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So today I got off my fat lazy ass and biked to the bigger Home Depot. They didn’t have a special electrified knife for cutting insulation foam, neither did the big art supply store. I did buy a ‘jab saw’ which should work better on the long straight cut than the jewelry saw blade I’ve [...]

I finally won a game of Civilization IV on the third difficulty level, not that impressive perhaps, but it took many tries. Civilization IV has been taking up too much of my time and affecting my sleep pattern. I’ve also been watching a lot of hockey on TV, but with the first team eliminated (New [...]

How are they connected? Well after I’m done checking my email, RSS feeds, and key job boards, I’ve been spending hours playing Civilization IV Warlords. It has probably affected my sleep pattern. The Civilization style games are addictive and although Civ 5 is supposedly around the corner, now that I’m ‘funemployed’ to use Codrin’s term, [...]

It didn’t go well, the guy at Home Depot who cut my foam, got progressively worse, and to compound things, my foam cutter can’t cut 12 inches, I need one of the hot knife style ones I guess. So despite buying squares and using perfect 12*12 backing boards, my first two terrain tiles have some [...]

Well the light was a bit better, but my Ikea-i-fied DIY light shelf makes that earelevant. Anyway I took more pictures of the two models, I did the blood and gore, Lonewolf style, and put some dirt on the pants and boots of the Imperial Guardsmen. I need to work on my weathering more, but [...]