{"id":478,"date":"2014-11-30T20:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-11-30T20:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:43:20","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all had as nice of a holiday as I have. It started out a bit rough; New England got hit with a fairly nasty winter storm on Wednesday night, which brought snow, ice, and wind. As a result, many people around the area were without power. Fortunately, we kept ours. Gwen made a huge turkey this year; more than 21 pounds! Suffice to say, there was plenty to eat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_04891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-482\" alt=\"IMG_0489(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_04891-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_04891-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_04891-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_04891.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><!--more-->Other than that, I&#8217;ve been spending some time with Gwen and her parents, playing some Ticket to Ride and watching some TV. I&#8217;ve also been playing a lot of World of Tanks. They are running a special event for the holiday where the first win in a tank for the day is worth 5 times the normal amount of experience! Suffice to say, I&#8217;ve been trying to make the most of that. Gwen has been more than patient with me for wanting to play the game so much, that is for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Another game that I played was a Dystopian Wars TANKS-giving scenario. This made use of some custom turkey-themed markers I had made a while back, and some of the ground forces I have painted up for my Dystopian Wars armies. You can see the battle report and some pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manbattlestations.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/a-dystopian-wars-tanks-giving\/\">over on my other blog<\/a>. Speaking of wargaming, I have also been working on some of my modeling. I have completed two models recently; one is a Prussian battlecruiser for Dystopian Wars, and the other is a frigate for my Firestorm Armada Terran fleet. Here are a couple of shots of them to give you an idea:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-23-16.59.18-e1417394209107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-480\" alt=\"2014-11-23 16.59.18\" src=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-23-16.59.18-e1417394209107-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-23-16.59.18-e1417394209107-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-23-16.59.18-e1417394209107-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-23-16.59.18-e1417394209107.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-22-14.55.48-e1417394157669.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-479\" alt=\"2014-11-22 14.55.48\" src=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-22-14.55.48-e1417394157669-1024x731.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-22-14.55.48-e1417394157669-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-22-14.55.48-e1417394157669-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>These two models aren&#8217;t the extent of my recent modeling work, believe it or not. I recently completed a small display model for a fellow officer that was transferring from the ship:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-08-18.24.42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-481\" alt=\"2014-11-08 18.24.42\" src=\"http:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-08-18.24.42-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-08-18.24.42-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-11-08-18.24.42-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Overall, my modeling is still well behind where I would like it to be, but I am slowly chipping away at the back-log. Until next time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all had as nice of a holiday as I have. It started out a bit rough; New England got hit with a fairly nasty winter storm on Wednesday night, which brought snow, ice, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/?p=478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,19,10,31],"tags":[7,94,20,50,35,13],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firestorm-armada","category-miniature-wargaming","category-status-update","category-war-at-sea","tag-dystopian-wars","tag-firestorm-armada","tag-man-battlestations","tag-portsmouth","tag-thanksgiving","tag-world-of-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysrandomstuff.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}