Admin Post: Check-in #7!

[kate]

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Last week's check-in we were only missing charybdis. I sent a PM; anyone know them and can give them a gentle prod?

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Here we go!

✓Team Podfic: ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓mergatrude, ✓nagasvoice, ✓omens
✓Team Hyperborean: ✓amethystina, ✓cleo69, ✓jujitsuelf, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice, ✓spurious_sanity
✓Team Losers Tarot: ✓mific, ✓maharetr, ✓cleo69, ✓nagasvoice, ✓sperrywink
✓Team Lotsa Bunnies: ✓cleo69, ✓maharetr, ✓kisahawklin, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team Cosplay in Resin: ✓nagasvoice, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin
✓Team Sniperknife!: ✓lunesque, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lady_krysis, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Gym Rat: ✓scheherezhad, ✓lady_krysis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓lunesque, ✓spurious_sanity, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team AU Movie: ✓charybdis, ✓kisahawklin, ✓omens, ✓nagasvoice
✓Team FULL ADORABLE: ✓omens, ✓maharetr, ✓nagasvoice, ✓scheherezhad
✓Team Push-Café: ✓spurious_sanity, ✓azurian_defiant, ✓kisahawklin, ✓lady_krysis, ✓nagasvoice

Comments

Team Podfic

[kate]

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Re: Team Podfic

[kate]

Found wolf sounds for breaks in the story; just have to edit them in. Then on to Sniper at the Gates. Maybe next week.

Re: Team Podfic

[saekhwa]

Checking in! The next three weeks are going to be nuts for me, because of work travel.

Re: Team Podfic

[omens]

I am the latest but you sound like you have everything so well in hand! *\o/* I need to practise making icons and things - cover practise. Photoshop is open, anyway :D

Team Hyperborean

[kate]

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Re: Team Hyperborean

[nagasvoice]

Waving hi--got to read a draft and it is *bwhahahahhah!* really great! I am looking forward to reading more, quite a lot. Not least of which, it's COLD in the story, and I'm sitting in a heat wave, I can use all the cold imagery I can get!

Re: Team Hyperborean

[amethystina]

So I obviously managed to get past whatever semi-writer's block I've been having and can finally write at my usual pace.

Which means that chapter 1, 2 and 3 are (more or less) finished and there's about 1000 words left on chapter 4. So after this past week I now have a total of 25 000 words, meaning that the minimum word limit isn't a problem at all. More like the opposite. I have no idea how long this monster is going to get.

Either way I'm going to see if I can't share the second chapter with my team sometime this week, after I've added some more details and stuff.

Re: Team Hyperborean

[jujitsuelf]

Yay for first drafts! Loving it so far :) Knitting will commence forthwith

Re: Team Hyperborean

[spurious_sanity]

*sleepy wave*

"we're gonna need you at work tomorrow at 7am. and for the rest of the week" was not expected. halp, early. halp, busy. but I'm slowly getting used to it and unzombiefying myself so I can be productive on my spare time.

Team Losers Tarot

[kate]

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Re: Team Losers Tarot

[sperrywink]

Still here! Expecting work to lessen at the end of the month, hopefully. Then I should be cracking.

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[mific]

Still here, but it's a quiet week for new cards due to other deadlines. More after the 13th. :)

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[cleo69]

Here and waiting with bated breath for the rest of the cards. They are awesome.

Re: Team Losers Tarot

[maharetr]

*waves!* Starting to gently toss around ideas, maybe :)

Team Lotsa Bunnies

[kate]

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Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[cleo69]

Thanks everyone for the music help. It worked. I managed to get it going. So it goes now.

Re: Team Lotsa Bunnies

[maharetr]

Here! How's things going? :)

Team Cosplay in Resin

[kate]

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Re: Team Cosplay in Resin

[nagasvoice]

Progress! Right this minute busy rough sanding the doll I wanted to get done for Aisha. I could stop now, but she'd look a bit odd. Major mods done. Just in time, too, it's turned hot and the drilling & dremling mods had to be done outside with dust flying. I'm extremely pleased so far with results of the mods, but have not yet strung her again to test some of the important ones. If you visualize the parts as beads strung on elastic, you'll have the general idea. Elastic is tighter and more useful in posing that the ribbons or strings or wire loops when it's strung in puppet style.
For sanding, I'm kind of doing dampish inside, with plastic shoebox of water and distinctly NOT wet-dry 120-grit sandpaper. Damp shredding paper has a milder effect than stiff dry sandpaper, which is useful in places. Trying for a kind of brushed-metal level of overall sanding, to go down further with finer grades. Still have a torso part and one arm yet to do, and then it's on to the next allover with a finer grade of sandpaper. This part of the job is to sand down gaps where I knocked down rough edges and spread out color changes where I smoothed out mold lines. Texture and sound on the parts comes out like sanding down mahogany that's aged with time to have a tougher outer coating, something I didn't know polyurethane might do.
Also received in the mail a black shirt for her and green fatigues for two other guys, and I'm jittering about ordering a good but inexpensive body for a head, one that I really want, but budget... ouch!

Team Sniperknife!

[kate]

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Re: Team Sniperknife!

[lunesque]

Hahaha. I should really get to work on this. PROCRASTINATION. It's just so good.

Team Gym Rat

[kate]

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Re: Team Gym Rat

[lunesque]

I have now officially downloaded Sony Vegas Pro for my vid. Am I trying to be serious about this? I'm holding off the actual vidding thing for the moment, but I'll def get to work on it again.

Team AU Movie

[kate]

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Re: Team AU Movie

[charybdis]

Augh I am the worst at this. Yes, still here!

Team FULL ADORABLE

[kate]

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Re: Team FULL ADORABLE

[scheherezhad]

Here!

Team Push-Café

[kate]

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Re: Team Push-Café

[nagasvoice]

Waving hi, I have at least one food-related podfic in mind *cue evol laughter!* and possibly many more if I have time.