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The Wonderful Fish
Decomposed carcasses of large sea animals are often mistaken for the remains of various types of sea monsters. They appear frequently enough, that the term "globster" was coined to describe them. A...
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Aragami
The Aragami (荒神, アラガミ; violent gods) are giant chimeric monsters from the game God Eater. I have not played the game, but it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by various species of...
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O-I Super Heavy Tank
The actual appearance of the O-I super heavy tank has been shrouded in mystery for decades, leaving model manufacturers to produce their own renditions of the tank based on sketchy details and pure...
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White Elephants
Sometimes when an impressively large model catches my eye, I have to take a reality check and think about whether there is any point in owning the thing.Here are a few items that gave me a moment of...
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Dung Beetle Knight
Kingdom Death is a company that started out selling a boutique line of 35mm resin figures that people either loved or hated. Their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for the Kingdom Death: Monster...
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Imperial Probe Droid
The Imperial probe droid made it's debut in the film The Empire Strikes Back. Subsequent fluff designated the machine as the Arakyd Viper.According to rumor, the design was inspired by art that Mœbius...
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Comanche Battle Suit
The Comanche Battle Suit comes from the Secrets of the Third Reich wargame by West Wind Productions. I liked the look of the Comanche because of its diesel-punk aesthetic and also for its similarity to...
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Laputa Robot Soldier
The Robot Soldier (ロボット兵) from the film Laputa: Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ) is an iconic mecha design, but it had an earlier incarnation as the [Armored] Robot Soldier Lambda Doll (ロボット兵 ラムダドール) in...
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Weekend update
So I tried Windoze 10 for a couple of days, and while there were a few nice features, my overall feeling was that the new OS was half-baked shite. Actions were laggy, the ability to customize seemed...
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The Ropers
The roper is a classic D&D monsters that comes from the earliest incarnations of the game. It sits motionless, pretending to be a stalactite until an unsuspecting adventurer passes by, whereupon it...
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Archelon
Archelon ischyrosArchelon was a giant sea turtle of the Late Cretaceous period. The first fossil of the creature was unearthed by G.R. Wieland, who shares a somewhat dubious reputation like his two...
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Killer Clams
Tridacna gigasGiant clams were at one time scurrilously portrayed as capable of trapping divers underwater until they drowned, and the myth persists despite evidence to the contrary.I have been...
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Dark Future
Games Workshop's short-lived post-apocalyptic Road Warrior/Car Wars-based game was released around 1988, and set in the year 1995. What made this game of interest to me was that the miniatures were...
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These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
I am always on the lookout for offbeat monsters to throw at adventurers. One of those finds came a long time ago, when I bought a bunch of cheap Dreamblade miniatures and saw the Slaughter Boots.I was...
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Little Bulldog
The M41 Walker Bulldog is an American tank that has not been represented in 1/72 scale by the plastic model companies despite its widespread use by many nations.I have three types of diecast models of...
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Stalin's Sledgehammer
Another subject that has not been produced by plastic model companies in 1/72 scale is the 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4). A resin version of the howitzer was produced at one time by AER, but the kit...
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Knights, Death, and Barbed Devils
Knight, Death, and the DevilAlbrecht Dürer - 1513Originally titled Reuter (The Rider), Albrecht Dürer's engraving eventually became known as Ritter, Tod und Teufel (Knight, Death, and the Devil). There...
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The Egg of Coot
I will have to admit that when I originally bought the Witch Coven of Garlghast & the Egregore set by Privateer Press (34035), it was really because of the witches... but because they weren't 1/72...
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Creatures of Matik
Vulture-headed lions, fifteen feet high, prowled in hungry anticipation towards them, their feathered manes rustling as they approached.- StormbringerThe creatures of Matik were called vulture-lions in...
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S.M.G. Runa
Over Dard (aka Hiroshi Satou) is known for his sculpts of ero-figures with chestal regions of improbable proportions. His professional work has primarily been on large scale PVC and polystone figures,...
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