What did you do today.

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me_in_japan
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Re: What did you do today.

Post by me_in_japan » Fri Jun 21, 2024 2:21 pm

Jye Nicolson wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:41 am

With the release of the Elden Ring expansion painting ambitions have been somewhat scaled back.
why is Elden Ring still so bleedin' expensive? It's been out for like 2 years now. I was idly looking at it on Steam, and it's still over 9000yen :shock:
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eh, y'know. Stuff, and things

Wow. And then Corona happened. Just....crickets, all the way through to 2023...

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Re: What did you do today.

Post by Jye Nicolson » Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:25 pm

me_in_japan wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2024 2:21 pm
why is Elden Ring still so bleedin' expensive? It's been out for like 2 years now. I was idly looking at it on Steam, and it's still over 9000yen :shock:
People will still buy it at full price. I think it goes on sale sometimes? But for a game so beloved you don't have to be in a hurry to drop your price.

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Re: What did you do today.

Post by me_in_japan » Sat Jun 22, 2024 2:09 am

Jye Nicolson wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:25 pm

People will still buy it at full price. I think it goes on sale sometimes? But for a game so beloved you don't have to be in a hurry to drop your price.
I was just kinda idly considering getting it, to see what all the fuss is about, but at that price it's a hard nope from me. Eh, I daresay if I wait long enough there'll be a complet-with-all-dlc edition some years down the line, for much less cost. I can wait - it's not like there isn't a catalog of other stuff for me to do in the interim...
current (2019) hobby interests
eh, y'know. Stuff, and things

Wow. And then Corona happened. Just....crickets, all the way through to 2023...

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Re: What did you do today.

Post by Jye Nicolson » Sat Jun 22, 2024 5:00 am

me_in_japan wrote:
Sat Jun 22, 2024 2:09 am
I was just kinda idly considering getting it, to see what all the fuss is about, but at that price it's a hard nope from me. Eh, I daresay if I wait long enough there'll be a complet-with-all-dlc edition some years down the line, for much less cost. I can wait - it's not like there isn't a catalog of other stuff for me to do in the interim...
Yeah no rush, it's not going anywhere, and it'll always be a classic. If you see a good deal on the base game you can probably skip waiting for a combined edition - the DLC is very much for people who've already played a lot of Elden Ring, it won't make any difference until long, long after you've formed your opinion about the game.

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Re: What did you do today.

Post by The Other Dave » Mon Jun 24, 2024 11:58 am

Finished up a Dire Wolf!
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I took it pretty slow, but it's my last titan for a bit (but then I've said that before).

Next up is a whole mess of tiny little tanks!
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Re: What did you do today.

Post by YellowStreak » Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:48 am

The Other Dave wrote:
Mon Jun 24, 2024 11:58 am
Finished up a Dire Wolf!
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I took it pretty slow, but it's my last titan for a bit (but then I've said that before).

Next up is a whole mess of tiny little tanks!
Lovely!
So many games, so little time....
Building a pile of shame since 1983

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Re: What did you do today.

Post by YellowStreak » Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:49 am

me_in_japan wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2024 4:52 am
@Jye, truly, you are an unstoppable painting machine.

As for me, I've been a bit quiet on the group for a few weeks, because I've been Doing Stuff...

A wee while back I realised I actually owned most of the 1st ed X-wing minis. I started idly wondering if I could source stls for the remaining ones, and maybe ask Jus to print em for me. Turns out, Jus wasn't that keen (for perfectly reasonable reasons) so I was left mulling over alternatives. After some thinking...

I got a 3d printer! Yay! Woo! Much Excitement!

After a fairly straightforward setup period, and a slightly more protracted calibration period (which was, nonetheless, very educational and worth doing) I have finally taken steps towards my rather pie-in-the-sky notion of owning all the ships for X-wing. There's still a fair few I can't find stls for, but progress is being made.

The fleet grows! (the cluster at the lower right is for Andrew P in Scotland, who got me into the TIE Fighter PC game many, many moons ago. I was really happy to find stls for the Missile Gunboat and TIE Avenger from that game.)
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detail is pretty decent, and I'm happy with how they're coming out.
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For those who care, it's an Elegoo Mars 4. That, plus a litre of water washable 8k resin cost me about 4man, but you could honestly find it for cheaper if you dug around a bit. Getting calibration and stuff done is a bit of a pain, just because there's no "right" setting, so you kinda have to dick about a bit to get it set up just right, but the actual logistics of running it/cleaning prints etc is fairly straightforward. I'd recommend one for anybody who might be on the fence. One thing it's important to factor in though is ventilation. I'm fortunate enough to have a desk-level fan extractor for my airbrush, and I built a wooden extractor cabinet to go around the printer, so my room stays basically odorless. If you dont have such a thing, a mask is probably in order, plus a lot of open windows. If anyone cares, I'd be happy to detail my setup on another thread. Would that be of interest to anyone?
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Re: What did you do today.

Post by Konrad » Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:22 am

After a long, long hiatus, I actually did a bit of hobby stuff! Twisted up an armature for and got on the initial greenstuff layer on that
"Riveting body / Googley Head / Double jointed arms / Creepy hands / Who needs legs? Legs? / and is ....EVIL! muhahaha!! BANGARANG bot. Going through my bits box, I think I might cobble together a few "stacks" of terrain while I'm at it.
...and now his Head was full of nothing but Inchantments, Quarrels, Battles, Challenges, Wounds, Complaints, Amours, and abundance of Stuff and Impossibilities.....
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Re: What did you do today.

Post by Jye Nicolson » Fri Jun 28, 2024 4:07 pm

Love the Direwolf!

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Little bit of the Spearhead done.

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Re: What did you do today.

Post by Jye Nicolson » Sat Jun 29, 2024 11:11 am

Played a great game vs @Mephiston today - folks may be happy to know my Custodes finally got their comeuppance! I'd like to blame the Auric Champions detachment but really it was due to the extreme pressure the Swarmlord can put out now combined with skilled positioning and screening on Chris' part.

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