The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Reconstruction of damaged miniatures

| January 12, 2011

or, “my dog ate my wife’s warjack”. Basically, Socks the cat duped Diesel the dog into eating one of my wife’s Cygnar warjacks – a Lancer, to be precise. Basically, she shoved it off the top of the entertainment center, where it fell about 4 feet on to a the TV stand. The shield arm [...]

Warmachine

| January 12, 2011

So, Liz and I have been playing a pretty decent amount of Warmachine, and I took some pictures. Note that the bases are not yet finished. This is two folding tables put next to each other, which is what we’re using for a game table until the Geek Chic table arrives.

Snow day

| January 12, 2011

This morning, we had about 3 inches, everything was cancelled, it was snowing faster than the plows can plow, and we were (are) supposed to get a total of about a foot, with more to the southeast (guess which way work is….). So, I’m home, watching bad movies, painting minis, working on my reloading room, [...]

Taurus update

| January 3, 2011

So, some months ago, I bought a Taurus PT145 at a gun show: I’ve been pretty silent on it, because I was trying to work the kinks out of it, and didn’t want to go saying stuff about a company until it was all said and done. It now is. As mentioned before, it doesn’t [...]

On beer

| January 3, 2011

So, I’m watching Beer Wars, and a couple of things jump out at me: When they’re profiling these companies and looking at them making beer, they’re doing it the same way I am – a couple beer kettles, a carboy, a mill, some grain, water, etc. A lot of them were homebrewers. They actually give [...]