Mystery Mail - solved

For those of you following along at home. It seems that it was indeed a double shipment of my last codex order. So I have sent them an email informing them of their error and checking to see if they want me to send the package back to them.

mystery mail goodness

I’m perplexed and excited. I had a bit of issue with one of my orders from the end of last year – but that ended up working out fine. I had since placed another order for the first 4 codices and had received them fine as well. But then I had another delivery notice from them and I have no idea what it might be.

Did they double ship my codex order? Did they reship my January order? Did they ship me something nice for my troubles (which was certainly not needed)?
Tracking online shows it as being delivered so I am certainly looking forward to finding out what it might be.

Back to the Basics

I had ordered the first four codices from the Fifth edition 40K from GCMinis. These are Space Marine, Imperial Guard, Tyranid, and Space Wolves. These should cover the basic armies I can actually field. I just got them on Monday so I haven't really had enough time to really go through them more than a cursory amount.

Now that I’m getting back into 40K and have the codices and the Assault on Black Reach rules, I can start looking at the gaps I need to fill. I should be able to field Space Marines or Tyranids without much effort. Orks were the last codex published before the new rules so they might be a while before the upgrade. I still want to get the Apocalypse rules as well.

Laser Jungle

We were at the Laser Jungle for D3’s birthday party. It was quite fun and the staff was very nice. I haven’t played lasertag since my Bachelor party at the Dark Zone but it seemed to be about the same.
The environment was good – with a few different areas and levels – including a bunker and a jungle. The first game was a free-for-all and Gaby and I hung together and managed to keep shooting each other. The second game was a team event and it seems that I’m better than a room full of elementary kids. Woo-hoo me!
If you can get 12 people together (or are willing to pay for 12) you can get a private party – which keeps out the regular wahoos and leaves you with the wahoos you know. Now the kids are trying to convince Shan to have hers and Michelle’s birthday there.

If it was closer it would probably be more of an option – but it is in Stonewall so it’s only a 15-20 minute drive from our end of the city.

DDR - the 10K Commotion

If you are or were into DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) or, like me, aren't that into it but still like Magna-style comics check out the 10K Commotion.

She's got the entire story up now so it is much easier to read than when I was waiting for the weekly-or-so updates. She has a nice fresh / clean style and I realy like how she did the lettering. It would be nice to see it as a graphic novel but this is a good, fun read - even if you don't fully understand the game.

Time to get Addicted again!

Scott over at Scale Model Addict has finally started his new season. He's not doing the King Tiger tank though - he's sticking with something a bit more sci-fi. He's doing the Battle of Hoth - but not the little diorama kit, he's upsizing it with regular AT-AT models and some nice scratchbuilds. It should be a good season to follow.



My only concern, he seems to have jumped ahead a bit for the start - with a beatiful scratch built Ion Cannon and a very nice mini AT-ST already done. It would have been nice to see him start right from the box. Even so, I'll certainly be looking forward to see where he takes it.

Figure Painting started!

To count a figure a being fully painted, it has to be covered and based. While I didn’t manage to finish painting any figures in February, I finally did manage to start on some. I’m painted up some gangs for the Rules With No Name. I’m making some four man teams based on some western movies.

So far I have painted up a Silverado team and started painting an Unforgiven team. I got to watch Silverado again lately to get the colors and will have to watch Unforgiven when I’m off as the internet let me down in pictures for both movies.

IMDB.com, which is usually pretty good for images wasn't good in either of these cases. A site I did find that helped me out somewhat was the Internet Movie Firearm Database.