Finished the sandblasting:

The Divisions symbols I had finished from before. The Horizons set is new. Why are there two of each symbol? When I made the Divisions set... however long ago it is now, the aspect ratios made some of them super huge next to others. That bothered me so I rescaled them to look closer in size re: line weights and overall dimensions, but I didn't want a partial set of duplicates, which meant making a whole second set. Which meant making two sets for Horizons as well, because consistency.

Next up is glitter, after I figure out which colour(s) each song is.

Hey remember these and how I said I had plans?

Plans:

Kinda hard to see, I know.

Worried I might have to delay because my transfer tape is too weak to use on anything other than my light and extra-light sandblasting vinyl, but turns out regular ol' masking tape works just fine when there aren't a million tiny details in the design.

Applied to the bottles and ready for weeding/masking.

I leave the tops unmasked so the sandblasting roughs up the surface of the threads a little bit for better epoxy adhesion when I glue the lids on later.

(Somehow missed the symbol for "This Endless Endeavour" so I'll have to fix that. Either it is on a separate piece of vinyl that I misplaced somewhere, or I forgot to include it entirely when I was doing layout.)

Sandblasted some stuff. Now comes the tedious process of removing the vinyl.

Happy MAR10.

A bit late with these but it is still March 10 somewhere so it still counts.

Sandblasting on shot glasses and a bourbon glass. Knocked these out in about five hours total for all four, start to finish. Weeding and masking consumed the majority of the time. The sandblasting itself took less than five minutes; I spent longer setting up the equipment than using it. That's always how it goes with sandblasting: ridiculous amounts of prep work if you want good results.

I think I'm going to add some colour to them, in the little divots on the underside of each glass.

Turnaround video:

It was on sale.

@bleedpremiumoctane sent me an assortment of craft herpes glitter. Now I have more than two types of orange.

A moment of silence for his forever-glittered apartment.

The results.

At the makerspace until almost 01:00 gettin' shit done.

At the makerspace until almost 01:00 gettin' shit done.

Progress on a sandblasting project.

Weeding this one took almost two hours.

I have five more to go.

Kicking off the new year the right way.

By which I mean doing some very detailed vinyl cutting for a project that has been on hold for way too long.

Going to use January and perhaps February to complete things in the piles of unfinished projects scattered all over my room.

GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT

Yule has come a smidge early for me. :D

The makerspace has acquired a spiffy brand-new Summa S One D60 vinyl cutter.

Spent yesterday assembling the stand, then had to go home because of boring shit like "needs to eat food occasionally", but today?

Ohhh, today.

Today is PLAYTIME.

It is once more SNOWFLAEK TIEM in the north.

A tutorial about how I make my snowflakes.

Heeey, another of my characters.

She is a tiger/eland/rattlesnake chimera. Her ryuu-neko's name is Veles, and he is an irascible little shit to anyone who isn't Synvri.

Are YOU lookin' at ME? Another Golden Memento Skirmish card.

Glitter jar made for @elitegamershaven. The photos don't provide a terrific sense of scale here; the bottle is about 10cm tall and 2.5cm in diameter. The Haven logo is sandblasted into the outer surface, and the inside is filled with an absolute shitload of different shapes and sizes of blue/green/white/silver glitter and of course blue/green/teal glow powder. There's also a small chunk of tumbled chrysocolla kicking around in there, and I think some clear quartz chips, along with four large and four small white glass crystals and blue glass crystals. Maybe a bit of hawk's eye (AKA blue tiger's eye) too? Definitely some small amethysts. Been a long time since I made it so I don't remember precisely what-all went into it. Everything is mixed into mineral oil so it swirls around all cool-like when the bottle gets flipped around.

Photos courtesy of @elitegamershaven because I completely forgot to photograph it before I gave it away. No video of it in action this time, sorry.

Made some shot glasses with the MSA Ghost skull emblem and spiky vines. Messed up a little and got kind of terrible overspray going on. Didn't mask off high enough nor was careful enough with the airstream direction while sandblasting, so there's some obvious frosting on the insides of three of them, and some less obvious but there-if-you-know-what-to-look-for on a fourth. One each of the big-skull-some-vines and small-skull-more-vines turned out fine.

Made these over a year ago, but didn't photograph them until today.

My entry to this year's @dreamkeeperscomic Halloween contest. Glow-in-the-dark necklace pendants of the Nightmare and Neon Knives faction symbols.

Pendants are approx. 4cm in diameter and made of stone; not sure what, exactly, but if I had to guess I'd say some sort of agate. Faction insigna were drawn in Inkscape, cut out of vinyl, sandblasted into the stones, then filled in with paint (the purple of the Nightmares pendant), and glow powder mixed into clear porcelain varnish (everything else). Baked in regular oven to fuse the paints and varnish/powder mixes, then slapped things with a spray-on clearcoat for extra protection.

(Image alt text will be added later, when I have a proper keyboard and not just a stylus.)

@peacekeeperangel Nah, just four legs on this critter (is not lizard).

Probably should have clay'd the legs first due to the weight of the clay on the body flattening the arch of the spine somewhat, but it still looks fine so I don't care. Lesson for if/when there is a next time.

Really wishing this clay would dry faster. And the paint on the backs of the glass eyes. Might smack them with the ol' heat gun and see if that speeds the process a little.

Been a while since I have done any serious sculpting. First time ever building an armature this big. My time estimate was waaay off. Really should know by now that I need to double my time estimate and then double it again.