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With my newly painted army, I remembered to take a few pictures of our table and terrain during our first battle. Ended up forgetting to go further after the first couple of turns, but at least I got what I did. The scenario was Recover the Supplies, which really turned into “meatgrinder”, with both sides fighting to the last man. The droids moved in on the side, trying to take the center point against the Empire, with both forces deploying their heavy armor on opposite ends of the field. However, the droids were a big disorganized, and scattered, resulting in…
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As posted before, I ended up being inspired to paint up my Separatist Army for the Star Wars: Legion game. After spending time generating and deciding on a 800 pt list, I acquired the necessary models, assembled, primed and ultimately painted the entire set. Fortunately, droids are fairly straightforward, total time was less than 2 weeks from start to finish, including several days of priming, painting, and basing the models. Following the painting, we have played two games with the force thus far, both resulting in a Separatist victory against Empire. Both were Recover the Supplies missions, against the same…
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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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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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