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Welcome to my hobbies blog! Contact me through tjkopena@rocketshipgames.com.

Latest Posts

Relicblade March 2025 (3/12/2025)
BMS School Rocket (10/9/2024)
Cloud Cuckoo Land (8/30/2024)
The Bright Sword (8/30/2024)
Estes Prowler (8/13/2024)
Central Park Model Yachting (5/6/2024)
The Three Body Problem (5/3/2024)
R10 Solar Warrior (4/27/2024)
Relicblade Gladiator Arena (10/24/2023)
Wasteworld @ Open Sauce 2023 (7/19/2023)

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Featured Posts

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)

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

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)

40k: Scouts! (6/10/2014)

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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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tjkopena 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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