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Greeblies time

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Cambrian critters are actually spaceships, their battles where epic.

Here an Anomalocaris cruiser is attacked by the hit and run tactics of an Opabinia.

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my favorite Frank Frazetta piece, “Mothman”

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Neat thing I'd never seen before today: A Revell B-2 Bomber kit... made before they knew what it actually looked like.

Seems pretty clear this was a "description given by a guy who saw the thing once, from half a mile away, and only from the front" kind of situation.

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Building my little Revell F-19 kit

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You can hear the full story behind this kit (and watch me build it) here

Revell 1/144 scale F-19

Fun Fact: Before the F-117 was publicly revealed, Testors Corp produced a kit of this airplane, claiming it was the 100% real top secret F-19 stealth fighter they somehow got insider info on.

Everyone freaked out, congress got involved, Tom Clancy wrote it into one of his books, there was a Transformer based on it, and then like a year later everyone found out the real stealth jet looked like a collapsed tent rendered on a Playstation 1. Everyone forgot about the Testors F-19 model after that.

Not me though. I remember about the F-19. Look at how lovely it is! Even when it's so, so small.

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Revell 1/144 scale F-19

Fun Fact: Before the F-117 was publicly revealed, Testors Corp produced a kit of this airplane, claiming it was the 100% real top secret F-19 stealth fighter they somehow got insider info on.

Everyone freaked out, congress got involved, Tom Clancy wrote it into one of his books, there was a Transformer based on it, and then like a year later everyone found out the real stealth jet looked like a collapsed tent rendered on a Playstation 1. Everyone forgot about the Testors F-19 model after that.

Not me though. I remember about the F-19. Look at how lovely it is! Even when it's so, so small.

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I'm excited (And slightly terrified) to post the project that's been occupying most of my spare time for the last few months, filming a very in-depth tutorial on how to make one of my Firey Plush toys for Youtube! I have been wanting to make this video a reality for a few years now, so it's sorta surreal to finally see it finally complete. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous about the quality of this video, I'm very much an amateur at sewing after all. But if an amateur like me can make this cool plush, then surely the majority of folks out there can make it too!

Hopefully this'll be the first of a good few prop replica tutorials I film for Youtube, but I'm gonna reward myself with a bit of a break before I even think about recording something again.

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EAS Excalibur in Crusade's "Racing the Night"

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One of the bottom feeders on Imgur commented on a post of mine with something along the lines of “they couldn’t have actually made a model so similar to the original illustration... you'd never be able to find the right pieces. I think they just built that and then drew a picture of it.”

And I was kind of peeved until a friend of mine pointed out how that means another human being looked at my art and thought to themselves “I simply don’t believe it’s possible a person could actually do that.”

Which weirdly enough might be the best compliment I’ve ever received, despite the source being an artless chud. Shoutout to the haters, I guess.

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Kitbashing a model from concept art

Original Illustration by @ailantd

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Concept/Kitbash. Original art by @ailantd, model by me.

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I can stop drawing now it’s only downhill from here

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Kitbashed drone, as yet unpainted (but primed)

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look at my lil spaceship (gonna take some proper photos later this week :3)

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Happy “Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse has entered the public domain” day to all who celebrate

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BEHOLD my tiny, 1/64th scale wooden shipping pallets.

Hand-made, from cut-down wooden coffee stir sticks, using a template I made in Illustrator. Designed for use with Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars. Don't quite have a paint color / wash / stain that I'm happy with yet.