What if the Great War never happened?

What if world war one never happened? This question is asked in this NPR posting

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/11/285915312/a-world-without-wwi-featuring-music-man-lenin-and-herbalist-hitler

Comes with a 9 minute long recording.

Finished up the Sci-fi dude from last week.

Finished up basing the buy from last week.

I really like how the dark green and orange contrast. Think I will keep it up for my sci-fi crew once/if warlord games every starts releasing there BGOA range of sci-fi mins.

also need to get a camera because the phone just isn't cutting it.

GOA "Hansa Nairoba" And WM Mechanic

These are two figs I worked on last night. The Privateer press Kordor Mechanic just got some touch ups.

the other Model is from Warlord games "beyond the Gates of Antares" Hansa Nairoba model. One of the only figs to come out from the failed kickstarter. Apparently Rick Priestley is getting WLG's to give him another chance, and they are working on getting a new range of Sci-fi mins along with new rules out. We shell see what comes of that.

But I am getting side tracked. haven't been able to get much painting done as of late because of school and work but these are the fruit of long distance movie night with the GF.

the Hansa fig needs to be based and some touch ups but, I am happy with it so far. At first I was I was not a fan of Hansa. But while looking over my "mechanic" I noticed there similarity.
I have been using Him as my representative in some traveler games. What was supposed to be a one off character took on a personality that I would like to keep on using in the future.
That of a grimy, lecherous, Expert mechanic in are citizen X campaign.
He is crude, usually drunk, but some how always gets that little extra out of the ship and isn't to bad in a scrap ether.
But what I was lacking was a suitably military looking fig for the down and dirty operations when its all combat. So the Hansa fig works perfectly for that.

Op Red Wings. Photo Memories

Photo Memories

Some of you may or may not know, that I was on Op Red Wings as part of a regional QRF. I was in Charlie company 2-504 PIR(parachute infantry regiment) 82nd Airborne.

In light of the new movie "Lone survivor", I thought I would share a few photos from that operation. None of the pics will show any thing that is sensitive or graphic. Just patrols.
I didn't do any thing heroic or "Cool" up there, just did my job. And by the grace of god, luck or what ever you believe in, none of my buddies were lost up on that mountain.

The first pic is just before we Ex-filled. We had to walk off the hill and wait for Gunship and ground support before we could leave.
We were kind of screwing around at this point. And don't worry, we had lots of dudes pulling security at this time and we just got back from doing a resupply run in the valley. So we dropped kit.

Loading up to go in.

Back view of a "Shit-Hook" As you can see lots of Afghanistan can be pretty green.

Joint patrol in the valley with ANA, Just to let you know it was the height of summer so the temp was hitting an average of 110-120 degrees.

This is a photo a patrol on the mountains.

And this is a photo of me.

And this is a photo of me.

I didn't take any of the photos and the ones I have were giving to me by some of my Airborne buddies.

more delays

Sorry folks,
My attempted to get more painting done these past few weekends have been side tracked by helping my brother move to a new place. This is good news in that I can now move into his old place on the cheap. Bad news is, that I am busying packing things up again.

Good news is that I was able to get a VSF game in last weekend along trying out the new "Fire Fly" Board game. Both games were fun, with lots of smack talking, dice rolling and fun times. To Cap it off got to watch "Desolation of smug" Twice and turned in my two week notice at work.

Signed up for classes so I will be a student again this time next month. Wish me luck on that front. And to cap it off, I have knocked out about 10 hours of (research) Playing fallout new Vegas.

To all the best, and kind regards.

The Commissar.

Up dates.

A lot has been happening on my end as usually, friends and family visiting for the holidays. Punk and rock shows to see and school coming to a close for winter has zapped most of my free time.
That being said on to the hobby front.

Sadly the "1933: A Nation Divided", Kickstarter didn't make it. So Back to the Drawing board with a less ambitious one to get the book out next time.

In the mean time, I am not going to let all of the plastic-vile buildings I ordered go to waste. So I am thinking I might bite the bullet and start a fallout new vegas project. Stay tuned on that one.

Also I have rekindled my interest in 15mm sci-fi. So I will be trying to get those painted up and posted as I get them.
And finally on the kick starter front, I am looking into the "Total Extinction" One.
Looks cool. But I am not sure if I want to drop money on another kickstarter when I should be getting stuff for the family.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sentinelgames/total-extinction-battle-for-karnak

Here is a link.

Irish army in the Field, 1933

IRISH ARMY IN THE FIELD