Another of my heroes gone.

Nightmare on Elm Street

Last House on the Left

The Hills Have Eyes

Shocker

Cursed
Swamp Thing
Serpent and the Rainbow

Deadly Friend

People Under the Stairs

Thank you. 

Really? $1120! $983!

Really insane scenery at insane prices! 

Who buys this? 

Really, what normal player buys this?

Plus there are spin-off sets that range from $700+ to $500+ as well.
Who buys all this?

Malifaux boars for Hordes

Quick comparison.

The boars I bought from the Malifaux people have all been assembled now. They are a damn good fit to the official razor boars.

Well they lack the head armor, but that’s fine. They are just a force of angry pig beasts so do they really need a helmet? The tucks and poses get the point across just fine.

It looks like I need to get them and Midas done sooner rather than later now. I think sixteen points of lesser warbeasts should be alright. Right?

Manistee National Forest area

This past weekend we travelled up to act as ultra-marathon support crew. Why anyone would volunteer to run 50+ miles is beyond my rational thought capacity. We were there to make sure they didn’t die on the trail or in the cabin after they finished the race (they did and it only took a little over 12 hours).

As they ran, my lady friend and yours truly decided to hit the local trails as were in the scenic bits of Michigan in and around the Manistee National Forest. I had never been to Michigan so I had no damn idea what the hiking was going to be like.

We covered ten miles of trails, ate a pretty good (albeit quasi-sketchy looking) mom and pop diner with great lemon and coconut cream pie, and explored the local color  between checking in the runners at the halfway point and collecting them at the end of the race.

The first item of interest was the ground. It was sandy. Like really sandy. I know we were close to Lake Michigan, but I had no idea the ground would be that soft and basically just dirty sand. It was wyrd.

A ton of moss and ferns covered the forest floor in these parks. Different than back home and a cool look.

Next was the utter lack of noise. The two trails we hiked were almost silent. The lack of animal noises and even chirpy birds was strange. Besides a few bits of banter we usually walk quiet in the hope of seeing some living breathing nature. It was strange to see and hear the absence of it. Sure there were a smattering of woodpeckers, a lone black squirrel, a trio of deer and a lone inch worm; we saw nothing ad hear even less. The lack of sound was really strange, but maybe that is common…..or the forest is haunted!

Here is that clearing that the adventuring party always seems to stumble upon. Thankfully, there were no goblins or ogres.

Fear the Walking Dead?



Last night was the premier of Fear the Walking Dead.

I was (and am still a bit) on the fence about this show. The title isn’t really stellar. Norman Reedus isn’t even in the show. I mean do we need another zombie show on AMC?

After last night I say yes. Yes we do!

The general premise is the whole here are two families, with issues, and The Walking Dead zombie outbreak is in it’s infancy. Alright I’m sort of on board. Well once the show starts rolling the seeds of what I refer to as “the fall” are sown. I love me some zombie stuff. However, I have discovered over the last few years, that I really like “the fall” when it comes to zombie stories.

“The fall” is the deterioration of the system the breaking of society, the anarchy that ensues and the fall of human society. That is where I have found I like my zombie stories to take place.

Now I know that the survival side post outbreak is good for gore and morality tales, but it plays out the same a lot of the time. You get; the survivalist nut jobs, the small time crooks turned kingpins, the cannibals, the tragic personal stories, the fallen heroes, the self-sacrifice, the rapey stuff, the kill crazy gangs, the lone wolf survivor, a religious zealot, random acts of crazy stuff, the safe haven that isn’t what it appears to be and on and on and on. We have all seen these, well if you watch or read a lot of zombie culture.

Overseer ready for over seeing

Well look at this! I have finished painting a model.

How can I not love the Iron Lich Overseer? This guy is a Quintesson for Cryx.

“Excuse me! This model only has three faces so it is not true Quintesson. Plus, it is not based in the Transformer universe.” …snort, chortle snort.

Shut up interweb! I know this!

Our newest bit of home decor

Thank Esty for this and my lady friend for thinking this was the most appropriate of the geek signs available. 

I can not really disagree with this one bit.