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Have been inspired recently to paint my Separatist army for Star Wars Legion, after our last game. At the time, I opted to focus heavily on the Separatists, and went ahead and planned out an army. Since then, I have acquired all of the rest of the figures, assembled them, and am now working on steadily painting the set. For me, this is a major accomplishment – I used to play 40k and Fantasy Battle routinely with unpainted figures. Sadly Darth Maul is apparently sold out everywhere, so I ended up having to substitute in Count Dooku. Not my first…
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Over the years, I have played with and experimented with Virtual Machines in various forms, typically to run Ubuntu or Windows based systems. These were used for either game servers, web servers, file systems, or just for basic experimentation. Currently, I am running one which holds my Home Assistant instance, on an old Windows laptop, which is used for our gaming with Fantasy Grounds. I have also used a Raspberry Pi for several years now to run Octoprint for my 3d printer, to manage the print jobs, create timelapses, and generally track the operation. My next goal now is to…
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As posted last week, I was working on printing a model for the Dragon’s Crest starship, as part of the Dragon’s Rest models. Over the weekend, the last pieces finished up. With the addition of a few more clips, and a handful of ball-bearing magnets, I now consider the model completed. Of course a layer of paint would be in order, but that will likely wait some time for me to get motivated. I also need to print some transparencies for the windows, but for now “open” is equivalent to “very clear” for me. The piece will work fine for…
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Some time ago, not exactly sure when, I acquired an STL set as part of a sale from Dragon’s Rest. If I recall correctly, it was for a modular docking bay set, but came with a fully modular set for the Dragon’s Crest design starship. Since my dice tower collection is just about completed, I decided to dive into this project, and progressively print the pieces. Although it is time consuming, I am impressed by the design. The overall concept is miniature scale, making it useful for gaming, and includes numerous movable parts on the ship (doors, ramps, etc). Most…
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With the ending of our Age of Ashes campaign, we have been without one of the primary storylines for a couple of weeks. During this past time, I have been evaluating options. Although I have a few thoughts myself for future games, I did manage to convince one of our players to try their hand at GM’ing for the group, and have been working with bringing them up to speed with a small group in a side adventure. We had our first session last week, and I think it was a good learning experience. For the first time ever running…
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The fourth, and final, tower of our first painting batch is the Kraken theme tower. Emerging from the water, the Kraken strikes, tearing down the tower itself. This one was my personal favorite, and one that I was looking forward to painting As is my typical, the stone is black with a grey highlight and the roof tiles are layered brown. The Kraken itself is a layer of deep purple, highlighted in a sea green, then the details of the eyes picked out with black and yellow. A bit of pinkish red finishes off the details. Tower is a deliverable…
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Another of our large collection of dice towers, this one being the Sorcerer theme. Painted by my wife, who is a much more artistically oriented crafter, rather than a miniature painter. The stone and rock was painted with a layer of light grey on a grey background, various colors for the building, and a bronze cover for the ceiling tiles. Of the various designs, this particular one had a bit of a Harry Potter look, which I suspect inspired some of the choices for this painting. As before, this is from a Kickstarter for Fates End.
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Second of our numerous dice towers, this time painted by my son. This is the GM tower, though not exactly sure of the design aspects. The tower itself is rather large, especially with the dragon’s wings. Coloration was done entirely by my son’s choice, which turned out well, though he was frustrated a bit by some of the details of the painting process and the various nooks and crannies of the model itself. The stone was a layer of black with a heavy grey drybrush, the dragon was a red with a orange highlight, and the ceiling tiles used a…
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