Destroyer Minis

Zombies!!
  --21 July, 2008, 15:02:25

There's been a lot of nothing happening on my site for the last couple of weeks. This is due to my course load, in particular I blame thermodynamics. For some reason I thought it would be clever to take not one, not two, but three courses this summer. At the moment, I'm on the way to turn a typical weekly thermo homework set--20 pages of calculations. Despite my pages crammed full of integrals and partial derivatives I suspect a distinct lack of clever on my part.

The good news is that two of the minis I'm painting for Gencon are darn near done.

I'm looking forward to seeing people outside of my classmates and housemates soon. Say about in about 4 weeks or so.

Procrastination!
  --10 July, 2008, 23:21:36

So, guest writing for Marike again, this is Andrew.

Marike has been working hard on her Thermodynamics class, and when I mumbled something along the lines of "You don't mind if I guest-write for you again, do you not?", she got lost in the double-negatives, and foolishly nodded her head.

The last couple of weeks have been full of Thermodynamics, however, there were a couple of moments of light among the doom and gloom of ideal gases, isothermal expansion, and adiabatic containers.

The interesting tidbit number one was an invasion of house-flies at Marike's place, which was solved in a neat manner. I would have most likely simply fly-swattered them all, leaving squished corpses all over the place. Instead, we headed down to the local nursery, and bought 2 carnivorous plants. After a couple of days, the carnivorous plants took care of the fly problem splendidly--the flies obligingly crammed themselves into the pitchers. It was quite fascinating to watch the flies crawl into the plants' reservoirs, and be unable to climb out - apparently the inside of a carnivorous plant is more slippery to a fly than glass.

An interesting tidbit number two was the trip to Mt. Pilchuck. The trail was completely covered in snow (anywhere from 3 to 6 feet, depending on location) and, after climbing some hills that were hard to ascend, and impossible to descend, we had to spend quite a bit of time trying to find a way down. Eventually our way down ended up being a fairly steep snow-covered hill, with a stream running under the snow, and a lake at the bottom. I was wearing sneaker-like shoes for this particular adventure, so I slipped and slid about 50 feet or so towards this lake. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and the snow had a crust, so most of my skin from my lower-forearms is gone. Pictures of this particular adventure can be found here.

In keeping with the procrastination theme, a mini named Deva was stealthily added to the gallery last week.

And on a final note - I'm not into the whole miniature painting thing, but seeing what Marike has planned for her GenCon entries makes me go "Ohh! That's some neat stuff!"