Month: November 2017

  • Zombicide: Black Plague – Walkers

    As part of the zombie horde, I started with the seven Walker “ladies” from the set, in an effort to batch out the figures.  This approach worked well, though I did vary the colors a bit for some variety. Some of the final combinations worked, some did not.  Not a big fan of the pink…

  • Zombicide: Black Plague – Abomination

    Working on the next round of Zombicide figure painting, wrapping up the unique characters and starting the bulk of the zombie hordes.  First up is the Abomination, base coated and washed, ready for highlighting and cosmetics tonight.  I was concerned initially by the base coat, it appeared rather flat, but the wash effect worked pretty…

  • Webserver troubles

    It may have been noticed, but my website was offline for most of the night yesterday.  I have been reconfiguring my home theatre system, which runs partially on the same system.  In my solution, I have a FreeNAS server, which holds a pair of Ubuntu virtual machines, each of which run pieces of the overall…

  • MtG Tournament results

    Congratulations to George, and his dominating Red deck, who managed to win the first annual Thanksgiving Magic the Gathering competition.  We ended up with 14 participants, which resulted in 4 rounds of games.  Many of the players were brand new to the game, so it was rather educational for many, and I believe we have…

  • Magic the Gathering, 2017 Thanksgiving Tournament

    Hosting our (hopefully to be) annual Thanksgiving Magic the Gathering tournament today, a smallish gathering of friends and acquaintances.  The invites went out to the gaming group, our cub scouts, and the boy scouts, but in truth anyone is welcome to join in the fun.  By the time this is posted, we will be just…