Well, howdy there, internet people constantly in awe of how fast Christian builds a new layout.
It's Troy again.
Today, lets talk about the queen, and a tiger.
First up, the tiger.
I printed this yesterday.
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The Soviet Woman was printed and primed earlier in the year. She's at 1:56 scale. The Tiger is at 1:100
I know, neither is really a MRR scale. But they are popular gaming scales. I had to downsize the lady just a bit to match my current Soviet army figures from a major manufacture.
The Tiger is going to adorn a trophy base for a WWII gaming tourney I'm running next month.
But that got me thinking. How much fun could
Christian have if he had a 3D printer? Think of all the dragons, pixies, and whatnots he could resize and print for his box of ever-changing scenery?
As for the Queen: RIP Anne Rice, grand dame of Vampire fiction. Much of the resurgence in things undead moving far, far beyond the old Hammer Horror films and Christopher Lee is because Anne Rice broke through the literary barriers that kept the undead in the Pulp stacks. Her
Interview with a Vampire was far from the first, but it was the first to gain international recognition as a literary work and showcase her characters, with all their flaws, as more than just a prop to place the "good guys" against.
Even the witchy-fun-mystery stuff I write now is tied to Ms. Rice's groundbreaking work. She wrote extremely well, and many authors were also able to go mainstream with similar ideas because of her talent and notoriety.
Here's what Anne's son Christopher (an accomplished author in his own right) posted to her page. I've added some paragraph breaks for easier reading: