Blogger: 0 Wordpress: 1

After using Blogger for about a week now, I've found it limiting in several things that I seem to need- additional pages for organization, file and image storage, and a more customizable interface as well as layout.

With that in mind, I've transferred all of my posts to Wordpress. You can find Pen and Lead here:
Pen and Lead @ Wordpress

With that in mind, this will be my last post here at Blogger. Hopefully if Blogger ever adds the built in capabilities that Wordpress supplies, I might be back.

See you on the new site!

Next Painting Project(s)

My next project on my painting bench are the fancy bases for my Pulp City models. With several of the minis painted, they need something cool and awesome to stand on.

I've primed all of the bases and I've put a basecoat of brown and similar colors on them for dirt and ground cover.

I've got seven to go...

Also, I need to finish Apebot as he's covered in P3 Pig Iron, some highlights, a wash or two, and more highlights. I've got a fun plan for his base, as custom bases aren't available for him as of yet.

Projects Abound

I'm fairly decent at starting ideas and projects. I'm fairly bad at finishing them. However, I'm going to go with the assumption that if I can start the information here, get a following that will keep harassing me, I'll start to do well with the follow through.

With that in mind, I'm going to list the projects that I'm currently involved with:

1. Pulp City- Pulp City by Pulp Monsters is a miniature game about super heroes and super villains called supremes. I helped edit the current rulebook, playtest the new models, and simply enjoy the game. I've got several miniaturest to paint up and display...Pics coming soon!
2. Warmachine and Hordes. I'm a Press Ganger for Privateer Press's ever popular fantasy miniatures games, and enjoy the game. I run events from Kansas City all the way down to Joplin. My base of operations is in Fort Scott, KS. I mostly play Cryx and Legion, but have a Khador and Troll force, with a smattering of mercs. Lots of models painted and lots not painted.
   
3. Dark Realm Miniatures. I recently purchased two starter sets from the Gorilla Con donations and look forward to my foray into 6mm sci-fi warfare. No models painted yet. However, Doug, the owner of DRM and I have discussed having me paint some models for him, so we'll see how that goes.
   
4. Terrain. You need good terrain to play your miniature games on, right? With that, I've been busy building various types of terrain for my hobby. You can see some of the pieces I've made by watching the slide-show on the top right of this page.
5. New RPG campaign. Now that Gorilla Con is over, I'd like to plan on starting a new RPG campaign with my local group of players. No word yet on what we want to play, but Shadowrun, Scion, and the IKRPG are all good ideas.
6. Uncharted Seas by Spartan Games. I'll be trading some SJ Games stuff for a starter set of Uncharted Seas Dwarves. I've had my eye on the game, and hopefully it'll be a good one.
7. Moderator of various sites: I'm the moderator or owner of various sites, namely the Southeast Kansas Gaming Guild at http://www.sekgg.net as well as Game Kansas City at http://www.gamekansascity.com

Data suggests that if we keep lists to a limit of seven, people will remember, so I'll stop there for now. As you can see I'm busy.

Let's Get the Ball Rolling!

I've never been good at keeping a periodic summary of ramblings and musings from the happenings in my life. However, though, I'll once again give it a shot. This will be my attempt to do so. Hopefully I can stay focused and keep an update on what's going on in the small sphere of my world.

The focus of this blog will be mostly on my hobby of adventure gaming, including, but not limited to role-playing games, miniature war-gaming, painting, writing, and boardgames. Here I'll be posting images of my painted models, thoughts on games, reviews, and other game related materials.

Because of this focus, I've decided to name my blog "Pen and Lead," which hopefully keeps me limited to my topics, my readers interested, and most important, me focused on the goals and objectives of what I intend to do with this blog site. The final iteration of Pen and Lead came after unsuccessfully trying to get the names "Pen and Brush," "Brush and Pen," and other similar names. Hopefully this one will stick. As the name implies, the blog will recount my projects and musings on things dealing with lead (miniatures) and the pen (paper RPGs).

With that, I'll end this short introduction and start blogging!