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After writing my prior post, I of course kept digging, and surprisingly quickly managed to find a solution. Turns out my issue was not with DNS, but rather with needing a Rewrite directive in my Apache configuration.
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I continue to tinker with the website, trying to add features and options, and continue to struggle a bit with the DNS record configuration. In my case, I utilize GoDaddy for my domain registration, which works well, but my custom configuration is challenging, as I found out today after trying to make modifications. In parallel to this site, which I self-host, I have a self-hosted Nextcloud server running for personal cloud storage. However, I only have a single IP connecting to my home. Thus I need two different ports to use to configure the different sites, so that standard web…
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Finished the first set of Walkers, a set of 7 female zombies. I had posted before that I rather liked the “dirt” effect the wash applied, although it did not look all that great with a couple of color combinations. Fortunately, after a bit of dry brushing, the colors recovered quite a bit, and I like the overall look a lot better now. Those that were strong previously are just as strong, but the weaker ones recovered quite a bit. Unfortunately, the highlighting did not do much for the rest of the sculpts, except for the faces – where the…
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I finished the highlighting and cosmetics on the Abomination, and rather like the figure. I am not that happy with the pants/shorts – the suggested green ended up becoming rather muddy and really fades into the skin tone of the zombie giant himself, but the rest is nice. The highlighting and shading really makes the huge muscles stand out, and the blood effects give it the expected gore value. Overall a rather plain and simple figure to paint (lots of green), but the sculpt itself is dynamic.
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As part of the zombie horde, I started with the seven Walker “ladies” from the set, in an effort to batch out the figures. This approach worked well, though I did vary the colors a bit for some variety. Some of the final combinations worked, some did not. Not a big fan of the pink dresses, but only because I am not a fan of pink. And the dark blue dress didn’t really work well with the shading – perhaps after highlighting it will be better. On the other hand, I am always a sucker for a red dress, and…
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Working on the next round of Zombicide figure painting, wrapping up the unique characters and starting the bulk of the zombie hordes. First up is the Abomination, base coated and washed, ready for highlighting and cosmetics tonight. I was concerned initially by the base coat, it appeared rather flat, but the wash effect worked pretty well for this one.
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It may have been noticed, but my website was offline for most of the night yesterday. I have been reconfiguring my home theatre system, which runs partially on the same system. In my solution, I have a FreeNAS server, which holds a pair of Ubuntu virtual machines, each of which run pieces of the overall solution. In an attempt to improve performance, enable updates, and generally improve efficiency, I have been moving some of the pieces off of the FreeNAS base system and onto one of the two VMs. For the most part, everything was working fine, and actually improving…
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Congratulations to George, and his dominating Red deck, who managed to win the first annual Thanksgiving Magic the Gathering competition. We ended up with 14 participants, which resulted in 4 rounds of games. Many of the players were brand new to the game, so it was rather educational for many, and I believe we have more than a few new converts to the game. It makes me encouraged for a similar event next year, though hopefully with a bit more preparation and advertising.
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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