Malcolm's Ramblings

Sol Prima Mothballed

So after a few months, I’ve decided to close down Sol Prima Miniatures for now. It just wasn’t converting and while fun, it was eating up a bunch of money each month. I was spending over one thousand per month for six months to try to get the project going, and at the end, I…
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Protected: Struggles

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KAG-Con 2021 – Flash-Fiction Challenge

So from today through the eighteenth, Kingston Area Gamers are holding a virtual comic-con style event with contests, hosted game events, and more called KAG-Con 2021. One such event is a flash-fiction challenge that Sol Prima Miniatures sponsored a small cash prize for. The writing challenge must follow these rules: Be between 50 and 1200…
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Sol Prima Miniatures

Science Fiction Minis are harder to find than fantasy ones, and I’ve wanted to see more cool models in the space, so I started looking at what was out there and the big of sci-fi stuff I found was typically either proxies or direct intellectual property rip-offs, so I figured there was a gap in…
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Protected: Path to Success

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Resin Printing with Donatello: Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K

So even when I was buying my Sidewinder X1, I was dreaming of also owning a resin printer that could do miniatures in high detail and now Wallace has a friend in Donatello. I wanted to buy a medium sized resin printer, something that could print large, high detail busts, or bigger space ship models,…
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Covid Response in Canada: An Open Letter

I emailed something similar to the following to my MP and MPP regarding the recent response to Covid-19. I am emailing you today as a concerned citizen regarding the “second wave” of Covid we are experiencing as a Country. I am hopeful that you and the rest of our elected government can see that the…
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Luna Has Hip Dysplasia

We had a health guarantee, but we don’t want to give back Luna, so we will find a way to keep her comfortable and hope she gets to live a good life. Luna just had her second birthday and today we should be on our way to meet up with her litter mates, but we…
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A House and Home

It feels weird to write about this since we’ve been living here for more than a month now but Annie and I bought a home. It is a raised bungalow with Annie, Luna and me on the main level, and my mom living downstairs. The house is semi-detached, so we still have a connected neighbor,…
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Hyundai Kona EV – Too Tight a Squeeze

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post where I discussed the options available to Canadians that interested me with regards to electric vehicles – Electric Car Options, but I was focused primarily on range and price, and since then I’ve come to realize that my top choices might not work. While the Hyundai…
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