{"id":4087,"date":"2018-02-16T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2018-02-11T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:41:41","slug":"wrapping-up-side-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping Up Side Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To break a bit from the land of monochromatic painting, I decided to finish up a little side projects.\u00a0 First up, I completed my Lazer Ryderz <a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=3193\">Tron retheme<\/a> by adding a Black Cycle to the mix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4074\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black-198x111.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black-400x224.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black-768x431.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black-900x505.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lazer-ryderz-tron-cycle-black.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now I have a whole inkjet tray of them!<\/p>\n<p>Also, I picked up the latest expansion for Ticket to Ride- France\/Old West.\u00a0 Ticket to Ride is an old favorite of ours and while I haven&#8217;t kept up with all the expansions, I like the ones that really differentiate themselves from the original games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TOPBOXFR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4091\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TOPBOXFR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TOPBOXFR.jpg 450w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TOPBOXFR-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TOPBOXFR-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TOPBOXFR-88x88.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This particular expansion uses 6 players not in a team game (like the China expansion did) which is nice but it also puts to use the Alvin miniature from the awkward Alvin and Dexter expansion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AD-expansion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4090\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AD-expansion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AD-expansion.jpg 567w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AD-expansion-198x220.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AD-expansion-360x400.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I avoided this expansion because it seemed so weird and random but this new set suckered me into buying it.\u00a0 It is out of print which means secondary markets blew up a little on it but I found it locally without much fuss.<\/p>\n<p>In another break from monochrome painting and &#8220;just cuz,&#8221; I decided to paint it up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4082\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin-900x900.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ticket-to-ride-alvin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The model is a bit of a let down from the box cover but it painted up easy and is the better of the two models to boot.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, I likely could have just used one of my spaceship models from Monsterpocalypse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ifos06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1787\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ifos06-400x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ifos06-400x295.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ifos06-198x146.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ifos06.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To break a bit from the land of monochromatic painting, I decided to finish up a little side projects.\u00a0 First up, I completed my Lazer Ryderz Tron retheme by adding a Black Cycle to the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}