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Its been a while since I have played, though I continue to collect and gather the pieces. In theory, we might be able to fit a game in this weekend – one of our gaming group players has been asking to play again and seems rather eager. Of course, that means I have to find a spare evening or day, which is difficult with the current schedule. If it works out, I hopefully will have a battle report video to post. And this will give me a rare opportunity to team up with my son and play the Empire against…
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I was distracted last night, and forgot to post my regular note, so here is a make up one 🙂 While I am travelling this week, I have been pushing the 3d Printer to run non-stop again, continuing to produce the True-Tiles (thanks to my wife for removing parts and cleaning the tray as they finish). After the last session, I realized I still had a bit to go, to make sure I have enough pieces to fill out whatever room the group goes into. There isn’t any particular pieces that are missing, more of a general total count. However,…
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Going to be working on getting caught up somewhat on my gaming videos and rpg sessions, but as a short summary of the last Pathfinder session, we managed to pretty much wrap up the climax of chapter 4. For many weeks, the group has been tracking down Mokmurian, the leader of the giants who have been raiding Varisia, and they had traveled deep into enemy territory. Although the adventure began to drag over the last couple of sessions (partly due to the overly large player group making sessions slower, and partly due to perhaps a few too many challenges and…
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With a painted and otherwise complete set of True-Tiles in hand, we had our next session of Pathfinder on Sunday, reaching the climax of Chapter 4 of the Rise of the Runelords. Unfortunately, I discovered I had not actually printed a large enough set, I still had several more to do before having enough to handle the large final chamber. However, what I did have was met with lots of excitement from the group, who really liked both the design and painting. The magnets helped out a lot – assembly was fast and easy once I had located all the…
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Running a bit late today, thanks to an overly busy schedule with work. Falling behind with the video sessions for the gaming, thanks to my distractions with 3d printing, but managing to successfully print a lot of material. In particular, I should have enough True-Tiles for the upcoming Pathfinder session on Sunday, which should go over well. Haven’t started any of the painting yet, that will likely be during my travel next week, but they at least are usable. And thanks to the suggestion, they are magnetic as well, although I rather quickly used up the first pack of magnetic…
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In preparation for the second wave of my True-Tiles printing, I have been batch printing a lot of bases, while I wait for the little round magnets to arrive today. I believe I will need more square bases to fully re-finish the prior tiles, but I will be doing those once I have fully tested this current set. These prints do take a little bit less time, but the big savings is in filament, with the large central section cut out. There is still some waste, for each of the open-lock slots, but compared to the first set it is…
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I continue to produce the True-Tiles terrain, and although I have changed directions on the base pieces, the top pieces are just fine. However, after my first batch, I realized that using Army Painter paints for the painting of this amount was not very cost effective – I nearly emptied my Dark Wash bottle, and most of my Oak Brown, and made a big dent in the other colors. At $6-8 per bottle, that isn’t workable. Taking a cue from Wyloch’s videos, I have instead opted for the cheap craft route, and picked up several bottles of paint from the…
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I doubt I had anyone actually bother to watch my 3d printer in action, and if you had, then you likely found that the performance was certainly lacking. As an alternative, I have now instead configured it to run through my YouTube Live channel, with a streaming option instead. This provides far better quality, which is good, and a means of auto-cataloging the videos. That being said, there is little benefit to a many-hour video, unless it is live, so once the print is complete, I will be publishing instead the timelapse version of the footage generated by the OctoPi…
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