Editing Hobbying

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=Hobbying=
Hobbying with miniature painting and terrain creation to furnish models for use with [[RPGs]], [[wargames]] and [[boardgames]] is a fun and artistic pursuit with lots of uses for our [[fabrication]] facilities to print/lasercut/woodshop/sew hobby stuff.


== Painting Miniatures==
We have a portable hobby station we're bringing in to introduce people to painting minis for now, and we're looking to acquire some for NB.

== 3D Printing Miniatures ==
We have [[3dprinting]] [[printshop]]. Mostly we use FDM plastic printers because they're reliable and good enough for durable larger things. Increasingly mini painters want to print fine detail minis with resin printers which we have a few but we need people to use them to justify keeping them.

== Terrain Making ==
You can make all kinds of terrain and stuff from building materials with just simple crafting tools.
* PVA glue can turn just about anything into a paintable texturable surface for terrain and building construction.

== Bay Area Hobby Shops ==
We want to support our local hobby shops which have many of the products useful to hobbyists as well as valuable community support for tournaments and gaming meetups and rentable tables you can use to get into hobbying without having to set up your own home tabletop gaming boards.

* Game Post (Soma)
* Game Kastle (many locations)
* add more here with notes on their location and offerings