Copyright Nicholas Rubatino
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I'm just finishing writing chapter 6 of the rough script of The God Labs; it is about 350 pages and counting so far. I'm doing 3 panels per page, and each panel will be in 4k resolution, which is way WAY bigger than I'll be able to submit to Kindle but I'm making this with the future hope of publishing elsewhere also. Red and the Wolfe was only 250 pages and that took me 5 years rough script to final chapter published, so this will take a while.
Testing the amp and speakers I made for my dad for Christmas 2024. He gave me a sheet of LM386 chips and I've used them a ton for hi-fi amps, guitar amps, and guitar effects. I found a basic amp stripboard layout and redesigned it to be as small as possible because I was fitting two in an enclosure to make a stereo amp, so I'm sharing my redesign here (get a dual gang pot for a stereo amp so you don't have to adjust each volume independently). Testing this particular amp the unshielded wires picked up some strange conservative talk radio station I had never hear before...
I watched my niece make this then asked her for it then made a frame for it. I feel like it represents eating sour candy
First design them, then cut them out of a table leg, then sand them on an inverted belt sander in a vice, then chop them on an ancient band saw, then burn them, then paint them, then seal them, then keychainify them!
"It's on the backburner," For me there is only one burner, and making The Satan Killers was the first time it had even gotten warm in years. After writing this chapter with Dr. Kasamov and the test reactor I looked back through my scans and found exactly 8 years to the day was when I developed the concept initially.
Finally, finally finally, after 8 years, I've been able to go ahead writing the rough script for The God Labs. It consists of all the writing and thumbnails of the illustrations and is already about 250 pages having just started writing part 5. It starts just after the events of The Satan Killers, at Satan's funeral. This is going to be a lot of work. Originally I was going to paint in photoshop from my ink drawings, as I did in The Satan Killers, but this proved too taxing to my hand so I'll be doing another refinement of final sized pencil drawings before the digital painting, like I did in Red and the Wolfe. Finally.
