Glynn Smith

@glynnsmith.bsky.social

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Mostly: Designer and front-end developer. Sometimes: Miniature hobbyist. Woodworker. Videogame tinkerer. Musician.

A video of the assembled cutter rotating, showing the action of the rail sliding, and showing it can be set to zero (with the rail fully retracted, and the blade sitting flush against the fence).
A top down shot of the assembled strip cutter sat alongside some strips of material it was used to cut with. The cutter was set to an arbitrary cutting width, and the cut strips are roughly 4mm in width. The material of the strips is, with thickness, 1mm balsa, 0.5mm styrene, 4mm XPS foamboard and pulped cardboard with a glossy cover that came as the sleeve of an issue of the White Dwarf magazine.
A close-up photo of the rather small half-lap dovetail joint from above, that holds the rail body to the receiving part of the blade head.
A layout shot of the fully-assembled and glued components of the strip cutter. These components consist of: - a utility knife blade (not Stanley, apparently! Doh!), - two washers, - two smaller machine screws, - a threaded hand-tightening knob, - the blade head featuring magnets and registration pins to hold the blade in position, - the cutter rail that the blade head is screwed to with the two smaller machine screws, that slides in and out of the carriage, with a long slot running down the centre of the rail that the larger, captured carriage machine screw sits within, and is locked down in place with the threaded knob and two washers. The distance from the cutting head to the carriage fence is the width of the strip the strip cutter will make (from 0mm to 70mm, and; - the carriage with integrated fence which features the central runner channel that the rail sits in to slide in and out and has a larger captured, threaded machine screw that runs within the centre slot of the cutter rail. At 90 degrees to the carriage slider is a fence that registers against the side of the material to be strip-cut. The fence features an inset area that the blade head sit within to achieve <4mm cuts, and allows for the cutter to be “zeroed out”
An arrangement of work in progress wood components and hand tools that will eventually be assembled into a balsa/styrene strip cutter.
A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave. The photograph features a work in progress front angle shot of a painted, two-storey, simple red brick building in disrepair. It has a patchy slate roof with moss growth. Around it are wizard and skeleton miniatures, and a treasure chest for scale.
A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave. The photograph features a work in progress front angle shot of a painted, lime-rendered dwelling in a state of disrepair. It has a patchy slate roof with moss growth. Around it are wizard miniatures, and a treasure chest for scale.
A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave. The photograph features a front angle shot of a painted, hand-built, patchwork, wooden, old tool shed, with moss creeping up the sides. Around it are wizard miniatures and a treasure chest for scale.
A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave. The photograph shows a primed two storey brick building, with a wrecked roof, caused by the ingress of gnarled tree growth, that gives external access to the second floor. The photograph is taken from an angle near the corner of the building with the open, partly-destroyed roof, and one of the gnarled trees.
A photo of some early work-in-progress, scratch-built miniature buildings for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave, sat on a cutting mat on my kitchen table. The photograph shows, from left to right: - an unpainted simple, shorter brick building with a slate roof, - an unpainted rickety wood shed, - an unpainted larger two storey brick building, with a wrecked roof caused by the ingress of tree growth, - an unpainted simple, taller brick building with a slate roof Materials for the project include polystyrene, styrene, thermal foam board, PVC foam board, balsa, basswood, white birch, thin cork roll, cardboard, ground-foraged tree twigs, thicker steel garden wire, thinner craft wire, sawdust, sand, PVA, grab adhesive, super glue, and tamiya extra thin polycement.
A screengrab of VSCodium's GitHub Copilot extension documentation page, stating "Unlike Visual Studio Code, in VSCodium, Copilot features are disabled and not configured."
A screenshot of Microsoft Visual Code's homepage with "The open source AI code editor" displayed as it's main heading text.
Three modified Warhammer 40k Centurions posed with two distinctly lesser models.
Video capturing a rotation of a scratch-built, miniature treasure chest, bursting with gold coins.
A heavily kitbashed, modular Warhammer 40k Astartes Dreadnought, with custom legs, and dual powerclaws. Rear view
A heavily kitbashed, modular Warhammer 40k Astartes Dreadnought, with custom legs, a modified stubber-type right arm, and a power-spear left arm.
Painted, miniature skeletons with ancient weaponry and armour, arranged around scratch built treasure chests bursting with gold coins.