What Projects is Will Working on?

 This is a great project for wargaming or for diorama making. If you make some kind of miniature terrain you might want to check out this project. I use wire and Clay to make a great looking tree. It’s really not too difficult and it comes out great. This is a complete tutorial with pictures and a video.

How to Make Realistic Miniature Trees

I have been working on a whole new series of tutorials and videos. They are all about Fantasy, role playing and wargaming miniatures. These new projects include a series on how to sculpt fantasy miniatures, How to paint miniatures and how to make miniature trees. This is all part of the many dioramas and miniature scenes I have made. I am also planning on doing a very big diorama project. If you love miniatures like I do then check out my home page where you can see all the various miniature projects I have: Miniatures

This is a great project that I have been working on and now its complete. I have a video showing me launch it off here: The DragonSlayer Shoulder Fired Bazooka This was a lot of fun and it didn’t cost me that much. And I will be doing some more videos with it.

This is a neat little project that you can complete easily in about 2 hours including painting time. It is a medieval flail - the medieval looking kind with the spikes on the ball. This is a complete tutorial with lots of pictures and variations on how to make it. You don’t need to use plastic chain like I did. You can just use string. How to make a Medieval Flail

I have put together a nice web page with lots of pictures and videos of Himeji Castle in Japan. This is on my medieval castles website. This is the #1 castle in Japan and I take you on a mini tour of it both inside and out. And there is an interesting ghost story about this castle. Check it out on my medieval castles website.

 These are two projects submitted by a web visitor. They are both made out of simple office supplies. So they are the office supply catapult and the office supply trebuchet.  Really nice projects and a good example of some ingenuity that can be used if you want to make a siege engine but don’t have a whole lot of materials. How about some pencils and rubber bands? Nice!

The Trebuchet project, which is very ingenious is located here

And the Catapult project is located here

I have completed a new model rocket project. It is the Estes Wizard Rocket and its a fun yet easy rocket to make. Great for beginners because it is pretty easy yet it still gives you a good rocket making experience. Here is the tutorial complete with video and lots of pictures and step by step instructions. The Estes Wizard Rocket

Walking through a nearby area I heard the thrumming of a woodpecker. Tracking it down was elusive and I needed more than one perspective to find it. This started me thinking about my quest for the meaning of life. Anyway I posted a short essay about it, and a short video with that elusive little woodpecker, to my meaning of life blog.

The search for the meaning of life

I will be doing a new terrarium project. This project will use the flowers in the Micro Mini Sinningia family which are among the smallest flowers in the world. You can see an example of one of these flowers in the picture. That’s a penny on the top of the cup. These flowers are perfect for very small terrariums because they thrive in the humidity of a closed terrarium environment and they are exceedingly small.

The project I will be doing is to make the terrarium inside a lightbulb. This is very similiar to the diorama I made inside a lightbulb.

You can check out more about these flowers and the project on my site here: Teeny Tiny Sinningia terrarium

Here is a nice little project on how to carve a fantasy dagger out of wood. I do several different sizes and show you all the techniques I use. The large one could be used as a letter opener and the small ones could be used as jewelry. How to carve a fantasy dagger