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With the holidays, my regularly scheduled games have been a bit up in the air. The Pathfinder – Rise of the Runelords campaign is still going, but has been cancelled once or twice due to conflicts. However, we have a bonus game this weekend, and a regular one next weekend, so should be able to move forward again. And will give me a chance to try out some new gadgets 🙂 As for the Superhero campaign, that one appears to have fizzled out. Between a combination of scheduling challenges (more than a few games have been cancelled), the holidays, and…
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Thanks to some lucky bitcoin investments, I decided it was time to finally upgrade to a 4k TV within the last few weeks. And since I try to do all my shopping online, I opted to take the risk, and try a online order for a wide screen TV – understanding the risks associated with shipping, but naively expecting those to be a non-issue these days. Unfortunately, the process was not nearly as painless as hoped. Although the deal was decent, it ended up being thru Best Buy, a shopping location I have avoided now for several years. However, the…
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After writing my prior post, I of course kept digging, and surprisingly quickly managed to find a solution. Turns out my issue was not with DNS, but rather with needing a Rewrite directive in my Apache configuration.
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I continue to tinker with the website, trying to add features and options, and continue to struggle a bit with the DNS record configuration. In my case, I utilize GoDaddy for my domain registration, which works well, but my custom configuration is challenging, as I found out today after trying to make modifications. In parallel to this site, which I self-host, I have a self-hosted Nextcloud server running for personal cloud storage. However, I only have a single IP connecting to my home. Thus I need two different ports to use to configure the different sites, so that standard web…
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Finished the first set of Walkers, a set of 7 female zombies. I had posted before that I rather liked the “dirt” effect the wash applied, although it did not look all that great with a couple of color combinations. Fortunately, after a bit of dry brushing, the colors recovered quite a bit, and I like the overall look a lot better now. Those that were strong previously are just as strong, but the weaker ones recovered quite a bit. Unfortunately, the highlighting did not do much for the rest of the sculpts, except for the faces – where the…
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I finished the highlighting and cosmetics on the Abomination, and rather like the figure. I am not that happy with the pants/shorts – the suggested green ended up becoming rather muddy and really fades into the skin tone of the zombie giant himself, but the rest is nice. The highlighting and shading really makes the huge muscles stand out, and the blood effects give it the expected gore value. Overall a rather plain and simple figure to paint (lots of green), but the sculpt itself is dynamic.
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As part of the zombie horde, I started with the seven Walker “ladies” from the set, in an effort to batch out the figures. This approach worked well, though I did vary the colors a bit for some variety. Some of the final combinations worked, some did not. Not a big fan of the pink dresses, but only because I am not a fan of pink. And the dark blue dress didn’t really work well with the shading – perhaps after highlighting it will be better. On the other hand, I am always a sucker for a red dress, and…
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Working on the next round of Zombicide figure painting, wrapping up the unique characters and starting the bulk of the zombie hordes. First up is the Abomination, base coated and washed, ready for highlighting and cosmetics tonight. I was concerned initially by the base coat, it appeared rather flat, but the wash effect worked pretty well for this one.
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