General Update

I haven't had a lot of time to work on things this past week. Life has just been way too busy. I did however eek out a little bit of time yesterday to fix/finish off the vibration table. I used some foam and springs to dampen the vibration and things seem to work wonderfully now! I'll have some pictures up soon as well as brief how-to.

I have also switched over to the glass method of scraping the tiles and let me tell you it makes a WORLD of difference. I found some already cut acrylic sheets at lowes for about $3 each that are just the right size for a mold. I picked up 5 of them and plan on getting about 10 more tonight!

I am also now doing a syrenge method instead of pouring from the sides. I bought a bottle that I can squeeze the plaster out of to do this, it isn't an actual syrenge. I plan on going to the restraunt supply store soon and picking up a few more bottles of different sizes depending how much plaster I am working with.

Also I have found that going with a 2 to 1 ratio of plaster to water by volume seems to work out fairly well for overall strength. Now to get to casting a bunch more bricks!!!

Ohh on another note my adsense account was disable because of invalid clicks! Not sure what that is about or how they determine that but I have now switched ad providers and will be looking at finding better ad networks for this blog in the future!

Pay Per Post

Singing up for pay per post to try and make a little more money off this blog. I mean I might as well try and make all that I can right? In order to do this though I have to post a random sentence to verify this is my blog. So here is what was generated by pay per post!

All an eagle would really like, is a teapot

Pretty funny lol. Ok now lets see if I can get some advertisers to pay me to write stuff about them!

Air compressor kaput...

Crap right in the middle of some air brushing the compressor stops working...

Web traffic

It is kind of exciting watching the traffic for this site grow. What was at 30-50 hits a day is now up to 300-400 hits a day. Also fun seeing what the click through rate is on the ads and watching that counter increase!

Over 300 hits today

Wow, I have recieved a lot of hits today to the blog... That is pretty awesome. This site is definately growing!!!

1000 Page views

This blog has been up for a little over a month and has already had 1000 page views. That is pretty awesome!!! Time to keep building the traffic to the blog. The last few days have seen over 100 page views a day!

Happy May Day

It is may 1st and that means the official start of camping season is right around the corner here in the US. How on earth am I going to fit in all the casting with camping!!! I will just have to find a way....

100 twitter followers

Woot Woot I have hit the 100 twitter follower mark. If you are not already following this blog on twitter you should be @terrainproject. Next goal is 250!!!

New Look For Blogger...

So I know that none of you can actually see the changes unless you happen to also be using Blogger. However, I really don't like the changes they have made to the interface. I liked all the easy to find tabs. Why is it software companies always decide to drastically change there Interface??? Why I ask you! Please give me back my classic blogger UI.

Blogging from the phone...

So I just downloaded the mobile blogger app. If this works the way I want it to then it should make it much easier for me to post about my progress. I don't like having to go get my camera to take pictures and then load them onto my computer so I can add them to my post. Fortunately my phone should be able to reduce that process down since everything can be accomplished from one device!

Yeah 300

300 page views and I haven't even had this blog up a month. That is a pretty good start. I am sure that as I get more quality content on the site I will get more click throughs! :)

PayPerPost

So I was checking out ways to monetize this blog and make money to fund my projects. I found this site called PayPerPost which will allow bloggers to get paid by advertisers for writing blogs about their products. Sounds pretty cool. I wonder how many advertisers out there are doing this in the table top war gaming field???

Twitter Goal

So I wonder how long it will take to get 100 followers on twitter and how many impressions and click throughs I will get from that on adsense. I guess only time will tell!!!

Twitter Feed Connected

Hopefully this works. I have setup twitter feed to parse the blog and post new updates on twitter. It says it will update every 30 minutes and I figure I probably need to have something new posted. So hopefully this test works!!!

Twitter

Ok so I am working on setting up this blog so that it will automatically post everything to twitter. You can follow the blog uisng @terrainproject.

Ad Sense Working

Yeah!!! As you can probably tell there are now ads on my site. My new PIN finally showed up in the mail and I was able to fill out the rest of the form to unblock it. Now to just get traffic driven to my site so I can derive more income and get more molds to cast!!!

Hump Day Planning

So it is Wednesday this means I should probably plan out what I want to accomplish by the end of the weekend. Most of the work will likely be done this weekend but I will probably try and knock out a few things tonight and tomorrow if I have time.

1) Finish Vibration Table Project (2hrs)
2) Mount organization bins to workspace (30min)
3) Move Cable Organization (45min)
4) Mount peg boards in workspace (2hrs)
5) Pickup Dental Plaster from post office (1hr)
5) Begin casting pieces (21hrs)
Note: I have calculated I will need to do at least 42 casts of the octagon tower to build the gate checkpoint. This is because of the number of floor sections I will need. Obviously this will provide me with plenty of extra bricks to do other projects. I will likely work on completing the organization tasks while the casts are drying to save time.

Looks like I have a lot to do this weekend...

It has arrived...

So I just checked the tracker and apparently the merlins magic I ordered was delivered to the house yesterday. However since no one was there to accept it I now have to go down to the post office to pick it up. Oh well... I will probably do that on sunday. I still have to finish the work on the vibration table project anyway before I start casting again. Maybe I will get to that tonight.

The build begins

I started the dissambly of the vibrator/tumbler I picked up from harbor freight. I need to remove the 12" threaded shaft that the bowl attached to and replace it with a much shorter shaft to attach the new table to. In order to do this I had to disassemble then entire top of the vibration table. This was not an easy task because I seem to be missing some of the sockets and wrenches needed. I guess I have some more things to pick up from harbor freight. I did finally get the entire thing apart however. Now time to build the new top and determine the length of the rod needed. I plan to make the table with a pair of clips on either end. These clips will be used to hold down a sheet of wax paper. This should make for easy cleaning!!!

Adsense

Ok, so I have been wondering why no ads have been showing up on this site. It appears that i never submitted my PIN when I setup my Adsense account several years ago. Oops... I have requested my PIN be resent to me so hopefully that will arrive soon and I can start generating some Ad revenue. I need to make some money from this so I can buy more molds!!!