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Rockets

Estes Prowler (8/13/2024)
R10 Solar Warrior (4/27/2024)
NYPOWER 2023 (6/1/2023)
R1 Knight (1/16/2023)
Come Fly With Us! (11/9/2022)
Rocket Kids (Oct 2022) (10/17/2022)
Tohickon Scouts Spring Camporee (5/23/2022)
Estes Doorknob (5/3/2022)
Odd’l Sputnik (5/3/2022)
Rainbow Bobby (5/3/2022)
Tall One (1/9/2022)
MMX BIC Pencil (1/9/2022)
ASP Aerobee 100 JR (10/4/2021)
Bumblebee (8/24/2021)
Stretch Stubby (8/24/2021)
Museum of Flight (7/16/2021)
Water Rocket (7/10/2021)
R5a MX Hawkeye (6/4/2021)
Ignition! R2 (5/11/2021)
Micro Corporal (3/31/2021)
R4 and R6 (3/15/2021)
R3 (3/8/2021)
R1 (3/8/2021)
SS Enterprise (2/18/2021)

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Workshop

Wasteworld @ Open Sauce 2023 (7/19/2023)
Minis Workshop (Nov 2022) (11/18/2022)
Minis Workshop (Oct 2022) (10/25/2022)
Imperialis 25mm Base Toppers (4/4/2019)
Foxhole Markers (12/20/2018)
Motorcycle Marker (10/21/2018)
First Impressions: WanHao Duplicator i3 Plus 3D Printer (5/7/2018)
Missile Turret (8/21/2017)
Magnetizing Inceptors (8/16/2017)
Spice Pirates Patrol: X-Wing Repaint Tutorial (12/22/2016)
3D Printing Tutorial: Modeling & Making a GR-75 Cargo Pod (9/17/2016)
3D Printing for Wargaming Scratchbuilding (5/19/2016)
Easy Modern/Future Ladders (5/7/2016)
Vector Art Imperial Aquila (4/13/2016)
Vector Art Boltgun (3/27/2016)
Deathwatch: Overkill Card Boxes (3/9/2016)
Sergeant Tolek Shows How To Photo Minis (3/1/2016)
Illustrating Inkscape (2/13/2014)
Magnetizing A Predator (8/9/2011)

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Terrain Gallery

NeX-1119: Construction (4/10/2018)
Derelict Depot (8/11/2017)
Medea Refinery (6/8/2016)

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Miniatures Gallery

Speed Painted Purple Marines (8/16/2025)
Lady Aurelia and Lone Guard Warrior & Billman (12/18/2022)
Lone Guard Ranger, Sabertooth, Infiltrator (11/22/2022)
Authorized Bounty Hunter (11/19/2022)
Hey Now Hǎidào (11/17/2022)
Sandburners (5/31/2022)
Haqqislam Support Team (12/12/2021)
Cube Jäger (12/12/2020)
Libertos and Remotes (11/4/2020)
Dr Tokh, Girl, and Dog (10/16/2020)
Mercenaries (10/12/2020)
Wardriver (6/19/2020)
Scarface Turner (6/17/2020)
Ghulams (5/29/2020)
Hassassin Ragik (5/15/2020)
USAriadna Starter (5/4/2020)
Druze Shock Team (4/23/2020)
Knauf, Outlaw Sniper (4/21/2020)
Kill Team Garreth (9/5/2018)
Obyron, Lord of Hugs (3/13/2016)
The Fury of a Dying Race—Eldar Detachment! (3/10/2016)
Captain Angholan 2.0 (1/21/2015)
Night Scythes (12/21/2014)
Zahndrekh & Overlord (12/19/2014)

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Game Design

First Questions in Tabletop Tournament Organization (9/12/2021)
First Round Gaming Tournament Seeding (3/31/2016)
40k: Alternate Maelstrom (10/22/2015)
Narrative Tournament Design in Tabletop Wargaming (5/14/2015)
40k Skirmish Variant: Recon Squad! (1/9/2015)
Apocalypse Planning (9/15/2014)
Beta Station! (4/11/2014)
I’m Big In China (2/13/2013)
Gold Leader on GameShed! (1/17/2013)

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Code

Polygon Interpolation in OpenSCAD (9/27/2022)
Video Autoplay on Pi Zero W (11/21/2021)
Importing TTF Fonts Into LaTeX With Kerning & Ligatures (12/14/2015)
Basic Scaling, Animation, and Parallax in Pixi.js v3 (9/10/2015)
Asteroids: Moving Objects (3/11/2015)
Asteroids: Drawing Objects (2/9/2015)
Circle Intersection Test (7/7/2014)
Line Intersection Test (7/2/2014)
Recursive Shadowcasting (7/1/2014)
Line Test Demo (6/25/2014)
Linebreak “Fixing” in Emacs (2/8/2013)

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Battle Reports

Campaigns

2018 NOVA 40K Narrative (9/6/2018)
The Sword Sworn Campaign (5/15/2017)
First Playthrough: The Molokh Gambit X-Wing Narrative (12/12/2016)
PAGE Apocalypse 2016: Rebuffed at Barnes 595 (1/13/2016)
Apocalypse on Solypsus 9 (5/19/2015)
Escalation on Solypsus 9 (4/20/2015)
Alliances of Solypsus 9 (3/15/2015)
Shift on Solypsus 9 (2/23/2015)
Drop on Solypsus 9 (1/25/2015)
The Campaign for Solypsus 9 (1/18/2015)
PAGE Apocalypse 2015: The Fall of Kimball Prime (1/8/2015)
The Cataclysm on Caldor IV (12/22/2014)
The Debacle on Caldor IV (11/23/2014)
NOVA Open 40k Narrative Recap (9/2/2014)
PAGE Apocalypse 2014: The Defense of Kimball Prime (1/5/2014)

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Tournaments and Other

Relicblade Gladiator Arena (10/24/2023)
September ITS (9/24/2018)
2018 NOVA 40K Trios (9/5/2018)
2017 NOVA 40k Trios (9/5/2017)
First Infinity Tournament: Redcap’s RECON (10/30/2016)
2016 NOVA 40k Trios (9/8/2016)

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Reviews: Games, Books, Movies, TV, Music

Cloud Cuckoo Land (8/30/2024)
The Bright Sword (8/30/2024)
The Three Body Problem (5/3/2024)
Quoridor (6/27/2022)
Iwari (5/9/2022)
Root (4/18/2022)

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airbrushing-croppedtjkopena does many things: Research and development in computer science; cycling, running, backpacking, and other outdoors activities; and dabbling in game design. Mostly he plays games with the Philadelphia Area Gaming Enthusiasts at Redcap’s Corner and other Delaware Valley locations.

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