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A bunch of letters made as a custom request. They make up 4-5 names and will be used on the top of cakes to indicated who gets which cake.

Once more unto the strangeness of LARP. Various things have codes, in this case the sand bags representing metal ores are all tagged with lammies and symbols to indicate which metal ore it is. Only people with the appropriate skill are issued with lore sheets to translate these symbols and those people know which are the best bags to take. This basically ends up with people pulling out A5 printed pieces of paper to figure it out. I thought it would be nice if these were wooden slats with the same information, much more in keeping with the setting.

Wow, can't believe I haven't blogged for 2 weeks. I haven't died, and I haven't had any accidents in fact I haven't really done very much of anything at all. I'm working on a few larger projects, the ever fabled Donkey Kong V2.0 is well underway and I've been looking at new laser cutters and materials so there will be things to report in the near future but stuff is still a few days away yet. I'll be sure to keep you updated.

I've been toying around for a while with the idea of laser cutting through the material at an angle to create a mitred edge. Cut enough of these edges and you can still all the shapes together to create special boxes of polyhedra. I finally got round to testing it and it works really well. You can see all the cutting details over on the JustAddSharks blog here , but for now I'm just sharing pictures of the polyhedra I made using this technique.

There seems to be infinite potential for group tokens within LARP. Every group/sub group/collective likes to have some way to identify themselves, it's all good for me. This is the symbol of the Mage Guild, a group of people from different factions who all use the same kind of 'magic' in game. The colour is added with fine liner pens after the engrave, this stops the colours from bleeding together along the wood grains.

A lot of my friends wargame and are always telling me about the awesome laser cut scenery that is available, because I don't wargame I don't have the time to make these things so it's nice to finally be able to help them with something.  Here is a pattern for a basic movement tray. I looked into making some parametric design script but actually it's just easier to change the sizes in inkscape directly. It's a simple 2 layer, 2mm mdf, construction with the second layer forming a 3mm lip around the tray which stops the edges units from falling off the tray ( svg here )

When I made my first Carcassonne Set  for Project 52  I left the back of the tiles intentionally blank. Doubling up the engraving makes a hefty dent in the price tag and I figured nobody would ever want it. Well I was wrong, after a few requests I have now got round to adding engraved backs to the tiles. They look absolutely stunning. While I still can't bring myself to release these files into the wild yet (160 hours of drawing was just too many to give away) they are now available in the store with/without engraved backs depending on your budget.