{"id":9955,"date":"2020-06-27T19:12:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:12:31","slug":"a-new-power-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=9955","title":{"rendered":"A New Power In the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in January<\/a>, I played a game of X-wing on a set of poorly made Death Star tiles and thought I should work on fixing them. With the downtime and my scattered hobby focus at the moment, I decided to get this project off my to-do list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The warping of the tiles wasn’t something I could readily fix but I ground down the uneven tile sizes so they could better fit together. These are resin so I used a belt sander in the garage and a heavy duty mask as the resin particles are really bad for your lungs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also downloaded and printed a nice turbolaser<\/a> battery from thingiverese and magnetized the top to swivel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After all this, I was ready to paint. I went really simple on this by pulling a dark grey from Rustoleum’s car primer line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After blowing through a full can for the nine tiles, I did a zenithal style with a light coat from about 2+ feet above (garage door closed to maximize the particles falling to the surface). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I let everything dry and air out for a few days. I applied the same process to the new turbolaser as well to make sure they all matched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mixed the turbolasers with a set from Gale Force Nine’s Battlefield in a Box series. The Death Star table complete, I can cross this one off the list and complete an item I’d wanted to make since I first played the game years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January, I played a game of X-wing on a set of poorly made Death Star tiles and thought I should work on fixing them. With the downtime and my scattered hobby focus at the moment, I decided to get this project off my to-do list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[216,41,499],"class_list":["post-9955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-wing-miniatures-game","tag-death-star","tag-star-wars-x-wing","tag-x-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955","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=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9956,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/9956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}