Drifter

Critics are far too often the death of far too many good games, movies, and TV shows before those stories can even really be told.

I must be on a Liam Neeson kick lately because I just finished watching prob the 3rd Neeson flick I've watched in the past month. Watched The Marksman. I was thinking it was not gonna be all that great because it had a pretty low rating on RT"s as well as by most critics. But just as is true 9 times out of 10...if a movie is rated low thats usually a sing its actually pretty damn good, friggin critics suck.
I'm not gonna say it was his best film, but it was nearly 2hrs long and I honestly didn't feel like it was that long, so I must have enjoyed it. A pretty decent drama with just enough quick action mixed in to make it a movie that should appeal to most anyone. I liked it.

Picked up a new big boy toy today.
Took my CPL class last week and went today just to "look" at a few models. Was planning on maybe next month picking up the Glock 19 or 26, but after trying a few the guy that was helping me suggested what he carries which was the Glock 48. Soon as I held it I knew I found the one for me. Just fits my hand perfectly and felt great. I didn't plan on buying today but could not come home without it. Probably a good thing because I wanted to get it asap so I could get a lot of range time with it before I start carrying. Should have my CPL in 45 days but plan to wait prob 6 months to actually carry so that I get extremely familiar with this one.  This is my first hand gun, I've been into long guns for my whole life and own many rifles & shot guns, but damn I' already in love with this handgun even after only 1 day LOL Pics of my new baby. She's so purdy lol 🙂  

Picked up a new big boy toy today.
Took my CPL class last week and went today just to "look" at a few models. Was planning on maybe next month picking up the Glock 19 or 26, but after trying a few the guy that was helping me suggested what he carries which was the Glock 48. Soon as I held it I knew I found the one for me. Just fits my hand perfectly and felt great. I didn't plan on buying today but could not come home without it. Probably a good thing because I wanted to get it asap so I could get a lot of range time with it before I start carrying. Should have my CPL in 45 days but plan to wait prob 6 months to actually carry so that I get extremely familiar with this one.  This is my first hand gun, I've been into long guns for my whole life and own many rifles & shot guns, but damn I' already in love with this handgun even after only 1 day LOL Pics of my new baby. She's so purdy lol 🙂  

Watched a number of movies in the past week or so now.
 
Wrath of Man- Really liked this one. The first 45 minutes are a bit confusing (I was pretty lost lol) but then they do a good job of tying it all together in the 2nd half of the movie. IMO it was probably one of Jason Statham's best films.
 
Tomorrow World- Fun movie. I really like Chris Pratt so it's hard to not enjoy one of his films, but this one is just a neat non-thinking fun movie to watch.
 
Val - Val Kilmer's one he made about his life. This is hard to say if I liked it or not. On one hand I liked it because I always liked Val as an actor. Yet on the other hand it was probably one of the more depressing films I have seen in awhile. And then it has the bit of pompousness overtone to it which Val has always been known for lol. So It's hard to say it was good/bad. If you're a Val Kilmer fan then it's okay, but I wouldn't watch it again that's for sure.

Just finished watching Honest Thief. The last two Liam Neeson movies I watched sucked hard (Cold pursuit & Ice Road) so it was refreshing to finally see him in a good movie again. Really enjoyed it. Nice to see Kate Walsh again as well. I always found her to be a really attractive woman and a good actress.

Watched A Quiet Place 2 last week. Was a good addition to the first one. I think what I liked most about it is they did not fall into the trap almost every sequel seems to fall into where they overdo things to try to outdo the original film. Rather than that, they just basically continued out with things the way the first film did which made for a good watch. I'm thinking the way it ended might be a lead in to a 3rd film perhaps.
Wrath of man is on-demand for $5.99 now so plan to rent that this afternoon.

I want to see that but don't have Prime. Hopefully there will be some other way to watch it so I can see it. I feel the same about Pratt. He's probably one of my favorite actors now. Something about him just seems really genuine which makes him come through as someone that is probably a really nice guy. Kind'a the same as Patrick Swayze use to seem to me.

Nice collection.
Far as figures go the only collection of figures I have are some Game of Thrones ones. Mostly the Dark Horse brand. Couple of Mcfarland as well I think.

Nice collection.
Far as figures go the only collection of figures I have are some Game of Thrones ones. Mostly the Dark Horse brand. Couple of Mcfarland as well I think.

I've been collecting action figures and geeky stuff for a long time now, so i thought it would be cool to share my collection with you peeps and to see what collections you all have 🙂
I'm a big DC comics fan so the majority of my collection is DC based. I've been collecting figuarts for years and used to have a big collection of them including Dragonball, Star Wars and Marvel, but now focus on the DC releases. I'm also getting the new McFarlane DC line and love what theyve done so far. 
As well as DC, i'm a massive Supernatural fan and have a shelf dedicated to it, and i've recently started to collect the NFL funko pops and want to get a couple of mini helmets soon.
 
Ok then everyone...SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!!!

Thanks Lee.  It's amazing the stuff you can do with them. And the prices have come down so much over the past few years. I have two of them now and both are the Ender 3 V2's which sells for about $250, then I upgraded the extruder/hot end with a direct drive Microswiss one which runs $100. So no more than $350 invested into each of them.

Hey gang. Not sure who is still around from the old days but talked to Lee a couple months ago and he mentioned this site was still around and I had been meaning to come check up on it for some time now but just had so much going on I never got around to it till now. This is Steve, use to be active here many years ago. Can't even remember how long it's been, maybe 6...8 years ...longer perhaps? It was back in the days with Tommy, Lee, Jason, Dave and some of the other old timers. Not sure if any of them are still around or not.
 
Gonna take me a bit to check out this whole new looking site (new to me at least :) ) but just wanted to say hello before I started looking around again here.
 
Steve

Finally done with this one. Pretty much everything is 3d printed except the base I carved/sculpted out of foam then airbrushed and flocked it with sand and flocking. And the trunk of the tree is one of my bonsai trees that died over the winter so I just spread aquarium filter floss across the branches then flocked it the way model railroad guys do on their builds. Rest is all printed and airbrushed. Water I airbrushed the base then coated it in clear silicone, then added waves by pulling upwards on the silicone as it dried and painted the white tips. Also added flicking light inside the tower as well as a flickering micro LED chip on the end of the wizards torch. Probably over 200+ hrs into it from start to finish. Fit's right into the theater room theme really nicely. Was quite an enjoyable build, already kicking around ideas for what will be built on the 2nd of the side tables.
 

Figured I'd start this thread and just update it with pictures of some of my 3D printed projects as I work on them rather than start a new thread for every thing I print and do.
 
Just started this project a bit over a week ago. I decided I wanted to do a medieval  diorama for my theater room since the rest of the room's decor is all medieval themed. So decided to start printing a scene which will be a castle tower sitting on the edge of a rocky shoreline of the ocean with a dragon on top of the tower, then a giant kraken coming out of the water attacking the tower. Took about 130hrs to print just the tower pieces. Then did a lot of paint work and weathering to make it look aged, made some vines out of stained twine and ground up some reindeer moss to make the moss and growth on the towers crack. Added some wood railing and made a wood door. Have the dragon pieces running on both printers right now so hope to have that done and painted by the weekend so I can move onto finishing the base and making some realistic water using some clear silicone and paint mixed which other items which should be interesting.
 
 
 

You buy the filament (basically the plastic is uses to print) on spools for about $20 a spool. Then you go on to  a place online called "thingiverse". That is where there are a TON of .stl files. the .stl file is the file type that a 3d printer reads to get the info from as to what to print. Then you basically just run the file through a program called a slicer so that it slices the model into layers (I use Cura) and then its ready to print. You can see all the stuff here on thingiverse to print. Just type in something and check out what comes up
Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects
WWW.THINGIVERSE.COM Download files and build them with your 3D printer, laser cutter, or CNC. Thingiverse is a universe of things.  

Something I have been working on for the past few weeks. May very well be the height of my clinical OCD lol. Have been 3D printing and painting everything for a scale garage scene for the Felony. Everything is 3D printed, then painted/detailed. Pictures on the walls are resized pictures I took up on Woodward over the years and trimmed down to scale size. Monster truck pics are an actual Rc truck I built years ago which I reprinted in a smaller size, even got my a poster for my custom fly rod business worked into there Was very time consuming and took a lot of hours but was quite a fun project.
 
   

Figured I'd start this thread and just update it with pictures of some of my 3D printed projects as I work on them rather than start a new thread for every thing I print and do.
 
Just started this project a bit over a week ago. I decided I wanted to do a medieval  diorama for my theater room since the rest of the room's decor is all medieval themed. So decided to start printing a scene which will be a castle tower sitting on the edge of a rocky shoreline of the ocean with a dragon on top of the tower, then a giant kraken coming out of the water attacking the tower. Took about 130hrs to print just the tower pieces. Then did a lot of paint work and weathering to make it look aged, made some vines out of stained twine and ground up some reindeer moss to make the moss and growth on the towers crack. Added some wood railing and made a wood door. Have the dragon pieces running on both printers right now so hope to have that done and painted by the weekend so I can move onto finishing the base and making some realistic water using some clear silicone and paint mixed which other items which should be interesting.
 
 
 

Figured I'd start this thread and just update it with pictures of some of my 3D printed projects as I work on them rather than start a new thread for every thing I print and do.
 
Just started this project a bit over a week ago. I decided I wanted to do a medieval  diorama for my theater room since the rest of the room's decor is all medieval themed. So decided to start printing a scene which will be a castle tower sitting on the edge of a rocky shoreline of the ocean with a dragon on top of the tower, then a giant kraken coming out of the water attacking the tower. Took about 130hrs to print just the tower pieces. Then did a lot of paint work and weathering to make it look aged, made some vines out of stained twine and ground up some reindeer moss to make the moss and growth on the towers crack. Added some wood railing and made a wood door. Have the dragon pieces running on both printers right now so hope to have that done and painted by the weekend so I can move onto finishing the base and making some realistic water using some clear silicone and paint mixed which other items which should be interesting.
 
 
 

Figured I'd start this thread and just update it with pictures of some of my 3D printed projects as I work on them rather than start a new thread for every thing I print and do.
 
Just started this project a bit over a week ago. I decided I wanted to do a medieval  diorama for my theater room since the rest of the room's decor is all medieval themed. So decided to start printing a scene which will be a castle tower sitting on the edge of a rocky shoreline of the ocean with a dragon on top of the tower, then a giant kraken coming out of the water attacking the tower. Took about 130hrs to print just the tower pieces. Then did a lot of paint work and weathering to make it look aged, made some vines out of stained twine and ground up some reindeer moss to make the moss and growth on the towers crack. Added some wood railing and made a wood door. Have the dragon pieces running on both printers right now so hope to have that done and painted by the weekend so I can move onto finishing the base and making some realistic water using some clear silicone and paint mixed which other items which should be interesting.
 
 
 

Figured I'd start this thread and just update it with pictures of some of my 3D printed projects as I work on them rather than start a new thread for every thing I print and do.
 
Just started this project a bit over a week ago. I decided I wanted to do a medieval  diorama for my theater room since the rest of the room's decor is all medieval themed. So decided to start printing a scene which will be a castle tower sitting on the edge of a rocky shoreline of the ocean with a dragon on top of the tower, then a giant kraken coming out of the water attacking the tower. Took about 130hrs to print just the tower pieces. Then did a lot of paint work and weathering to make it look aged, made some vines out of stained twine and ground up some reindeer moss to make the moss and growth on the towers crack. Added some wood railing and made a wood door. Have the dragon pieces running on both printers right now so hope to have that done and painted by the weekend so I can move onto finishing the base and making some realistic water using some clear silicone and paint mixed which other items which should be interesting.
 
 
 

I want to see that but don't have Prime. Hopefully there will be some other way to watch it so I can see it. I feel the same about Pratt. He's probably one of my favorite actors now. Something about him just seems really genuine which makes him come through as someone that is probably a really nice guy. Kind'a the same as Patrick Swayze use to seem to me.

It's so sad to see the condition he's in these days, but at least he's still around and still keeps going. I think his portrayal of Jim Morrison in the movie "The Doors" to date was probably one of the best performances of any actor I have ever seen in my life.