the view from my desk...

This is what I will be doing from now till GenCon.. well, besides eating, sleeping, going to work, doing a little bit of gaming, and playing my 360.. besides those things.. this is what I will be doing.  Painting small metal men and women in an effort to prepare them for war!

I still have a pretty large list to accomplish before I am "done" for GenCon.  Like previous years.. I set goals for myself.. and this year.. the goal is pretty high.  I have quite a large number of models to get completed... Lets list them off, shall we?  I have a number of them that are very near completion and mainly just need basing to be done.   The majority of them however.. are only in the "primed" stage... with no paint on them at all.  I have been painting quite a bit this past week...and headway is being made.. albeit slowly...anyways.. here's the list, broken down by army/faction:

Circle Orboros

eKaya the Moonhunter (needs basing)

Laris (needs basing)

Shadowhorn Satyr (needs purchased, heh)

Megalith (same, needs $$)

Tharn Ravager Shaman (needs basing)

Tharn Ravager Whitemane (needs basing)

Woldwatcher in Stone Form version (mostly painted, needs basing)

StoneWard and Woldstalkers (6 models total) (mostly painted, need bases)

Dahlia & Skarrath (need painted, only primed)

Feralgeists (2 models) (need basing)

Evil Female Pirate Army of Doom

(all need basing, most need everything unless noted)

Fiona the Black (painted)

First Mate Hawk 

Eyriss Mage Hunter of Ios

Sea Dogs (10 models)

Sea Dog Riflemen (3 models)

Mistress Walls

Aiyanna and Holt (started painting)

Alexia & Risen (20 models) (started Alexia)

(the Risen will be painted "ghostly" and shouldn't be too bad, need to $$ some still)

Thrall Warriors (2 models)

Nurse Killingsworth

Infernal Bokur

Lil' Lady Rockbottom

Anastasia di Bray

Dirty Meg

Gertrude Di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist

Nomad Heavy warjack

Buccaneer Light warjack

Talon Light warjack

Mariner Heavy warjack (needs $$)

Vanguard Light warjack (needs $$)

So.. that's alotta models...  Circle is almost done thankfully, not counting the two warbeasts I don't own yet, though I should hopefully be able to snag them later in June.  Two warbeasts can easily be painted over the course of one weeked.  The pirates still need a lot of work... it complicates things that they are all characters... so they are mostly painted one at a time.  The army shall be pretty grand when its finished though... and the wood/plank bases on all of those models are pretty easy to paint. One of the coolest parts of the army.. once its painted.. its done.  This army will be static.. I wanted to make it just to play the theme.. and the one army list (with a couple options) is all it wil contain.  My Khador army still needs quite a bit of painting as well, but they are not on this years painting goal or GenCon.  Hopefully, the majority of my stuff will be complete because September I'll be buying the Retribution.. and will have yet another army to paint.  If I had a better digital camera.. I'd post pictures.. but my phone's camera just doesn't take good pictures of miniatures.

So what does one do whilst painting so many models?.. well... if you're me.. you listen to podcasts.  I listen to numerous podcasts.  The D6 Generation (table top gaming in all its forms), WotC's DnD Podcast (self explanatory), Listen Up (video game debate),  A Life Well Wasted (video game discussion), NPR's Car Talk (hilarious), Mobcast (videogame discussion), 60 Second Science (self explanatory), Iron Agenda (Iron Kingdoms), Guts and Gears (new Iron Kingdoms podcast).  Look them up in your local iTunes store.. and enjoy!  I also listen to audio books, though at the moment.. I don't have anything new to listen to.  Star Wars expanded universe novels are actually pretty fun to listen to in audio form if you can find them unabridged.  But painting and podcasting is one of my favorite past times.. so even though it'll be a lot of work.. I will enjoy it.  Hopefully some of you will be able to check out my fully painted pirates at GenCon this year.  :)

The real kicker... I also have to finish doing some work on my campaign world and write my one-shot adventure for GenCon...  

cool

I am not a real big fan of G4... but I am a big fan of 1up.com.. and Listen Up is probably my favorite podcast of all time.  This should be pretty cool.

1UP.COM AND G4TV.COM ANNOUNCE "LISTEN UP!" LIVE FROM THE 
G4 STAGE AT THE ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO 
WHY AM I SHOUTING? 
Garnett Lee's Chocolate Gets in Billy Berghammer's Peanut Butter

Los Angeles, CA -- In the grand tradition of The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones and Circus of the Stars comes the biggest cross-promotional multimedia event of the summer! All E3 attendees are invited to attend a special live taping of 1UP.com's industry-leading podcast "Listen Up!" from the G4 booth (South Hall #411) on Thursday, June 4th from 3:00-5:00 PM. Audio of the show will be released first through the usual 1UP.com, iTunes, and Zune Marketplace outlets, and the video recording will be available in HD exclusively on G4tv.com starting at 12:00PM on Friday, June 6th.

Come celebrate the last day of the show with your Listen Up! host Garnett Lee, his foils John Davison and David Ellis, G4tv.com's Director of Gaming Editorial Billy Berghammer, X-Play host Adam Sessler, International Playboy and 1UP.com alum Mark MacDonald, and other special guests that will be announced via an elaborate series of red herring clues and embedded countdown clocks. 1UP and G4tv.com editors will be on hand at the G4 booth in the South Hall to receive your verbal abuse and unsanctioned gifts; in the unlikely event you find yourself unimpressed by their inner beauty, the G4 Booth Babes will have to suffice.

Who "won" E3? Why wasn't my favorite game announced? Will it sell? These are the questions that hopefully will go unanswered as the crew wraps up the big show in the only way they know how: loudly. Stay tuned for further details by following our Twitter feeds (you knew that was coming):

Garnett Lee (@garnettlee) 
Billy Berghammer (@louiethecat) 
David Ellis (@davidellis) 
John Davison (@jwhdavison) 
G4tv.com's The Feed (@TheFeed) 
X-Play (@xplay) 
G4TV (@g4tv)

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1-Up and Street Fighter 4

So the 1 Up Show had a special episode dedicated entirely to Street Fighter 4. Featuring the first ever seen videos of game play footage. The game looks crazy (in a good way)
Here's the episode below. Or you can download the 1-Up Show through iTunes or just download it from their website. It comes out every Friday. It is a fine show... even when its not all about Street Fighter... it features the guys/gals from 1-Up.com, Electronic Gaming Monthly (the best video game magazine there ever was/is), and Games for Windows Magazine. A great bunch of folks (though some of them can be a bit annoying) hanging out and talking about video games. They also have a really great gaming podcast called 1-Up Yours.. and another video podcast called Broken Pixels.. which is HILARIOUS! (watch it... you will enjoy) and speaking of 1-Up and Street Fighter.. they have a huge feature on the history and future of the franchise here.