Passionate about music and making video games. I like rhythm games, Final Fantasy and complex mechanics. I mostly post on mastodon.gamedev.place and will follow you from there. Next up: Dokomi, Gamescom
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New paint for the blade of Lightning's Gunblade, new shapes and new decorative elements. All made of Wood and MDF. Ready for Dokomi in time!
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Trying out how to place the straps on Lightning's boots. Gotta get these ready for #Dokomi - who else will be there? If you would like to chat / meet, please contact me, I love meeting new people!
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Small improvements that took way too long: Lightning's gunblade handle now has a foot and the screw and the grip cushion is closer to the form in the artwork.
Screws are actual screws that I shortened. Grip cushion is leather, rest of handle is wood / MDF and the round thing that I call the trigger is PLA with an aluminium insert that will later hold a screw.
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There are so many straps on Lightning's uniform and I loved making all of them. I made some of real leather, some of real leather that I painted and these are for the boots, made of painted Vinyl, as is the big chest belt for the coat. They also use Ciri's belt buckles like all the other straps. Pins will be made from paperclips and they will also get additional sleeves that I made from cardboard, which Lightning only has on the boots' straps.
All the paint is acrylic paint. I haven't decided yet if I want to finish them with lacquer - it might increase durability, they will be on the boots after all, but it might also look too shiny and it might not work with the cardboard. Probably gonna make a quick test with the cut off pieces.
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Making sure all these cute tiny buckles are painted perfectly. These are 3D printed PLA and will go with Vinyl straps. They will hold the leather extensions (shinguards) of Lightning's boots.
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Well look what it does to the boots' straps' lengths when Lightning is a real person, male and a cyclist. These are made from Vinyl I had left over from the coat belt. The texture matches the one of the straps in the artwork quite well and I think the color is fine, too. My boots are very different anyway, but there are different versions of the boots in different artworks, too; for example, while Lightning looks almost the same in Dissidia 012 FF, her boots are more brownish there.
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Since my motivation for woodworking is back, I'm working on the gunblade details. The long slot has angled edges while the two more round holes have some kind of decoration / protection ring. The entire blade is made of wood and all of these will be wood, too. My sand paper sticks (just sand paper glued to a piece of a broken yard stick) come in very handy here. A router bit might have done the job faster but I don't have a matching one.
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Hey look this bobbin sun fits neatly into a CD spool case. It even doubles as a fidget spinner!
No-tangle bobbin sun by jhaupt: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3243477
Very lazy primitive spool adapter by me: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7024097
Bobbin (the white ones, not yet tested in the sewing machine): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2770475
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I am still in a "will move soon, hopefully" state, so I didn't want to build something that needed effort or a lot of material, but I was able to improve my sewing setup by using my already emptied CD shelve and a huge board. :D Turns out the depth of a CD is just the height increment I need to make my dining table more ergonomic for sewing.
See second picture for the wacky cardboard box setup I used before (which was surprisingly fine except when going fast).
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Working on details on Lightning's gunblade. I wanted to make this one out of actual metal and as it turns out, brass is really easy to bend and form. I used my hands, a vise and a pair of universal pliers. I also heated the end where it makes the U form with a heat gun but I don't think that had any effect.
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