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After soaking the Keys in Brake Fluid all night, and giving them a vigorous scrubbing this morning, maybe 30% of the paint has come loose - and that's being very generous. I'm back to looking for another method of paint stripping to get the Keys down to their transparent plastic bases.

On top of that, I had the brilliant idea of giving the main plastic pieces (which were spraypainted with Krylon Fusion yesterday) a quick Clear Coat. Bad idea. It caused a fair bit of the Krylon Fusion to bubble up, and now I have to strip the paint off these as well.

So basically, the only part that's gone right in this whole project has been replacing the Blue LEDs with Red Ones - assuming you don't count the small soldering iron burn I self-inflicted. Hopefully this project turns around soon!

Filed Under: A Duck's Life, The Great To-Do List
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After a few hours of humming and hawing over Wordpress Themes and Plugins, Our Home Cookbook is now online. Though I did manipulate the theme a fair bit (and intend to do so more later), credit for the original design still needs to be given to BrightCherry Web Design.

Now I just need to give my mom a quick tutorial on blogging with WordPress!

As an interesting side note, I found a small bug in my 'Display Category Children' sidebar widget, which I resolved as well. I may end up releasing this Widget soon, since it can be rather helpful, despite being really simple.

Filed Under: A Duck's Life, The Great To-Do List, Web Dev & Design
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Ok, so it's been WAY too long since I've written anything on my blog. Frankly, summer has been a crazy and eventful time of year so far, and I just haven't felt any particular urge to write about it.

That said, I heard a bit of news on the radio today that, while upsetting, just made me realize how good we have it here.

Yesterday, the City of St. Catherines experienced its first homicide of the year. Just a few days shy of August, and there's only been ONE murder in a city with a metropolitan population of over 300,000.

I don't think I'll lose any sleep tonight.

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MiniWarGamer Dave dropped into the office yesterday. While this is not entirely uncommon, especially for a Wednesday, what took place after that point was. He happened to notice (ok, I gloatingly showed off) my recent Necron Wraith Lord conversion. I honestly didn't expect the conversion to go as well as it did, and as a result I didn't take any photos while I was working on it.

Luckily, Dave came to the rescue. After an unexpected interview with yours truly, he put together a great video detailing how I pulled off the conversion.

Anyhow, you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. Or I might be nice and let you see it right here...

Filed Under: At the Office, Warhammer 40K
Tags: conversion, green stuff, miniwargaming, necron, Warhammer 40K, youtube
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I've got a new article up at MiniWarGaming; this time, discussing a Painting Technique called Blending. Basically, you apply consecutive layers of really watered down paint over an area to slowly build a fade from one colour to another.

Though I've demonstrated this on a Necron Gauss-weapon Rod, there's all sorts of ways this technique can be used. Anyhow, check it out!

Filed Under: Warhammer 40K
Tags: miniwargaming, painting, Warhammer 40K
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