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No Mo Rainbow
When I first conceived of the idea of Tank the Rainbow around the end of 2020, I knew that it would be a tough thing to get across to people. Hell, it was tough enough working out for myself what...
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2021 Wrapup
Every year around this time, I do an end of year wrap up. It’s become something ceremonial for me, kinda like boxing up and tossing all the detritus of a build after it’s completed, or tagging,...
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“lESs iS mORe” and other pet peeves
In any community, there are certain phrases elicit groans and eyerolls. Maybe they’re bad takes. Or maybe they started out well-intentioned enough, but have just become hackneyed and tired. “In the...
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Thoughts from the 2022 Nats
Well, I’ve made the trek out to Omaha for the 2022 Nats, and I wanted to share some thoughts and impressions while they’re fresh in my mind. The Hype If you follow almost any podcast (and let’s face...
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Spit Take
So I’ve tried to write this review a few times now. And every time I do, I end up on some weird tangent talking about Kotare’s place in the larger modeling community and how I’m bored with standard...
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Against Storytelling
NOTE: I know, I know. This is a meandering post. It’s an idea that’s been banging around in my head for months and I’ve been trying to land on a way to articulate it. It’s still choppy. I work in...
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Flip Your Shit ’24: A Proposal
By now, most of us have seen the photo of a judge at IPMS Nats holding a Char 1B aloft like it’s fucking Simba in the Circle of Life. This has generated a lot of heated discussion about the lack of...
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A Story of Volunteers
Post-Nats takes are almost as much of an event as the Nats itself. And this year things have coalesced around two main points of contention – the perennial back and forth over the shortcomings of IPMS...
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Theory of the Case
In March and April of this year (2023), things got bad. Life felt unrelenting, work was stressing me out, and I could feel myself bogging down on the Wild Weasels. And the AK FJ43. Every time I’d fire...
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Strange Things Afoot at the NCC…
In most years, the usual post-Nats churning would be settling down by now. But 2023 is simply not most years. We’ve had sub implosions and Hawaii burning and orcas waging asymmetrical warfare against...
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Don’t Buy These Wheels (They Suck)
I’m not a fan of vinyl tires. Never have been. Awful paint adhesion, difficult to remove mold seams, awkward gaps and fit with the wheels, all of it. Generally, if it has vinyl tires, they’re getting...
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Musings on Creativity
The past week or three have been so full of hot takes about creativity and innovation – or the lack thereof – that it’s feeling like the rhetorical equivalent of a Soviet artillery barrage. And...
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2023: well that happened
In order to understand my 2023, you really have to start with my 2022. 2022 was the year the wheels kinda-sorta came off my life. I spent months going to various specialists trying to get to the...
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Focus Points for 2024
As 2023 races to a close, I find myself looking to 2024, and what I want to accomplish. I don’t particularly subscribe to resolutions. I hate goal-setting at work. But I think it can be useful,...
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FAQ: TBD-1 Edition
It seems like every single post I make documenting my progress on the TBD-1 Devastator attracts questions I’ve already answered at least five times. In the interest of not posting a short novel with...
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1/16 Sherman Tracks – 5 Types Now Available!
Happy to announce that my latest batch of downloadable tracks – a whole gaggle of sets designed for 1/16 scale Shermans and other VVSS vehicles – are now available over on Patreon and Cults3D. 5 track...
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Done with 1-2-3
I spoiled myself this weekend. To the extent that I now have serious doubts about whether I’ll ever be able to stomach a 1-2-3 IPMS show again. The TLDR This might turn into a long post and if you...
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2024 – All quiet on the western front
2024 has been a pretty big year at Casa Doogs, with one notable exception – modeling. The high hopes I brought into the year fizzled pretty quickly. And as I write this, I haven’t so much as touched a...
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The Public Thing
“Is modeling art?” It’s one of those questions that never seems to go away. I’ve been skeptical for years. Not because modeling isn’t art, but because “art” has been stretched so thin as a label that...
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