The whole Sora thing just makes me feel they're up to something, like... We have reshuffled our staff and silicon and are proud to announce our new improved services: Open Chattel, and The Mordor Integrity Platform.

Working on some ships. Paintjob mostly from the '90s. No flag yet. The metal version of the wargalley is more realistically proportioned, with guns around the right size. These plastic guns are humongous. Rigging is strings threaded through the hull. Sails are folded and curved paper.

More 2mm Manowar, mainly ideas for undead (missing from the game afaik), but also some other thoughts and doodles.

Man 'o War with additional 2mm stuff for scale, including the old WHFB cardboard buildings. I think an entire fleet (3 chucka +3 drilla +3 wyvern +1 hulk) might fit inside one of those rectangular classic boxes. Nowadays parts are not arranged like this, but like a spider web from injection point.

Long ago, before the www, a porn site was just a place in the woods where some random dude dropped a magazine. Somehow this was universally done. If you go to an alien pre-internet world there's probably a magazine like that laying wrinkled in the purple mushroom-tree wilderness.

Oh man, Man o' War is kinda pricey, looking at sold ebay prices. 50-90€ per model then 200 for the main box. Still got my box and an Orc fleet. Easy to print&play the game. But is it good? Bet that if Bandai made it, they could pack 4 entire fleets into a single RG box for like 4000 Yen.

Manowar again, with some additional figures for scale. The scale is unknown, but some speculate 1:900 or thereabout. Redid the Ork Wyvern as the snakey old WHFB model. Might need to put a trio on the unit stand.

Manowar Ork stuff doesn't easily translate to plastic because of the wood grain, but there are some workarounds, like adding some detail work. Hard to address the spire's tiled roof though. An outlook window might work. Figured out a way to do the wheel and sides of the hulk as flippable parts.

Slightly modified Dwarf Gyrocopter as a sprue. Tried to maximize the parts that can be flipped (made symmetrical).

More corpse marker thoughts. Moulds would work well here since you only need to provide one or two per unit type and the DIY aspect isn't too difficult or sensitive. Also only need to tool one half of the corpse figure, and 6mm figs are quite small. Demons might poof rather than corpse but whatevs

Just got scammed. Someone idiot pastry chef had put vanilla cream instead of almond paste in my pricey Semla and put it in fine print on the box. Disgusting behaviour.

Miniature thoughts: Corpse bases would work quite well in 6mm as they can be quite flat and generic. I think it's best to make them irregular so they don't look like active units and clutter up. Maybe they could be make using greenstuff blobs & stamps. Also, old Skaven Doomwheel as a plastic kit?

Reading a xianxia story. Undergarments come up. What did historical Chinese undergarments look like? Expecting a Fundoshi. I search. Dudou? Baofu? Xinyi? They all look like undersized aprons. So people went commando? I'm getting naked-butt-woman-at-stove-wearing-only-an-apron vibes.

Drew some megaman stuff a little too late, just for fun. Not really keeping to the X style.

If you completely mirror a right handed human on a cellular and neural level, do they become left handed? Maybe they'd just break because of some molecular handedness thing. Anyways, just a random thought.

A true xmas movie. The box. Open it. We have such sights to show you.

Ah! Warnings be damned Cold draft over keys—tip tap! ~*Squints at AO3*~

Weathering test. But which Toyota model is this? Looks like a 1980s Cressida but the headlights and bumper is not right. I guessed when painting them in.

Huuu...? Someone pulled the Arabic numerals thing again. Pretty sure it was done in the early GWB days.

The parts of an Agfa Snapscan 1236U 1999 datecode PSU. Can't just throw stuff away when they might be useful! The ceramics are looking a bit toasty though. The heatsinks naturally wouldn't desolder but I was able to just twist them out.

It appears Nokia still makes phones and they're mostly dumbphones? They sell a few cheap ones like the 105 2nd Ed which might have 12 days standby. But the new 8210 has this spec: Standby time (Single SIM, 4G), up to: 27.3 days

Uwaaaah... It seems I'm getting rugpulled by privatized tech fucking over infrastructure (killing the 3G net). I don't think my Nokia 5800 derivative supports 4G since it was released right at the end of 3G. Though it's not on the official list of models that operators will force people to trash.

Alright electronics people, I've got three questions: > Can 9V PWM ripple at 3.9KHz be fully smoothed? > My smoothed out V from BD140 varies greatly by load, which is bad because train models vary. Substitute? Mosfet? > The BD140 seems to whine when it's struggling to start trains. BJTs can whine?

Sees 100 transistors for € 1. 09 from ebay seller. ( Buy it now ) ( Add to cart ) ( Make offer ) I'll... make you.. an offer... € 1. 07 -- or I'm walking away! You think you're the only guy selling transistors on ebay, huh!? I'm walking--this is me walking! Big steps. About to turn a corner now.

Visst kan man säga att man "stänger på" en apparat? Strömbrytare är ju slutna/stängda eller öppna, "closed / open circuit". Man stänger strömbrytaren, som en dörr ritad uppifrån, i på läget. Men hur funkar då "stänga av"? Jo, vippbrytare har tre poler. Man stänger den åt hållet där kretsen är av.

Got KiCAD running on Mint no probs (didn't use the flatpak). Started fooling around. Breadboarded some of it (without the MCU) and it seems to work with my DF200 diesel, though I'm unclear about some of the safety of the design still. Was surprised my wacky LDR thing was actually somewhat reliable.

Made a lid-sealed terrarium diorama back in early October. The helpful bugs I put in all died. But now springtails appeared. Plants appear to be thriving. Sadly the jar was a little low for this kind of growth.

It could be possible to make a cassette player that fits inside of the tape itself (i.e. a self playing tape), though the R/W head would end up on the other side of the tape. It wouldn't be compatible with a regular player, but might make an interesting novelty item. Motors would go in the holes.

Love interests in Fantasy for men: She was a wretched, ugly looking homeless person, but oh wow did she clean up nicely - 10/10! For women: The dark stranger rudely threw a fat wad of cash in my face and mysteriously disappeared after I insulted him. I hate him! Ah, I can't stop thinking about him.

While waiting for my package I started looking for a space to see if I could fit a model railway anywhere. Technically I could fit it on my office desk. It's all about choosing the right curve radii. I would need to build a platform up for terrain and lake/mining pit. Stole stencil from product img

Seems like there's (deliberately?) no way to block youtube channels. There are so many fake generated "documentaries". I just occasionally report them for spam/misleading instead.

I wonder how model railway tracks deal with cant/tilt transitions, cuz canted curves are sold. Maybe just twisting the incoming/outgoing track piece? It appears trains can lean using mechanical solutions, naturally from the conical wheels sliding sideways, and by canted rail (in high speed curves).

American steam trains and the old streamliners are quite nice, but the modern trains in service are such dull-nosed sausages. It's like the train body designers just all quit 80 years ago, leaving the engineers to do some rudimentary solution.

Found a baggie with what might be a LEGO mixels set--not sure which. Built a Dragonfly MOC from it.

Hum. I was deciphering some labels on a switch*: 明 = light, dawn 暗 = dark ...probably for controlling backlights. But what are those components? 日 = sun, day 月 = moon 立 = stand Huh. So what's the logic here? Moon is bright, Sun placed under stand? *on a ATS-DK system.

Alright, so linkedin, which I haven't used since 2002, adopted some AI training policy. Rather than deleting my forgotten profile, I took this opportunity to point out that I'm currently imprisoned deep under Fort Boyard and wear a cool iron mask and refused a pardon by Pope Francis a while back.

Americans trying to pronounce Gripen right now: Grip pen, Gr-aye-pen, Greephen.

Oh-hi there budding buddy, do you perhaps know where all of my water fleas went?

Every time I order something from Japan shipping is estimated to be weeks, then I track the package and it actually goes from Tokyo to Stockholm customs in two days (how???) and my suspicious plastic crack has to sit there for a week or two.

Random thought: I wonder if female swimmers wear a one-piece suit to reduce drag (rather than a two-piece). Given how important fluid dynamics ought to be, I bet someone has calculated underboob vortices or something. If it just had to do with skin drag, then male swimmers would wear one too?

This is a portion/serving of chips according to the print on the bag. It's about two palms worth I'd say. You wouldn't think of reaching into the bag to snatch a few extra... would you?

Why use two diodes and a resistor for polarity detection when you can use 13 components instead? I just wanted to see if I could get constant-ish brightness from variable voltage, so I used a 1N5819 -> L78L33 regulator, and two BC548 to drive the LEDs, detecting via 300K resistors to base. Stoopid?

Hands up! Give me all the money you've! Robbing me? Who T. F. do you think you're?! Someone who will shoot you if you try and walk away, that is who I'm! I'd and I'll! B'ng!

This I think is the most interesting reverse loop. Unless I'm mistaken in my beginner notions, it's good enough to just park in the middle section and then flip both access points into it using a DPDT. One just has to make sure the switch is in the right entry mode or the train will hit a reverse.

Huh. Looks like the models are quite close to the "prototypes" (originals). This guy must've done some relabeling though. www.youtube.com/shorts/FGv3u...

Alright, how tall is Angewomon? Because it seems like she's easily Lady Dimitrescu height.

Uh, so I found some hidden spare dough on my tax returns account and decided that I actually really did need some comfort after the dentist debacle actually. 200euro plus 60 ship. The TOMIX 91036 railyard (barely visible here) seemed like a good set for scale scenery w/ many track point & end bits.

I had some trouble with my site being down for a week, but this time it was just my local DNS somehow refusing it. Grrr. DNS = a server which knows where (not quite) all URLs lead, I guess. Solved it by adding some fallback DNSes in my network settings (linux mint).

Hmm... When powering a model railroad there's a drop over rail distance and the trains will run slower. So you split the cable up and power the rails at like four points. Those rails don't need to be connected as long as they have power afaik, so it's possible to make something like tiles?