Back, busy, off again
Aug. 30th, 2007 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janewilliams20So no post describing last weekend, which is a shame, because I had a great time and there were lots of interesting things. Maybe later.
edit: they say a picture is worth a thousand words: have some pictures. flickr photo-set
This coming weekend is Berkeley: the two-day HOTT competition. I'm driving down Friday night, staying in the Tudor Arms at Slimbridge where the competition's held. And, this time, Dave is coming too: not to wargame, but to birdwatch. Mmm. Hugs. Nice.
But, while I'm using existing armies, I took up the Best Built Up Area challenge, and I'm still working on the *&&*%*% thing. Last night Dave and I explored the problems of the sound effects, and decided that with an MP3 player as input, I simply had to have powered speakers, or I had no hope. And we found some! Modifying the base to fit them in required some woodworking (thanks, Dave), and makes the whole thing rather larger than I'd intended. Also gives it vertical sides :( I did the major part of the building last night, including soundproofing so the motor isn't louder than the sound effects, (went to bed at 3am with fingers covered in glue), and will do the fiddly bits and the bulk of texturing the base tonight. Then I can slap on a second layer of texture Friday morning over breakfast, and take the flock and paint with me to finish at the pub Friday evening.
Me, leave things to the last minute? Who, me?
edit: they say a picture is worth a thousand words: have some pictures. flickr photo-set
This coming weekend is Berkeley: the two-day HOTT competition. I'm driving down Friday night, staying in the Tudor Arms at Slimbridge where the competition's held. And, this time, Dave is coming too: not to wargame, but to birdwatch. Mmm. Hugs. Nice.
But, while I'm using existing armies, I took up the Best Built Up Area challenge, and I'm still working on the *&&*%*% thing. Last night Dave and I explored the problems of the sound effects, and decided that with an MP3 player as input, I simply had to have powered speakers, or I had no hope. And we found some! Modifying the base to fit them in required some woodworking (thanks, Dave), and makes the whole thing rather larger than I'd intended. Also gives it vertical sides :( I did the major part of the building last night, including soundproofing so the motor isn't louder than the sound effects, (went to bed at 3am with fingers covered in glue), and will do the fiddly bits and the bulk of texturing the base tonight. Then I can slap on a second layer of texture Friday morning over breakfast, and take the flock and paint with me to finish at the pub Friday evening.
Me, leave things to the last minute? Who, me?