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Going to be a busy next couple of weeks, as I prepare for our upcoming Magic: The Gathering tournament. I still have to finish up the last pieces of the trophy I have been working on, in between what seems to be nearly constant rain. In addition, my trips to Toledo are more numerous, limiting my free time in the evenings. Fortunately, we have all but suspended our Shadowrun game, which leaves Sunday mornings every other week open, which will be helpful. However those days are also going to be likely assigned to the numerous board and strategy games I…
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By this point, the new expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved will be released, and hopefully our custom server will be running the new Extinction content. The wife is rather eager for the new material – she has plans of taming and crafting the new materials in the fresh land to explore. Personally, I am fairly neutral on the whole Ark game at this point, to me it feels like rinse and repeat each time, but I am sure we will all give it a try again to see if there is really any change in the process.
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Over the last several months, I have commented at times about how I had intended or planned for one action or another, and then ended up failing to deliver on my own claims. This seems to be a common situation, and one for which I envy regular content creators who are able to reliably complete their goals. Perhaps I am over eager, perhaps I am unrealistic, or perhaps life is just too complicated. Regardless, it seems to be a common catch-22 in which my good intentions struggle with the reality of life and scheduling. Although it is not an excuse,…
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Posting a bit late, since I have resumed work after a brief one week holiday. Needless to say, my email is rather backlogged, with all the issues that came up while I was not watching. For the vacation, we had a good time – plenty of fun with the family, camping with the kids, and a visit from my Dad. I of course did not get done as much as I wanted to, or probably should have, but I was able to sleep in a bit here and there, and tackled several projects I wasn’t aware of before hand. Halloween…
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Continued to tweak and adjust the organization trays I have been working for X-Wing, and I think I have a solution design at this point. Ended up not being as thin as I had hoped, but everything fits, and more importantly, the upgrade pieces connect well. Going to test it out a bit in an actual game or two, after I get a chance to print out a few copies, but I am liking it already. In some ways, it may be better to move to tokens to the left, and make the height equal to the ship card, but…
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My recent game of X-Wing with my son got me inspired to start designing and testing an organization tray, similar to my design for Armada. Basically, just a way to keep the cards organized with the tokens, since the game has a lot of little pieces. My goal is to have something simple for each ship, with an expandable option for each upgrade – since each ship can have a variable number of upgrades. Stayed up a bit overly late the first night, but came up with a draft format, that after a bit of additional adjustments, seems like it…
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Enjoying family time tonight, as the kids go out trick-or-treating for Beggar’s Night. Ben is very happy with his inflatable gorilla costume, and it looks like George will recycle his “dead guy” costume from last year. As usual, the grandparents will be over to help hand out candy, and we will no doubt have pizza. Unfortunately, the weather does not look too good this year – not cold enough for snow, but with steady rain expected. I expect the turnout in our neighborhood may be lower than typical years.
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Finished a fairly massive print today of an Imperial Turbo Laser Tower, scaled for Star Wars: Legion. This was actually my second attempt at the main tower piece – the first one ended up running my spool of filament dry at about 98%. Total print time was 3 hours and 40 minutes for the top two pieces (the tower top, and barrels), and another 14 hours and 49 minutes for the base section. All pieces printed with 0.2 mm layer heights and 10% infill. As before, an unpainted Stormtrooper for scale. There is some rather obvious ghosting on the sides…
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