In the early months of COVIDMania I started on painting some orcs. These were among the first minis I’d printed when I first got my Photon… meaning in many cases they were printed with a not-quite-properly-aligned plate, or not quite the right support settings, or… a host of other early teething problems. A few had […]
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So the exciting news around here recently is the tornado that strolled through my back yard during Isaias last week. We were lucky in only having some shingle damage and a small amount of buckling in our roof, along with a cracked window; some neighbors took much more roof damage, one house lost all its
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Back when I was working on my oil refinery build, I made some elevated walkways out of some cheap plastic fish tank filters (paid link). I mentioned that I thought they could be very versatile and that I was even considering buying another set to turn into terrain that could be suitable for an SF
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Shortly after I decided to revisit the traditional BMC stackers by creating some corner pieces to supplement them, a new crafting channel appeared on YouTube that took the original concept and made it significantly more adaptable and configurable. It’s introduced on the video below, and subsequent entries on the channel cover creating the basic building
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If one of them breaks, I can make the “Quarantree must have expired” joke… I’m lucky enough to have a job that can be done remotely, so I’m still collecting a paycheck during the current Coronapocalypse. What’s odd is that the long-term work-from-home thing has made working hours more fluid, and between that and a
Various real-world considerations have slowed both my D&D and Mighty Protectors campaigns over the last few months, so I still haven’t gotten to put my big oil refinery build to use yet. On the up side, the delay has given me time to think about more items I could add to it! I knew I
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One of my very early crafting projects was a set of Black Magic Craft style dungeon tiles. In the original post about them, I mentioned almost in passing that I’d also made a set of “stackers” to go along with the tiles. For those not familiar with the concept, I’ll refer you back to the
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In the first five installments of this series I put together all the pieces of modern scenery that will be used in an upcoming oil refinery encounter and other scenarios in the future. I made warped-but-serviceable roads, an assortment of garbage, and some pipes, utility poles, and elevated walkways. Then I added some jersey barriers
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With an assortment of scatter terrain ready to go, it was time to build some of the larger elements of my refinery layout. Since my campaign takes place in an analog of the local area, I wanted to take some inspiration from the actual nearby refinery (shown here on fire, because most of the other
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The Midwinter Minis video that helped inspire the previous post also suggested using copper pipe couplers to make modern oil-drum style barrels – perfect for an oil refinery build! But there was a problem: I couldn’t find pieces of the appropriate size and shape anywhere locally. There were corners and plugs and adapters for connecting
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