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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Programming a Progress Quest type game in AMOS 1.2... The Amiga 500 isn't exactly the right platform for an idle-game that has to run for weeks and months though.

Stout Land Squid, Professional Gimp, Lv29.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can you motorize N-scale cars with just garbage? Yeah, kind of. The tricky part is getting them around the loop-wheel at the ends. It might work best to use a wider turn, and maybe dangle the metal/magnet on a drag-line so the belt can be all-belt.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One thing I don't quite like about digital brush engines, here Krita, is how crossing lines get this distracting dot in them--something which is less pronounced IRL I think. Haven't found a tweak for it despite looking. Might have to do with the physical structure of paper & how deposits saturate.

Test in Krita using a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Battletech sketches, going more for the vintage look, less trunky and square-plated. There's quite a bit of difference between the early designs and later "refresh", which I think became greeble and silhouette homogenized close to its detriment.

I'm writing this hidden message from my jail cell deep under Fort Boyard. Please send some earplugs the squids are making a terrible ruckus outside.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ah Victor... Trebuchet... not really sure because of the differing presentations. The painting I saw looked like this iirc. I scrolled by it so fast and really only noticed the helmet.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think it looked something like this... very Darthy, and from that era when they weren't so bulky.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes reasonable men must open Deluxe Paint III and push some pixels.

Hard to find good ref of this thing in its early intact state.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Were early 80s diving games the only good underwater games? Anyways, wanted to pixel plop one in DPIII. Ah, there were those sink bomb ones too. I can't remember which ones I played--it was so long ago now.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A haphazard sketch. There are so many ways to do it, but it's always fun with front facing cassettes. Though, if put on the top the front will have space for other fun stuff. It's hard to experiment with the layout when working on paper... though I suppose cutting elements out and rearranging works.

Drawn on ancient 0.5cm grid paper. Bonus snake wyrm.
The 3 digit counter has wheels and might not fit where it is.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you fool around a bit with paragraphs you can hide lines in lines, here under the "3". It's only visible when selecting (works with page scaling, here 220%). Selected invisible characters do show up as negative, though looking more like a bug. Font size can mitigate it, as seen after "Farted. "

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just one way to hide text in text. Simply making text white will reveal the line when highlighted and the line takes up space. The hidden bit here will only show up when copypasted, scraped or read using TTS. ( visibility:hidden; does not work here. )

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sorry it's just another butter knife post.

This image has nothing to do with Waterworld ft. Kevin Costner, especially not that scene where he comes out of the water like whoosh and surprises the baddies!

Anyways, it's freshly cut hazel... so not much texture.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Okej gubbar, titta på det här, linjerna är ju fan inte distribuerade på samma avstånd! A5=210mm / 10 = 21mm, men dom är ju ihoptryckta runt namndelen till 20mm, och den precis över är 22mm. Hur var det tänkt egentligen? Kanske fanns det något estetiskt skäl? Mystiskt. Sänder klagomål tebaks i tiden.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Movement, light, sound and smell, expertly captured by me in 1981.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Looking at this starter set, I think I would have picked different colours. >White and sand merged into the 50-50 equiv. for use on teeth and as warm highlights. >Brown to mouth red. As green and red mixes to brown (sloppy ork pants can be uneven). >New darker cold green for skin hue slide options.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Finans was a Swedish Monopoly game with additional economics but the same amount of randomness. This edition has kind of poo typography compared to the older edition. The inlay is baffling. Trays are like 1-2mm too small to fit the cards sideways, and you can't close the lid with money in the bank.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I recapped (x10) the old Freestyle and cleaned the head. Sound better but freq coverage is lacking. The drive belts were strangely still intact, but are slipping/distorted. The 1-sided PCB was a mess with solderblob near-shorts. I only removed the worst. Noname brand (Sportie 3238P), but w. SONY IC.

I may have added a few solderblobs of my own. There's a second dip-8 IC on the back which possibly inspired the number printed on the case.

This image does not show an elephant.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Two more finds. A Daisy player, which is an assistive audiobook CD player that can do regular audio CDs and mp3 CDs (new at the time). Can bookmark, change speed, tone etc. All buttons speak. The yellow "Freestyle" is very low feature and sounds terrible... has likely degraded. Read head or caps?

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mikado (Plockepinn, Pick-up sticks). One or two sets? Supposedly different wood is traditionally used for different values. Some sticks are likely missing here. The markings & rules vary greatly by manufacturer. Also, found six card games, but they were surprisingly all reskins of Black Peter...

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I have some postcards, soft thin books and comics that tend to fall over, so I made four really rather unconventional bookends from the scraps of the scraps. There's never been anything like them! (I'm getting another FIFA prize.)

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Wow, I was just offered FIFA's Big And REAL Nobel Craftsmanship Prize for this exemplar of an attic shelf. (This is all the scrap wood I had. Couldn't buy any as all of my money had to be spent buttering up FIFA officials.)

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Went to vacuum the attic. Suddenly I'm repairing a wireless ball mouse (which linux handled without a driver), installing an LED in a flash light, and reconditioning a board game (west-germany era), and building a bookshelf for storage out of wood scraps.

The conductive pads needs some conductive paint to get working again. Two of the circles lead to the red light bulb, one to the green. The answer position is always the same regardless of which country sheet you put on. Te pens completes the circuit. There's no ICs in this, just a battery and foil-pcb. "Patented".

The questions are now outdated. Population per car in Denmark circa 1980 or before? Cattle in millions?

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So hot I made a fan. This 20+yo fan draws 0.125A at 4.5V, which I think gives it about a day of runtime on 3AA, but it can run on anything up to 12V of course. Had to put trains away as I have no (permanent) space even for N-gauge.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Whittled a pear wood butter knife and a cake spade handle.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Was pulling Dandelions and this one's a bit weird.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Found my old telescope. Periscope. Microscope! No object glass so I used clear plastic packaging. Also booted up my gameless Switch and downloaded a random thing: Teravit. A sort of freemium Minecraft/roblox by the C21 guys. Interesting engine with subblock offsets, but the story play is tedious.

1970 or 1980... fairly common in catalogs.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Pict slide of Chaos forces corrupting the ventifacts just outside of an irradiated and recently abandoned out-city on †Khernobol Secundus. A lush but now nearly extinct form of poaceae monoculture covered much of the planet, seemingly as resistant to chaos taint as tread of boot.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Made another island, this time on masonite.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Island work. I don't have a proper 4' board for this, nor enough blue paint, so I'm using binders. Terrain mats suck and consistently look like awful photobashes. Handy to put away though. I could imagine one working for a calm sea as it's quite flat... and naturally gloss.

Is it a bird, or a plane? No, it is an Ork Wyvern at probably 3x the scale.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Working on some ships. Paintjob mostly from the '90s. No flag yet. The metal version of the wargalley is more realistically proportioned, with guns around the right size. These plastic guns are humongous. Rigging is strings threaded through the hull. Sails are folded and curved paper.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

More 2mm Manowar, mainly ideas for undead (missing from the game afaik), but also some other thoughts and doodles.

A cute kitten wallpaper is just out of view in this image. Fun science fact: 500 cats standing in a line starting at Trafalgar square in Paris would reach halfway to the moon. The double, i.e. 1230 cats, would reach the capital of Jupiter—Washington, where the president of Egypt is entombed, wearing the official royal garment of Bulgaria—a cooked turkey.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Man 'o War with additional 2mm stuff for scale, including the old WHFB cardboard buildings. I think an entire fleet (3 chucka +3 drilla +3 wyvern +1 hulk) might fit inside one of those rectangular classic boxes. Nowadays parts are not arranged like this, but like a spider web from injection point.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Manowar again, with some additional figures for scale. The scale is unknown, but some speculate 1:900 or thereabout. Redid the Ork Wyvern as the snakey old WHFB model. Might need to put a trio on the unit stand.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Manowar Ork stuff doesn't easily translate to plastic because of the wood grain, but there are some workarounds, like adding some detail work. Hard to address the spire's tiled roof though. An outlook window might work. Figured out a way to do the wheel and sides of the hulk as flippable parts.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The throne of power really only has some ornaments on the sides of the seat that needs to be separated out, and otherwise seems to be made mostly from flat slabs. The banner pole is doubled but this might not warrant putting it separate. Carriers might easily translate except for the gripping hands

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Slight edit with separated propeller shaft. I think there's an unconnected cog on top for some reason. Added an alternative springy wheeled landing goes because there was a blank space.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Slightly modified Dwarf Gyrocopter as a sprue. Tried to maximize the parts that can be flipped (made symmetrical).

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

More corpse marker thoughts. Moulds would work well here since you only need to provide one or two per unit type and the DIY aspect isn't too difficult or sensitive. Also only need to tool one half of the corpse figure, and 6mm figs are quite small. Demons might poof rather than corpse but whatevs

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Miniature thoughts: Corpse bases would work quite well in 6mm as they can be quite flat and generic. I think it's best to make them irregular so they don't look like active units and clutter up. Maybe they could be make using greenstuff blobs & stamps. Also, old Skaven Doomwheel as a plastic kit?

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Drew some megaman stuff a little too late, just for fun. Not really keeping to the X style.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Dareka was initially episodical so they went with a bunch of ideas. Anime power suits, '80s space aerobics, and zombie vampire. Ship looks something like the 2001's discovery one, but I'm also getting Event Horizon forebodings.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A true xmas movie. The box. Open it. We have such sights to show you.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Weathering test. But which Toyota model is this? Looks like a 1980s Cressida but the headlights and bumper is not right. I guessed when painting them in.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The parts of an Agfa Snapscan 1236U 1999 datecode PSU. Can't just throw stuff away when they might be useful! The ceramics are looking a bit toasty though. The heatsinks naturally wouldn't desolder but I was able to just twist them out.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

For old people. 80 euro. Not bad colours and apparently 2-3-4G. Nano Sim though. Can old people really handle cards that small? They didn't think this through. I wonder if there's like a flex ribbon adapter for nano to mini....nope.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Found this on china-ebay for 72 bucks. Supposedly 20 days standby. But only 2G sadly so no dice. Will continue to keep an eye out looking for dumbphones... it would be best if it takes my larger SIM card but I doubt there is a 4G phone on the market that has an old slot.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Alright electronics people, I've got three questions: > Can 9V PWM ripple at 3.9KHz be fully smoothed? > My smoothed out V from BD140 varies greatly by load, which is bad because train models vary. Substitute? Mosfet? > The BD140 seems to whine when it's struggling to start trains. BJTs can whine?

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Got KiCAD running on Mint no probs (didn't use the flatpak). Started fooling around. Breadboarded some of it (without the MCU) and it seems to work with my DF200 diesel, though I'm unclear about some of the safety of the design still. Was surprised my wacky LDR thing was actually somewhat reliable.

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Made a lid-sealed terrarium diorama back in early October. The helpful bugs I put in all died. But now springtails appeared. Plants appear to be thriving. Sadly the jar was a little low for this kind of growth.

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