Spring at home

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Long socket labels

When I first moved my tools to the roller cab., I 3D printed some racks for the long sockets that I have, but I have only now got round to finishing them off by 3D printing the labels to go with them.

Printed in resin and coloured with acrylic paint pens.

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Paint pot tray

Just a nice to have rack for my paints. I like to keep the paints I'm currently using separate from my main rack, so that I know which colours I'm using without having to write them down or keep track in some other way.

As I work in front of the spray booth, it is very handy to be able to lift all of the paint pots out of the way quickly when I want to spray paint something.

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Finished painting a 40K miniature

As I mentioned in an earlier post, it's been about 30 years since I last painted a miniature figure. Then it was orcs, knights, and wizards.

Now it's a sci-fi soldier.

I'm also experimenting with how to photograph them. I'm using a long exposure on my mobile to get a better depth of field. Without it, the extremities of the model are out of focus.

I airbrushed the base coat, used a black wash then I dry brushed the surface highlights. I added a few edge highlights and finally some weathering powder up the legs.

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CMOS battery replacement

I've been refurbishing a used Lenovo laptop. It's still more than good enough to run Windows 11, but it is looking a little worn having been a former work machine. The main thing required to get it up and running is a new CMOS battery and to make it more serviceable, while I have the laptop open, I also replaced the main battery.

I bought a reasonably priced replacement battery for the CMOS, making sure it had the correct JST connector used on Lenovo laptops. However, when it arrived, I spotted that the pins on the plug were wired in reverse.

Wrong on the left

It was a fairly easy job to release the pins from the socket and swap them over.

Corrected

I used a needle to lift the plastic clips, being careful not to short between the two pins.

Before

After

Job done, inserted in the laptop and all working.

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