Hi everybody,

ok, this might become a big one… As some of you might remember, in the past you could download some of my files in additional languages (french, italian, spanish). I was very happy to provide the local communities with translated stuff, but despite my mostly automated workflow it has been a real pain to add these, the process was quite time consuming and sometimes it was very hard to reach the person responsible for the translation when I needed help to abbreviate something, for example.

Recently I came up with a new idea how to handle this problem with – hopefully – significantly less hassle on my side. And thanks to the terrific work of my german buddy Martin “TKundNobody” (honestly, thank you!), who provided me with an awesome Excel script, I am now ready for a full-scale beta test of my idea.

And for this, I need your help. Help from everybody who is interested in a localized version of my stuff and who feels capable of translatinge (some of) the relevant phrases from english to his or her native language. Since this might be a time consuming task, as well, one part of my idea is to use the collective intelligence of all my fans, rather than relying on a single person. Whoever feels like translating everything or even only a little bit can access my language file and add the appropriate translations. When a given language is complete, I simply use my new Excel script that will replace all text phrases with those from the language file, and Photoshop will automatically create a new language version.

Sounds easy? Yes, that’s what I thought, but who knows. Martin and I are done alpha testing and I think it’s time to give you a go! For now, I have only prepared the language file for the X-wing MicroHangars, but adding further stuff from my page won’t be a problem, it’s quite easy. But I’d like to see if everything works as intended.

If you’re willing to help, take a look at the language file, carefully read the instructions within and start translating! Feel free to add new column for your language, for now there are only english and german…

The file can be found here.

Have fun and let me know if you encounter any problems!

Cheers,
SirWilli

Hi there,

sorry, no new stuff yet, I just wanted to say thank you!

My donation goal has been reached, a big thank you to all my backers! I’d love to show you some photos of my new pen tablet, but just a few days before the goal was reached my desktop monitor gave in. That was a real bummer, since I don’t have enough money to spare at the moment, but then I realized that thanks to you I could actually afford a new one. Therefore I had to use a significant amount of the money to buy a new monitor, the rest was just enough to order the Imperial Raider, the last X-Wing epic ship I was missing. I don’t play epic, but now I can give it a try to build an EpicHangar for this beauty.

I won’t start collecting money for the pen tablet again (at least for now, bad karma…), but instead I decided to collect for a new desktop PC. My current one is rather old-fashioned, which I realized upon visiting the computer store looking for a new monitor and testing some state-of-the-art stuff. Gosh. My workflow would benefit even more from a new PC than from the pen tablet. Therefore I decided to add a new goal.

Concerning new boxes

I’m still waiting for my X-Wing and Armada shipment, but thanks to a buddy I will get my hands on wave 10 X-Wing ships tomorrow morning at the local backery. Expect new X-Wing hangars soon. The first new CollectorBox is nearly done, and here’s a preview of my first draft for the Tantive IV EpicHangar. Yes, it’s a bit messy. Actually, it’s the second one, the first one was done in my mind… Don’t know if it works out, but I’m confident.

Thanks again, not only to my backers but to my all fans out there, you’re really encouraging!
SirWilli

Thanks for your patience and your kind words of understanding, I have been away for far too long. Very sorry, but I’ve been really busy with other issues and had to pause almost completely. But: The line must be drawn here. This far, no further. Enough rest and enough quoting Star Trek, I welcome you all to my brand new website, which ate up the meager remains of my free time in the past months!

You won’t find new stuff around, but now that the relaunch is complete, I will concentrate on changing this, even though I’ll have to go at a somewhat slower pace than before. Really sorry, but after all this is just a hobby. A loved one, but not my real job that pays the bills. But at least I can promise you all that I don’t intend to quit!

As you can see I’ve added Descent to my portfolio. You’ll find nothing more there than a fancy “Coming soon” sign. Take it as a teaser. You might find this sign in other places, just be patient a little longer.

That’s it for now, I’m really happy that you stayed with me and now feel free to look around! I really did my best (with the help of Theron “Wichenstaden”, thanks a BUNCH!) to arrange everything more clearly without crowding the layout. I hope I did it.

SirWilli

P.S.: I had so many mails, comments and posts in the past months that I’m almost certain that I forgot to answer some of them. Please don’t be offended, it was simply too much, feel free to contact me again!

P.P.S.: Meine liebe deutschen Fans, ihr seid nicht zu dämlich, den Umschalter für die deutsche Version zu finden, der ist schlicht nicht da. Noch nicht. Die deutsche Version werde ich möglichst bald nachreichen!