Nov

29

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Space: 1999 deluxe Eagle gift set.

“Assorted Body Parts Pack.”

Beautiful Guild Wars scenes.
Enhanced screenshots along with instructions.

Out of Africa. [via]
“… a new chapter in a massively multiplayer online game called ‘Guild Wars: Nightfall’ stands out in its depiction of characters of colors: the entire module is set in a virtual online world inspired by North Africa.”

Nov

29

Begone, villain

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Beast Wars Silverbolt

A photo of Beast Wars Silverbolt, one of my favourite Transformers characters.

A chivalric if naive knight, Silverbolt was one of the main reasons I rate the second season of Beast Wars so highly. His interactions with Blackarachnia were thoroughly entertaining and resulted in many a fine quote.

The toy is a bit of a letdown. The figure should have been painted in chrome silver, the wings could have used additional joints to allow them to be folded in robot mode and the feather-on-a-stick weapons would be more intimidating with additional sculpting and paint.

The figure is by no means bad but being a fan of the character, I wish the toy was great rather than merely okay.

Nov

28

A tangled web he weaves

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Beast Wars Transmetals Tarantulas

A photo of Tarantulas from the Beast Wars Transmetals assortment. It’s not the best figure of the subline but it’s got a striking appearance in robot mode.

Nov

27

Doodle

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I literally dusted off my Wacom Graphire yesterday and practised a little for the first time in months.

Microman M114

It’s a digi-doodle of a Microman M114 figure. I hope to work on it over the next few days.

I have had no complaints about my Graphire4 tablet in the 12 months I’ve owned it but I wish Wacom would provide better documentation for its driver updates.

The latest driver for the Graphire4 caused some strange problems that baffled me until I removed all user preference files (using the new Tablet Preference File Utility) and set my preferences again.

I’m also left wondering what the new driver is supposed to fix or improve. There’s a Read Me file included with each update but there’s scarcely any information in it.

Nov

26

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Flying down the wing.
Best and Cantona may be tops in most fans’ minds but to me, Giggs epitomises all that’s great in football.

Terrahawks intro.
In Supermacromation! The Zeroids were clearly the stars of the show with Windsor Davies standing out as always.

Battle of Saragarhi.
To the last man, to the last round.

Scolopendra gigantea.
“… commonly known as Amazonian giant centipedes due to their massive size. Adults commonly reach lengths of over thirty-five centimeters– the length of a man’s forearm.”

Game review of the year.

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