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Welcome to the blog section of my website. Here you'll find my mostly useless information on various retro gaming computers and consoles and a few other hobbies…
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- Video Game database - Online database of all my computers, consoles and games.
- Home Power Monitor - Electrical grid monitoring reports.
- Tech stuff - Retro gaming and computers, old electronics, network installers for Unix-like systems.
- Model making - Scale model making, sci-fi; Gundam, Macross, Maschinen Krieger…
- Miniatures - Miniatures painting.
- Car stuff - Rebuilds, projects and previous cars.
- Personal projects - Days out, DIY jobs, other unsorted stuff…
- Digital Photography - My very amateur attempts at digital photography.
- Book Collection - Cataloguing my book collection.
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Miniatures & Painting - G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T
Mainly just my collection of rule books for this gaming system.
Miniatures & Painting - Harlequin Miniatures: Doctor Who Invasion Earth
Tabletop game and associated models. Originally produced by Harlequin Miniatures, the rights to produce these have transferred over the years to various parties. The last I knew of, it was Black Tree Design (US and UK versions exist) that still produced the models.
| Image | Name | In-Universe Affiliation | Scale / Size | Model ID | Quantity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cybermen | N/A | 25mm | DW533, ???? | 1 | 1x Cyberman Firing (DW533) + 5x Cyberman (unknown code). All painted, based. |
 | Sontaren | N/A | 25mm | DW475, DW619, DW304, DW613 | 1 | 5x Sontaren Warrior (DW475), 1x Sontaren Commander (DW619), 1x Linx the Sontaren (DW304), 1x Stike the Sontaren (DW613). Painted and based. |
 | Daleks | N/A | 25mm | DW303 | 5 | Painted, based. |
 | Dalek Troopers | N/A | 25mm | DW1018 | 7 | Unpainted. |
 | UNIT Patrol | N/A | 25mm | DW1003 | 7 | Was included with the boxed game. Unpainted. |
 | Roboman 2150 | N/A | 25mm | DW902 | 5 | Unpainted. |
Miniatures & Painting - Agents of Gaming: Turning Point
Bought this ruleset when it was first released and it really never got off the ground; the rules were very difficult to understand and full of errors, the 'manual' was distributed as a set of b&w prints that you had to bind yourself, and the miniatures seemed to take forever to come out (and weren't great).
Here as a curiosity, since I never got in to it:
| Image | Name | In-Universe Affiliation | Scale / Size | Model ID | Quantity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slightly larger model. Heavy cruiser? | |||||
 | 4 | Partially painted. Medium sized models - possibly cruisers or similar. (1x not shown here). | ||||
 | 2 | Unpainted. Small to medium sized models - likely destroyers? | ||||
 | 4 | Unpainted. Small models - probably frigates. Slightly different 'front' to the other small models. | ||||
 | 4 | Unpainted. Small models - probably frigates. (2x not shown here). |
Miniatures & Painting - FASA: Crimson Skies
The original tabletop air combat game as published by FASA. Not to be confused with the later iteration of the game by Wizkids which was a 'collectible' game. It also spawned a flight combat game on the PC, and later a more arcade-combat style game on the original Xbox:
Miniatures were produced by Ral Partha, and are still available from Ral Partha Europe, along with most of the expansion books. The original boxed game is quite hard to find.
| Image | Name | In-Universe Affiliation | Scale / Size | Model ID | Quantity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Grumman E-1C Avenger | N/A | 20-105 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Bell Valiant MkII | N/A | 20-103 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Fairchild Bandit | N/A | 20-118 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Fairchild F611 Brigand | N/A | 20-107 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Grumman Skylance | N/A | 20-126 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Northrop 2F-2 Black Bat | N/A | 20-125 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Ravenscroft Coyote | N/A | 20-104 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Boeing AZ2 Groundhog | N/A | 20-119 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Bird Dog Autogyro | N/A | 20-116 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Whittly & Douglas M210 Raven | N/A | 20-100 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Hughes Aviation Bloodhawk | N/A | 20-110 | 1 | Partially painted. | |
 | Hughes P21-J MkIII Devastator | N/A | 20-108 | 1 | Partially painted. |
Miniatures & Painting - FASA: Renegade Legion Centurion
Renegade Legion Centurion was one of a linked-set of games (the others being Interceptor for fighter combat, Leviathan for capital ship combat, Prefect for large-scale/high-level strategy) produced by FASA in the late 1980's to mid 1990's. Several were succesfully translated to computer games later:
FASA didn't make their own models, instead sub-contracting the production to C-in-C who still have the license today. Most models were cast in metal, but there are two box-set of plastic models available.