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The Process of Painting Prairie Tick Queen
In the GRIMDARK future of the forty-first millennium, my favorite faction is Tyranid, which is sort of like a crossbreeding of the...
Workout Recap - Week of December 31, 2017
Because I'd ended up not doing much strength-focused work last week, I decided to dedicate the bulk of this week's exercises to that...
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Rating: B+ Playing Time: About 250 hours between the PS3 and PC releases, plus about 100 hours of the original Dragon's Dogma release on...
Workout Recap - Week of December 24, 2017
I was feeling rather sore in my legs this week, particularly in my calves, so I only did four workouts. I didn't think that I'd been...
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The Results of Painting Skeleton Swordsman
So, a little bit of a different presentation for the post this time, since there are only so many ways that I can talk about painting a...
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The Process of Painting Skeleton Spearman
I was fortunate enough to get a bonus stocking of gifts with my order from Reaper in December, which came with a few skeletons (among...
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Hollow Knight
Rating: B+ Playing Time: 38 hours Well, I’ve been mentioning playing this off and on for a while now, so it’s high time that I finally...
Workout Recap - Week of December 17, 2017
Truth be told, I'm coming up blank on ideas for the preamble to this week's recap. Well, I guess that I can wax philosophical for a...
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The Process of Painting Dark Elf Warrior
After making a couple of gift miniatures for some friends, I got the Masterwork Miniature Painting with Jen Haley and Anne Foerster...
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Being a Green Mother
Rating: B+ Length: 301 pages, standard paperback page size/font Up next for this series is the book focused on Nature. This was...