From: signal9 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:27:27 +0000 (-0600) Subject: new article, update Makefile X-Git-Url: https://git.vexinglabs.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a623d2d055352bb2ffe15ad83db79ed25f9f4db6;p=vexingworkshop.git new article, update Makefile --- diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 6ca0b6f..ab892c0 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ OUTPUTDIR=$(BASEDIR)/output CONFFILE=$(BASEDIR)/pelicanconf.py PUBLISHCONF=$(BASEDIR)/publishconf.py -SSH_HOST=localhost +SSH_HOST=vexingworkshop.com SSH_PORT=22 -SSH_USER=signal9 -SSH_TARGET_DIR=/var/www +SSH_USER=root +SSH_TARGET_DIR=/var/www/vexingworkshop/ DEBUG ?= 0 diff --git a/content/brick-tiles-2025-06-08.md b/content/brick-tiles-2025-06-08.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a508494 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/brick-tiles-2025-06-08.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +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. + +![the first bricks]({static}/images/IMG_2759.jpg){. .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. + +![wall pattern]({static}/images/IMG_3025.jpg){. .image} +![herringbone pattern]({static}/images/IMG_3026.jpg){. .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. + +![mold one]({static}/images/IMG_3033.jpg){. .image} +![mold two]({static}/images/IMG_3034.jpg){. .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. + +![first casts]({static}/images/IMG_3046.jpg){. .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. diff --git a/content/images/IMG_2759.jpg b/content/images/IMG_2759.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93215f5 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/IMG_2759.jpg differ diff --git a/content/images/IMG_3025.jpg b/content/images/IMG_3025.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74894f7 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/IMG_3025.jpg differ diff --git a/content/images/IMG_3026.jpg b/content/images/IMG_3026.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b97fe7f Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/IMG_3026.jpg differ diff --git a/content/images/IMG_3033.jpg b/content/images/IMG_3033.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e1935ac Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/IMG_3033.jpg differ diff --git a/content/images/IMG_3034.jpg b/content/images/IMG_3034.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ad57b8 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/IMG_3034.jpg differ diff --git a/content/images/IMG_3046.jpg b/content/images/IMG_3046.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b17ae36 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/images/IMG_3046.jpg differ diff --git a/content/necropolis-gatherings-2025-06-04.md b/content/necropolis-gatherings-2025-06-04.md index 9e36d5f..b75406f 100644 --- a/content/necropolis-gatherings-2025-06-04.md +++ b/content/necropolis-gatherings-2025-06-04.md @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ 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 @@ -19,11 +18,45 @@ Warlock](https://weepingwarlock.bigcartel.com/){: .anchor}, and the spiky boi I [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. + ![Bone Gathering]({static}/images/gathering-1.jpg){: .image-med} +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. diff --git a/themes/vexingworkshop/static/css/main.css b/themes/vexingworkshop/static/css/main.css index 511d54a..9176577 100644 --- a/themes/vexingworkshop/static/css/main.css +++ b/themes/vexingworkshop/static/css/main.css @@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ aside#featured { aside#featured article { display: flex; flex-direction: column; +} + +article { padding: 30px 0px; }