Category: Crafting
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Watching Paint Dry
I have been planning to get back into miniature painting again for some time, and even went to the effort of designing and configuring a new youtube channel. However, it has taken until now for me to actually get started. Hopefully by the time this posts, I will have an actually painted miniature, with a…
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Troubles at work
So I had a grand plan to start my painting miniatures series last night, and even organized, packed up, and hauled all the gear out to my location so I would be ready. Miniature primed and ready to go, camera charged and set. And then work develops an issue with one of my clients, with…
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New consideration for the painting projects
If you have been a follower of this site (not sure those exist), then you may have read a couple weeks ago that I was inspired to start painting miniatures again with my recent purchase of Zombicide: Black Plague. I even went so far as to create a subject-specific YouTube channel to create and post…
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Fan Art
The game is obviously working when it starts to inspire fan art. One of our players decided to draw the trolls which recently attempted to eat the group. Surprisingly accurate to the Pathfinder official artwork, though perhaps not as intimidating as they typically are. Credit to Ben for his illustration. At the same time, word…
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Catapults ready for summer camp
As a project for the Cub Scouts, for this year’s summer camp, I am constructing a pair of sling-shot style catapults for the kids. This weekend was the final time I have to finish them, and I managed to complete all the pieces and do at least a test assembly. The real test of course…
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The weekend project
Between rebuilding my FreeNAS server, editing gaming videos, traveling for work, and various other activities, my schedule is rather full these days. The latest challenge is an ask from the Cub Scouts to build a functional set of “rubber band” style catapults for use during Day Camp this year. Since that is rapidly approaching, and…
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Its a…. box!
Successful woodworking project over the weekend, crafting version 2 of the art pencil box for the wife. This time, the construction was 100% Purpleheart, a far more exotic wood than the basic plywood and chipboard of the original. In particular, I was challenged by a lack of jointer and planer, which made the panel glue-ups…
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Purpleheart
I had planned on working on version 2 of the art pencil box today, but an unusually late night last night (which I have to blame on video games), plus an early and long work outage call (which I have to blame on work) combined to kill that plan. The wife instructed me that I…