Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Game Master Extraordinaire
This time I decided to actually go through with it and make a card for myself. Since I don't currently own a business, I made one for my game mastering.
As you can see, its quite a lovely little card and if you've received one from somewhere it's pointed you at this blog. Here you will find my posts about all manner of gaming topics. I hope you will stay and read and comment on them.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Painting after hiatus
So I've finally gotten to paint again after the hiatus that was school. Don't worry, I'll be back to not having free time soon enough. Tonight I worked on my Shredders. I decided to cover them in exile blue and build up to lighter from there. Then I painted a Pathfinder goblin. He hasn't been green yet, so I remedied that. Then I took one of the Bones future armor troopers and saw what he would look like in green armor. O like how it looks and will be working on the accents for him next. Then I finished Mohsar. He just needed a few places touched up. I like how the angry man of the desert looks. Finally I took some more time on Kraye. He's been around 3/4 done for quite some time now and I've always been conflicted on leather straps. I never wanted to paint them the same color because I thought it wouldn't look right. I recently read someone's post on painting that said something to the tune of, put paint on the model, most of the time you are over thinking it and it will look fine. So I tried this and got a lot of the little things he needed painted, painted. Now I just need to finish the metallics and he should be done as well.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Carrying Tray
My first attempt was using MDF. Not a bad choice but I always forget how much dust is created when you drill or saw it. I also wasn't sure how close I could put the holes to each other. So I measured a bit lean and ended up drilling out the pieces between holes.
So I went back to the drawing board. Decided to use a bit tougher material and remeasure the holes to drill. I went with 1/4" sanded pine, which came in 2'x4' sheets. Since the holes for the bases I was going to be cutting were measured in Millimeters I decided to cut my board into 30mmx30mm boards, which gave me 8 total. I split these into 2 piles of 4 boards. My thinking was that if I made a large base hole in the top level, then a medium base in the next one down and a small base in the next one, I would have one more board for a base to cover all the bottom.
My next step was drilling the holes in the boards. I had recently acquired a drill press, now I just needed some bits to drill the holes I needed. I borrowed some wood hole drill bits from a friend and tried those. The large and medium bits were alright at drilling, but the small bit would just heat up and burn the wood. After some investigating I decided to get a set of Forstner bits. I found one that had all three sizes I needed and proceeded to work.
After drilling through all the holes for the project I got really good at making them without ripping out the backside of the board. Which I tended to do quite a bit of when I first started.
Once I had drilled out all of the holes it was time to line up all my boards and put in the bolts to hold everything together. This along with the bolt holes for the handles finished up all the drilling I would need.
Now to finish any sanding it needs and to paint it up. Any color choices from the internet?
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Tonights Accomplishments
I also built something I should have a long time ago.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Long Time, No See
Ever since going back to school I've had to put a bunch of my projects and hobbies on a shelf. Some of those literally. I've also picked up another hobby. I bought a tiny quad copter off of Amazon to learn to fly quads. So far I haven't hurt myself or anyone else. My copter of choice for this endeavor was the Hubsan X4 H107D. Mostly because it was on Amazon Prime and had a camera on it. I watched a few videos on Reddit about fpv video quads and wow are they pretty fun. So reading into the subject, the common wisdom is to buy a cheap little quad to learn how to fly and then move up and build a quad for whatever purpose you'd like. I believe I'll be building one for aerial photography eventually. This hobby brings in my electronics knowledge and training as well, which is a nice bonus. When I decide on a build I will document it for anyone to follow.
In other news I feel an itch to go back to painting. A friend at work asked me to paint up some of his Star Wars miniatures. I haven't painted anything futuristic in quite some time. I think it'll be a good change of pace, and it will be a chance to flex my painting muscles again.