@ Medio

Yeah, we could! What I used to do for the Navy was Operations Specialist. That's the guy that runs the surface radar, the air traffic controller radar, receives all of the top secret communications and translates them back into English, navigates the ship using Dead Reckoning Tracers and other navigating equipment, and too many other things to list.

@ Quenten

Lol, yeah, that was a strange time. Nothing in my childhood was normal, well from an American standpoint anyway. Good to hear from you too Quenten.

@ Loopysue

Yep, very strange. Story of my life it seems. Yeah, I need to get to mapping again. But I keep getting distracted because I am still trying to learn to code. I've got most of the HTML language down and the same with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Now I'm working on learning Javascript. Sometimes I wonder how all of you computer coders out there were ever able to learn all of this stuff!

@ Monsen

I do too Monsen, it tickles me every time I think about the fact that I actually get to make armor for the military of an actual country. It is a very old tradition and now I am part of that tradition. But, to be honest, I did make a suit of armor for myself when I was in my 20's, though it was made of hot rolled 16 gauge steel and in the style of the Samurai. A guy I knew back then saw me wearing it and asked me to join his painting group as a model wearing the armor. So I went to the studio, which was a very rich persons house in the Seattle area, (yes, they had servants and everything) and went upstairs to sit for a portrait. When it was done, the person who painted the best one actually gave me the painting, so of course I gave it as a gift to my mother.

My twin brother and I used to look more like each other when we were younger, but things changed when we got older. But sometimes we still finish each others sentences and say the exact same thing at the exact same time that we were both thinking. It really freaks out his wife and grandchildren.

Hi everyone, I'm not really sure what to put in here so maybe some random things about me.

Random Thing #1. I was kidnapped when I was five years old and travelled around the country with my kidnapper until he hit a motorcyclist with his truck and I was rescued by the police. To this day I see pictures of places I have never been but I could swear that I've seen those places in person.

Random Thing #2. I joined the United States Navy right out of High School and went to Asia for my tour of duty. I participated in lots of military drills at sea, particularly the ones that make North Korea so mad. My ship was the most well armed Guided Missile Destroyer in the US Navy. We participated in supporting the Philippine Insurrection of 1988 when Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, the shoe hoarder, were replaced in a peaceful insurrection by Corazon Aquino . I also got to go to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Brunei Darusalam.

Random Thing #3. At one point I had a job within my community watching child molestors who had been let out of prison but were not trusted to be alone in public. So what I was hired to do was watch them all day long to make sure they never had a chance to hurt anyone again and keep my community safe from them.

Random Thing #4. What do I do for a living? This one is fun. I'm an armorer. Yes, an honest to God Armorer. I quite literally make armor for a living. I make body armor for the United States Military and police forces around the United States of America.

Random Thing #5. I'm a twin. Yes, there are two of me running around. Scary thought right?!

Random Thing #6. I've been playing various versions of Dungeons & Dragons since 1978. I used to draw maps of dungeons and fantasy lands all the time when I was younger, especially when I was sitting in church with my mom and bored out of my mind. So I have always had an interest in making maps and pictures and things like that for my games. So when I was at a friends house in 2013 he showed me a version of Campaign Cartographer 2 that he had sitting on his gaming shelf. I was, of course, immediately interested, and jumped online to have a look at the company. Shortly after that I got my own copy of CC3 and started working on my first map, the Inn of the Globefish from the Dungeons & Dragons Oriental Adventure module called "Night of the Seven Swords".

Anyway, here are some of the maps I have done. I admit though, I haven't really made a map in a while. I still love doing it, but I just haven't sat down to do so.

Now this is a close up of the walls and a tower

Ok so I spent the day making a Cathedral. I could have put more bling on it but for a basic cathedral it isn't too bad. Enjoy.

Well, I didn't really make any of this art using photoshop and that is usually what is in the annuals. The only part I made was the textures for some of the Tudor style homes using Genetica. And then I imported them into the bitmap area.

So I decided I wanted the walls to look a little more uniform so I re created the towers. Here is a new pic with the new towers and some of the buildings scattered about.