#Crafts
Hobby crafts beyond miniatures: bookbinding, zines, paper marbling, and laser engraving.
6 pages, 3 of them guides
Making Zines Is Easy with the Right Tools
Scoring, folding, saddle stitching, and Coptic binding—everything you need to know to start making your own zines and hand-bound books at home.
Painting Chaosy Green Marble
Painting the pale green marble crystal on my Children of Gomb entry—using Scale Color acrylics like oils, dirty purple water for tinting, and filbert brush blending.
How to Marble Paper
Creating marbled paper covers for my wife's poetry book using traditional techniques with carrageenan, ink, and Kodak Photoflow.
Sick Q&A
Answering viewer questions while fighting a cold—covering where to find cool indie miniatures, what happened to Kingdom Death, laser engraving experiments, and discovering Castle Grief's solo RPG Calarrath.
A Surprise Laser Engraver (and Near-Toxic Gas)
A random hobby day—base coating a miniature, unboxing a surprise laser engraver from my dad, and learning the hard way about cutting mat safety with lasers.
Loose Ends and Crown & Skull Session 0
Creating characters in Crown & Skull for a solo campaign, making pixel art, and getting the airbrush working again for the painting journey ahead.