FaplADO (First and possibly last Annual Dessicated Dope Off) winners revealed

 I'm beyond delayed with upkeeping the blog output. If you follow my instagram (I'd be surprised if you were here and didn't) you know the winners for the Dope Off have been announced. If you don't know that, well...

Terraining Arc

 Hi, it's Festival Rumpus. There's a bit about making a Rumpus board and I have been meaning to make a 2'x2' board for Mischiev28 so I'm combining the two things into one! I had some sketches done up as an idea for my Mischiev board already, I wanted half buildings and half forest. I still want that, and I'm going to do my best. It's sort of going to be the edge of a town as the board I guess. I hope I get it done in time, if not I hope I get it done enough to want to finish it later! We'll see!

rough layout to see

I like the silhouette of this

Carving into foam sucks. Cutting into foam at all sucks. Making bricks sucks. I hate making terrain! But it's kind of rewarding watching things fit together. I have to make a couple buildings soon. 

ah genius

Well that was all pretty exciting huh? Ok well that's it, hopefully will have Dope Off winner announcement in the next post! bye!

Fistful of Dopes

I've got a box full of pewter. Not to brag, of course. At last I've got my wonderful Dopes! It's been a bit over a year since I shipped them off and it's quite surreal to hold them in hand in their duplicated forms! 

oo shiny

 I'm having a pretty fun time painting them as well. It's quite interesting looking at these sculpts. I can tell I'm more of an adept sculptor than I was then. They were an important breakthrough in deciding to just go for it. I'm proud of my Dopes. 

 

The casts need a bit of tlc while we wait for the First (and possibly last) Annual Dessicated Dope Off  to come to a close. As soon as I announce the winners, I'll list these for sale. It will either be two separate sets or the whole eight figures, I haven't decided yet. There is one consistently flawed cast which make me a bit apprehensive to charge a lot for these guys. I guess that's all there really is to say about it all!

Hope you're all doing well, don't forget to not drink your water!

 -twabbis 

Ah ah ah, it's time for an update

 Friends, hello. It's been a minute! The DOPE OFF is over (it ended on the 28th of the last month.) I've been stunned by the entries, 25 in total! What an incredible feeling. Me and my cabinet of MISCHIEVOUS MEN are judging the entries and will have a verdict by the end of this month (July). Please look forward to it, and thank you for taking the time to paint a Mischievous Man! I'll save talking about the entries until a future blog post, but be assured I have thoughts and feelings about every entry! 

Now for the important content. I've been painting a lot more. I turns out, I enjoy painting and I especially like painting when I don't have to think too hard about colors. 

"Hey these aren't cool branded hobby paints from my favorite miniature paint company!" 

It's really a simple palette. Two pairs of contrasting colors and white.  When combined make lovely neutrals for shading. Plus, I really really love how this green looks when it's mixed with white, makes a fantastic patina. And the orange is lovely for rust! I guess I should mention, I have used metallic paint as well from I THINK Army Painter. I can't be bothered to dig through the paint box to verify. Metallic paint is cool, someday I'll try to learn nonmetal metallic but I'm in no rush. Oh, I didn't take a picture of the one other color I use. Oops. Saffron Yellow from the same line.

progress

That egg guy in the front? Made him for the pal Matt's EGGBASH competition. Really happy with him, I sculpted the body out of beesputty and glued some (probably GW) arms to it. It painted really easy, my palette is a lifesaver. 

What else... I did sculpt another snail knight. I need to get moving on sculpting more. I really enjoy making these guys, and that's the thing that I should let guide me. There's some science behind maintaining motivation when you consider the aspects of projects that you like over the aspects of doing things because you want to do them. So, I'll give that a go going forward. 

What else what else... I continue to want to produce more minis in metal. I like pewter minis and I like seeing people paint my minis. Therefore, I should like both of those things enough to motivate me. I like the way I feel hyped up about this therefore it should motivate me! ANYWAY!

I suppose that's it for this blog post, hope it wasn't too much of an eyeful to read! I like blogging! I hope you're having a wonderful day and liking the things you do! Take care, forget to drink your water!

twabbis

Snail Knight

Hello good morning! As the title suggests, we talking snail knights today. A few months back I posted some snails I made. I traded casts of those snails (among other things) at adepticon, after which I ended up casting a few more to ship out to friends I wasn't able to trade with during the convention. As a side note, I'm usually up for trades, so keep that in mind. Anyway, I did a trade with my wonderful friend Sid, otherwise know as awake_godnt. Do yourself a huge favor and peruse his page. As you do that, you'll see a slew of wonderful blue and yellow critters inhabiting the city of Innsmouth. Some of those critters have my snails as heads! I was absolutely stoked to see that done with my snails, I wasn't expecting it and the execution is just stunningly cool. Anyway, you know I love snails. A few days back I got a message from Sid on instagram with a picture of a sculpt he was working on of a beefy snail knight, and he asked if I wanted to collab on the sculpt, which I DO! Anyway, I did a bunch of doodles and instead ended up just making my own snail knight figure HAHAHA! I've gotta do something more kitbashy for the collab, but before that, here's the snail knight I made! 

EPIC concept art

drawn later

If you care, these doodles were done with a prismacolor premier marker. Very enjoyable doodle tool!

very detailed!

sculpted in beautiful angelic beloved beesputty 3x hardness polymer clay

I'm not apologizing for the blurry pics, by the way. You get the gist. Hopefully if I get this cast up, you'll GET ONE because I'm very proud of this sculpt and think it will be a hoot to paint. 

Hope you're having a wonderful day and forgetting to drink water! Stay dessicated, folks!

EDIT: and PLEASE don't forget about my wonderful contest ending at the end of the month! 

twabbis

Primed and ready

 Hi again, you've likely come to expect this but here it is... 

The second post. 

Firstly, I recently dug up my old olympus digital camera. Something's in the air I guess. I'm making the decision to use it for everything going forward, hobbywise at least. 

the OG Dappled Dopes 29rd

desk clutter

There's just something about it! Idunno! I never used flash with this back in the day, I hated flash! I did everything in my power to not use it. Now, I love it. It kind of washes everything out but also gives this great depth to a picture. I blame everyone at Adpeticon for this. 

I made the big decision to bulk prime all my based minis (based on what?) so I can  hopefully get some painting momentum going. Dear reader, I have a pretty sick collection of minis. I'm not going to go into it but I'm a lucky boy, really I am. Anyway here's some pictures and that'll be the whole post haha!

now that's a box of minis!

Eh I also got some cheap storage things at Joanne's. I'm gonna go back and buy more. Organized a bit and I'm kind of hooked on it. Wow, order!

Ok well, there's your two posts :D

have a great weekend bye!

twabbis

MISCHIEVOUS UPDATES

 Headaches aplenty. I got the rules to a point I'm happy and the formatting has continued. By the end of this post I'll probably be done formatting. Actually yeah. I'm gonna post this once it's done but this is where I'm at before then. 

I'm doing my formatting in photoshop and my printer kind of sucks. I've done some test prints to varying degrees of success. One nice thing about actually printing the thing though is it lets me scribble notes and images on the page. I did some of the drawing details in photoshop already but man I hate staring at the computer and ALSO I prefer the feel of pencil on paper. It feels easier. Everything digital is kind of daunting and feels unnatural. Here at Dessicated Dope Industries, we hate the computer. 

I got some advice from Chris (@sparktrooper) and took a bit of it, and ignored some of it as well (I'm not gonna use indesign even though it's smart!) I've pushed the borders in quite a bit, and I might do it more. The text is closer to center and further from the bottom, top, and outer edge. If I push it more, it will give me more room to draw fun stuff later. I also indented the text under each section title to help with legibility. This is specifically helpful with the ITEMS page, things definitely got cluttered in a bad way. 

So that's where I'm at today 5/7/2025

Changes have been made, edits etc. I'm still debating adding more rounds to the game. The text formatting I THINK is done, now I just need to implement the art which means I have to draw it. I've printed the text and the digital sketches on separate pages and I'm gonna use a light table to trace some of it. Then I'm gonna just go buckwild and draw the rest of it. I'm thinking the rest of this process is going to be physical, as I hate staring at the computer. I still have six days so I might just put it off until closer to last minute. I can feel the burnout creeping in just like it did after I made my yellow cube game last year. It's about the same time of year too, now that I think about it. Cool. Annual mid year burnout. I'm gonna try to take it a bit easy. I changed Worthless to Rubbish on the Items table. It feels like each Item type should start with a different letter, idk. I might change it back. 5/9/2025

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Today, in a rush of inspiration I did my damnedest to draw the rest of the art for this game. Upon posting, there were a few more suggestions made for rule clarity which I've since added. I think the game is done, but I'll sit on it a few more days before submitting it to the jam. I can FEEL the burnout. 

There's a bit of moving things around I'd still like to do I think. Minor things. Pixels. 5/12/2025

Hi ok, just about ready to post this. By the time you're reading this, it will be posted. I didn't do any more edits to the game since the 12th, but I didn't explain what the changes I made were. 

July over on the NCTT suggested these changes and I think they were the right call for clarities sake. I also think I didn't explain that the item value of stashed items also added onto your winning score in the rules. One of the confusions they had was with the amount of times you could do each action on your turn and weren't completely sure it wasn't ok to use a bunch of 6" movement actions per turn. Hopefully it's clear that isn't the case now, but if it is then you're reading here that isn't my intention. One thing about the whole 28 games diy punky, rule of cool etc is I mostly just have faith that people will play the game in a way that doesn't feel cheap to other players. I don't want to feel like I'm condescending to the reader with the rules too but I also don't want things to be unclear. Anyway, I'm pretty satisfied with the final rules. I hope you are mildly interested in it at least haha, if not whatever! That's ok too, I did it for myself mostly. 

Something fun during this one page jam is there's a lot of games like Mischiev28 that are kind of designed to be played on another game's board. If someone played this on a mordheim board I'd be thrilled! I want to play it on a Mordheim board! So I think I want to make a 2'x2' multipurpose board. I have a couple ideas. I bought some foam. Look forward to it, sometime hopefully!

Hope you're well, hope the weekend fills you with rest!

twabbis