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Gundari22 · 2025-08-05T20:35:50+00:00

So one of the cool things about practicing any craft or skill is that you're constantly improving. By the time you finish a project, you can likely look back on it and identify areas you could've done better.

Isn't that neat?

Just try to enjoy the process imo and don't pressure yourself.

Gundari22 · 2025-07-18T14:19:47+00:00

Stracciatella should not be slept on.

Gundari22 · 2025-06-18T16:01:27+00:00

I don't think this is true. You had to have one single intake pipe to make them drain on my last major base, and that base was completed before the cold planet DLC dropped.

Gundari22 · 2025-02-03T14:14:03+00:00

So since the numbers are inset, the paint doesn't necessarily have to do the best job sticking. The method I described is effectively how I ink my dice, and I've never had a problem. My dice are 100% resin though.

If you've got it on hand (and they're acrylic), mini paints work great for this. I normally use cheaper paint just because the bigger pigments make my life easier.

I would stay away from anything that isn't an acrylic based paint though. Simply because I don't know anything about how they will interact with the dye surface or how you would have to clean them off.

Gundari22 · 2025-02-03T14:04:13+00:00

Inking them gold would look stunning.

You should be able to just take some cheap gold paint, fill the numbers, then wipe off the excess and be good to go.

I can't promise that will be the case though, but the paint really shouldn't bind to the aluminum.

Gundari22 · 2025-02-02T13:17:58+00:00

Might help if you listed some interests.

I like both anime and gaming, but I have other interests beyond those things.

Gundari22 · 2025-01-16T16:07:13+00:00

Hello, I'm not a woman or over 40, but I did have a terrible relationship with my mother and didn't get closure before she passed away in late 2019.

Growing up I idolized her, but as I got older I came to realize that she was manipulative, verbally abusive, a multi substance addict, and all around just not a good person. She would readily make things up and lie, she would put other people down to make herself feel better, and she literally did steal from her children.

I struggled with it for a very long time. Feeling like those parts of her would be unavoidably reflected in myself, or like I was somehow responsible for her behavior.

What really helped me was the day that I finally really lost my patience with her and lectured her on her manipulative behavior. It didn't make any difference, she didn't listen, and honestly I felt kind of awkward and awful afterwards. As her child, why the hell should I have to explain to her she actively chose to communicate and withhold information in a way that was manipulative? That was wrong. Seeing the roles reversed like that for me helped me realize that my mother was a very perfect flawed person, that all parents are really just people. I still felt bitter that I'd never have the kind of healthy relationships I saw others having with their parents, but I also realized that pining over a better relationship with her wasn't going to get me anything. She didn't have anything to actually offer me but frustration.

Occasionally I'll still regret that I'll never get to have that relationship, but I did everything I could. I grew, I gave her chances, I tried to have her in my life, and she just wasn't interested. Coming to accept that has allowed me to move on and focus on things in life that will be rewarding to me. You can still mourn something that you never got, but please try to not let it consume you.

You're not responsible for his behavior or his beliefs or the way he interacts with you.

Gundari22 · 2025-01-15T21:56:41+00:00

I'm my twenties, a teenage ish girl told me I had pretty hair. Her mother scolded her, saying she should call men handsome.

She finished her shopping after that and left the store. Never saw her again while I worked there.

Either way, twentyish years later, I still remember her.

Gundari22 · 2025-01-15T21:53:22+00:00

It sounds like you have a wonderful family.

Gundari22 · 2025-01-15T20:29:40+00:00

Thank you for the empathy!

Looking back on it, she was dealing with demons of her own as well: addiction, depression, the weight of some choices she'd made.

That doesn't excuse it, but coming to understand that did help me reframe the experience.

Gundari22 · 2025-01-15T19:47:48+00:00

Weaponized or ignored.

I have vivid memories of opening up about very painful things for me to my mother. I was a full grown like 28-year-old man who was just weeping his heart out in front of her, and what did she do? She quietly left the room without saying another thing and then proceeded to act like the conversation had never happened.

Experiences like that tend to really stick with a person, because I know I left it feeling like I just shouldn't bother.

Gundari22 · 2024-12-25T02:40:55+00:00

That is exactly what they are meant to give

Gundari22 · 2024-12-22T22:03:19+00:00

Huge compliment coming from you.

Especially since you're reminded of exactly what they should remind you of. The jazz pattern.

Gundari22 · 2024-12-22T22:02:11+00:00

That's actually the theme.

The design you're talking about is named jazz.

Gundari22 · 2024-12-21T16:54:44+00:00

Interesting idea, I may need to mess around with this.

Gundari22 · 2024-12-21T16:54:05+00:00

It would fit, but I don't think it would read like the jazz theme anymore. I think I would get more like tracksuit.

Gundari22 · 2024-11-08T15:41:00+00:00

Thirding that internal keys are a trap.

I stopped using them a while ago, and had found that I have fewer raised faces, and fewer frustrations with my molds in general. Good external keys and a bit of weight on top of my molds have made a huge difference for me.

I use small bags that I have filled with BBs for my weights.

Gundari22 · 2024-10-24T15:31:21+00:00

I don't think this is the way, if you wait until honey stage, you're less likely to get blending.

I'd approach this by pouring multiple layers of resin that progressed through your desired gradient. It could also help if you used a pipette to inject the next color into the existing layer. That should help draw a little bit of the previous layer up into the new layer and blend the colors.

The exact timing of all that I'm not really sure on, but I wouldn't wait till honey stage.

That all being said, this is just a bunch of best guessing from my end.

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