whiteboard or walls in general is *so* much better for quickly ideating things, no need to boot up a machine to take a quick note of something or move something around, everybody in the room (if several are present) can easily see and interact with it, any good setups can be photographed and stored for later, having it in a place often frequented means the brain will see it and work it’s magic in the background - digital tools are better for documenting things one comes up with on the board :) You could get an easel for it, and use a couple of clamps to fasten it to the easel - oh, and depending on if you are renting or not: magnetic paint, or technically «iron paint», for making any wall a huge «magnetic board» - and one can then paint over it with chalkboard paint, so the wall both works as a magnetic board *and* a blackboard :)

Dude, I demand a photo of you in the armor! 😆

Ok last post...beer...nuff said An option for darkening the armor would be a chromatic black oil glaze. It's just a GOOD quality ultramarine blue and burnt umber 50/50. These are inexpensive even at better quality. I like ultrect at blick. The medium doesn't matter as long as it's not just boiled linseed oil. Then I'd thin with Japan dryer not white sprit. It'll dry much faster. Also you can add twice as much blue and get pains grey. Both of these pigments are transparent so the steel will still shine though. I would go medium heavy as you can always add more layers. In fact I'd really recommend a layer of varnish between layers as it causes a richness in color that is unreproducible any other way. Just layering the glaze on top of itself will just darken it. I'd use the airbrush. Cleaning it off with the naptha (mostly Japan dryer) even after it cures is as easy as wiping up spilled milk. Really important to do this outside and away from fire. Naptha is crazy flammable.

On the armor, since you know you don't want it dark forever you might consider a wrapping it, like they wrap cars and you can just peal it off like a sticker when you 're done with it, easier than paint stripper.

I always love a good unboxing!

Fun behind the scenes look.

If the board is magnetic, can you get some dowels and glue magnets to the end of them, then attach the dowels to the back of the board to act as stand offs for the wall? Three inch dowels should do to give you room to flick the lights.

I love your voice. So calming.

Cool sword, and very cool armor. I never knew that stuff like that is out there. Panic. Once I saw that for now you intend to keep the white board loose, not attached to the wall, I sensed an accident happening. The board topples, and most of the carefully arranged cards fall off from the impact. Hopefully a good solution presents itself

I need a banana for scale. I like the process you are showing. There is a lot of thought going into this project.

Sword, armor, and smoke bombs! Let’s go!!! 😃

Might have a solution for the smoke: Get a battery powered power station to run the smoke machines. Anker has several models, portable power stations for camping, the powerhouse series - some (or all) of them can be recharged with a foldable solar panel and stuff. The budget you have lined up just for the grenades is almost the price of one of these gigantic batteries, and knowing the US there is probably plenty of rental opportunities, quick search gave me a price of 80 USD pr day :) So then you can run smoke machines AND charge your phones as well, AND a coffee machine, and maybe a slush-machine on the side ;)

I could not stop laughing when you pulled out the smoke grenades. Back in the early 2000's a few friends and myself were trying to get some good smoke effects going on a stage. The first try was the stage manager burning some 30W oil. I think it's safe to say nobody stayed on the stage. After several tries with oil. One of the stage crew who was not there at the time said. "Why don't we get a glycerin smoke generator. Myself and 3 others went to a party store and picked one up for around 40 bucks. When we got back the stage manager was still trying to clean up what he did with the 30W. I'm glad I was working the sound and not doing much on the stage. Shakespeare will never be the same. I do love the white board. How many ideas can one guy have?? Ok now back to work. The life of a radio guy.

Those pins, on the armor, demand impaled animal skulls.

Loving this journey we’re on with you Excited every Friday for the next instalment

I wonder if a tv mount would work for your white board so you wouldn’t have to balance it on clutter.

I foresee a disaster involving an unsecured whiteboard and one or more cats.

I hope it goes great, but if it goes terrible, I hope it goes troll 3 or the room terrible. When you're overwhelmed remember; Ed Wood was a director. Happy hunting.

Got to love the smoke grenades, they are so cool and great work around for making the best visual effects. Keep up the great fight , love the show.🎉

Writes 'Your Guess In The Comments'... Of all of the items you've shown us I have to say that number 3 was my favorite. Not because of the thing itself but because I see that the box-tape man is still happily employed by various online platforms. Although I think he does his best work on Aliexpress, lines on this one were a bit ruffled and uneven. Now, I gotta say that I expected to hear a lot of things on the channel but "I only need 50 grenades total'' was not among them. Still, the look of ''nani da heck'' that my wife gave me as she was passing by was epic. And man I am all for an excursion to South America. Only problem is that Fiscal Responsibility took one look in my wallet and said that I have enough money for a T-shirt that says Paraguay at the local Chinese department store 😁

Friggin LOVE the armor!!

Wow, the Joan of Arc in me needs that suit of armour and sword. So cool. ⚔ If you come to Scotland don't talk of backsides, that's not what you think it is. 😂

Yes! Everyone wants to see you in the armour! We watch the whole darn thing to see you in the armor!! Now… I don’t want to pull my trump card, but I think, as a Patreon supporter, you would consider fulfilling my request.😂 I can hear them chanting… Armour… Armour… Armour… Armour… The natives are getting restless, good human.

maybe once everything is said and done, and you're making money (back) you could measure it all compared to batches of 25 smoke grenades. found a good but not well known actress? maybe she costs 12 batches of 25 smoke grenades. provided enough funding for a pilot episode? could maybe afford like 50 batches of smoke grenades with that kind of money. got enough for a full season because it's a tv show for some reason? 200 batches of smoke grenades i have no idea what film things costs lol

Is there a fire risk with those smoke grenades, and will you need a permit to use them?