#game props

[panisil]

Preparing props for portfolio update

[someblakearts]

The Baby Maker from Borderlands 2

Here's a test print using my new Phrozen Mini S 4k. My daughter asked me to print her the Baby Maker from the second Borderlands 2 game so I sent some time modeling, printing and paint the gun (and a stand to go with it).

I still need to dial in my resin a little more to get the optimial exposure and printer settings. I think overall it's a slight improvement to the Photon's quality - the edges are defintely slightly crisper at 4k. I'm waiting on some proper 4k resin to see if it improves the layer clarity.

I think I could have gotten the metallic-purple to blue crossfade a little cleaner, but it's hard at that scale. Here's a WIP to show the scale of the print:

Overall I'm pretty happy with how it came out and I think I'll try some more Borderlands weapons in the future.

[anotherdarkiboi]

List of Astarion's Terms of Endearment

This is for the fanfic writers haha. Tell me if I'm missing any so can add it in!

Darling (his most used)

My love, love

My sweet

“You sweet, generous thing”, “you sweet little thing”

Lover

My dear, a dear, dear

Beautiful

Cheeky little pup

My little treat ("-with their cheeks all flushed")

Sweetie

Pet

You wicked little thing (affectionate)

"You're a sweetheart", "you sweetheart"

Delectable little pet (not directed towards Tav but it easily could be)

My friend (yay, we're his friend)

My favorite traveling companion (not a pet name but it's nice to be his favorite)

My leaking blood-bag (technically you refer to yourself as that first and he calls you his one after, but it counts)

You little scoundrel

Edit: Thank you everyone in the comments for adding the Dark Urge ones!

Bhaal-babe (I'm dead, this silly pun I swear)

My sweet, bloodthirsty friend

My precious little Bhaal-babe

My conflicted villain

My dagger-happy friend

Bonus: Ascended Yandere Astarion

My pet, pet

Little love

Precious thing

My treasure

My consort, My Dark Consort

My favorite spawn

Insolent little- (the Dev's notes say that the full line is "you insolent little brat" which, um...)

Insolent little pup (the line was in EA, although I’m not entirely sure if it’s Ascended Astarion. Full line: “you are an insolent little pup, aren’t you?”)

"You ingrate" (When you try to break up with him. It's not really a pet name, but-)

"Property I cherish, but still my property" (his thoughts)

[3proutboy]

Goofy ass lawyers are ruining my life. But atleast they’re now objects cuz why not

Im so normal abt the wrights i SWEAR,

Did that meme w phoenix and fan

Vague wrightworth but objects style

Extra doodles i did, plus mia fey BD

[fallowfrog]

more hades x dmc to celebrate going on uni break >:))

[soft-girl-musings]

how does pinterest see you?

search up fashion, pantone, mood, food, and then save the first picture that comes up.

ty @mrs-lockley for the tag 🫶🏽 (i am so behind on other tag games but i couldn't resist)

tagging @lunar-ghoulie @flowerpotmage @cositsamarvelfan @virtie333 if you'd like

[retrogamingblog2]

Realistic Pokeball made by Soupcan13creations

[mothcpu]

it is my birthday :) doodles upon ye

[shandzii]

act 2 moment

obsessed over them being canonically divorced lmao

[artbyblastweave]

ask game; Victoria Dallon, aka Glory Girl aka Antares

I've always thought that Victoria's first appearance is quite the bit of deft needle-threading.

The thing about Interlude 2 is that Vicky is our first example of one of this setting's established heroes actively fighting crime- not just swooping in to vulture up the accomplishments of an up-and-comer- and a therefore a major goal of the sequence is to ensure that the audience comes away structurally unnerved by what counts as business as usual for the heroes, set the stage for the hurricane of ass-covering to come. So we have a sequence where she lords her power over a baseline criminal who has no realistic chance to fight back or get away, where she cripples and nearly kills him in a display of excessive force, where she uses her connections to other capes to duck out on the consequences of her excess once she realizes that she's crossed certain moral and optical Rubicons. All of this is gross, all of this speaks to an alarmingly cavalier attitude amongst even the most ostensibly accountable heroes. And from a protagonistic perspective, all of this serves to soften the blow of Taylor's actions at the bank in act three, because we're predisposed to see Vicky as an arrogant, overprivileged loose cannon who'd actually have a significantly higher body count than all of the Undersiders put together if not for the cushion afforded to her by her status as a superhero. A golden child up against the already put-upon underdog.

But. She also does all of that to a Neo-Nazi, who was fresh off committing a hate crime. I mean, if this was violence against a purse-snatcher, a drug-dealer- It would be very, very easy to block this sequence in a way that would set her up as a villain and nothing else for the rest of the work. In The Boys, for example, Homelander debuts by incinerating one bank robber's hand and throwing another a thousand feet into the air to land hard on a parked car, and the dissonance between that casual brutality and his chumminess with the onlookers is the thematic backbone for... basically the entire show, because he was in such total control of the situation that the only reason to do it that way is that he fundamentally doesn't care. In Super Crooks, it's made abundantly clear that the superheroes trying to arrest the titular supervillains are significantly more destructive to the city than the villains are, because their institutional backing removes any incentive to do anything but pursue the flashiest arrests possible for the sake of ratings. But Glory Girl? She's a sixteen year old putting her money where her mouth is on the unconsidered-dilettante suburban-left-ish tumblrite rallying cry of punching a Nazi. She's living out a near-boilerplate superheroic fantasy of righteous violence against an uncomplicatedly righteous target- likely a fantasy entertained at least once by the median cape fan, if we're being honest- and then, in the aftermath, blood on her hands and on the pavement, staring down the full weight of the prospect of actually having killed a person in an unconsidered spate of rage, is very much a panicked teenager about it, scrambling for a way to walk it back.

Which, independent of the specifics of whether this particular asshole had it coming, is the problematic element of this that generalizes- that superheroism in this world is a system that puts the social license to use concrete-shattering power in the hands of a kid with the judgement and attitude of someone scheming up ways to dodge curfew. She's done this before, she's gonna keep doing this, she's gonna keep being two-faced about it with her public-facing golden-girl image. But she wasn't wrong to be angry. And the fact that this is the kind of thing she gets angry about is hard to separate from later beats where she tries to do right by people, hard to separate from her willingness to put herself on the line against Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse 9. It's a bad situation, a horrible system that's guaranteed to incentivize bad behavior, they shouldn't be assigning any of this shit to a 17-year-old. But later on, when things go south for her, the seeds are planted so that she can retain audience sympathy in a way that she likely wouldn't be able to if this story was a banal hatswap, with unfairly maligned "villains" who do no real wrong against supervillains who happen to call themselves superheroes.

[captainfantasticalright]

The Dead Boy Detectives and their board games:

In an interview with IndieWire it was mentioned that they had “every international version of Clue” and I had to take a closer look. Not only is it not exactly “international” versions, (considering that both Charles and Edwin are British, their national one would be Cluedo, so Clue does work as international in that sense), but the board games you see in the background are all vintage and from different decades!

I did not cover all the Clues, although they do have at least 8 of them in that closet. But their assortment of board games is quite interesting!

[someblakearts]

March 7th Camera from Honkai Star Rail

Here's another print from Hoyoverse' new title 'Honkai Star Rail'. This time it's a model, print and paint of March 7th's polaroid camera:

It was printed on the Elegoo Mars 3 Pro before being primed, painted (airbrush+vallejo) and lacquered to give it a plastic-cast toy texture and finish.

I'm really happy with how the model and print came out. It feels satisfying to hold in the hands and it looks great. I'm still not 100% sure on adding the wheel to the front part (instead of the viewfinder-hole) but anyone printing that could optionally not stick that part on.

I also need to pick up some better lacquer. This one is a bit too textured. It kind of works for this piece as it gives it that rough plastic toy texture, but it would definitely affect more detailed prints. Any suggestions would be welcome!

Here's how it compares to the in-game mesh details-wise:

Want to print and paint this yourself? You can find a. free download in my collections over on Cults3d or MyMinifactory

[contac]

[ballcrusher74]

finished a model edit/retexture of the nutcracker to make my guy fencer !! was fairly fun to work on

def will make more renders of him in the future and maybe animations. for rn take this gif

[haaam-guuuurl]

Looks like Brennan is finally getting compensation for all the psychological torture!!

[bloodofgrapes]

I think more people should go back and either replay or rewatch (.... or forbid, play or watch them for the first time) aa1, even if it's literally only case 1

fanon phoenix is so completely disconnected from the actual character that at this point they basically share a wacky hairstyle and a name to me. In the actual games, Phoenix is almost always depicted as the "straight man", even in comparison to Edgeworth: he's somber, dry, sarcastic, and often very tired of shenanigans and bullshit. He's a very ordinary "everyman", and that's like 80% of his appeal to me, tbh. It's not to say that he can't be silly or nonserious, but we have a unique look at the inside of his head and all the things he COULD say, but most likely does not.

He goes on to become a literal world renowned defense attorney, and so many people want to boil him down to a silly stupid little rabbit of a guy when he's anything but