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@flaagan.bsky.social

Mechanical designer, car guy, gamer, & (former) fx artist. Trying to find the time to get into prop making & cosplay. (He / Him)

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04.11.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Trench Pilgrim 3D print and painted helmet.

Trench Pilgrim 3D print and painted helmet.

My entry for @galacticarmory.net Trench Crusade contest. Didn't win, but with ~200 entries & some seriously stiff competition (& life throwing a number of issues up while underway), getting into the top ~1/4 - 1/5 of the results by votes is big effing win in my book. Hope more contests will happen!

04.11.2025 03:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking at it again, noticed that's the right hand, which means it's facing away from the viewer, which completely changes the 'feel / personality' of the mech in a very interesting way.

03.11.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cool! Something I just noticed looking at this again - when I looked at it earlier I didn't notice the orientation of the hand closest to the viewer, so I thought it was facing to the left.

03.11.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking at the desktop on their laptop, you know they're unhinged without even reading their made-up story.

03.11.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I dig it! So is the idea that the gem is the sentient bit that the body 'hosts', or that it's some kind of power source for the rest of the body?

01.11.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Huge thank you to @foamsmith.com , Adam Savage was right in saying "when you need to look up how to do something, usually the first thing I come across is a video Bill's made of how to do it." Having enjoyed their vids for years, it's so awesome to be making stuff with all that shared knowledge!

01.11.2025 04:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This whole get-up started #3dprint last Friday night on a whim, & I was making the final pieces this morning (the chains on the ribbon hanging from the staff). All the files were things found on MakerWorld, & were printed on my @bambulabglobal.bsky.social X1C at home.

01.11.2025 04:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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That was a lot of fun! Had a friend & his family come over & went along with them through my neighborhood. There were a lot of trick or treaters this year. Had kids saying how cool the get-up looked & adults wanting to take photos of the setup and asking how I made it. #Halloween

01.11.2025 04:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Society's being punished because a mentally unstable pedo is running the country and doesn't want to face any sort of consequences while he's still alive.

30.10.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One comment I saw about this made the comparison of "we didn't do this and now the people who were lying and grifting became the people in charge." China saw what happened to the US and went "nope".

30.10.2025 05:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sweet jeebus, what the hell is in those Epstein files?

30.10.2025 04:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Simple, tie them up in the court and court-costs since the government doesn't have to worry about it.

29.10.2025 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every time I see one of those fuckers doing that hand gesture, I just assume they're showing the size of their pecker.

29.10.2025 07:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I miss playing @guildwars2.com , haven't played in probably 2 years, mainly cause life has strained me so much that I wouldn't be able to sit back & enjoy it. I still have to finish the post-End of Dragons content, but I am so buying the new expansion so it's ready for me when I'm ready for it.

28.10.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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two men standing next to each other and one of them says well yeah ALT: two men standing next to each other and one of them says well yeah
27.10.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Wendigo skull mask 3d print

Wendigo skull mask 3d print

I am so stoked with how this is turning out! #3dprint #halloween

27.10.2025 05:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When they do tear this bs down, it's going to be as much for failure to build a safe structure than for the million other reasons to do so. Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky- maybe he'll fuck over the contractors on this project too, and the whole place could collapse on a bunch of rich assholes.

26.10.2025 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even the Winchester Mystery House would be more well thought out than this bs.

26.10.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I swear to whatever, when we regain control of our control, if these fucks aren't put in front of a legal firing squad for their bullshit, it better be because somehow their entire database of assholes got purged as the sole reason for it.

26.10.2025 08:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nayuta looks awesome, and yeah, so much fun to see Chime becoming available. That minimap game has me super excited, been waiting for that announcement for ages.

26.10.2025 04:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So grateful this stream wasn't during the work week.

Sooooo much awesome packed into that stream, though. Holy hell the 3rd anniversary is gonna be epic!

25.10.2025 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seeing people talk about using AI for *any* aspect of game development reminds me of that experience, only the company is spending far more money and effort for the service, only to have to spend far more time and employee effort to unf*ck everything, and then hope it's not made from stolen work.

25.10.2025 00:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 80    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When the assets were finally made and delivered, the models were passable, but the texture maps were poorly done and didn't match to our specs for color mapping to allow for player customization. I ended spending nearly two months going through all the assets having to redo textures and test them.

25.10.2025 00:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of the games I worked on in my past was an MMO, which for player variety / customization required a volume of weapon models far greater than our team could crank out without adding time to development. The management decided to hire an overseas asset creation company to crank out a package.

25.10.2025 00:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Considering the fallout when it's caught that an art lead encouraged art theft (Bungie), what's gonna happen when a whole studio lets it happen through AI?

24.10.2025 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Want to bet they'll have to tear it down when he's gone because the corners cut make it a security nightmare?

24.10.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You think he knows what Darth does to the Emperor in the end? I don't think he does.

23.10.2025 04:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't forget, report them as well~

21.10.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was just thinking "wonder when are they gonna prop up that dead racist PoS' corpse again?"

21.10.2025 01:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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