Plank, take one

For those who don't know, a trackable (or travel bug, usually abbreviated as TB) is a GeoCaching thing, and is essentially a game piece with a unique number (like a license plate). Normally, people use the actual metal TB they buy, but some people will copy the code onto something else and keep the original metal tag at home (to try and reduce the number of TB that go missing).

For whatever reason, I thought I'd make a little Plank model. No idea why, I never really watched the Ed, Edd and Eddy show, maybe saw parts of episodes when I was younger and channel surfing.

Below is my first attempt. It doesn't really show it in the photo, but the varnish I used came out waaaayy darker than I wanted it to. Plus the ink that I used for the eyes and mouth ran into the grain, giving it a slightly creepy look. Good for making a Plank / Joker crossover, but not the look I was after.

So back to the drawing board, I'll have one more crack at it.

In other news, I picked up some Hot Wheels cars with the intention of maybe doing some customization on them or using them as TB, but cars tend to go missing pretty quick and I don't have all the tools needed to properly convert them.

Reaching crescendo

For several years, I've been playing a game called OGame. It's a space ship, battle type online game which really, it's rather dull. I don't know why I play it.

I have ten planets on there, and for the last year or so I've been funneling all resources to one planet to build defences in order to make it into a super-fortress.

Now, I've switched it up and am just pumping all resources into it and letting them pile up there. At time of writing, there's about a hundred and seventy million resources on there (the game divides it up into metal, crystal and deut).

We'll see how big the pile can get before another player (or team of players) smash it in order to steal the lot. What a shame there isn't some big scene showing the awesome battle, my numbers will just change from a lot to zero.