Heyo folks!
Big workshop update to start with: pretty much done with the shuffle! Took two months of hard work, but now at least all the essentials are in place. The last bits that need fixing I'll just handle as we go along.
To sum up the prior workshop setup in a simple descriptive sentence: a cramped osha maze ...
2022-11-20 18:59:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo folks!
Pictured: a small amount of the stuff I'm moving out of the workshop and into the creepy bunker storage room. Pics of 'revamped workshop' etc next update when I'm done with it all!
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It's been a wild month here. Project "catch up" continues, with a few added twists!
[X] Black...
2022-10-19 22:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
'Eyo folks! All good on your ends I hope?
Pictured: elves and humans living side by side... in my oven. Also furnishing mspaints, see below for context!
[X] Black hoods
[/] Patreon drops
[ ] Skin-toned hoods
[ ] Bigrig
Getting there, one step at a time... I have to say, feels good to catch up and cr...
2022-09-14 21:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks!
Summer's over and I'm back from my vacation. Hope you all got some sunshine and rest too. It's been a long spring for me with some unexpected daytime job stress issues, so this summer vacation was seriously needed. The big problems have been resolved, but I do have some very real recovery to get through. 2022-08-10 22:09:14 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks! All good?
Last proper 'monthly' post before the usual summer vacation in July (back mid-august!). Going to cover two topics - the usual workshop news, and a retrospective of the last year.
Starting with workshop news, I could pull up the bullet points, but it's basically two... One of which is several...
2022-06-12 21:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks, and hooray it's almost summer! Y'all doing alright?
Many things are still going a bit slow whatwith the stressy job-switch and all that, but the main suit rig is still a nice therapeutic build. Plus, I've had a precursor to a heureka moment with the overall tech... More on that in a bit.
First o...
2022-05-16 22:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks, how's life?!
It's been a hectic month, but good progress on the big project at least. As usual a mix of the todo-map, photos and text!
Before we get into the suit rig progress, smaller summaries on workshop-relevant stuff:
- During last week I successfully "resigned" from what I affectiona...
2022-04-18 19:40:45 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks, welcome to another monthly update wherein I combine braindumping and planning!
First off - I'll be casting hoods now in late march/early april, so expect the patreon drops during the next month.
Beyond that, it's been a bit on the hectic side here. Hoods and fun inventions have been on the backburner,...
2022-03-20 09:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoey, this was a rough month. A mix of the day jobs eating me alive and the workshop stuff not quite going fully as planned (grounded a phase late on a saturday, 2 full workshop-days wasted on fixing it, boo).
For a bit of context on the whole 'eaten alive by the day job'-thing, my usual weeks look like...
40h jo...
2022-02-15 20:50:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo folks, welcome to 2022! I'm still surprised things are going more or less according to plan, no major 'goddamnit that won't work'-moments yet. I've had to adjust designs and plans aplenty, but there's a difference between adjusting and getting blocked :)
Reminder before we get into things, $50 lifetime ahead of nex...
2022-01-16 21:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo folks, old and new!
First of all - I mentioned I'd do another hood-drop now that things are working. With some minor tweaks to the concept, we're doing it like this:
- active and >$50 lifetime...
- ...by the 13th of February, i.e. when the Feb post lands, ...
- ...and I'll drop a black hood of the...
The most boring month for alliteration, but it's sneaking by surprisingly fast. Two threads of progress this month, hoods and the suits!
Hoods:
You may have seen on the FB page that I mentioned solving the texture issue on the hoods (see SUIT-99 pic for an excaggerated explanation - my surfaces simply weren'...
2021-11-14 20:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks!
I mentioned in the sept post that I felt much better now that the headache of the rig issue was past, and that is holding up! The late september "make a bunch of skin-toned hoods"-plan went well enough, so that means we can look to the future with all this new energy. As usual, feedback's greatly appreciate...
2021-10-17 13:26:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, fellow suit afficionados! Laaaate monthly post, but the delay was worth it. Good news and answers aplenty!
As you know, I've been fighting with the production system since the start of the year. I'll be honest, it's completely eaten my life and all of my energy. Lots of other subprojects, but I hav...
2021-09-26 12:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks, and welcome to season 3!
As usual, I cannot thank you all enough for the continued support. We've got interesting times ahead!
I mentioned on the public FB season plan post (https://www.facebook.com/awalo...
2021-08-06 14:50:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Technically july now, but belated june post before the summer sabbathical!
Q2 was... brutal. Urgh. I've got serious abstinence going for workshopping the interesting things again! The production system issues definitely ate my life - the original plan was to finish it in late march, and I think y'all know how that went....
2021-07-02 14:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostCrunch-season at the daytime job, hurgh :/
I'll drop a proper update a bit later this month. Whole slew of suit-/hood-supplies waiting for me to escape the 60h crunchweeks, and I've got hopes for another 'round the patreon' hood-drop once the production quirks are sorted.
Stay tuned and stay alive, y'all!
First off, a few new faces! Welcome! Out of curiosity - was it the linktree that led you here?
On to business: the oven fuckup was an unexpected headache. If you missed the FB posts, basically the thermostat broke somehow and the oven over-heated. I got lucky in that only a few of the molds melted. By now I've managed t...
2021-05-13 14:00:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy easter folks! Alright, realtalk on plans y'all. Let me know if I've missed something, yeah? Ideas and suggestions welcome, 'cause we're in the deep end of latex mask RnD here :)
After finishing the white kit, I can conclude...
- the suit manufacturing method works well enough
- the basic sui...
2021-04-08 10:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Things are going well!
Suitwise, the retry on the white came out great. A few more and I may even start feeling confident?!
Hoods & misc, as you can see the paint technique is a challenge. I've gone through many experiments like the pictured one, but I think I've nailed it now! Also production machinery ...
2021-03-04 07:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks, and welcome to 2021! Everyone alive and well, yeah?
Right now I'm burning most of my brainpower on building/improving production machinery for the workshop, but I couldn't resist side-projecting a new face. Modelling during work-meetings is zen'y cyberloafing, y'know!
This is a fun example for m...
2021-01-13 22:07:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for your support during the "wonder-year" of 2020. With the ridiculous amount of hours I spend fighting with these things in the workshop, it feels good to know I'm not alone in my quest :)
I'm still amazed over how well the latest suit works! 90% of the durability is solved, ...
2020-12-21 10:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I am the god of glue!!!!
Worth it, now that I'm reasonably confident in the combo of looks and durability :)
A few days of work to go, then we'll see if it lives up to the hype!
2020-12-07 15:56:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Latest cast went GREAT! So psyched, finally closing in on 'acceptable' quality levels! Finishing it up over the weekend, hopefully :)
December's going to be a busy workshop month omg!
2020-12-02 16:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Slow times :)
New hoodmolds are coming along slowly but steadily.
* Adding an inbetween'er between the current S/M, so I'll have to start renaming things
* Adding wider-necked hoods for non-lollipop people.
* Miscellaneous fixes and tweaks
I'm itching to make gloves/socks and completely different hood m...
2020-11-10 10:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Tested the butt-elf this weekend, and jfc the badonkadonk on it. Shopped away the workshop background because eh it's already silly
Going to try a less ridiculous butt on the next one, and hopefully nail down the last surface problems! Will probably take more than one run, but still progress to be had :)
2020-10-12 16:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Sneak-peek ahoy! I dare say it's a big step ahead. Still not perfect, but significantly fewer surface problems! I'll probably be accused of being artistic with the purple-red'ish tattoos too, but in reality I had run out of black sheet latex without noticing o_o
Next week's store update will be mainly different base col...
2020-10-02 13:18:30 +0000 UTC View Post
First off - surface issues probably solved, mold cleanup->fixing->casting ahoy! Will take me until late september since the day-job is a bit hectic right now, but hell yes!
Immediate suitwork aside, I feel we've been getting closer and closer to something that's actually viable. I spent a chunk of time in august t...
2020-09-02 10:26:18 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo folks, welcome to season 2! Kept quiet but busy over summer with boring behind-the-scenes-stuff in the workshop. Tweaked molds, remodelled the place to make room for better casting, etc etc. I also spent four days patching foam pieces for this mold... and then it got ruined by coagulant slippage. Fun times, but it gave ...
2020-08-03 10:37:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to suitwork after all the side-wrapups! First a load of misc tech-fixes and experiments, then hopefully a proper upgraded suitcast in late july. I'm not getting much of a tan this year it seems... :)
2020-06-10 15:16:11 +0000 UTC View Post
