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Relic Knights
During my frequent browsing on the internet in search of 1/72 miniatures, I came across a thread on the Soda Pop Miniatures forum that suggested that some of the figures from the Relic Knights game...
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The Firmament
Mole people seem to have been fairly popular in the media of the 1950s (maybe due to the widespread belief that people would be living in underground bunkers in the aftermath of an atomic war).In more...
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The Rabbit of Caerbannog
Killer rabbits have been part of popular culture since the Rabbit of Caerbannog was introduced to audiences in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. However, long before the film, foul, cruel,...
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Gelatinous Cube
I've always thought of gelatinous cubes as having smooth, regular surfaces like Jell-o cubes, as opposed to the partially-melted appearance that they are given with most manufactured and homemade...
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El Chupacabra
Sideshow banner at the 2005 Erie County Fair (New York)The first reported sighting of the chupacabra came from the town of Canóvanas, Puerto Rico in 1995.The original depictions of the creature is akin...
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Dark Alliance Zombies
Zombies depicted in early zombie films like White Zombie, and I Walked with a Zombie followed the traditional Haitian model of zombies as reanimated corpses under the control of a bokor.The modern...
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PSC Churchill
I haven't been able to do much in the way of model building recently, but last weekend I tried to squeeze in a quick build of a Plastic Soldier Company Churchill.The PSC kit contains two models that...
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Assembly instructions
This post provides some instructions for assembly of the Plastic Soldier Company 6-pounder anti-tank gun from the British 6pdr Anti-tank Gun and Loyd Carrier Tow kit (WW2G20004), and some Verlinden...
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Perytion
The Perytion inhabits the island of Atlantis, and is a creature half stag, half bird. It possesses the head and feet of the stag, and as for the body, it is that of a perfect bird, with all its...
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Carrion Crawler
The Carrion Crawler is one of the iconic D&D monsters, but there are almost no miniatures that accurately capture the segmented, worm-like appearance of the creature illustrated by David Sutherland...
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I have returned
Sergio Osmeña, Courtney Whitney, Carlos P. Romulo, Douglas MacArthur, Richard K. Sutherland, William J. Dunn, Francisco SalveronWhatever you may think of Douglas MacArthur, his return to the Philippine...
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Caldecott Miniature Models
Caldecott Models appeared in the early years of the 2000s, and produced diecast models of Australian cars in 1/43 and 1/72 scale. Some of the models made their way to the U.S. around 2004, but the...
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Viking Lander
Billions upon billions of stars...The Viking lander was the first spacecraft to operate on the surface of Mars. The Viking 1 left Earth on August 20, 1975 and landed on Mars July 20, 1976. It was...
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4D Puzzle Models
There are a number of companies that are producing military vehicles under the category of "4D puzzle model". I believe that the first of these may have been the 1/90 scale 4D Master tanks produced by...
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Plesiosaur
The Surgeon's Photo - Fortean Pictures LibraryThe Plesiosauria are an order of prehistoric marine reptiles that include the Plesiosauridae and Elasmosauridae. Members of these two families are commonly...
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You're gonna need a bigger boat...
Sharks belong to the superorder Selachimorpha, and have a fossil record that goes back to the Carboniferous Period. It is often said that they have gone unchanged in form for over 350 million years,...
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Tomica Cars
The Tomica (トミカ) brand of diecast cars was introduced by Tomy in 1970 to produce small scale Japanese cars for their domestic market. Tomica only made its North American and European debut in 2010, but...
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Githyanki
The Githyanki are a race of evil humanoids that dwell in the Astral Plane. They were created by Charles Stross who borrowed the name from George R. R. Martin's Dying of the Light, and are considered by...
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Black Destroyer
The displacer beast is considered a "product identity" of the Dungeons & Dragons game despite being an obvious expy of the Coeurl from A.E. Van Vogt's short story Black Destroyer.The story was also...
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Trolling
The origins of various words and phrases can be very interesting because definitions are affected by usage and can stray from the original intended meaning.This may occur when people either...
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