Erin Freeman
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Erin Freeman
@sixeleven.bsky.social
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A big pile of wargaming, reading, illustration and existential crisis'
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...finally tiled the other side of the roof last night; and glued the lower building to the upper this morning - ready to receive a base later on today if I can find the time (and er... the MDF I've got knocking around somewhere)

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Made the chimney, made a mark on the roof where I roughly wanted the chimney to go, completely ignored the mark and covered the whole side of the roof in tiles. Sigh. It was recoverable, I pulled 5-6 rows of tiles off and stuck the chimney where it needed to be!

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Tried to make that lower building a little more visually interesting, so again, making use of the foam bricks (yes, I butchered the building) I tried some damage. Made a chimney by slicing the edges off of the foam bricks and sticking them around a small card structure.

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I wasn't keen on the brick; it was lacking something (and because it was wonky, I couldn't easily add trim or much other detail to it - maybe next time) so I butchered some foam bricks and made a quick and dirty structure to replace the bottom to try something out.

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If I never see another coffee stirrer, I'll die a happy man. Turns out I didn't take many pictures of the process of creating the windows, or the coffee stirrer trim (for want of a better term?) but this was the first time it started to look like it's all coming together.

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I started making a lower building from foam bricks and you can see that here with the basic form cut from thin cereal packet card of the top half. I accidentally measured wrong on those gable ends and had to make later adjustments in situ.. a royal pain in the arse.

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So to start documenting some of this; I had Friday off work (my birthday, yay!) so elected to spend most of the day banging out the basic framework based on sketches I'd done earlier in the month; I wanted to go with a nod to the old school WHFB empire style buildings.

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Black and white are the best, these two say so (and there's a third who'd agree, but she's no longer with us)
I'll tell you something the cheered *me* right up recently was discovering a podcast that a certain pair of my favourite sci-fi authors host :D I am slowly making my way through the books showcased on the pod :)
Started listening to the F1 races live from the timing website, rather than waiting for the C4 highlights since I kept accidentally spoiling the results, and... it just sounds like a very tedious sport* when it's audio only.

*this is not a prompt for you to share an unasked for opinion
(Bit of careful freehand slicing and I think I'm in the clear 😅)
Arghh no that'd drive me nuts 😭 hope you can fix it 👍
If it's any consolation, I spent my morning off work measuring twice.. thrice... and still managed to mark out one side of a building 5mm taller than the other 🫠 I think it's recoverable but we'll see 😅
things I now cannot unlearn: medbeds 😬
stick your fingers and the day in the freezer for a few hours; it'll weaken the bond and that day will snap right off with a little pressure 👌
The problem with the alien franchise is that there's only so many ways you can spin the whole "bunch of people get picked off one by one, the hero makes their escape and wins the day" thing - I'm watching for the visuals these days :) (did enjoy romulus for that factor)
I would have paid good money to be a fly on the wall when he wandered back into the house from the shed :)
I think about our family friend often; who answered a phone call on her partners phone, whilst he was out in the shed working on his bike with a mate; "who am I? the mother of his kids" - invited her round for a cuppa, so they sat in the kitchen chatting, partner outside completely obliv. Delicious.
You know what to do #nerdlings - these are an iconic sight for those on *the* wargames pilgrimage 🙂
Save the East Midlands Parkway cooling towers!

Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.

👉 www.change.org/p/save-brita...
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
house goals 👌 very fond of wizards towers as a concept 🙂 (I have a thing for drawing / doodling lighthouses too; wonder if there's a crossover?)
"you can have your doors when you're finished with your stonework and not a moment before, young man!"
I have a feeling that @ontosgames.co.uk still likes zoids?... 🤔 confirm or deny Chris? 😂