Good weather and a finished project

Not a long post due to being busy on some other projects.

The weather finally has warmed up enough to allow for priming and sealing, so the last of my matte sealer went to coating my 15mm Spetsnatz.

Up on the build table I finally have the last bits to finish building of the Halo Flood inspired corrupted powered suit, converting/sculpting an alternative female FCC Boomer for my Mercs force, rebuilding the upper arms of my Domanei Seraph for a more realistic shape, 15mm hunter/bounty killers and working on terrain for 15mm modern and 28mm near future.

Now for my Guinness for St. Patrick's Day

Random miniature projects

Being a gamer with both ADD and gamer ADD I always have additional projects going, almost the point of distraction. So in an effort to atleast organize the ideas its time to make another list; mini, system (if applicable) and some quick notes or status.

• Firestorm Armada Dzindrezi box set, Firestorm Armada - currently working on converting the battleship and building the little destroyers (?)
• Vikings, Song of Blades and Heroes - predominately Wargames Factory hard plastic, though I found a Reaper female viking that just needs the wings removed from her helmet and the paint touched up to be ready to join the army. The plastic figures do unfortunately have some flat spots where the mold lines and mold seperation show through (as chainmail is miserable to try and clean lines from)
•  Corrupted powered suit, possibly AE-Bounty or Flying Lead - I picked up most of a Suit (I think an Infinity TAG of some sort) that was missing the right arm and any antenna like add ons to the body. In my bits collection is the pincer thing from the Soul Grinder. Using that as the right hand I remembered the Flood from Halo. Yes, I never played more than one level of Halo 1, but Ive heard most of the plot. That means sculpting a right arm and adding grotesque things hanging from the body and tentacles or tendrils.
   
  
• SS Germans, AE-WW2 - Pulling out this project due to the reorganization of the workbench and picking up the Bolt Action/Warlord Late War Germans. Mostly just needs paints.
• Blood Angels Space Marines, Warhammer 40k - these figures are partly an experiment at learning how to paint reds well and then they will be traded or sold off.
• Battlemechs, Battletech - this is a long term and ongoing project. The current mech thats getting attention is a Deva that I need to scratch build upper arms for.

New Title additions

As Im trying to organize my pile of projects and ideas into something that remotely approaches a list, Ive noticed a need to tag my posts simply. Posts should break into one of the numerous miniature/wargame projects and my RPG projects. Here is a tentative list, and anywhere a lowercase x is at, think of it as a placeholder to further narrow projects.

[SoBH-x] One of my several warbands for Song of Blades and Heroes.
[WWW2] Further adventures of weird world war 2 germans, predominatly for AE-WW2
[FA] Firestorm Armada Dindrenzi fleet (this was purchased half off, because someone made a hamfisted attempt at assembling it the battleship - to the point where I have to convert the battleship)
[BT] Battletech - my baby, my first wargame and still the one I play the most
[SFD] Savage Fallout: Detroit - Savage Worlds rpg set in the world of the computer games of Fallout
[LoFP] While Bridgeport was not chosen for my GASP gamesday game, I do want to explore the city more

coming soon!

I haven't been posting much as I've been trying to track down the information for a project I hope to move forward with, a small cnc router setup for cutting thin sheets of styrene. More to be posted as I work out more on the control electronics.

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First of all, stepper motors are more complicated to control than I originally expected. I need to track down more on how stepper motor controllers work and how to have be interact with an arduino or how to build up an arduino so it will function as a stepper motor controller.

Second, I need to look into what size of shaft I need dor the trimming router I hope to use.

And finally I need to rescale the drawings for the machine to fit the size I want for stage one and two.