{"id":1568,"date":"2013-01-22T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2013-01-30T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T22:07:38","slug":"good-hobby-time-over-the-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Good Hobby Time Over the Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the long weekend for Martin Luther King’s birthday I had a chance to work on some hobby stuff. \u00a0We had to take my daughter for an interview for high school admission and cheer leading, church, errands, etc., I had a couple of hours on Sunday and quite a bit of Monday (after running 12.5 miles around BWI airport) to paint. \u00a0Most of Saturday and Sunday I was preparing projects for painting. \u00a0Monday I did the painting.<\/p>\n

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People who know me, know that my favorite Dr. Who is Jon Pertwee. \u00a0My favorite story arc is the Silurians, a race of hyper intelligent lizard type people who had put themselves into suspended animation when the big meteor hit the earth. \u00a0The timer woke them up late, around the 1960s in England. \u00a0They were slowly waking each other up from deep sleep. \u00a0The Dr. gets involved, and excitement commences. \u00a0(This arc also has Elizabeth Shaw, my favorite companion.)<\/p>\n

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This weekend I painted a ten-man Silurian unit for use in Dr. Who GASLIGHT games.<\/p>\n

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These are Black Tree Dr. Who figures. \u00a0I have ordered a unit of Sea Devils, the Silurian’s aquatic cousins.<\/p>\n

I also finished working on the quick-start guide for GASLIGHT. \u00a0When we combined the four GASLIGHT books (and added additional material) to create The GASLIGHT Compendium<\/em>, we organized the new book in a Chinese menu format. \u00a0We found that our players were mixing and matching activation from one book with shooting from another, for example, so we organized to facilitate this. \u00a0We were then criticized that we made it too hard for newcomers to the game to get started. \u00a0The quick-start guide was designed to address this criticism. \u00a0You can download the quick-start guide for free from www.gaslightrules.com (here is the direct link:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/Personal\/documents\/GASLIGHTQuickStart.pdf).<\/p>\n

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In a previous post, I showed some of the FASA Hangar 18 Flash Gordon cities. \u00a0My parents got me two more of them for Christmas. \u00a0Above is a mountain with a death ray. \u00a0Below is an asteroid with a city on it.<\/p>\n

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I spent some time on Saturday cleaning up some of the clutter in “the war room.” \u00a0During that activity I found an old Marx cave\/mine entrance. \u00a0I had two and already painted one for brown terrain. \u00a0This was was earmarked for gray terrain. \u00a0While these were intended for 54mm plastic Marx figures, I think they look pretty good with 28mm Silurians coming out.<\/p>\n

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The Hangar 18 Flash Gordon cities also come with little resin space ships. \u00a0I painted those too, but I haven’t photographed them. \u00a0I ordered 40 flight stands from Hydra Miniatures. \u00a0When they arrive, I’ll photography them and post them here. \u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

I filed, primed and mounted on sticks a couple dozen Copplestone 10mm orcs riding wargs. \u00a0I painted the wolves, but I didn’t get a chance to paint the riders.<\/p>\n

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One more picture of Elizabeth Shaw and the Third Doctor for the road.<\/p>\n

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