{"id":625,"date":"2016-12-21T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/?p=625"},"modified":"2016-12-21T07:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:56:03","slug":"miniatures-useful-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/21\/miniatures-useful-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniatures are a useful hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every young child seems to have one favorite security item. For some children it&#8217;s a blanket, for others it&#8217;s a stuffed animal, and for my daughter it&#8217;s a very old wooden bus. This bus has been handed down through at least two generations and it didn&#8217;t take well to the rough treatment it received at a toddler&#8217;s hands. \u00a0She was stuffing crayons into the top to take a ride when the front roof broke apart into two pieces. I had just learned how to pin miniatures while working on <a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/13\/plague-1st-generation-stage-1a-wip\/\">Plague 1st Gen<\/a> and decided to\u00a0try repairing it using the same technique. You can&#8217;t actually see those pins, they&#8217;re all internal. But\u00a0a couple of days later the other side of the roof started to fragment so I\u00a0secured using the pin you can see here. I&#8217;ve also been coating the bus in polyurethane to shore it up &#8211; my Dad laughed at me when I noted this but wood really soaks it up unlike plastic or pewter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-626\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pinning_a_wooden_bus-960x540.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden bus toy repaired with the pinning technique\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pinning_a_wooden_bus-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pinning_a_wooden_bus-595x335.jpg 595w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pinning_a_wooden_bus-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pinning_a_wooden_bus-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The point is I ended up being a household hero because of things I learned while working on miniatures. It was a simple fix but, hey, it just proves that this is a great hobby because I would have had clue previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every young child seems to have one favorite security item. For some children it&#8217;s a blanket, for others it&#8217;s a stuffed animal, and for my daughter it&#8217;s a very old wooden bus. This bus has been handed down through at least two generations and it didn&#8217;t take well to the rough treatment it received at&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/21\/miniatures-useful-hobby\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Pinning_a_wooden_bus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aZ1W-a5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}