Poster Thanks
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Poster Time!
It's that time of year again. Thanks for all the support everyone. It has been incredible so far.
2016-11-10 20:54:10 +0000 UTC View PostSmall Arms of WWI Primer 038: Austro-Hungarian Mannlicher 1886 to 1888-90
Should we?
Mae and I will be attending a live fire portion of a Citadel history course next week.
Should we bring the cameras for the wall gun?
Something is afoot
Mae has been tinkering in her spare time.
Hurricane Preparedness
While probably overkill we decided to retreat with the collection to higher ground for the weekend.
2016-10-07 17:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostState of the Show Sept 2016
As you can all probably tell, we've decided to keep shoveling in more content. Well it's about 50/50 in thanks to growing efficiency and your contributions. Sincerely, thank you all.
Every extra $1 means we can be more creative in HOW to get to these pieces. It lets us support our local small-business/range so we can have easy access to filming. Recently it has meant pulling in not one, but two talented animators. The first focusing on detailed Machine Guns a...
New Goals, Overhaul
We've cleaned up the Patron page after an excellent month. It seems you all are appreciating the extra long, extra deep, extra effort episodes!
Also, $5 and up patrons, Othais is sitting down now to pound out a state-of-the-project journal entry.
As long as we're growing so will the show. Thank you all!
Small Arms of WWI Primer 035: French Remington Rolling Block
SPOILERS, Do not Click!
So for those of you who are OK with spoilers, I've decided to try making some bumps for everyone's favorite phrase. I figure one per country and vary the last frame each time (if I can find enough footage out there)
2016-09-25 22:27:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The Lewis Gun!
I have never had more difficulty with a video. Had to set public from my phone to get around a 500 error.
I will update the annotations later... I hope.
Planning.
The last 4 episodes were prepared well ahead of time and gave me a good 6 weeks of time to catch up on my life. I took roughly 3 days off, had a visit from my executive producer, better planned out our rough approach to the rest of the series, managed to disassemble a Lewis magazine, worked up the rough for this year's poster, ran the T-shirt campaign, sifted archives for video and photos, and stocked up on reading material.
So I managed roughly 50 hours of work a week. Which is ap...
2016-08-29 23:22:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The gun show
Before starting the video series I was already way too comfortable making the up to 4 hour trips across South Carolina for gun shows.It was fun to dig for buried treasure but even as the big finds dwindled I kept going for the people I had now befriended. At this point most of them just give me a ring when something unique turns up.The Primer series would never have happened without this broadly local community. They put me in the habit of reading and repeating what I had found. Many were suppor...
2016-08-21 00:38:15 +0000 UTC View Post
