Studio Draven, MDes

Our new ratty babies! <3 :)

Currently being restored - this gorgeous GI Joe Night Raven S3p, one of the most beautiful aircraft toys ever designed IMO.
The original stickers were an absolute mess and beyond saving, so its now all cleaned up and ready for repros, which should arrive soon.
#GIJOE
#ARAH
#80sToys
#ToyRestoration

3D print win - equipment holders for my A frame keyboard stand. Just under £40 a pair...

...or I could just 3D print them. :)

Get in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results. This weekend, Amazon is premiering it's $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop. But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller, Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie. The book is perfect: it's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money. We need people to: 1. "buy" the book (it's free) 2. Share this post and get other people to buy the book. That's it. Then we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon.

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

There are people in the world who say that there are only two genders: male and female.
But the heart and soul have much more personality.
It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words.
You were born to live freely.
Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Personally I thought it was better than Gladiator 2, but only a little.

Agreed. There aren't many retailers like them left now, so one would have thought they'd be a mite more conscientious.
Since the TV we've bought a washing machine, microwave, and air fryer, and I've built 2 PCs. And none of that money went to them. Clearly I'm not the only one.

I'll be at a Burns Society celebration. Last year was the best haggis I've ever had.

Our TV broke down ONE day before the warranty expired, but we couldn't get to their store until the day it did expire. Currys flat out refused to do anything at all to help.

They'll never see my business again. I use their store to browse for stuff I'm interested in, then I go and buy it elsewhere.

This happens to at least one character every season - Bob, Eddie, the list goes on.

I've honestly stopped caring at this point. Marvel change their minds so often I dont even know what's still coming out, and I honestly can't say I give much of a toss now. Their output since Wandavision/Falcon and the Winter Soldier has mostly been nowhere near as good as their earlier stuff IMHO.

A screenshot of the tracking information in Royal Mail's app, showing the parcel as "delivered to your Safeplace".

A photo taken by the delivery driver of the parcel on my doorstep in full view of the road, where literally anyone could walk up and steal it.

Well.According to Royal Mail, my "Safeplace" for deliveries is MY FUCKING DOORSTEP, IN FULL VIEW OF THE FUCKING STREET.

Not impressed. He even ran the fucking RING CAMERA DOORBELL, so I have him on video doing it.

More Unreal Engine shenanigans.

So I finally had a chance to put all the stuff I've gotten from the Roboskull MkII Kickstarter in one place and take a photo of it. And DAMN.
It's more than a little impressive.
#Roboskull #Skeletron #RedShadows #GIJoe #ActionForce

Don't be a stranger dude.
(Toy_room from Twitter, in case you wondered)

Still alive. Messing around in Unreal Engine.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Can't wait for people in my meatspace echo chamber to Agree The Fuck out of my new t-shirt by @joeyesposito.bsky.social. Feels great being CORRECT

Then it probably SHOULD, and hopefully WILL.

Glow-up.

#GIJoe
#Haslab
#Rattler
#ARAH
#TigerRat

£80. Apparently, the price tanked hard after the Hasbro version the other year.

Oh my.
#Haslab
#Rattler
#GIJoe
#WildWeasel

I'm hearing Kapow have some good price Classified reorders too. This is a good nerd week!

Hi there, UK Comics Collectors! Does anybody have copies of, or is able to source, issues 12 - 13 of Titan Books Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magazine from 2008? I'm affiliated with a project dedicated to archiving and preserving ancillary media, and those are the last two needed from that run.

Every single year.

@tfnationltd.bsky.social day 1 haul.
X-9 RAVAGE!!!! <3

Does anyone need the Botcon 2006 Beast Wars prequel comic? Looking for £70. TFN pickup available.

I have no idea how many Tamiya kits I've built over the years, but I do know I enjoyed every single one of them.
RIP, and thank you for SO many happy hours over more than 4 decades of my life.

The only Beast Era related kids' meal stuff I got was a complete set of Beast Machines happy Meal toys, and a couple of the Berast Wars ones.

I'm not sure if I'm going to bother with the Skybound TF comic after the latest issue. They did something utterly distasteful and overly grim just to hammer home a point they'd already repeatedly made. It just felt really wrong to me.
I think I'm out.
#transformers
#skybound
#Megatron