Wargaming Miniatures Gallery: Star Wars

Finished painting Leia from @fantasyflightgames Star Wars Legion. Fun colors to work with on her. Did the best I could with the face. #starwarslegion

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The final model for my @FFGames Legion Imperial army; Darth Vader! Really quick & fun to paint, think he came out pretty well. Super excited to play some games using fully painted armies on Saturday. Will do a full army shot at some point as well. Looking forward to adding more pic.twitter.com/lfWJ7JnetL

— Chris Tomlin ❄️ (@the_black_sun) July 11, 2018

The @novacharity fleet is growing! Here is model 2/9, a Starviper painted in the style of Sabine Wren. Raffle tickets are available now! #xwing #xwingminis #xwingtmg #xwingminiatures #miniature #minipaint #minipainting #commissionpainting #xwingrepaint #lightcraftministudios #novaopencharitablefoundation #sabinewren

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Finished the emperor and was like “hmmm he needs force lightning. Should I? Then I heard a voice abruptly say “Do it!” Didn’t want to sculpt or add wires so I painted the effect. Worked out pretty well, I think. Shows up better in person, which is always frustrating when taking photos. Ah well.

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I'm really happy with how these two M3-As look together! Don't forget that you can win these and 7 OTHER SHIPS through the @novacharity raffle! #xwing #xwingminis #xwingtmg #xwingminiatures #miniature #minipaint #minipainting #commissionpainting #xwingrepaint #lightcraftministudios #novaopencharitablefoundation #paintingminiatures #paintingminis

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Dewback time! @FFGames Imperial Assault pic.twitter.com/HK2IaxxqPr

— Eric Wentling (@JABlogbeer) July 18, 2018

My elite riot trooper from @FFGames Imperial Assault! #StarWars #minipainting pic.twitter.com/StJtyz7V1u

— Eric Wentling (@JABlogbeer) July 16, 2018

Some wampas painted for a couple @fantasyflightgames #imperialassault Return to Hoth sets. Just have Dengar and the tanks left to do.

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*Buy Star Wars miniatures at Amazon.

"‘We’re closed forever!’: How the search for the perfect selfie led to bedlam at an Ontario sunflower farm"

GlobeandMail:

“Everyone was laughing and having fun,” says Barry Bogle, Brad’s father, of that first week. “Then all of Toronto showed up.”

The apocalypse arrived on Saturday, the 28th. A few pictures of people posing among the roughly 1.4 million sunflowers had gone viral on Instagram. Cars began rolling up the driveway at 5:45 a.m. “We knew then something was up,” says Barry, who called Hamilton police for help.

By noon, the hordes were coming from all directions. People were parking as much as a kilometre away. The crowds started ignoring the overwhelmed farm staff, strolling into the fields without paying. Police told the Bogles that parents were crossing four lanes of traffic with strollers, people were getting in fender benders – one driver had his door ripped off by a passing car. One officer told the family they would be fined.

"A Game By Its Cover is an annual game jam about turning the fictional cartridge art of the My Famicase Exhibition into the real thing"

"Browse the exhibition, pick something that inspires you, take your time, chill, and turn it into a game!"

"As the metal straw makers scrambled to fill tens of thousands of preorders, scammers flooded Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba with cheap knockoffs"

Buzzfeed:

FinalStraw’s monthlong Kickstarter campaign launched in early April and surpassed its fundraising goal of $12,500 on the first day. By the campaign’s end, Cohen and Pepper received orders for about 86,000 straws at $20 apiece, raising nearly $2 million.

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The FinalStraw knockoffs, some half the price of the real thing, appeared online within days of the end of the Kickstarter campaign, according to Cohen and Pepper, using their product name and photos. So far they have reported more than 200 listings on Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba that have used their photos and promotional text without permission. (It’s called “copyright infringement.”) FinalStraw has no listings of its own on these websites because the straw won’t be ready until November.

"Tommy Hilfiger's creepy new clothes know how much you wear them"

Guardian:

Their new line, Tommy Jeans Xplore, will contain smart-chip technology that will track how often customers wear the clothes. Tommy Jeans will offer rewards and experiences, including gig tickets and gift certificates, to people that wear their clothes often enough (presumably some rewards will be even more wear-tracking items).

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As well as rewards for just wearing the clothes, bonus credits will be awarded for walking past special Tommy Jeans locations, which will be displayed on the app.

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Tommy Hilfiger representatives said that the data they receive will be encrypted and wearers will be able to turn off the chip’s functionality at any time using the app

"How to Stop Your Smart TV From Tracking What You Watch"

Instructions for Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, TCL etc.

No Man's Sky adventures

When you trigger the space police:

(thread) So here's an experience I just had in No Man's Sky.

I'm doing some harmless crafting on a peaceful forest world when I come across something called a "sentient plant".

The hell?

I crack it open. Inside is a large pearl. I take that shit!

Then all hell breaks loose.

— Brandon Carbaugh (@BMCarbaugh) August 1, 2018

When you meet a guide:

UPDATE- his once trusted friend is now trying to kill him. We can’t figure out why. He was a con all along.

— Holly Nielsen (@nielsen_holly) July 29, 2018