This Could Use a Little More GrimDark.

If you understand this picture, you probably don't want to admit it, or i've talked with you too much recently.

The First Rule Of Chess Club...

found this here

For Your Own Safety Please Keep At Least Ten Feet From The Bird While It is Discharging Lightning

Thebes the Goblin Artificer/Sorceror, and his pet familiar, Roary the Robin.
Slightly Addled, with a penchant for smoking an ivory pipe.

Still very unfinished and unpainted, mostly kit bashed, the grey is molded and knife shaped plastic, and all of the green is handsculpted 2-part modeling epoxy.

This is not really to be considered "art" just sheer geekiness for interested parties.

p.s. scariest robin ever, your not sure why.

Giant Monsters Go Rawr.

There's a game soon to be released called Monsterpocalypse. It comes with giant monsters of a variety of flavors, Godzilla lizards, Cthulu Beasties, Martian Walkers, Glowing Mutant Karate Men, Robots, Flying Saucers, and the list goes on all humongus. They even come with little buildings to destroy and hurl your opponent monsters into. All on a city streets map/board.

So anyways the game designers set up a blog but took the interesting step of not talking about anything in the actual game itself, instead the blog is entirely devoted to the giant monster genre as a whole,and it's pretty interesting.

If you like the idea of giant things smashing other giant things, while horrified populace run screaming about, check it out:

http://giantmonstersattack.blogspot.com/

Naval Gazing

I broke open, seperated, and sorted over 1200 WW2 Warships, planes, and submarines, none of which was longer than 7 inches.

and then i had to do the same with an equal number of corresponding cards.

All by myself, excepting a couple hundred cards right at the end.

but, to be clear i'm not complaining, it just seems like an odd way to spend a Monday.

Tiny but obsessive compulsive

So i learned an interesting fact about one of the games i play today. Its just a simple WW2 historical naval game w/ little pre-painted ships. kind of dumb but a fun way to kill time.

somebody with more time and inclination than i (and if i have learned anything it is that there are always such individuals on the Internet no matter the subject) compiled a list of actual measurements of the ships in the game and compared them to the lengths of the pieces.

Lo and behold every single ship with only 3 exceptions out of 120 is an accurate 1:1800 scale within a 2% margin of error.

This is amazing to me, this is a game which i thought paid only lip service to any actual accuracy, e.g. big ships bigger, small ships smaller, furthermore this astounding accuracy is utterly superfluous. (and not in the sense that any board game in all reality is more or less superfluous, haha) The game itself uses squares on the board and only two ships no matter how big or small can fit in a square, distance is only ever measured by squares.

maybe this doesn't interest anyone else as much as me, but i just feel better knowing that someone out there, or more likely a team of someones spent countless hours making something to an exact specification for the sake of there own amusement, and never proclaiming this feat of microengineering anywhere at all.