u/cwtguy

I inherited boxes of new and used buildings and terrain for HO scale model railroading. I'm going to make a small layout one day and I've put a theme on a Rubbermaid but I'm left with dozens and dozens of industrial buildings, houses, commercial properties, and natural resource extraction types.

I know that these don't scale perfectly and I've seen that my Kill Team can't fit into the door ways of the doors or regular buildings, but it looks like doors intended for trains to roll through work perfectly.

Any other ideas on how I can use these? I'm new to Kill Team and 40K and play at a friend's house where he has the Necron Tomb world and the Orks mech yard.

I just ordered online an Ortega bamboo tenor with cutaway and pickup. No, it's not the crazy blue one, just plain bamboo. I've been looking for a louder ukulele and one with a simple built in pickup. I just invested in a Tranyor AM standard acoustic amp and I've tested a lot of cheap pickups and the amp really makes them sound like so much more.

I used to be a snob about instruments. I had to own and play a handmade and solid wood example and avoid laminate. I think there's a lot of caution with bamboo because it's a grass and not a wood. Even though it appears much stronger than a typical wood example we have yet to know how they will look and play after 15-20 years right? Are they that new?

I'm playing a lot more in small coffee houses and retirement homes and need a tougher instrument that travels well and I don't have to worry about setting down for a minute. I need a louder instrument for that audience and an easy to use pickup. I'm hoping it works.

What has your experience with bamboo ukuleles been? Are you apprehensive? Is the tone pleasant or too bright for you? Do you see them as simply trendy or a newer flavor in instrument building?

I've been looking at this game for a few months now because my LGS put all of the 3rd edition boxes on clearance. They've been sitting which is sort of my clue that there isn't a local playgroup scene, but I'm still interested. I don't own any wargames or tabletop minis games. I've painted some friend's 40 leftovers and loved it!

Has anyone else gotten into this game just based on how cool it looks? Honestly, I havent even read up much on the rules. The lore is amazing. The minis look amazing and I think i could probably use them for other games later. And i like that these are games dependent on terrain because in reality I really just want to have a game that rewards terrain building. Has anyone gotten it to paint and collect and eventually find a local playgroup scene?

Right now Collette De Bois and Jack Daw are the most inspring as masters with a general interest in the Neverborn and the Ressurrectionists.

I bought a used Zoom H6 for a great price to practice and learn how to record ambient soundscapes. I went out to a bog today to record three separate one hour sessions. I could hardly hear anything in my headphones so I started with the preamp at 8, then 7, then 6.5. Tomorrow I'm going to go back out to the same spot and try 6, 5.5 and 5.

Playing the tracks back on the Zoom each time gave me an almost constant white noise or background noise. I admit it could have been the amalgamation of everything out there. I set the device low to the water and blocked by the wind with a dead cat. There were birds singing, frogs croaking, bugs everywhere. Bubbles were coming out of the water and ripples were seen. Grasses, branches and flowers were swaying with the light breeze. I like the sound. It is pleasant and I'm happy with it. But i am left wondering if my preamps introduced the sound.

In each of the three recordings, the levels never got to -30 db. I used the XY capsules that came with it, recording at the highest quality setting in stereo. I've been reading about normalizing the sound and bringing it up in software, but if my recordings have preamp hiss are they lost or tainted? Will trying to remove that sound create artifacts in the recording? Unfortunately I didn't bring my laptop on the trip to test.

A family friend passed away and the family was surprised to find a few boxes (probably 20-30) adult tapes in his collection amongst other more conventional tapes. They gave me the whole lot because they know I love watching and collecting VHS tapes, but adult stuff I would be selling.

Normally, I would think these would be an easy sell, but they're homemade in the sense that the guy rented tapes from his local store and made duplicates. He even took the time to print out titles with timestamps to print on the case. I see the typical titles like Debby Does Dallas but then a whole bunch of ones I'm not even sure have a digital version anywhere. It looks like there's even a section of 90s softcore tapes.

Is there a place like eBay to list these? Do they even have demand as copies?

I'm not sure if I should be looking at a starter set or acquire my train cars one-by-one but I'd like to recreate a lot of where I grew up in the coal mining counties of southern Ohio. I'm brand new to the hobby and thought N scale would be perfect for my limited space. I was hoping to create a tunnel that goes through a small company town before heading to the mountain to load the coal. I plan on doing all of the terrain myself, and maybe even some of the buildings. I grew up in this area in the 1980s so I have a love of that time period, but I could go all the way back to the start of our community around 1880. Regardless, I'd like to pick a time period and be true to it. But it's all depending on what's available. Any recommendations?

It's far too much to keep all of it. It's Rubbermaid containers filledand I don't have that much room. It's mostly HO scale. He's offering trees and moss with felt and cork mats which I think is going to be super useful. But there are lots of unassembled buildings, circa 1950s with small commecial and, industrial buildings making up the majority.

I've been thinking about getting into miniatures wargames mostly for the terrain building side. Any ideas on games that work well with HO scale buildings? I'd love the excuse to play if I now have all of these cool scenes I can set up.

I found a few old MTG cards that I don't play with anymore and was able to buy buylist them for $400 in store credit.

Right now, I have the Keeper's Handbook, The Investigators Handbook, Cults of Cthulhu, Pulp Cthulhu, The Keeper's Screen, and Doors to Darkness.

I'm thinking about time period specific books. Gaslight, Regency, Down Darker Trails, Dark Ages, Berlin, and Harlem Unbound are all in stock. I think i could just get them all. I love this game so much I'm strongly considering trying to get a full library.

Which books have you been enjoying lately? Anything that you keep coming back to or surprised you as not that interesting?