With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I was trying to think of something to honor her work and her legacy. At the same time, I’d been thinking about a new project idea involving using the laser to etch a tile and the result was this project. It started Read more…
I’ve been playing Role Playing Games for a decade. I’ve been the the guy in charge, the Dungeon Master or Game Master (DM or GM) a few times and for more than a year and twice ran my own homebrew (made up) game worlds with my own overarching story. What Read more…
This was a project I started a few months ago when I saw an image and thought, “Hey, I wonder if I could do something like that?” This thought formed the core of the “Learn a thing, Do a thing, Teach a thing” cycle. So, as an illustration of that Read more…
As I’ve been playing Role Playing Games for a while now, I’ve started to build up a collection of minis that I’ve used through various campaigns. Since I’ve spent the time to make them and paint them and invested them with the time and fun from playing various campaigns with Read more…
Some time back I was watching Jeremy on Black Magic Craft [Youtube] and in one episode he built his own epic scale Earth Elemental or Rock Golem. If that doesn’t mean much, think Rock Monster or go watch the video. His was a very large scale build and I don’t Read more…
Years ago now, when I first started trying to explain my Role Playing Group to my wife, it was clear that she didn’t see what I saw. Didn’t see the epic battles, the intense negotiations, the realization that discretion really is the better part of valor and retreat is always Read more…
This is a short post about a few different small projects I did just to build something Two things converge in this: I like making stuff. My entire career is creating things that are based in software. You can’t hold it, you can’t feel it, you can’t point at it Read more…
We were starting a new campaign and gaming system in our RPG group and I couldn’t find a mini I liked. I enjoy the process of creating the backstory for my character and that means a certain look and feel to the mini would be ideal, something that matches the Read more…
I’ve had a 3d printer for a while now and, for the most part, I’ve been printing other people’s designs and models. I’ve learned a bit about how to print a model (it’s still a bit of a roll of the dice, frankly) and I’ve printed some things to use Read more…
I was perusing images on Google looking for something that I might make which wasn’t too large. The idea is it should be something I might use when next I GM our role playing group. I wanted something that you might put on a table, might advance/enhance a story, might Read more…