Thomas' CSIT 155 - Fall 2020 Class Blog

 Lucky for me, The Painting Dummy is very visual. Painting miniature war-games models is a very visual medium. It’s almost difficult to explain through  descriptions without the visual media to accompany it. I found four other similar Instagram pages to look at a little closer. The comparison of followers to likes on the individual posts kind of threw me off. It confused me a little. The largest company I looked at is Warhammer Official with 265 thousand followers but only has a 3% follower to like ratio. The one with the least followers I looked at is Jarek Westermark with 3,653 followers, but their like ratio is way way higher at 33%. I averaged these out to get the percentages, so approximately. I’m not sure where this leaves my analysis, except the smaller pages look like they have more engagement with their audience. All of these pages post at least every other day. This is a goal I will be setting for my own page. I’ll be needing to get a head start on my painting projec...

    Crafting Melody Brewery Rad Math Tutoring Jumping Kelly Bean There are so many ways for different companies to use Instagram. Instagram if a very visual media. Companies can share pictures of products, illustrations of methods, and even stories via short videos. Engaging customers is the greatest use for any social media, Instagram is no exception. The companies that use it must also engage any potential customer’s remarks on their posts.

I think these next scheduled posts will start by showing some of my beginning process for miniature painting prep and color choices, while i am still finding my feet.

Spikey Bits - One of the more seasoned bloggers in miniatures and miniature gaming. I followed Spikey Bits for information I can share with my followers and for information on the industry in general. The Long War - Another old hand in the industry. The Long War started out as a painting service and has morphed into an teaching / educating painting stream on Twitch. Warhammer 40,000 - The official page of one of the largest miniature games in the industry. The page has upcoming releases and news information to share on the game. Greebo Games - Greebo Games is a newer game developer that is producing some of the most stunning models in the industry right now. Not only good to repost some of their information but I would love to paint some of their models. Strange Aeons Game - Strange Aeons Game is a small game publisher from Canada that I got into playing when they first Kickstarted their first edition game. I’ll be posting some of their figures and posting some of their games in t...