I often repaint old models these days, but occaionally I buy (or am bought) something new. I haven’t played Warhammer or 40k in years so I don’t know the ins and outs of these characters, but suffice to say they were just the right level of detail for my liking. They were great fun to […]
Author: MDGreaney
Another 1990s miniature that I’ve repainted. Eldrad is one of those classic named characters that seemed to multiply in the world of Warhammer 40,000 around this time. I’m thinking of collecting as many as I can. I’ve certainly got a good few (mostly Dark Angels) already. Looking him up online today, I see he still […]
Like many of my recent painting projects, I’ve had the model for years. I can’t remember where I got it from, but I’ve a feeling that a friend who no longer was into the hobby gave it to me. I painted it first back in about 1996, and have recently stripped it and done another […]
Another project where I repaint models that I’ve had in my collection since the mid-1990s. The most satisfying part (except for comparing the models in a then-and-now style!) is removing the dodgy old paint jobs and re-undercoating. In this case, more than ever, it brings the models together, ‘standardising’ models in very different states! I […]
In the country of D________ there are two large Zones just outside the capital city. These Zones are large enough for many distinct groups of people to gather at agreed times, for agreed purposes. The Zones were established by a wise lawmaker who governed one of the towns near to the capital, and whose ideas […]
No one knows when the Voices began. Some theorests say that they have been audible since the dawn of time. To those peoples’ hypothesis, the Voices originate from beyond Earth, and began as the accidental outpourings of transmissions from a distant planet. It was only later, when the originators of the Voices realised we were […]
In the 16th century they might have called me a witch. That would be inaccurate on several counts. Firstly, it would be unfair on the witches of the time to charge them with the crimes I am intent on committing. It would negate the reality of good works on their part, such as their abilities […]
A couple of different podcast episodes have brought together some thoughts on Linux usability and adoption. One is a discussion last year on the benefits of BSD (despite Linux’s popularity). Another is a recent discussion of Gnome 3, still a controversial desktop environment. A third was a mention of Linux by someone outside the Linux […]
Apparently there’s a worrying trend in computer science academia. It could be another one of those “generational things”, but I wonder whether it’s actually a real problem. File Not Found is an article by Monica Chin on The Verge, and it summarises the trend for ‘Gen Z-ers’ to find difficulty in using files and folders […]
There was a queue in Heaven. This might or might not be the Heaven you imagine, or are hoping for. It is merely a Heaven. I suppose it partly depends on your views on queueing. The queue was not a physical queue, and would not have been even if Heaven had allowed such things. It […]