Neoscream's Painting Table: Birthday and MIA. 29th May 2017

Hi everyone to another blog post. Sorry about the long wait for a post. I have been distracted with work, birthday, room, shed and playing a mobile game called Sword Art Online Memory Defrag. So this will be a double bill with brief information on last week's games.

Just a heads up, as there is only real HeroClix happening this week, there will most likely be no post for this week.

Saturday the 13th was my Birthday. I began my day with a Cardfight Vanguard Tournament (which I will cover later in the post. After that, I meet up with a bunch of friends and family for a meal art Pizza Hut and then a smaller group of us watched Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2. I was a good day. OK, yes there are things that could have improved it, but it was still a great day.

With my Shed, I have managed to do a major clear out and a bit of a reorganisation of it. It is now more or less ready. Just a couple of things for my dad to do when he is feeling better and I would like to reorganise the draws I store all my unassembled/unpainted miniatures.

With my bedroom, I have started work on the DVDs. I just have to order two more LARGE folders and then I can move on to my CDs, console games, and PC stuff (like old PC game).

I also received some foam heads which I brought to display my masks and old cosplay bits on my top shelf. Sadly they are causing some major problems. It makes my Optimus Prime voice changer mask too big for the shelf, due to the lightness of the foam heads, the Iron Man mask is too heavy for the head to stand up and then the other two old cosplay get-ups (Kakashi from Naruto and Cyclops from X-Men) will not stay on the foam heads. The foam heads seem to be more of a waste of money and time, but I might have had some ideas to try to save them. Is the one for the Optimus Prime voice changer mask I could probably try cut down the neck area to help it fit in. With the one for the Iron Man mask I need to find a way to lose weight down and so it does not fall over. With the other two, I have invested into and all sided Sellotape to try to hold things like the face mask for Kakashi and the visor for Cyclops. However, I best wait for cosplay friend to return from London Comic Con to ask for advice about this before doing anything.

  I only got several things left that I get up in my bedroom. I still need to sort out the shelves in the towers. Reorganise the two shelves above my computer and TV. Tidy up my surfaces. Finish covering the mirror on my wardrobe and cover the glass above my door to block out the light.

There are no photos of the shed at the moment as I have not taken any and there are a LOT of room photos that will take up most of this post.

Sadly I have not done much painting over the past two weeks. I have only finished one KDM miniature. However, I have done a little model building. I have built another member of my Frostgrave Warband and two Tau Drones for Shadow War Armageddon. Sadly I still have not set up the photo box yet.

Gaming

Cardfight Vanguard Tournament One

On my Birthday, I went to Wargames Workshop MK for a Cardfight Vanguard Tournament. I was using my Nova Grappler deck. As I writing this over two weeks after the event this will be brief. I won about one or two of the rounds but never made it to the final cut off.


Kingdom Death Monster

On Monday the 15th of May I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Kingdom Death Monster with my Wargames Workshop MK KDM group. Again, I am writing this about two weeks after the event so this will be brief. The only one from the ground that did not turn up was Michael as sadly he was in the hospital. We hunted a level one Gorm. We managed to win the game. However, both Adrian's and Wai-Yin's characters had to be retired. Adrian's was due to the fact that his character got the disorder that made him retire. Wai-Yin's was due to the fact that her character received a broken back severe injury and now can only carry strength one weapons. Due to bank holidays, Frostgrave and people being away, the next club game will not be happening until at least the second Monday of June at the earliest. With my other group that meets up at Simon's place, we have to wait for the elections to be over, due to Richard's being busy as secretary of that Liberal Democrats in our area and Simon was on Holiday.


HeroClix (Both Weeks)

On Thursday the 18th of May, I went down to York House for some HeroClix game. Again, this will be brief as I am writing this over a week after the event. The scenario was "Tinker (scientist), Tailor (armour), Solider, Spy". 400 points, six actions, no figure above 150 points. Your team must be a generic theme teams. Mixing Universes will be allowed on this occasion. I ended up using a Soldier team who were:

Brandt (011 Marvel Iron Man 3) 78
Extremis Soldier (005 Marvel Iron Man 3) 30
Cammy (009 Street Fighter) 80
Guile (018 Street Fighter) 105
War Machine (004 Marvel Captain America Civil War) 105 + Iron Man is Right (Trait) 5 = 110
=403 points

I lost all three games sadly.

The next HeroClix game was on Thursday the 25th of May. This time we were doing a sealed event using Darren S's brick of Marvel Avengers vs Defenders. I pulled what might have been the best two boosters as they had both the Dr. Strange and Ghost Rider super rare figures. Darren S by the look of things pulled the worst two. I managed to win all three games.


Casual Card Games

On both Saturday the 20th and Tuesday the 23rd of May I meet up Liam and some of the other card gamers at the Toby Carvery for some card gaming as some of them are planning on going to Nationals in June. I also traded my old Genesis Deck for a new one. It is basically a non-foil The Aichi Sendou legend deck with two Blaster Blades instead of one. Just have to do some improvements like adding two more Blaster Blades and adding more Blaster cards.


Shadow War Armageddon

On Monday the 22nd of May I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for my first ever game of Shadow War Armageddon (Shadow War for short). It is a new game from Games Workshop using updated Necromunda rules and figure from they Warhammer 40,000 (40k for short) range. It was a long time since I played Necromunda/second edition 40k (currently they ar at seventh edition, but eight is coming out in June), so I have to get back into the rules. As I still have my old 40k Tau back from Third Edition, I was set to use them. Sadly Shadow War uses only the new Pathfinders from the Tau, which I never got as they were made of metal back then, and I was collecting Tau and I was for going for the mecha suits battlesuits. I ended up using Fire Warriors and my nude Female Tau Sniper I brought from Wargame Exclusive. With the drones, I did decide to buy the Pathfinders (which are plastic nowadays) on the day and quickly built the drones I needed. I never build the Pathfinders as I have ordered online some conversation parts to make some of them into female Tau. Anyway, Bob was using his old Necrons (well, they were much newer than my Tau). The was swinging both ways. Bob had the longer range and better BS (Ballistic Skill), but his dice rolls were CRAP. I had the numbers and a way to ignore cover. However, my main guns were all failing Ammo rolls too early. My sniper failed after the second shot while my Recon Drone failed after the first. I had managed to lower Bob's team to bottling level first. However, due to the high Ld (Leadership) of the Necrons, he managed to stay on until he finally made my team bottle. During the game, we did forget something, Nerve tests. Never mind. Overall, we had fun and I would like to try this again as a campaign.


Cardfight Vanguard Tournament Two

On Saturday the 27th of May I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for another Cardfight Vanguard Tournament. Sadly there was no Wai-Yin as she was away cosplaying at London Comic Con, there was not Shell as she was running the comic book store (Magic Kingdom Comics), and Matt was not there too. Overall there was nine of us playing in the tournament. I decided to use my new Blaster Blade deck which I had some minor improvements to it. Sadly I did not do too well, as I am still getting used to this deck and still need to work on it. One of the rounds was so damn close, but we ran out of time before I could finish my attack. Liam managed to win the tournament using a heavily upgraded Aichi Sendou legend deck. At the end of the tournament, I did manage to trade for a third copy of Blaster Blade. Just need one more copy now. The next main set should be a major help for improving the deck as well.


Computer Gaming

On Sunday the 28th of May, I meet up with Darren H, Simon and Richard online for some online gaming. We played, while tried to play, Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide. Simon had major computer problems and had to drop out and the rest of us were getting MAJOR lag issues. We did manage to complete one game and almost finish a second until the game kicked us off and restarted it. After that, we called t a night. We might try Overwatch in the future, that is if Richard gets it.


Future Games

There is no gaming at Kingston on Monday this week for me, as gaming happens in the daytime than the evening on a Bank Holiday and I work from 9AM to 5PM normally (or so I thought).

HeroClix on Thursday will be 500 points, named themed times only. I am planning on using my new Marvel Knights fast forces set. just need to find a 50 point figure to bulk it up.

Monday the 5th of June should be the third game of the Frostgrave campaign at Wargames Workshop MK.


Well, that is it for this post. Until all are one with the Lantern-Spark.

Neoscream's Painting Table: Campaign and London. 12th May 2017

Welcome to the return of "Neoscream's Painting Table". (I know an unfinished version of this mistakenly appeared online on Tuesday, sorry.) We are back to the new normal, but there is no backlog photos this week as the photo box has no setup yet as I still need to do a lot more work in my shed. This week I have managed to paint up the second Thief, both Treasure Hunters and the Infantrywoman for my new Frostgrave Warband, as well as two Kingdom Death Monster. I am now working on some more KDM figures. Here are the photos of this week's figures with last week's ones. I included last week's figures as I forget to do multiple angels.

Oh and here is the special figure I was working on. It is meant to be Mikazuki Munechika from Touken Ranbu. I have done this for a good friend (and sadly only a friend) Wai-Yin who is a BIG Touken Ranbu fan and does cosplay as Mikazuki Munechika (and a couple of other characters from the games if I remember correctly).

Life

First thing, please note that the photos from here onward (including the ones in the gaming sections) are from my London trip or from Campaign. I will try to include photos of my room and maybe my shed in next week's post.

The problem has been fixed. Sadly not the way I would have preferred, especially with my 35th birthday coming (this Saturday). It would have been the best present to have life move forward. So I am going to be 35 and never had a girlfriend, this will be a massive downer.

Anyway, with the bedroom and shed, I have been doing a lot more sorting out. However, I still have to try to clear out more from the shed. I ham going to have to be more harasser with my throwing (also the rain today does not help ever).

I have also been doing a little upgrade to my computer after the problem I have been having with online gaming. Darren H said he would give me a better keyboard as mine as it keeps cutting out in the middle of a game. I picked up a Bluetooth mouse and a Bluetooth dongle to replace the mouse that came with my old keyboard. This will also mean I will be able to use a Bluetooth headset too.

On Tuesday I went to London with my mum to see the Robot exhibition at the Science Museum. It was really good but not as good as I thought. I did pick up the book on Robot that was done for the exhibition.

After the Science Museum, we then went to Notting Hill to see the Kyoto Garden (Japanese garden) in Holland Park which Wai-Yin told me about. However, on the way, we spotted an EE store. We were planning on getting a new phone for my mum, so we popped in after something like two hours we walked out with a new phone for my mum, a massive saving on her monthly bill and a Skull Candy Bluetooth headphones for free which I got. As they also have a built-in mic, I can use them with my computer, now that I have a Bluetooth receiver for the computer.

Anyway, after that, we continued to Holland Pack, but before we went to Kyoto Garden, we went to the Cafe for lunch. After lunch, we finally went to Kyoto Garden. If was a lot smaller than what I thought, but still very beautiful.

After Kyoto Garden, we went to Forbidden Planet for a Geeky nosey. Sadly they did not have much Transformers in this time, but I did pick up some HeroClix figures (two Captain America Civil War and four Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 boosters), the Transformer Revolution graphic novel (as I have been planning on getting back into the Transformers comics) and a Dragonball Z Vegeta key ring. Oh and a new Simon's Cat book for my mum.

Whenever I go to Forbidden Planet, I normally pop into Orcs Nest, but this time I decided not to due to both Salute and Campaign, I was a little gamed out. We were planning on going to Evans for my mum. However, we took far too long at EE (due to them being very busy for a small store) and my mum's legs could not take any more (even tho we sat down most of the time in EE), we decided to call it a day there and go home.

Campaign Gaming

Saturday the 6th and Sunday the 7th was Campaign, a Wargaming convention that happens in Milton Keynes on the weekend following May Day. Like normal, I took a bunch of old stuff to the Bring and Buy. Sadly only made about £22, which pays for the Shadow War Armageddon rulebook I picked up. I also picked up at Campaign two pots of paint and three foam trays to store my KDM survivors in. Sadly I could have gone with just one or two as all the painted survivors one with some room to spare.

On the first day, I watch a game of Dark Souls which Bob was playing in. The club that was running it was running a Boss (not Mini Boss) battle against Executioner Smough and Dragon Slayer Ornstein. The characters were well equipped. In fact too well equipped. It was close (a little), but they managed to win.

I then tried an Ork racing participation game. It was a good laugh and I came second. If I heard Richard correctly he and a nephew played the game too.

I do not really do the second day, apart from buying the foam trays and collecting from the Bring and Buy. I decided to go to Wargames Workshop MK for some card games.

Online Gaming Night

On Saturday night, I got together with Darren H, Richard and Simon online to play several games of Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide again. We all had problems with the voice chat in the game. So after a couple of games, we switch to Skype.

Cardfight Vanguard Casual

On Sunday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for some card gaming. The original plan was to ever join in the Cardfight Vanguard G Character Booster Three "Rummy Labyrinth Under the Moonlight" sneak-peek if they need the number or play some Future Card Buddyfight or Force of Will. However, only Wai-Yin turn up for the sneak-peek and only Blake turned up for Future Card Buddyfight. So the three of us plus Jordan had two Cardfight Vanguard duos games. The one I teams up Wai-Yin and the second one I teamed up with Jordan.

On Monday after my game of Frostgrave (which I will talk about next), I got a couple of games of Cardfight Vanguard against Wai-Yin and Liam who were trying out new decks.

Frostgrave

On Monday I went down to Wargame Workshop MK for a game of Frostgrave. It was the second game of our second campaign. We played the second scenario from the core book, "Genie in the Bottle". Only four of us turned up this time, so we split into two "one versus one" games. I was up against Bob. The first treasure I picked up was the Lamp (or bottle), so my Wizard cast Leap on the Thief that picked it up to get them off the field. Then I kept my distance away from the Genie, sacrificing my warcat to the genie. I managed to get two more treasure tokens off and then buggered off leaving Bob dealing with the Genie as I could not harm it at all as it can only be harmed by magical weapons. He managed to defeat the Genie as he had Mystical Warriors the have fists that count as Magical Weapons.

My Wizard went up two more levels so I improved both my Fight and Health. I also gained just under 350 gold and a ton of Potions. I am still thinking of what should I do.

HeroClix

On Thursday I went down to York House for some HeroClix. As Michael was Hospitalised, it was just me and Darren S. we each brought three 400 points teams for three games. Darren S won all three game like normal. I will reveal only one team as the other two were test teams for the scenario planned for the next time we are all together. The team was a Pro-Registration who were:

Iron Man (002 Marvel Civil War) 80
She-Hulk (006 Marvel Civil War) 90
Yellowjacket (010 Marvel Civil War) 60
Doc Samson (012 Marvel Civil War) 70
Spider-Man (014 Marvel Civil War) 80
=380 points

Future Gaming

• Cardfight Vanguard Tournament on Saturday 13th (my Birthday)
• Kingdom Death Monster on Monday 15th
• HeroClix on Thursday 18th

Until all are one with the Lantern-Spark.

The Foxes and London Neoscream's Life Special: March 4th

The amazing Louisa Rose Allen aka Foxes

Welcome everyone to a special Neoscream's Life post that covers my journey to London and the fabulous Foxes concert.

There will be a normal "Neoscream's Life" post on Tuesday, however it will not be covering Friday. Maybe a brief mention of it.

As I was about to leave home I decided to buy Pokémon Yellow from the Nintendo eShop, so I could play the game on the train. However I realised after doing that I did not have the time to download it first. Facepalm.

I met up with Richard at Milton Keynes train station at about 9AM (well he turned up more like ten past, but it is very common for him to be late). We catch the 9:22AM to London and the London/Foxes adventure started there.

From Euston (after getting drinks) we catch the underground to Tottenham Court Road. Once there we headed to Forbidden Planet and lost track of the time. I was about to go buy some stuff when Richard spotted the time. It had gone 11:45AM. As we were meant to meet up with Darren H at Tower Hill at 1PM and we still had the Orcs Nest to visit, we needed to get a move on. So I quickly brought my stuff (forgetting to buy something I wanted to get) and rushed to the Orcs Nest.

At Forbidden Planet I picked up issues 0 and 1 (Forbidden Planet exclusive cover) of the new Mighty Morphin Power Ranges comic from Boom, a HeroClix booster of Marvel Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (pulled the super rare female Thor) and two Cardfight Vanguard boosters of G-BT01 "Generation Stride" (got another Final Wrench that I needed). I need to remember to ask Carl at Wargames Workshop to get in future issues if he has not already.

Luckily due to the size of the store, we did not take too long at Orcs Nest, in fact it was quicker than I thought it would be. I picked up a Reaper Miniatures Bones figure "Shaeress, Dark Elf Queen" to use as a Zombie for my Frostgrave warband and some based basing staff for my Frostgrave stuff. I might need to retake the photos of my Wizard, Apprentice and Captain as I might be adding a bit more to their bases. Richard also found a board game he liked, but he did not buy it as he did not want to carry it around London.

The Tower of London

We did have more time than we thought so we walked to the Embankment Underground station to catch the underground train to Tower Hill. Once there we met up with Darren H for some lunch. We walked to a market and got some Japanese wraps off a VERY popular and quick market store. We chatted like we normally do at coffee or on car journeys to and from Simon's, but wondered around. Darren H later had to go back to work (he works at London and was not going to the concert). So myself and Richard went to a Starbucks for some coffee and some rest.

At 3PM (well before that) we catch the underground to Camden Town. Once there we looked at a random comic shop and Camden Market before going to the massive Camden Stable Market. Camden Stable Market was quite interesting. It is a great place to visit and I would like to go there again. I would also strongly recommend it to cosplayers of all types as they might be able to find odds and ends they need or to give them ideas. I did find a store I liked called Cyberdog, more due to my liking for mecha and tech. Sadly I did not buy anything from there because of the cost and they did not do my size in t-shirts and jumpers. Maybe next time if I am ever there again and have lost some weight. Also as there was a lot off no photos signs (more for certain items I think) I sadly did not take any in the store.

One of the new t-shirts

I did managed to get at the Camden Stable Market two anime t-shirts (Dragonball Z and Evangelion) and a Mother's Day gift for my mum. I was after a Dragonball Z zip-up jumper as I wanted a Geeky Jumper, however they were out of my size.

At 6PM we went to Weatherspoons for dinner and some warmth as it was getting cold. I also changed the battery in my phone so that I have a fully charged phone at the Foxes concert.

After that we headed to the Roundhouse for the Concert. Due to the number of people already in the Roundhouse building when we arrived, they started a queue outside with us in the front. I did not know it at the time, however the time table was changed from what was on the Roundhouse website. Entry to the stage was now at 7:15PM instead of 7PM, however it was more like 7:20PM when they did open it. The website however did state that the time table might change without notice.

When we finally managed to get into the building we dropped our bags off and my coat and then headed to the merchandise stand. I was originally planning on getting a Foxes t-shirt. However as I could not get or find a suitable Geeky Jumper and ended up getting anime t-shirts, I decided on getting a Foxes tour zip-up hoodie instead. It was just alittle too small for me, but I am trying to lose some weight so hopefully I will be OK (read the "Neoscream's Life" post this coming Tuesday).

Rivrs

The first supporting act started later than what it was originally listed as online. The act was Matt Wills. He was good, but not someone I would listen to normally.

The second act was the band Rivrs and they were really good and enjoyable. I will be checking them out more in the future.

During the break between the second supporting act and Foxes (there was a break between the two supporting acts too), a bunch of people did the usual mistaking Richard for Jesus Christ. Facepalm. Why does this always happen? Facepalm.

Anyway after the break Foxes finally came on stage. WOW. Just WOW. She was breath taking, amazing, fantastic, wonderful and dreamy. I almost lost my voice twice singing a long. LOL. I just wish my camera could have gotten the experience of seeing her live a lot better. The only little (and I mean little) problem I have with the show is that I have seen pictures of her in better outfits in some of the other shows on the tour from her Twitter and Instagram (@iamfoxes). Oh and more Foxes on stage. LOL. I do hope she will tour the UK again soon as I would love to see her again in concert, however sadly I might have to do it alone.

The third supporting act that was originally meant to follow Foxes (according to the Roundhouse website), Curfew, never happened. Maybe they were cut off due to time or problems or they bailed out on Foxes and the Roundhouse. Anyway this meant the concert ended at 11PM instead of midnight. This also meant for us that we could get the underground to Euston instead of by bus or walking and to a catch MUCH earlier train. In fact I got home about 1AM when it was originally going to be some time past 3AM.

Overall it was a fantastic day and a dreamy night. I wish there was more hours in a day to fit in a lot more things, however sadly my legs would not have taken much more as they when aching from the long day on the way home. OK I could think of thinks to top that (like Louisa's love), but sadly you cannot have everything in life. Sadly.

In a normal "Neoscream's Life" post, I would have a "Watch, Listen and Read" section. However is is not a normal post so here is a recap of all the things I managed to get during the day instead:
Pokémon Yellow for my 3DS.
Issues 0 and 1 of Boom's new Power Rangers comic (issues one being the Forbidden Planet excursive cover).
A HeroClix booster of Marvel Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD. (containing 001 Nick Fury, 009 Sarah Garza, 011 Agent May, 021 Fitz and 050 Thor.)
Two Cardfight Vanguard boosters of G-BT01 "Generation Stride". (Key pulls Masuraoraizer, Starlight Violinist and Final Wrench).
Reaper Miniatures Bones figure "Shaeress, Dark Elf Queen".
Shrub White Flowers.
A Mother's Day Gift. A Jewellery Box.
A Dragonball Z T-shirt.
An Evangelion T-shirt.
And a Foxes Zip Up Hoodie.

Again (as I did this on Twitter and Facebook) I would like to thank for this brilliant day:
Immand for giving me the time off hell work.
Richard for coming with me when he was not a Foxes fan.
Darren H for meet up with us for lunch and showing us an interesting place to have lunch in London.

The stuff and helpers at all the places we went to like Forbidden Planet, Orcs Nest and the Roundhouse.
Foxes supporting acts Matt Wills and Rivrs.
Foxes band (sorry I bad at remembering names).
And of course the main reason this happened, the amazing, fantastic, wonderful, brilliant, talented, dreamy, sexy, cute, beautiful, funny, beam of sun shine, Louisa Rose Allen (Foxes).


Until next time, enjoy life.

5th Anniversary of the Blog

Hi all. Welcome to the fifth anniversary of the blog. I have several things I would like to talk about in this special post.

“History of the Blog”

About a month before the blog started, I started write a log which I only shard with a selected number of people. But then one day Blaire, an old online friend of mine who I had a crush on back then which the log did talk a lot about back then, said that if I do not start posting them online, she will stop reading. I asked her about a good place to do it and she pointed me to Blog Spot/Blogger. The log has changes over the years and still is going strong. This has shocked me as I have tried making websites in the past, but always gave up after several months. At the start of this year thing did seem to be on a downer due to personal problem “THAT I WILL NOT RECOVER HERE” as talking about it here coursed problems with the problems. But luckily the blog has survived, it just lost “Life” section of the “Neoscream’s Life” posts where I took about what I have been doing, dreams that I have had and my thoughts and feelings. So sadly now I do not really talk about what I have been doing during the week outside gaming and what things I have been watching/buying. This has led to a reduction of the number of set weekly posts to two a week.

In the being I use to write the log/blog in a note pad during the day and then type it up in the evening. This took up too much time as I was writing it twice. I then decided to pick up a BlackBerry to save time and then I moved on to a HTC Flyer tablet. Nowadays I write it on a Samsung Note 2 and save the work in on Dropbox. So when I post, I can do it on my computer without messing around downloading off the phone or dealing with trying to do pictures on the bleeping blogger app. Yes you can do pictures on the app, but they all end up at the bottom of the post as you cannot place them like you can on a computer.

Sadly I was hoping to do a redo to the site will a new look that had site draw images (by me or someone else) then using image I got off the web. I might try to slowly work on this.

“Gaming Event Update”

Wargames Workshop MK Is open on Monday, but only from 6PM to 11PM. Normally It is close on Bank Holidays, but they will be open more for game Is bank holiday. I do plan on going. Oh and the gaming evenings start at 6PM or 7PM.

“Some Bad WWE News”

Yesterday I received some bad news that will sadly change the blog. AJ is retiring from in ring WWE action. The statement does not really say that she will not be doing anything with the WWE anymore or wrestling outside the WWE, just that she is retiring from in ring action with the WWE. If she is still going to be working with the WWE, I would love to have her on commentary on ever Raw or Smackdown.

This will most likely mean that there will be no more AJ section in the “Neoscream’s Life” post, yet another blow to the post. What will replace it? Not a beeping clue.

“Life”

OK technically I do not do this section in posts any more, however I do what to talk about what I have been doing this week as I have been off work and as this is an Anniversary post. This does not include how I am feeling, problems in my life (other than space based) or people I know (well a couple of names are mentioned. I know that the Baka, Immad, will be upset.

I have been busy this week tidying my pit hole bedroom and up grading my computer. I have taken photos before I really started on Monday:

The Black framed storage draws were a new thing that was added during the weekend

Of Thursday evening before emptying/remove the old chest of drawers:

The Computer and TV set-up

Hobby Area

The old chest of draws that I am/have gotten rid of. The wheels at the bottom where no longer standing up and the draws where a nightmare to open and close (why the top three draws were open.

And on Friday when most of the major work was done.

Opps. Been too busy with my room I forgot to change the calender to April.

Two Shades of Turquoise

A more tidy hobby area

As you can see above there was a problem with the chest of draws. Ikea massively changed the shade of Turquoise they use. Instead of being a light shade like the one I got a year or two ago, it’s a very dark shade now. Well there goes the match chest of draws I was hoping for. All that is left real is some more reorganised to the selves, draws and a couple of small boxes.

With the computer upgrades, I have moved all the internal parts into a smaller case as the one Darren H let me was far too big. I have added two new larger hard drives as I was starting to running out of space. The first drive is a 250GB SSD for new software and the other is a huge 3TB to up storage and to hold my music as Windows 8 media software does not like adding stuff off NASs to liberties for some weird reason. I original forgot it was a problem with me until Richard got Windows 8 and ran into the same problem. He installed a second OS, Linx, to play media his media. I have also got some new fans too, but sadly I cannot install yet due to power connector problems. I just need to pick up a couple of converters like the one with the case fan. Due to the hard drives I had to drop any kind of optical drive as the mother board only has four SATA posts (OK I have an odd feeling you can get splitters). Luckily optical drives are becoming less and less important and my mum has an external USB DVD drive which I can borrow if I really need to use one.

“Top Ten Posts of All Time”

Lastly I wanted to post a list of the all-time top ten posts (by view count) of this blog so far. Please note I did this last night, but I dealt that there will be any real changes between then and when I post this. However after posting this is a different thing. Sadly it is mostly Cosplay Deviants post then gaming post which I would prefer these day or Life based post that everyone think it is.

10. Cosplay Deviants: 15th to 21st July 2013 I am stocked that is not higher as it has been in the top ten post of the week most of the time (and mostly at first) since I have added the list to the right hand side of the blog.

9. Cosplay Deviants: Noel - Destined

8. Cosplay Deviants: Quinn and Kickapoo - Starter

7. Cosplay Deviants: Quinn - Ninja

6. DreamClix Dial Designs Dialled Up Part 4, Ghost Dragon IS

5. Cosplay Deviants: Ichigo - Strip Poker 4

4. Cosplay Deviants: Nova, Paige, Aglaia, Rosie and Dryden - Senshi

3. Cosplay Deviants

2. Cosplay Deviants - Noel - Kokiri girl

1. Heroclix the 14th of July, Avengers vs JLA part 1 At least the top one is gaming related.

Well that is it for this post. So until next time:

Enjoy! (2010)

Have Fun! (2011)

Mecha Up! (2012)

Armour Up! (2013)

Keep Rolling! (2014)

Hope for a better tomorrow! (2015)

I’m Out! (TheKingNappy)

Keep It Shady! (ShadyPenguinn)

LOL! Had to do that.