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Ah..I thought the white was the fine sand art sand.

 dsteingass wrote:
Ah..I thought the white was the fine sand art sand.

Nope. That kind of sand has too even a texture for snow. It dies work really well as sand interestinly enough as its a little too fine for "dirt"

Mark at dreamforge is changing his base designs. Thought I'd let you know before you started anything. He has a link to the votin on styles in his news and rumors page. He's making plastic inserts for them as well.

 Theophony wrote:
Mark at dreamforge is changing his base designs. Thought I'd let you know before you started anything. He has a link to the votin on styles in his news and rumors page. He's making plastic inserts for them as well.

Heh figgures. Thanks for the heads up.

The base designs will be awesome as they include a scenic setting element and most may be very generic 40k like pattern, or a beveled edge as the most popular.

Base competition is fiercer than I thought out there!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
The base designs will be awesome as they include a scenic setting element and most may be very generic 40k like pattern, or a beveled edge as the most popular.

Base competition is fiercer than I thought out there!

It can be. but do not confuse the vocal netizens for the true majority... the majority is generally quiet on the net, but talks with their wallets.

Progress...

The "relic" for the Da Boyz GT 2013 team tounaments are cast up




aaaaannnd more product development (cut glass tiles make for very precise squares.)

Nice boxes.
and your squares are indeed...square.

45 degree angles would look a bit better

 dsteingass wrote:
45 degree angles would look a bit better

That is in the plans after these tiles are molded. its MUCH easier to cut resin than glass with the tools I possess.

I like the treadplate tiles a lot.

Im not Dead... Honest!


Thanks Skalk. They will be coming in very handy in the next day or so.

News...

We had a nasty power surge/sag cycle caused by a local cascade failure of the local power grid.
It toasted my Mothers office computer's power supply, as well as my Desktop's power supply.
Due to some awesome advice from tech savvy friends such as Dsteingass I replaced the power supplies of the respective machines and now they work.
That left me with two deceased powersupplies that I have since harvested for interesting bits...

I've also started to get caught up on my commissioned work so will soon begin working on catching up my production backlog.
as well as building terrain for sale/use at Da Boyz GT 2013 in Ny.

On to the Pics.














and now a pic of my (REALLY) toasted powersupply mid harvesting

That reminds me, I have a dead PSU squirrelled away somewhere. Lots of nice bits in them.

Welcome back to the internet.

Remember to let the PSUs sit somewhere for at least a week, preferably two. The capacitors and transformers in there can really hurt, if you don't let things drain off.

Yeah I was gonna say.The Capacitors can still poke you!

Worry not, it's been sat in a box for probably going on 3 years. It's as dead as a dodo.

 Briancj wrote:
Remember to let the PSUs sit somewhere for at least a week, preferably two. The capacitors and transformers in there can really hurt, if you don't let things drain off.

these were toasted... Literally in the case of the one from my computer... Multimeters are handy.

Yeah, if you had a good ground, the spike probably caused it to arc to the case and ground everything pretty nicely. Back in the modem days, that was pretty common place for it to ground, frying the modem too.

 dsteingass wrote:
Yeah, if you had a good ground, the spike probably caused it to arc to the case and ground everything pretty nicely. Back in the modem days, that was pretty common place for it to ground, frying the modem too.

I remember that... We lost one that way then my dad got a UPS for it. then tech rolled onwards... OUr house also tends to eat UPS's as there seems to be lots of microblips here that just fry the things...

Anyhoo... I've got some more work done on the table I'm building for Da Boyz, I'll have Pics up tomorrow.

Pics of progress for the Build for Da Boyz GT 2013

Big pieces of terrain. I vaguely remember building some of those.

Nice (albeit unfortunate) haul of bitz you have there. Lots of potential with stuff like that.

Your ground is probably tied to a cold water pipe. people did that back in the day.

 dsteingass wrote:
Your ground is probably tied to a cold water pipe. people did that back in the day.

Given some of the other oddities of how my house was built (by idiots) it is entirely possible that the wired it to something else that causes an "echo" of sorts in the household current.

Anyhoo... More progress on the table has been made. I'll once again be getting Pics up late Sat.

Pics...

Nice. Like the walkways and railings.

Nice! Are you going to add anything to the cans' exteriors to hide the join line?

Ahh...1/4" chicken wire..is there no end to your usefulness?

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Nice! Are you going to add anything to the cans' exteriors to hide the join line?

Nope.

On to todays Pictures!

All that stuff shown, can't wait to see the painted pics of these Galorn!

I see you like green beans as much as I do, that's where all my cans come from for terrain