During a past visit, my daughter created the 3D print file for a pair of kunai she thought would go well with my latest Mushi sword. At long last, after two moves and considerable time, the kunai are finished! The body was painted the same ice color as the icy hand guard of the Mushi sword and the handles wrapped in matching color.
The kunai are now hanging from the hand guard of the Mushi katana on my new Wall of Swords.
Speaking of handle wrap (ito-wrap), I was finally able to locate this same color and type on Amazon. After the supplier I usually used disappeared from eBay, I found it impossible to locate the stuff, but I kept doing searches over time. I needed two more rolls for the swords I have yet to complete. Then lo-and-behold, success on Amazon! I put in an order immediately, the wait time will be about a month but I am so relieved to finally find what I was looking for.
Meanwhile, since moved into a small one bedroom apartment, I was able to carve out a small shop area to work. It is a fraction of the size I am used to, as a consequence work goes very slowly. Currently I am working on printing and assembling a small number of chakram sets for the character Axel in Kingdom Hearts to sell in my Etsy store (coolmodelguy). The yellow and grey chakram on my work table is one of a pair I am preparing for fine finishing and a full paint job. The blue pair are fully assembled in rough finish, which simply means that the assembly work has been done but no finishing work. The print layer lines and print artifacts need to be sanded, filled with putty or gap filling primer, then painted by the buyer.
To finish up the last of the filament on my last roll of PLA plastic, I printed two sets of Homestuck Gamzee horns, now covered in Bondo glazing putty and calling the print table of the printer home for a little while. These I will finish and paint for my Etsy store.
This is how I am finishing out 2022. The remaining two Mushi katana’s are in need of blade painting and handle wraps. Since all painting will most likely need to be done outdoors, I will have to wait for the “opportune moment” when the weather cooperates. There are some ideas about creating a painting space in our bay window so I can paint indoors, if I can create the proper ventilation I would prefer that.
drew a Good Hand and decided to redraw that one thing i did for the msa prompts. its one of my favorite drawings from that thing. it lacks detail or elements, but the meaning i kind of put behind it and the fact its like. the climax of hellbent or maybe the whole series is just real cool. the difference from now and a year ago before is nice to look at!
version without cheap ass motion blur plus the original for comparison
Everynote hands down, it's that one song I can listen on repeat and love it unconditionally. I like about all the mystery skulls songs but I gotta either have the right mood or be mentally prepared for it (Hellbent gives me ptsd now cuz of what happened in animated) but yeah I generally like all the songs but Everynote just holds a special place in my heart. Thx for the ask, and don't be sky to ask more cuz I enjoy awnsering questions
SYNOPSIS — much to you and your boyfriend jake’s delight, there’s going to be a math championship for idols now. with both of you hellbent on winning, you two decide to be rivals again for just a little while. may the best star-crossed hater win. (the sequel to boomerang.)
six -pda but not rlly!
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authors note: ITS BEEN A WHILE EVERYONE!! how r u all ^_^ this chapter is long overdue and im still not back fully but hopefully u enjoy this chapter <3 msa part is bc my friends and i made that one tiktok to the sound so silly
EQUATION FOR DISASTER! a jake smau.
genre: smau, crack, fluff, idol au
pairing: idol! jake x idol! fem! reader
warnings: swearing, ignore timestamps, photos of ive's yujin will be used to visualise outfit / concepts for y/n!
taglist is OPEN!
I always knew about the existence of the series, but I never really gave it a chance. Not because I thought that it was going to be bad, but because I'm kind of picky on terms of content that I want to watch. I've known the existence of MSA ever since the first video just got out, but only really got into it after Hellbent was out (one and a half years before The Future was released, I think!)
I eventually just decided to give Ghost a chance and man! I don't regret it!
Sanding. Lots and lots of sanding. Red powder everywhere. Good thing my Honey loves me!
Picture #1: Plastic tub full of smaller parts for the five swords, all sanded and ready for their first coat of primer paint.
Picture #2: I had sanded down one sword blade and the guard parts for scabbard fitting, but there are four more blades to go and a newly epoxy coated scabbard to sand.
Pictures #3 and #4: The modified Mushi sword before and after sanding down the Bondo putty coating. The sandpaper used for this step was 180 grit.
Picture #5: Three blades sanded, two more to go.
Pictures #6 and #7: All of the smaller parts, the handles, the hand guards and the pair of kunai all laid out on cardboard, shown before and after the grey primer paint was applied.
Pictures #8 and #9: All five sword blades, fully sanded and laid out on a strong sheet of cardboard for primer painting.
Picture #10: These three hand guards needed repeat coating of Bondo putty and sanding before they were ready for primer paint.
I’m putting extra time into this project right now because the opportunity presented itself and the diversion was welcome. If things continue to go smoothly then painting colors is right around the corner. Yay!
((This blog is about five years old, believe it not! I started it back when Hellbent first aired (which was probably my first ever exposure to MSA as a whole), and this blog hadn’t been a multimuse by then. When I first started out, Vivi was my first ever muse on this blog. You can kinda tell since she’s my most developed of my main trio, too.))