Three more scavvies to swell the ranks. This time its another trio of unreleased Jes Goodwin sculpts. Once again brilliant figures and really enjoyable to paint with all the layered rags and fun…

Following on from last weeks ‘Commission Monday’ today I share a trio of Slaters 16mm/ft WDLR skips. These models are built from injection moulded plastic with one piece skips bodies… The wheels are…

Books about the restoration of Balintore Castle are now available on Amazon - hurrah! Dylan Mballa has written a Spanish language version with a beautiful cover that looks like the label of an…

If it's not one thing, it's another..., EPROM reading, Update?

Everyone wants to know the purchase price. That’s the wrong number. The right number is the total cost — purchase...

"Junk journaling" has been a trending term on the internet crafting space for a while. As you can infer from the term, "junk journaling" is the creative practice of collaging with materials that…

I was wrong I had more than enough pine to get all the drawer parts. Four drawers all the same size and one drawer about 1/4" smaller. Also got lucky that depth and width of the drawers were less…

Come on no one really thought I would do two models and stop did they ! LOL So eight years ago I joined in Forgotten Heroes and have completed models 6 times, so it's only fair that I do six models…

Spotted: Miss B's whole family helping out the house today. Today Miss B's whole family was up bright and early to prepare for a big task today: a new fridge was arriving. Miss B woke up around noon…

When we first got the sheep, HA had a simple plan she’d heard from a friend of ours who used to raise sheep: tether them to an old tire and we could move them around to where we needed them to mow.…

Enlightenment The Banned Book Library DIY project is absolutely radical.

Allan and a brace of Derek’s went to the annual Bluebell railway modelling weekend. Today, we have a few pictures of the big trains….. The original Ffarquhar Branch was on display. So was…

A little experiment (and palette cleanser between larger installations) in delicacy that resulted in four paper lanterns giving their lives until I finally figured out how to get the metal frame with…

Rory Mir and Cliff Braun, writing for the Electronic Frontier Foundation:Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software,…

We replaced the original deck to our home in 2015 and I guess we thought it would last more than eleven years but it was getting dangerous. Step one for the new deck is taking down the old one. Took…

I recently started getting into 3D printing, but so far I've spent most of my time getting setup and learning the ropes. I've now completed my first little project with the 3D printers and I'm really…

The LEGO Art collection has grown into one of LEGO’s most distinctive themes. It includes everything from mosaics and pixelated portraits of famous people and movie characters to sculptures,…

Spent another sleepless night which translated into me rolling out of the rack a little before 0700. Got no AM shop time because I had to get ready to go to the West Roxbury VA. Got there at 1020 for…

This leaf blade sword with the tip stuck in the ground next to a flower bubbled up out of my imagination to become an eraser stamp. The post Sword and Flower Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp appeared first…

I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized rail vehicles and maintaining railway infrastructure. As a non-authoritative, hobby project…

olesia345:Chocolate is testing the second dog bowl I made

California's AB2047 would force every 3D printer sold in the state to run state-certified software that detects and refuses to print firearm parts. As an engineer who owns and runs these machines, I…

Musselburgh by Ysolda Teague

I came across this image of a kitbashed spaceship on Facebook made from the two halves of a submarine Plastic model kit. The modeller was Tony Murray…

I mentioned catching up on personal projects and one project I’ve decided to tackle is to make a violin from scratch. I have zero experience but I have enough scrap lumber. Initially I started…

I do have a lot of yarn. Like, a couple of years to use it up amount of yarn. I had a phase in my life where I probably had a shopping addiction. Probably from undiagnosed and unmedicated ADHD and…

Voici deux items que j’ai réalisés pour faciliter le travail du graveur : un gabarit de repérage et des pseudo “Ternes Burton pins”, utilisé dans la linogravure avec réduction.

This is episode #03 of the Ruby Stained Glass Notes, a pop-up newsletter in which I write about the process of building a stained glass panel celebrating Ruby. Today, I riff on the drawing and ask…

I built John a road bike a while back – this time around he asked for a similar fitting and riding bike, but with larger tires (40mm), full fenders. Oh, and an electric assist….. The…

Because dream it and you can certainly die or almost die trying to make it happen, Youtube No Bitrate challenged himself to build a game-accurate coconut shooter from Donkey Kong 64. The first, more…

I decided it was time for a 3D printer upgrade recently. I did some playing with my old Kossel, adding braces and changing some tuning since it runs Klipper, and while it continues to be a fine…

After plenty of time at the workbench, my First Crusade Frankish knights are officially based, grouped, and ready to ride down the enemies of Christendom. These, iron-clad knights of the Italo-Norman…

The galaxy's wandering reavers are calling me back to the paint table. Aeldari Corsairs roam the void between the dying craftworlds, raiding and surviving on their own terms, and that restless spirit…

The big project I'd like to get done for this years challenge is one of the 3 forms of Imperial Juggernaut that have appeared in Star Wars over the years, below is a picture of the three different…

date: June 25, 2026 10:30am tags: restoration, machinery Many months ago, some of our volunteers took the one remaining cam on one of our Mullard Heritage presses and painstakingly measured it out…

Sample Knit #2 I tried three different ways of neater 1x1 ribbing: Hem: normal knit + Eastern purl Right sleeve: Eastern knit + normal purl Left sleeve: Eastern knit + Eastern purl So far, the last…

Some of the best advice I ever received came years ago from a coworker named Joe. Joe always had a few side-projects going on—weird and wonderful mashups of electronics, software, and fabrication of…

Yarn: KnitPicks CotLin in a million different colors Pattern: Typical Tank by Tiffany Liew Finished: June 24, 2026 Notes: This is a knockoff of a tank top by Rachel Antonoff that I liked. (It's here…

A home office can’t just be all fun and games; there needs to be some wine too. I’ve wanted a wine cabinet for a while. I often pick up a few bottles of red wine when I’m out…

It’s a horrible 36C here today, but I found that one of the more acceptable parts of the house was, amazingly, the loft. With the windows open to catch what (hot) breeze there was, and a fan…

Time now to shape the neck! Also, I have a brief chat about the tools needed for this process. After running through the shaping process, I start the clean-up in preparation for setting-up the…

It is ashame that I never got around to purchasing other mini-scenes from Sierra West. These kits are simple to build and will great once you have added paint and a weathering treatment. These mini…

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what a weird cat… i havent been able to make a clown doll recently, and i participated in a video game themed art show so i made one of my fav animal crossing characters! (Kicks is actually my fav…

In totally not work related news, I've been working on set design and construction for a musical theater show ...

David Richter, a mathematician at Western Michigan University, recently found himself with a surfeit of ceramic orthogonal polyhedra and, knowing of my own interest in orthogonal polyhedra,…

Here is a beautiful grafted buttonhole for double thick fabric, such as a folded-over button-band. These are GORGEOUS buttonholes: blue-ribbon, state-fair stuff. But! They are very stretchy…

My company is in the process of moving out of offices we've occupied for more than 40 years. It means decades of paperwork is being slung out, and with it a lot of storage devices which are…

Sample Knit #2 Finished the 1x1 ribbing of the body. This time I tried another way to achieve a neater 1x1 by working purls in Eastern way. It worked out beautifully! My observation is the wrong side…

Someone built a small robot whose job is to knock over Jenga towers, and gave it dreams. It dreams of the man who picks it up when it falls. It dreams in my handwriting. On being the same kind of…