Hey guys, here’s the link to Sarah’s Relay for Life team:
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Thanks so much to all those that have donated already, both to this American Cancer Society Relay For Life and directly to Sarah with the GoFundMe she had set up during chemotherapy.
I appreciate it and of course, so does Sarah. :)
Some of my family is going to join us out there for the relay, including my grandmother who’s a survivor as well.
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Here’s some background info on Maschinen Krieger (Ma.K) which started as SF3D (SciFi 3D/SciFi Sunday) in the early 1980s. What I love about this genre is how vague it all is. For anyone familiar with the Warhammer 40,000 universe, it reminds me a bit of the lore surrounding humanity’s Age of Technology. You have some broad strokes and a general idea of how things fit together, but the minutia of it all is totally up to your creativity. You can work with Ma.K box arts or original drawings and camo cards to paint specific things or you can make up your own pilots, suits, units, battles, campaigns, etc. For someone like myself that loves storytelling and dioramas, the sky is the limit. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun to create your own custom kit-bashed army within the Warhammer universe, but you’re still boxed into what makes those armies tick and the models are small mostly figures. Harder to scratch build and expensive to kit-bash with the Games Workshop pricing structure. Just not sustainable beyond something the size of a kill team or a small display squad.
Maschinen Krieger might be expensive as well and has much more unobtainium FOMO. But considering the size of these kits and their scratch-built, hand-sculpted origins, one can take some old computer parts, odds and ends from the recycling bin, random large-scale motorcycle or aircraft kits, and go to town with a lot of Bondo (www.maschinenkr....
Perfect for armor modelers or aircraft modelers looking to apply their paint colors and schemes to SciFi vehicles and big stompy robots.
From the Ma.K Wikipedia entry:
A nuclear World War IV in 2807 kills most of Earth's population and renders the planet uninhabitable. Fifty-two years after the war, a research team from an interstellar union called the Galactic Federation is sent to Earth and discovers that the planet's natural environment has restored itself. The Federation decides to repopulate the planet and sends over colonists to the surface. Cities and towns are eventually reformed over the next 20 years, but this growth attracts the attention of criminals, military deserters, and other lawless elements who wanted to hide on Earth-away from the authorities. A few militias protect the colonists, but the new interlopers often defeat them.
Fearing civil unrest and the colonists forming their own government, the Federation gives the Strahl Democratic Republic (SDR) the right to govern the planet in the late 2870s. The SDR sends three police battalions and three Foreign Legion corps to Earth and uses heavy-handed tactics such as travel restrictions and hard labor camps to restore order, which creates resentment amongst the colonists. In response, the colonists create the Earth Independent Provisional Government and declared independence from the SDR. The SDR immediately establishes a puppet government and attempts to quell the uprising. The wealthy colonists hire mercenaries who are descendants of WWIV veterans to form the Independent Mercenary Army (IMA), which is bolstered by the presence of SDR Foreign Legion defectors. They attack the SDR forces and the battle to control Earth begins in 2882.
Over the next four years, the SDR and IMA fight each other at several locations worldwide while developing new technology along the way. The war turns up a notch in June 2883 when the IMA deploys a new weapon - the Armored Fighting Suit powered armor - to devastating effect. The SDR eventually builds their own AFS units.
The IMA successfully defeats the new SDR Königs Kröte unmanned command-and-control mecha using a computer virus that also creates a new artificial intelligence system on the moon.
[And this is my headcanon unless someone confirms it- but considering Robot Battle V takes place sometime after these events and is a “man vs. machine” story of humans fighting a rogue AI, I have to think it is the same AI that the IMA inadvertently created with their computer virus. But I’ve found a lot less information available about this story.]
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As for the oil dot filter paint rendering workflow, I think the video (and my endless narration) speaks for itself. This is what's worked for me at least- but I am also excited to try new things.
Take care guys! Thanks for checking this out and please feel free to leave a comment supporting Sarah and her amazing news of remission. Everything is stable and we have a lot of exciting things planned for our 2023- and beyond!
30 окт 2024
