My son and I have weird random ideas, and every now and then he tells me he wants me to make a mashup of random things in Photoshop or a video. I’m not great at either Photoshop or video editing but I know enough to get the idea across, so I’ll spend 30 minutes or […]

There are a lot of reddit posts about storage for X-Wing Miniatures models, from cases with cut outs specific to each ship to (like Feldherr or Battle Foam cases) to tackle boxes and small organizers. The former tend to look better but they are also a lot more expensive, especially as your collection grows over […]

Many years ago I used to paint pewter figures (badly), and more recently I’ve done some painting on HO scale buildings for my model train layout. I never really thought about painting X-Wing Miniatures models but after seeing some pictures of what others have done, I really wanted to get some custom paint schemes on […]

The next round of X-Wing Miniatures expansions have been released (July 2017), and pretty much as soon as I got them I had to magnetize them. These Wave XI ships were pretty easy and straightforward to magnetize, so there’s nothing crazy to note about any of these ships. I did have an issue with my […]

Fantasy Flight Games released the remaining ships from Wave X this week (end of January/beginning of February 2017) for the X-Wing Miniatures game and I ended up magnetizing the models the day after I got them. I had already magnetized the TIE Striker and I never bought the U-Wing, so this just covers the three […]

As I continue magnetizing X-Wing Miniatures models, it’s time to show the Imperial ships. The first ship I magnetized when I started doing this was the TIE Phantom. I think I chose it because it was my favorite ship and I wanted to have it magnetized first. A better idea would have been to do […]

Previously I showed how I added steel balls to the pegs on the X-Wing Miniatures models to get everything magnetized. Now it’s time to add some of the ring magnets to the ships. These are the Scum and Villainy ships that I’ve done. The first step is to remove the peg from the bottom of […]

I recently started playing the X-Wing Miniatures game and I love the detailed models used for the game. The models sit on top of plastic pegs that are easy to break off, and the easiest way to avoid this issue is by magnetizing the models using small ring magnets on the ships and steel balls […]

The OCTA OC Bridges Orangethorpe and Tustin/Rose bridge construction is done! It’s been pretty much finished for several months now, and during construction I was taking pictures of the progress. I tried to take pictures any time there was a noticeable change, but I forget to take pictures for months at a time. I was […]

A lot has happened since my last update on the OCTA OC Bridges construction project at Tustin/Rose. In my last post, the section over the train tracks hadn’t been put into place yet. I was wondering how they were going to add that section, and in October I found out! They brought in a big […]