Archives for December 2016

Fibre artist re-invents incredible scale armour

December 31, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Based in Massachusetts, Mamma Bones is an artist who does something different with knitting. She works in scales to create some fantastic armour. You can browser through her Etsy store full of goodies if you fancy any of this armour yourself and its easy to imagine that cosplayers, larpers and perhaps even a YouTube host or two has done exactly that.…

10 ideas for new Ingress items

December 31, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 6 Comments

Ingress is the augmented reality game from Niantic that came before Pokemon. It’s less random, has only two factions and a great community. One of the clever things Niantic got right was to introduce sponsored items rather than adverts to the game play.…

This incredible LEGO Bird of Prey has uncloaked

December 31, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For the full experience check out Kevin J Walter’s Flickr stream. He first put together a proof of concept for this mighty Klingon LEGO spaceship using virtual bricks back in 2010.…

Forging a steel d20

December 30, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this episode the vlogsmith Gil Ramirez forges a steel d20. There’s more skill to it than I imaged as Gil’s required to hammer each face of the die by hand.…

Cthulhu hourglass of doom!

December 30, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[I need!] Ever play in a game where people are given a time limit on how long they have to think about things? That can be pretty tough on the players.…

Corrupt next year: War in Christmas Village

December 30, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

War in Christmas Village is a successful Kickstarter with, at the time of writing, 16 days left go. Pick up a set of unpainted 28mm twisted holiday miniatures with a Christmas theme.…

Star Wars set designer builds D&D gaming table

December 29, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The AWEsome channel is branching out. We might know the channel for weapon builds like crafting Mjonir or even the more recent AWE Artist series which has hosted projects like this steampunk R2-D2 kettle but there are even more strings to their bow.…

Call of Cthulhu’s Sandy Petersen sues PayPal

December 29, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Petersen Entertainment LP has taken PayPal to court for withholding $57,000 in funds. The money due apparently relates to a Kickstarter for one of the 12 games the company has successfully funded.…

Graceful Death Star LEGO stop motions

December 28, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stop motions are very demanding on your time. Each tiny movement means a change, a photograph and an ever-expanding animation. Imagine how long it would take to put together a stop motion animation of a LEGO Death Star coming together.…

Lightsabres into halos

December 28, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’ve found it hard to blog about any of the celebrity deaths in 2016. There will be as many in 2017. We’ll keep loosing some amazing icons and incredible talent. It’s hard to blog about the news since it’s so widely covered, what can Geek Native add, and how can the site avoid the trap of trying to earn ad impressions off sad news?…

Fibre artist re-invents incredible scale armour

10 ideas for new Ingress items

This incredible LEGO Bird of Prey has uncloaked

Forging a steel d20

Cthulhu hourglass of doom!

Corrupt next year: War in Christmas Village

Star Wars set designer builds D&D gaming table

Call of Cthulhu’s Sandy Petersen sues PayPal

Graceful Death Star LEGO stop motions

Lightsabres into halos

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