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McKenzie

@artwithmckenzie.bsky.social

I love dinosaurs and I do art but I’m putting all that on hold because paying attention to the collapse of America means preparing for what is about to come. You should too. https://art-with-mckenzie.square.site

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Been doing a weight check on my mounts and it’s held up the base structure so far.

Now I added the skin from Mina 1.0 to see how this extra weight holds.

09.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So making Mina isn’t all artsy fartsy making a dinosaur. I have to design custom things for processing too.

So… I designed a rig that will hold her mold so I can spin it freely as I pour her silicone skin cast.

Big step y’all! Big step!

09.02.2026 04:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m at the do stuff and wait part with Mina. You’ll never guess what I’m working on next.

25.12.2025 03:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cleaned up her teeth. Now I’m gonna see if I can attach her snout and jaw and inside skins.

25.12.2025 01:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There’s always an “ugly” phase in art where you’re not sure if it’s gonna come together.

I think I’m on Mina’s 4th ugly phase.

16.12.2025 00:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It makes me happy you said that! 💜😊

16.12.2025 00:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re in the downhill stretch if I’m painting.

Fun fact: I’ve never done this before either.

This is called psycho paint because you have to be a psycho to paint with it.

It’s silicone paint and it has to be tinted with pigment separately and applied in a zillion layers.

15.12.2025 01:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
08.12.2025 04:30 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1

Prettyyyyyy!!!💜💜

08.12.2025 04:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did my first wall mounting test to see if she holds. She does!! Her jaw is printing and that’ll take a couple more days and I have to wait on material for other things. But she’s finally coming along.

08.12.2025 02:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I know it’s been crazy. And to be fair I’ve only decided to make her an animatronic in the last couple weeks.

06.12.2025 07:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you! 💜 It’s what I’m shooting for. Hopefully in a week I’ll have her ready to be moving and talking. Once all that is sorted then I can work on her skin. Then with the magic of paint and glue she’ll really look alive!

06.12.2025 07:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Every day I’m grinding away and never really feels like I’m making progress.

But her upper teeth are in. This is the old skin just got a fit test. I’m working on the inside of her mouth and throat and tongue as well as getting her brain sorted.

She better be perfect when I’m done!!

06.12.2025 07:27 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

💜💜💜💜🥹

06.12.2025 07:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I was fiddling with her eye movement behavior and as a goof I thought I’d also see how her eyelid blinking affects her skin and I found out that her eyelid mucks up her eye sculpt. So she may not blink but that eye looking around is gonna look real and ferocious.

01.12.2025 22:50 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Dang that is pretty!

29.11.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This jumbled mess is her brain. I kept adding more and more and more. Soon she’s going to have behaviors and mannerisms and react to things. And this isn’t even ALL her neat little mechanisms plugged in.

29.11.2025 09:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I had a freaking breakthrough! I didn’t know how loud I could make her. I thought she’d sound weak and fake.

Hell no.

Turn the sound up and keep in mind she’s gonna have two speakers. This is just one with the volume BARELY turned up.

29.11.2025 09:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I got it right.

28.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Working on eyes. This is mid process. I think I’m getting it right finally.

27.11.2025 03:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

25.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 13291    🔁 3585    💬 139    📌 134

I knew they’d cave. They always do.

I’ve always said republicans are heartless and democrats are spineless. Both parties never fail that perspective.

10.11.2025 06:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

If you believe that Dem leadership is fighting for you, ask them what they did when the Supreme Court took away the human rights of 50% of the nation, when two thirds of Americans disagreed with the Court’s decision, and we had the presidency. More than 3 years later. Ask how they’ve fought.

10.11.2025 05:06 — 👍 420    🔁 98    💬 11    📌 1
MTG seems to be saying all the right things lately. I can't decide if she's sincere & turning over a new leaf or if she's trying to tone down her rhetoric for a future gubernatorial run. Only time will tell.

MTG seems to be saying all the right things lately. I can't decide if she's sincere & turning over a new leaf or if she's trying to tone down her rhetoric for a future gubernatorial run. Only time will tell.

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like

You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools

As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

07.11.2025 06:40 — 👍 2427    🔁 477    💬 65    📌 74
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I’m getting better at making eyes. I got a dope one I just made. But here’s the progress so far from my first lousy attempt to one of my recent ones.

1: painted
2: painted with resin
3: sculpted, painted with resin
4: sculpted, shaped, painted with resin

05.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So I’ve been learning odontology. I think I’ve found the perfect combination to crate teeth that can scatter light as if it’s showing the separation of enamel and dentin.

If they were solid, Mina wouldn’t look real and she’s gotta look real!

05.11.2025 04:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Graham Linehan @Glinner • 37s

The left has conditioned you to associate the name 'Soros' with conspiracy theories. They even tried to paint the late Magdalene Burns as an antiSemite when she drew attention to his links to political troonery. Calling me a bigot is how @F Politics_ earns his keep.

Graham Linehan @Glinner • 37s The left has conditioned you to associate the name 'Soros' with conspiracy theories. They even tried to paint the late Magdalene Burns as an antiSemite when she drew attention to his links to political troonery. Calling me a bigot is how @F Politics_ earns his keep.

blaming jews for the existence of trans ppl is nazism. like the nazis actually did that. that’s literally why they started burning books.

30.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 136    🔁 26    💬 9    📌 0
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So I guess it’s taken me about 2 weeks to learn animatronics and some engineering.

Next update will be a painted one with hopefully a better looking eyeball and cooler movements.

30.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a cartoon character from the simpsons is screaming and says muahaha Alt: a cartoon character from the simpsons is screaming and says muahaha

I’ve made it even better!!!

30.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I want to see the chain of custody of this “donation.” 🤔

25.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0