Misadventures in Strange Places

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Perspective #motorcyclerepair #ridinglife

Perspective Ever felt like you were in a time warp? No? Just me? I don’t know that I have spoken much about this here. The stuff here has a general scope that changes from time to time as my mood strikes but has normally revolved around some specific activities. So it might not have come up. I don’t remember and I am not going to dig into the posts and search. I’m driving this toward the current…

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Different Skyscrapers #3dtabletop

Different Skyscrapers I’m still stuck in the realm of building up a western town for Shadows of Brimstone. I say stuck but I actually enjoy the process (even though it feels like the current building is taking forever). Mind you there have been some trials and tribulations along the way too. And then I realize I haven’t been talking about much of this lately because the last thing to show up here…

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First House #3Dprinting #3Dtabletop

First House #3Dprinting #3Dtabletop

First House There was a meme that I ran across recently that summed up so much of my frustrations lately. The gist of the meme was Rage Against the Machine must have been talking about 3D printers. Yeah, it made me laugh. Sure, there is a lot you can do with a 3D printer. But part of the fun is all the extra aggravation that comes with it. Over the past couple weeks, I started having some…

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Swamps of Death #shadowsofbrimstone

Swamps of Death My birthday has come and gone, the last of my still not 50 birthdays. This is the last year that I live outside of that 5th decade and I don’t know that I like that it is still fast approaching. But I digress… The family asked what I wanted this year. The past couple years they had all chipped in and gotten me some bigger presents. Heck, last year, the xbox one was a god send. I…

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Building Dungeons #makerthoughts

Building Dungeons I have been watching terrain creation videos and such for a long time now. Not as long as I have played games and what not but still its been a few years. Through them I have dabbled in scratch building pieces for various games (mostly for Gaslands). And I have had my eye on some specific things. Through watching creators like Wylock and Black Magic Craft, I had thought I might…

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For Need of a Tower #3dprinting

For Need of a Tower #3dprinting

For Need of a Tower As a crafter, I’m a bit wonky. Sure I can do some things and make some interesting bits but I tend to dial it in and hope for the best. I’m referring to things that take construction paper and glue and similar “projects”. In the past I have actually done some good work in building and fabricating. I mean to say, I can’t weld but I can swing a wrench and tighten some…

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Printed Solutions #makerproblems

Printed Solutions So here’s the thing… At times I think I have a problem. Yeah, I currently see the 3D printer as the solution maker. And many times it can be. I have gotten away from making stuff through foam and cardboard, at least most of the time. When it comes to the stuff for Shadows of Brimstone, I found most of the time it can be better to print off a container instead of buying more…

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Building Armies #gamerproblems

Building Armies So what happens when you play table top games and war games and have a 3D printer at your disposal? Well, first you go through all sorts of problems to get it to work. And then it works for a bit and you run into all sorts of new problems. All the while you are printing off as much as you can of various bits and pieces of all sorts of things. The Orkish Necro and his…

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Saving a Printer #nerdproblems

Saving a Printer #nerdproblems

Saving a Printer So in the quest to figure out how to print out war game models (referenced as minis as opposed to terrain pieces). I had developed some heater issues on the printer. Essentially, it came down to heat creep. The heater block was spreading heat up the feed tube and causing jams when unmelted filament became too big to fit down the tube properly. This wasn’t a huge issue during the…

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Supurbia #reflection

Supurbia

The neighborhood I live in is essentially two different neighborhoods. At least when it comes to the age of the houses. See, the street we live on is part of the original neighborhood. The houses here have been around since probably the 70s or so. The streets further into the neighborhood though are newer. When you drive further in you can see the dividing line between the old and the…

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Printer Aggravations #aneta8

Printer Aggravations

So I did a thing. You may remember that I was beginning to work on printing minis with the 3D printer. Well, I’m starting to figure it out. It’s a process for sure and there is always something new to learn. But its getting there.

In my quest to find all manner of new files to print (game related stuff of course), I stumbled across some files for Orks. These are not the…

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Printing the Small #3dprinting

Printing the Small #3dprinting

Printing the Small

I’m not sure if I have taken the time to talk about this yet. I have been attempting to make some changes to the 3D printer recently (and by recently I mean in the past month or so).

See, I have been using a .4 nozzle. This is great for stuff like terrain and maybe stuff that doesn’t have super fine detail. But it is just a bit too big to work on minis (miniature figures for…

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Battle Ground #Reflection

Battle Ground

So yeah, I finished it. You didn’t even know I was reading it. That’s the magic of being in my own little world. Or something…

Anyway, yeah, the next newest Dresden Files book came out a short time after the one before it. We have been waiting years and end up getting two books in short order. This current one is Battle Grounds, and the 17th book in the Harry Dresden story line from…

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Station #reflection

Station

Okay, so I don’t know if I have ever talked about this before. Yes, this is leading up to something else. How did you know?

Anyway, growing up, I remember watching the launch of the space shuttles and all the hype around them. I was hooked. This was probably the only time I ever collected news clippings and anything else I could find pertaining to everything space and shuttle launches. I…

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Peace Talks #reflection

Peace Talks

I’m not sure where to begin with this. I mean, I could have a build up and talk a bit about where everything began for me. I’m not even sure if I have done that already while looking at other books in the series or in the same universe (this series covers both comics and books, even had a loosely based tv show at one point). So I mean, do we need my history with the series or can I…

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Somewhere Down the Crazy River #adventure

Somewhere Down the Crazy River #adventure

Somewhere Down the Crazy River

I grew up in a town real close to the Kalamazoo river. I know right? What a statement, what an opener. We really don’t care too much about where I grew up. Cause let’s face it, growing up stories are boring and a little daft. But ya know, where I grew up is relevant to what I am going to be talking about after I few more blathering sentences.

Now bear with me, there…

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End of the Series #Gaslands

End of the Series #Gaslands

End of the Series

So we did a thing. After all these months of the pandemic lockdown, we were finally able to get into the last race of this year’s Infinity Games Gaslands series. Sure we had a game last month, but that was only the race before the end. We got the last one in now and so the winners and losers of the series are decided.

Going into the race I didn’t have high hopes to win. The…

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