"T he international bestseller soon to be made into a major motion picture ..." Well that was my joke while reading my latest boo...

M erry Christmas! Just now I finished two Chechen AA guns I've been working on for a while. This summer I prepped and primed the gunner...

A lthough Thomas de Waal is a bit of scholarly hero of mine I put off reading one of his latest books because of its title The Caucasus: An...

My birthday card made by my daughter Hazel (age 5). T oday is my birthday. I took the day off from work to have an all day painting sessi...

I t has taken me a while, but my last set of miniatures is now complete and on the shelf. I had a lot of fun doing head/hat swaps on these ...

W hen I initially found Conflict in the Caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia and the Russian Shadow by Svetlana Chervonnaya I was very excited; fin...

Y esterday during a rare, quiet extended reading period I finished reading Anna Politkovskaya's A Dirty War . Anna Politkovskaya (1958...