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+Title: Laying Down Cobbles
+Category: Craft
+Date: 2025-06-08
+Tags: casting, resin
+
+A couple of months ago, my wife gave me a Proxxon hot wire table as an
+anniversary gift. Right away I spent a couple of lunch breaks cutting scrap XPS
+foam into bricks - enough to fill a large yoghurt tub. These I distressed by
+tossing them with gravel from the garden and I set them aside. This weekend I
+laid them out into two 3" square patterns, with the intention of casting tiles.
+
+{. .image}
+
+I sealed the tiles with a couple of layers of Modpodge mixed with baking soda.
+Any gaps or cracks would be sure to fill with silicone and rip during mold
+making, so it's important to seal as many as possible. I was worried, though,
+that I would fill in too much detail.
+
+{. .image}
+{. .image}
+
+After sealing, I used more foam core to build up the sides into a box, which I
+filled with silicone. After a few minutes in the vacuum chamber to draw out any
+air bubbles, these sat overnight. Great success, the silicone found no errant
+gaps! I was still worried about loss of detail, so I tried the first cast in
+resin.
+
+{. .image}
+{. .image}
+
+As I intend these molds to be cast in the open, and to capture any excess resin
+I may have mixed during other projects, I tested without using the pressure pot.
+While there are loads of tiny bubbles, overall I think the tiles turned out
+pretty well.
+
+{. .image-med}
+
+A second attempt at casting under pressure failed, as adding air into the
+pressure pot caused the resin to be blown out of the mold. I am going to have to
+modify the pot to divert incoming air and avoid any disturbance in the surface
+of the mold, any mold.
Title: Lore Without Models, Models Without Lore
Category: Blog
-Date: 2025-06-04
-Tags: necropolis28
-Status: draft
+Date: 2025-06-07
+Tags: necropolis28, wargaming
Ever since watching [Monk's](https://www.instagram.com/googlyeyedskull/){: .anchor}
[video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEcuGNaOxvw){: .anchor} about the An Argent Host
[Tanner Simpson](https://www.instagram.com/simpsominiatures/){: .anchor} while at Under The
Dice Fest.
+I haven't put together any story around these models, and like I said, I'm still
+struggling with building a list around them. But, I imagine I'm close to a
+playable gathering.
+
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+Meanwhile, I've got a pretty solid idea for a second gathering, of the plasma
+aspect, that I'm pretty excited about. During a recent listen to one of my all
+time favorites , Iron Maiden's Killers, I started to think of it as a concept
+album and watched all the songs click into place. I grew up during the 80's, and
+the Satanic Panic was a huge influence on me growing up. I loved heavy metal,
+Dungeons & Dragons, and I lived in a rural part of the country where
+self-proclaimed occult investigators were allowed into our schools. Bleak.
+
+Anyway, I remembered stories where serial killers (most likely fictitious) would
+kill as many people as they could that they could lord over them in hell. Leave
+it to a fundamentalist whack job to come up with that one. That aside, I think
+it makes an excellent basis for a plasm gathering. Led by the killer who
+dispatched them all, his followers exist only to hate him and to serve him, even
+now in this time beyond time.
+
+* The **killer**, king, wrathful and mired mired in vanity and delusion
+* The **loner**, hitchhiker, in the wrong place at the wrong time
+* The **lovers** found unawares at Makeout Point, forever circling one another
+* The **frame job**, victim of mistaken identity, trapped for eternity in a wicked
+ web
+* The **copycat**, cowering, simpering in vile mimicry of his master
+
+Since I set up the molding/casting shop in the garage, I feel like I need to up
+the challenge level and hand sculpt and make casts of whatever models I make for
+this gathering. Assuming I follow through, from story to models this will have
+been the most I've ever put into a war band.
+
## We Are Echoes
> The Cairn-born and the Scions can pretend otherwise, with their clattering
> forms - such noise they make, such vanity - but deep down we all know the
> truth: our existence is but the faint remnant of lost aeons, too few of us
> remember.
+>
+> If I remember now it is to remember why I hate him, what he's done to us.
+> Bound by ridiculous decree, beyond the death of everything, we must serve.
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