A thing a week 2022, week 39

Another week in the books and I'm both nearly done and feeling really nervous about finishing. There really isn't any space between those two points as it works out. BrickCon is Thursday so time is limited and I've got other commitments I have to meet. 

I do think it's shaped up well. Not as well as I'd have liked, but well enough nonetheless. Assuming I get things finished and shot, we should get glamour shots and show shots next week.

A thing a week 2022, week 38

A week of effort can make a lot of difference although it doesn't show here. I spent most of the last week pulling the sides in and reworking the internals some. Most of the stuff on the left is also reflected on the right which is also nice. Obviously there's a lot more to do and I pulled in the total length by about 32 studs though it'll still wind up around six feet.

"But wait!" you say, anonymous reader, "100 studs is less than 32 inches! Why is your SHIP so big?!" To this I have two answers: yes, 100 studs is 31.25 inches or about two and a half feet, but why would you stop there? I guess that's a question. Whatever. I am not known for my restraint and I like building at stupid scale. Need proof? Check in sometime next year.

A thing a week 2022, week 37

It's September and that means it's SHIPtember. The goal: a 100+ stud long ship in a calendar month. This offers those of us in the greater Seattle area an opportunity since it ends right around when BrickCon starts and I've brought home a trophy from such efforts. 

I've been mostly unmotivated to take on a big building project for the last two years--mostly (details later). BrickCon was virtual in 2020 and I wasn't able to attend last year due to work which further sapped any impetus I might have had. So heading into this year I knew I was going to finish something and it worked out that SHIPtember would be it. Yes, I'm tempting fate. 

This is about 32 hours in and maybe 1/3 of the way through. There's some serious structure that keeps the spine in alignment and it's about as stable a thing as I've built at this scale. It started as 3x blow up of a buddy's build but as expected it's drifted pretty seriously from the original. Also true: my lousy shot here obscures a lot of the subtle shaping. Tune in next time to see how far I've gotten in another week and if my photography has gotten any better (hint: no). 

A thing a week 2022, week 36: new campaign edition

This week we're back to minis. Truth be told, these were painted out of order since I want to play fully painted and this campaign started in May of this year and it's notably many months since then. These are the sacrifices we make to keep a schedule. 

This is Virgil, otherwise known as El Luchadore Magnifico, otherwise known as the flying magical death lizard. He's a pit fighter from the mean streets of Calacita. The fig is a 3d print from Artisan Guild, specifically Goldmaw Lizard E from this set. and I didn't realize the fig was female before I built the lineup for Ed to pick. Luckily he doesn't know and doesn't read this blog so I think the secret is safe. He chose the color scheme and I think shehe looks good with a minimum of effort mostly painted with the airbrush.

Next up we have Gervitz, a cantankerous religious weasel. The fig is a metal Otter Knight from Dark Sword Miniatures. This is a great fig painted only adequately and I think I primed him with the wrong stuff since the paint is already coming off in this shot. This is the first Dark Sword fig I've painted and I'm super glad I bought a bunch more. Watch this space!

This is Bev, a crazy dwarf soldier from an abandoned fortress named Stabbed Wheel, in actuality, one of my settlements from Dwarf Fortress. The figure is Baily Silverbell from Reaper Bones and we super thought from the pictures that she had two blades which would match the character. Turns out that she's got a crossbow in her off hand. Whoops. I still painted her as the PC right down to the busted up skellington pieces on the base by request, and she still gets screen time in game.

First of the NPCs is Lilya, a bear shaman hailing from the ravaged North. The ravaging part was due to the PCs' bumbling in a previous campaign and the fig is 3d print of Hunter Oathenshard from TigerSkullRPG. This a great sculpt despite me bodging a hammer head rather than the double-bit axe she normally comes with and cracking the base on the dismount from the build plate. I have another less broken one that'll get paint eventually and don't be surprised if I crank out a larger higher quality version someday.

Last up we have Anvil Thricedamned, Evil Warrior from Reaper Bones and I could not find a link from the reaper site. He's not a PC or NPC, but he needed paint and was prepped on my table and had picked up random colors over a few months. I don't recall which batch it was, but I needed to do something that wasn't that batch so this guy got paint. 

2022 finished mini counter: 165/100