Sewing Machine Spool Organizers

I finished printing the Spool Organizers today (I f*cked up yesterday, and printed the one with one row too many of the pegs, although I had noticed the wrong size and redesigned it to fit - I simply got the gcode files mixed up, and did not notice until I was half way through the print... well, lesson learned: ALWAYS delete obsolete files on the SD-card!). The 3x3 and single peg pieces are test-prints I did to check the fit.

I designed the organizer in 123D Design, and it works a treat!

Family Time: Lea Painting Post-Apoc

While I was busy conjuring up the restless dead, Lea set about putting some colour on one of the Ramshackle Dungers kindly sent to me by Curtis Fell some years ago when Anna requested her own Dungers (I got them prepped and primed, and then life took some turn, and they disappeared into a box for years).

This particular Dunger is going to have light green fur, and probably blue skin, so she started giving it a basecoat of Goblin Green.

I had hoped she would get the time to drybrush the fur, but that will have to wait until tomorrow!

The first drybrush will be with Warzone Venusian Green, and then we shall see from there...

Strange Aeons: FFG Grey Sleeves Sized Card Holder for Solo Play Deck

This Card Shoe/Deck Holder is sized to hold cards in FFG Grey sleeves, and accommodates the Strange Aeons Solo Play Deck as shown in the photos.

This build uses glue and cardboard tabs to keep it together, and is completely devoid of the scotch tape I used to assemble my first Card Shoe for the Star Wars Armada Damage Deck (FFG Yellow Sleeves).

I think I can make a template for a one-piece build, and I expect to do that for my next Deck Holder.

I do not think that I shall find the time to build more of these this side of New Year's Eve, though, but I still may have a few things to post the next couple of days...

Star Wars Armada: DIY Card Shoe

I took the holidays as an opportunity to start playing around with making some card shoes for some of my games using cards for several purposes.

I like putting sleeves on my gaming cards to protect them from wear and tear, and that makes the decks rather tall and unstable, and the sleeves add thickness to each card, and the sleeves are somewhat more smooth/slippery than the card themselves, so the stack/deck topples over easily when handled.

My solutiuon for this: Card 'shoes'.!

I had been playing with the idea of getting some pre-made kits for this, but as it were, they do not seem to be commercially available in all those different sizes I would need, so I decided to make some from cardboard - an almost free solution, as I have plenty of sturdy cardboard in store, I just need to add some glue/scotch tape and elbow grease ✌

This, my first 'proto type' was made exclusively from cardboard and scotch tape. It is for Star Wars Armada Damage Cards, and I made it taller than necessary to accommodate a double deck, if I decide to incorporate both Damage Decks form the two starter sets I have.

I applied good old Pythagoras to find the necessary depth of the shoe, and as it turns out, I need to add a little depth to give a few more degrees of dimensional tolerance to the build, but - hey - that is what proto types are for, right? 😎

My next build is for the Strange Aeons Solo Play Deck, as I intend to start delving into that mind of madness very soon (just have to make a nice 2x3 playing mat out of painter's felt, of which I have an abundance from when we  moved to out current home.

Expect to see more of this kind over the next couple of days (plus updates about Christmas Wars and God of Battles - things have been brewing lately, and I should have more to show very soon)!

HobbyZone Paint Station(s)

I got my kids a paint station each for Christmas. I found this product in a Polish online store called HobbyZone, and both delivery time and packaging was really top notch.

The MDF kit is quite easy to assemble - although I thought I would have to bend the curved pieces a bit into shape before glueing, which was NOT a good idea (as you can see on the station furthest away).

Apart from the frame, the kit is made of a laminated light-weight kind of MDF, and I think it has a tiny tad too low density, but only time and wear will tell if I am wrong or right.

The paint station (the smallest type) comes at only about €16, and if it proves to be sufficiently sturdy for my kids to use, it will have been worth every penny.

GoB: Cards for Undead and Orcs

As I hope to be fielding my Necromancer in the Saturday game, I have printed, laminated, and cut a set of Lords of Undeath Miracle Cards for him to use. And as my opponent may be fielding a Shaman, I have done the same with a set of Orcish Miracle Cards.