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I finally decided to dive further into the painting hobby, and have ordered an Airbrush kit, to be delivered this week. Airbrushing, specifically for hobby gaming and painting, has been a casual interest of mine over the years, but was always intimidating. I am much more of a traditionalist, with brushes doing drybrushing and washes. For the most part, I consider myself passable. However, given the limited time and scheduling, and my increased volume from 3d printing, I am falling further behind on painting that I really do want to complete. From my research, airbrushing is faster (for some parts),…
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13 gaming sessions in, and we have just wrapped up the first chapter of the Age of Ashes. Part of the challenge is of course the overly large group of 10 players, as well as adapting and learning the 2nd edition rules of Pathfinder. With an average of 2 hours of actual “content” each session, that still adds up to about 26 hours of gaming – which is quite a bit compared to prior campaigns. The group advanced from Level 1 starters to Level 5 mid-range adventurers, and have really started to work together as a group. So far, we…
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Episode 12 of our Age of Ashes campaign is being released now on YouTube. If you are a supporter on Patreon, you gain early access, otherwise as usual the content will be released in pieces over the next couple of weeks. If you are not a supporter, but find some entertainment in my content, please consider a subscription. Or at least drop a comment to leave constructive feedback so I can improve what I am publishing. Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/halfling13 YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEaR1aYMgQE2UYsOU8coklQ/
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With the new 3d printer, I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to generate routine print timelapses, using Octolapse. I managed to create one or two, but the large majority were suffering from mysterious layer shift issues. Although the print would complete, depending on the model it frequently was unusable – and the timelapse was certainly ugly. In comparison, if I ran the print without using Octolapse, it would run just fine without issues (barring unrelated problems like power outages). I did not really work with Octoprint’s built in timelapse option, since I far prefer Octolapse’s customization options. Recently however, I seem…
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Continuing my diorama style thumbnails for the Age of Ashes episodes, highlight some of the terrain and painted figures. Planning on adding a few of the group’s painting efforts, once I can hold on to them post game, but for now it is rather basic. This does however give me the opportunity to continue my own modeling, and more importantly, a deadline for new material every other week.
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Managed to enjoy a game of Star Wars: Armada this weekend, introducing a couple of new players to the game. The fleets were fairly basic – I intentionally limited the number of upgrade cards to make it easier to absorb. However, this lead to quite a few ships on the field, since less upgrades certainly adds a lot of ships. The mission we ended up with was Navigational Hazards, which was one that I had not experienced yet. My conclusion though is that it really seemed irrelevant as a mission – each time we moved the obstacles, it ended up…
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In a bit of good news/bad news, Fantasy Flight just posted a full list of their new January releases. This brings some long awaited expansions for several games I collect and play, but also brings a newly lengthened wish list for the same. Star Wars: Legion I am neutral on for these new pieces – not interested in Clone Wars and don’t need another Skywalker or Vader. But the X-Wing ships and cards, and especially the Armada ships, I am rather eager for. Now to start saving the coins to be able to add them to the fleets. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/1/31/available-now-january-24-1/
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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