Crafting challenge, week 21

This week was dominated by a video but this is probably one of the last times that this happens.  Despite streamlining my process considerably, it's still taking way longer than I can sustain to make these.  I can afford around 8 hours a week before it seriously cuts into other things that I'm currently slacking at including prep for my own games.  Just counting the new format stuff the average per episode is around 12 hours.  This one weighed in at around 15 which basically means it's the only significant thing I did this week outside of work.

I might feel differently if the response was higher.  It's been overwhelmingly positive for sure, but they're not driving many views and it is a pain to have to go try to drum up support every week.  Search is not driving significant traffic despite my careful SEO.  This is not for lack of reasonable thumbnails--mine are clocking in on the high side at over ~5% on average but there isn't enough traffic to drive stuff on its own. 

I'm at the point of needing to figure some stuff out (also, SHIPtember is on the way) and I don't think I can keep throwing time into this bottomless bucket.  Right now I'm thinking I'll finish the ones I feel like I have to make and then only post stuff when I have more to say.  It's looking like three or four more, some of which I think will be short-ish.  If something significant changes in that time I'll reconsider but for now that's the plan.

Crafting challenge, week 20

Video here and if I'm honest, I don't think it's that great.  I didn't feel low energy yesterday when I shot it but the final result is kind of dead.  I suspect the analytics will confirm around this time next week.  I've been thinking critically about the process and

Luckily, I've got more than just a video this week.  These five skellies didn't quite make it into last week's post but they're done now.  Certainly not my best work but I really, really wanted to paint.

2019 finished mini counter:  57/100

Crafting challenge, week 19

Obligatory video can be found here.  Luckily that's not the only thing I have this week.  Over there on the right (hopefully) is a ship.  I noodled with a bunch of ideas before I landed on this particular construction heavily influenced by some of dasnewten's work.  I think it mostly works though there are things I'm not super happy with.  This is the ship we're going to be using in my next sci-fi campaign (starting soon!) so eventually there should be schematics up here for it.

In other news, I realized this week that SHIPtember is only a couple weeks away with BrickCon right after that.  Then I panicked. 

Crafting challenge, week 18

I feel like I did a lot more stuff than I have to show this week but I'm pretty sure I said that before.  Other than this week's video, I wrote this post about filling out Cedarwood details mostly so I could refer to it when dispensing advice.  I also did a bunch more design work on the sci-fi game but again there isn't anything I can show here.

I wanted to post a cool microspace Lego thing I built but I only got as far as noodling with ideas yesterday.  If I'm lucky I'll edit this guy right here and add a picture.

edit:  didn't get done till the wee hours of the morning so it'll arrive in next week's update!