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Friday, July 9, 2021

Holiday Exchange 2020: Karen

Constructed my first diorama. It had been on my modeling list todo for a while now. Our hobby group has been doing a holiday miniature exchange each year, and thought this would be the perfect time.

The 2020 modeling task was to craft a "Karen" model. Mine took this form: A disgruntled Karen turned away from her favorite cafe because they won't allow her pet Millisaur in. Needless to say, she isn't having that and immediately called the manager to address the situation.

Base miniature is a pirate from North Star Games Rogue Stars. She has a head swapped, right hand changed as well from a gun to a walking stick, and left to be holding a phone. Base is a computer heat sync. Various bits were used to decorate. Behind the clear plastic door there is a printed view of inside the bar. Model is magnetized to the base.

Choice bits pulled to possibly be used.

I am very happy on how it turned out. And I am currently working on another diorama.

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Holiday Exchange 2019: Objectives

Totally random timeline here, but worthy of sharing.

Each holiday season, our gaming group tries to get together. Part of that fun has been crafting up a miniature to gift another gamer. Each year we decide a theme and model up something for a random person in that theme. I have been in charge of linking people to build for. I found DrawNames website, a very useful tool. It allows to drop all the names into a hat and randomly draw names. Even me, the organizer doesn't get to see who gets who, so it is a good surprise. Each person leaves some notes on maybe what they are looking for in the model they receive according to the theme.

2019's theme was objective markers. This year, each of us crafted up an objective marker for two randomly drawn names. Below are what everyone came up with.