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Got inspired over the weekend and worked on painting up my Rebel Fleet Troopers. Overall, I am rather happy with them. I also spent some side time to film the various stages, I am working on video content for that as well, if I can settle on a format that I am comfortable with – that would provide at least a color guide. I do not claim to be skilled enough to do a full tutorial, but perhaps I can inspire someone else to take the basic steps. Almost everything was done with Citadel Contrast paints, with only some texture…
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Have you had a burning desire to support the channel and efforts? If so, you are in luck, I have revised and updated, then re-launched the Patreon site. Now available is the option to support the channel in various tiers and brings along with it both early access to videos, access to Discord with special tiers, and Halfling13 swag for loyalty awards. The initial wave of postings has been made, and future updates will be available as videos and content are published. As always, I thank anyone for the effort and contribution, if you feel our material has some entertainment…
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Changing up my own publishing schedule and shifting to a Thursday evening release schedule. Fundamentally just experimenting with different days and times, trying to figure out the best time frame for viewers. My theory is that a Thursday afternoon would add more viewers during the day on Friday, but likely will try a different option in future weeks. This particular game session is episode II of our current season, with a battle between the Republic and the Empire. I have built up quite a bit of sessions at this point, so several additional episodes are already editing and ready to…
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In an effort to find a more cost-effective base coat paint for use with Contrast paints, we spent some time this weekend finding several similar shades of spray paint to the official Citadel Wraithbone. At this point, I have an official can, and 3 alternatives ranging from 50% to 75% cheaper. Assuming they work and are equivalent, it will save a lot of money priming figures and terrain. As part of this, I am working on a large terrain set, to match our Hoth battlefield. I have many building printed, now I just need time to prime and paint, in…
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Season 01 of our Star War Legion games kicks off this week, with our first battle report. All prior episodes are considered “training”, so do not count for the ongoing scoreboard – the scores are wiped clear, and we start fresh. Each week, we will have a new round of games, pitting one of the 5 factions against each other. For the first game, we have a solid Republic vs Separatist army set. As always, both fielded 800-point forces, and we ended up with a rather high number of supplies on the board, due to multiple Supply conditions. Unlike prior…
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In the interest of consolidating my ongoing activities, I am planning to discontinue the live streams of our RPG sessions. We will still be gaming, that isnt going anywhere, but the audience has simple never materialized. For a time, we tried Twitch, and then we moved to YouTube live, but the end result was a best we only had a single viewer, and even then, only for a short duration. The extra effort involved is simply not worth the minimal gains. As such, I will be moving over to an almost exclusive published schedule instead. Most of the time, that…
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With our recent surge in subscribers on YouTube, we have managed to break the 100 barrier. A small accomplishment, but a very welcome one. And one of the minor perks this brings is the option for a vanity URL for YouTube. I had been working around this limitation with a URL redirect (http://youtube.halfling13.com), which in turn pointed to the very challenging “true” url (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEaR1aYMgQE2UYsOU8coklQ). However, with the new feature enabled, both of those are no longer needed (though remain active). You can now find the channel more easily at the new permanent URL: Halfling13_Gaming – YouTube
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Experimenting with some timing changes, and will be consolidating the release of the various video content. I had previously set Friday for the release of any new Legion battle report, but our various RPG sessions released typically the night or day after the session. Moving forward, I am setting all of them to go-live on Friday, a bit before 5 PM EST. Functionally, the audience for the other videos is very minimal, but I theorize that it messes with the YouTube algorithms and minimizes the exposure to the Legion videos (which appear to be far more popular). Will give it…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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