work on the big shoota and the powerklaw. I worked on some different techniques for brass and I'm not...

<p>As promised last week, I took photos last night of our yearly yard decoration for Halloween. Why yesterday and not today? Mother Nature. It seems she doesn't want to cooperate this year. Todays forecast is cold and windy. Since our setup for Halloween night uses three smoke generators, part...

<p>Got a little more time last night so I worked on the Stormboy again. Finished up the Scorpion Green highlighting and called it good.<br /> <br /> <img width="300" height="292" border="0" title="Power Klaw Arm" alt="Power Klaw Arm" src="http://www.bigshoota.com/blog-photos/arm-right.jpg" /><br...

I went back last night a blacklined the wrappings and finished up the lip ring. Itried a NMM on the ring and it turned out, ehhhh, ok. I think I'll have to start my testing on NMM with a larger area. Better luck next time, I guess.<br /> <br /> <img border="0"...

<p>I've started work on my Stormboy Nob. I usually start with the head, gives me something to look at, a character referece if you will, while I paint the rest of the model. The face is the most important part of a model and if it doesn't impart the character of the model, it just won't work...

<p>As I mentioned in a previous blog my friends and I only play Warhammer 40K from October to April to as the summer months here in Minnesota are taken up with yardwork, house projects and travel. This last weekend was our first Gameday of the '07-'08 season. <br /> <br /> We had three new(ish)...

<p>My hobby swing has come back around to the 40K and miniatures world. This weeks obsession is with terrain. </p><p>My gaming group doesn't play 40K very often, maybe 5-6 times a year, so I like to have new and interesting terrian to play on each time. This makes it easier to justify the...

It's that time of year again. Vampires start waking from their coffins, werewolves get the itch and zombies burst forth from the ground looking for brains. Halloween is almost here so that means I spend half a day going up and down ladders getting tombstones and containers of decorations...

<p>I've been a bit remiss in my modeling updates, heck, I've been remiss in my modeling - period. My compulsive behavior has shifted from WH40K and modeling to D&amp;D recently.</p><p>I run a homegrown campaign with my kids and their friends. I have a general outline of the overall story arc but...

<p>To understand this post you will need the information provided at these places:<br /> <br /> Leaked Codex: Ork (Speculation)<br /> <a href="http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26658" target="_blank">http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26658</a><br /> <br />...

<p>I started my &quot;colorful&quot; kan by blocking in the major colors so I could get a feel for how it'll work. I've primed this one white since I'm not metalizing the whole thing. The colors are primer white, Deneb Stone, Mechrite Re and Chaos Black. Yes, I'm working primarily in GW/Citadel...

I recently started work on a squad of Killer Kans to fill out a couple hundred points for my tournament army. About a year ago I assembled/painted three Ork Dreadnoughts but did so in a bit of a rush. Simple black with metallic drybrushing, a standard 5 or maybe a 5.5 here on CMON. Now that my...

What good is a blog if you don't update it?! <br /> <br /> I've finished up a big squad of 16 Stormboyz (whew!). This is the first time I've worked with composite models (plastic/metal) and my, what a pain! I thought the bond between metal parts was fragile, but it seems looking at a...

<p>I've finally gotten around to a reworking of my Big Shoota website. Redesigned to get you to want you want faster! I also have all new photos of my Ork Army, Red Jacks Waaagh!<br /> </p><p>You see, i work at an ad agency and we've got a really nice camera, a Canon EOS 5D with a nice 28-135mm...

Number one in a long list of observations that I find interesting. Sometimes I'll put a name to such observations such as this one I call the CMON Mass Effect.<br /> <br /> I'm sure there's away to mathematically project this and it may be interesting someday to work out all the angles but for...

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>I finally had a chance to hear/read all of the noise made at GenCon about the unveiling of 4th Edition D&amp;D. I'm somewhat excited about the things they mentioned &ndash; all but one.</p><p>Things I liked were streamlining of combat. Their focus on removing (or at least...

Hello all mini-painters! I know most of you have jobs and interests other than miniature painting (NO!) and I\'m making a plea to all of you who appreciate a good visual scavenger hunt and a bit of trivia to help me out here. Every year our local college radio station runs a 50 hour trivia...