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Well, my G15 Refinishing is now on hold indefinitely. Somehow, the Numpad Enter key, which was (along with every other key) soaking in a jar of water to release the paint thinner, turned into jelly and puffed up. The other keys, which all had the identical treatment, remain unaffected.

I'll probably look for a used/broken G15 or G11, and just swipe the keytops from it. However, this definitely pushed this to the end of the project list.

Sheeb's Tau Battlesuits are nearly completed, as is the Necron 'Hand of Despair' Terrain piece. I'll be making some related terrain pieces soon, and creating templates so others can make the same Hand.

I'm going to be out of town all weekend, so the list itself won't really get knocked down all that much for a while. Ah well, I deserve a *few* days off

Filed Under: A Duck's Life, The Great To-Do List, Warhammer 40K
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HexGirl.ca is now moved over to its new home at HotBodSquads.com. To be fair, this was a really minor task, and only took about 15 minutes - creating the new header graphic was actually more time-consuming (and wasn't actually on my list).

I repaired The Nightbringer, and also gave it a coat of Matte Varnish - hopefully that'll negate any minor scratch repairs for the near future.

The core of the G15 is essentially completed - I just have to resurface the Memory keys and the Mute/Backlight keys, and then the main Keyboard assembly can be put back together. I've already reattached the LCD. The keytops are still proving fairly resilient to my common methods of chemical paint stripping - I'm pretty sure it's going to come down to manually sanding each key, which is a pretty daunting task on a 122+ key Keyboard.

The Necron Hand of Despair is basically complete. It needs a little more paint, and some texturing on the base, but other than that it's tabletop-ready. I'll produce a PDF of the final plans hopefully in the next week or two, and I'll take construction photos whenever I get around to building a second one.

And that's about it so far. The last few days haven't been quite as eventful, list-wise. I blame our weekly D&D night

Filed Under: A Duck's Life, The Great To-Do List, Warhammer 40K
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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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I found myself a bit peckish after getting back from walking Callie, and decided that I really wanted a Peanut Butter Sandwich. I went to the fridge to get myself some Milk, and noticed I had half of a ripe Avacado sitting on the top shelf.

A few minutes later, my intended peanut butter sandwich became a small bowl of homemade Guacamole instead. No, I don't understand how my mind works either. I'll provide the recipe sometime though - it's deceptively simple.

On a more sane note, I've got another article up at MiniWarGaming.com, this time a detail of the Necron Summoning Core I've started building. This is my first piece of Terrain, so be gentle

Filed Under: A Duck's Life, Warhammer 40K
Tags: miniwargaming, necron, terrain, Warhammer 40K
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