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Semi-rigid Forest Bases
I have about 100 plastic bamboo and palm trees based on 25mm fender washers. I was using a system of magnet-in-hole forest bases (printed), but in the end I wasn’t happy with how those turned out. Wantingg bases that could conform to moderate undulations in the underlying terrain (I use a fur mat), I purchased
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Stable Diffusion 24 Feb 23
As has been typical for mid-late Feb for the past few years, Jack Frost is having one last go. Here are a few wintery girls to celebrate the ice and snow.
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Stable Diffusion 23 Feb 23
After a good deal of trial and error, I’ve come up with a checkpoint/VAE/embedding combo that reliably provides a high contrast, halftone-shaded method of rendering anime girls over an unpredictable sometimes-gradient-sometimes-specific background. Most of these have been run through a few rounds of inpainting to rectify sloppy hands, etc. Small imperfections and illogical elements remain,
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ESU Infantry Lightbox Test
Desiring a countertop-appropriate “studio” solution that could be broken down and put in the closet, I purchased a cheapo light box from Amazon. It came with a variety of coloured backdrops, of which the blue was pretty much guaranteed to never get any use; I cut off the upper and finished the lower portion using
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Painting my “Not-BMD”
It was with bated breath that I approached my Mars 2 Pro as the first of my “not-BMD” print runs lifted from the resin vat. Unsure as to the orientation I should use to minimize warping, I had laid out three vehicles worth of parts at various angles (~30, 60 and 90 degrees to the
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Making Tanks
I’ve always had a thing for the Russian Airborne’s BMD and its derivatives. Only the Russians would pack so much firepower into such a tiny package and then toss the damn thing (while crewed!) out of an airplane. As I’d finally made a concerted effort to sit down and learn Blender 2.8 during lockdown earlier
