Mastodon Politics, Power, and Science: August 2014

Friday, August 1, 2014

Wood Carving again.

This was 3 hours of work today.  Drawn freehand onto a small 6x6 board and then hand carved out with a few tools. The design is based on a drawing on in a book, but I just did it by looking at the drawing and then drawing something similar on the board.  I started with a small V notch and went over the drawing, then moved to a larger V notch. and went over again. Then I dug out the field between the design and border.  Now I am shaping the stem, leaves, and acorns to get a 3D like feel to the design.


I am thinking about doing a few of these to get good at them, and then giving the next few of them to all my nieces/nephews as gifts.

Progress on the campaign manager

You can see that you can build tactical maps automatically from the world map data.  You can place roads, streams, buildings. The framework ...