Experimenting with base replacement for my 3D printed Jutland collection. These are 70x20mm bases, using base paper from the Paperboys Trafalgar book, clear labels, and a little plastic glue, which seems to stick the models down just fine. Certainly looks better than the original plastic "rafts."
Finished Reed Browning's excellent history of the Austrian Succession; now working on one about the origins of WWI. Some very interesting stuff about Serbian history and its culture of martyrdom in the beginning. I look forward to reading the rest.
What else is up? Work, mostly - which is where I picked up this book. Handy things, libraries. Anyway, I have three programs coming up - two on space and one on WWII. Two are craft programs centered around space, women's history (so basically Sally Ride, since Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya are understandably persona non grata in the last couple years) and the upcoming eclipse. I've been scrambling for crafts. So far we're looking at:
- Baking-soda-and-vinegar rockets
- 3D-printed spaceships to paint (must get over to my former workplace to see if the teen tech lab can help with that)
- Paper planes
- Astronaut helmet-masks
- Pinhole cameras made from foil and card.
The other project is a prospective hybrid live-and-online interview with a 99-year-old (!) veteran who approached us. He was in the 17th Airborne Division and rode a glider across the Rhine. Pretty impressive stuff. I've always been interested in glider troops, which were a blip in history that few people remember these days, so I'm eager to educate people about them. The program is quickly burgeoning to be livestreamed to several other libraries, though the gentleman is also eager to talk to kids so we might contact schools, too.
So I'm busy and not doing much gaming at home, though I've gotten away with dropping Paperboys into some of our book displays:
Happy Ides of March to all.
