We are still here!

Hi everyone!

We are STILL HERE!

I know it has been a long time since I posted anything, but I have been busy with *(not in any order)....

1. Finishing my Masters Degree
2. Working an internship
3. Completing a paper that is being published...about Leadership
4. Writing another paper about personal development and leadership qualities.
5. Husband
6. Dad

Nate has sent me oodles of stuff lately and I intend to publish it this weekend.  Scott has moved on to a Star Wars kit.  Chris is doing his own line of mechs and I am hoping to get a preview copy so I can do a write up on it.

Soooooo....look for more this weekend.

Tim

Quick Update

Hi Everyone!  Still here...but busy beyond belief.

First, there was the aforementioned funeral.  The following week, my boy got sick.  He started with a nasty cold...then ear infection, then pink eye.  Poor guy was down for over a week.

Then the wife got sick.

Then I got sick...I even ended up in the hospital.  Dehydration sucks.

Then, finals started...and I started an internship...and Christmas...and MOVING! 

It never seems to stop....although the first of the year should see some return to regularity.

After that, my next main project is to start making some generic decals for 1/60 scale mechs.  I purchased a Xerox Phaser laser printer and it does beautiful work.  Feel free to post suggestions.  I was thinking generic warning strips, numbers, and the like.  As this is a laser, I am still stuck doing work that does not require white.

On another mech note, Chris...a builder and our caster....has started a new line of mechs.  He was asked to cease with the 1/60 scale battletech stuff so he started designing his own.  His first is posted on his site and can be seen here.  It is a kick-butt design.  I plan on getting one as soon as I can.

Signing off for now.  Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

A Death in the Family

Hiroko Jean Lawhon

1932 - 2010

Hiroko "Jean" Lawhon, 78, of Proctorville, Ohio passed away Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at Cabell Huntington Hospital. She was born April 20, 1932 in Japan to the late Hikotaro and Fujiyo Komukai Ota. She is survived by her husband Robert Lawhon; two daughters Delores Spears of Nolensville, TN and Betty Ann Keeney of Huntington, WV; two sons Joseph L. Lawhon of Proctorville, Ohio and Phillip G. Lawhon of Bon Aqua, TN; two brothers and three sisters of Japan; five grandchildren; two great grandchildren and many "adopted" children and grandchildren. Funeral service will be conducted 2 p.m. Thursday, November 11, 2010 at Hall Funeral Home by Pastor Earnest Earl.

1/60 Warhammer from Yamato

So, Nate has been building the 1/60 scale Warhammer from Yamato and sent us some pics.  There is an Armorcast Vulture in there for scale.

THANKS NATE!!!

More from Nate

Here is another build from Nate.  He is also working on a Warhammer as piloted by Natasha Kerensky.  Join me in prodding him for pics!

Uncertain Future

Well, I got an e-mail from Chris at Ravenstar.  He has done most of the casting and created quite a few kits.  From his blogsite...

 i have been asked very nicely to stop selling battletech design models and as of this moment i have.

That is all the info I have.  I don't know if it came from Catalyst Game Labs or from Armorcast or someone else.  What this means is that there probably won't be any more mechs coming from us in the near future.

In the mean time, I intent to continue publishing builds that those in our little community send me as well as any scratchbuilds that we come up with.

Signing off for now...

Still no update

Still no update or review on the Savannah Master and Wolverine.  I know its been a month, but what can ya do?

So, in its place I have a new set of mech pics from Nate.  Here is his description of the mech:

AS7-D Atlas

This is an old 1/60th scale Armorcast Atlas I picked in 2007 before they stopped producing them due to WizKids going under. The kit wasn’t modified in any way. I used German colors for the main paint scheme. For the masking, I used "Silly Putty". It worked great, going over the model and didn’t leave any residue or peal any paint. The only problems that I found with using "silly putty" was that I caused damming, paint would pool up in low spots and would making a ledge when you peel the putty away. Even with the damming, it still makes painting uneven surfaces easy to paint. Its markings were comprised of custom, Fighting Pirannha Graphics and modern aircraft. The shading was with graphite and airbrushing.

The kit is a command Battlemech of the 1st Kearny of the Northwind Highlanders.