may Our Lady accompany you

the header is tablet-woven linen, with the linen weft for the band used as the warp for the rest of the piece on a warp-weighted loom, which you can see in the photos below (there is also a previous post with more process photos here). the reverse is a negative mirror image of the front, since I wove this as double-weave pickup rather than tapestry:

additional details below the cut:

The other half of the Lingjihun/Metytoyz Turtles have arrived! Everyone's favorite bickering bash bros, Raphael and Raphael! Hopefully this post will come out a bit shorter than the last one.

Everything I said about the Mike and Don apply here. The options are insane. One thing I'm thankful they made optional was Raph's head covering. Never been a big fan of the full cowl for any of the Turtles. I don't know how you can make a Turtle look more bald, but the full bandanna manages. Still, great inclusion for anyone who prefers that look! I also really love the weapon effects, they really help sell motion for poses. Another option I love is being able to display Leo either with his scabbards strapped to his back crossed or side by side. Great stuff!

I also forgot to mention it in the last post, but all four come with cloth trenchcoats, black pants, and plastic fedoras with magnets in them. They're decent enough quality, though I don't see myself ever using them except with Raph. He's just the Turtle I most associate with the look thanks to the first film. I also wish they had pockets. Bit of a bummer they don't.

Let's talk negatives. Now that I've had some time to sit with these guys, I've noticed that the paint wash on the plastrons, belts, and pads is prone to scratching/peeling. Not the paint itself, just the wash. The painted on buckles and other metal bits remain just fine. Perhaps they were packaged before the wash settled or maybe the soft plastic simply didn't absorb it properly. While I haven't heard widespread reports of this happening, most people simply aren't insane enough to handle "collectibles" meant for shelf display quite as frequently as I do. To most people, these are pose 'em once and then put them on a shelf forever. I have heard enough say these can leave your hands with a bit of a dry, slightly tacky feeling after posing sessions and I can confirm that's indeed the case. I have a feeling the wash has something to do with it.

With a brown pour Gundam marker and some wiping, you can get a wash going that's a decent color match. Or, whatever. Since the color of the plastrons and utilities are the proper color, it's really not particularly obvious to anyone it's not pointed out to. Possibly another reason I haven't seen this discussed. Or maybe my hands secrete some kind of horrible acid that science simply cannot explain.

The Official Trip (and sometimes the Raider) Collection™ because I think about them a really normal amount

This means:

If you draw a hard line between "drug" and "medicine" based on current legality where you live (or any other criteria) you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to do massive harm to someone's body, mind or well-being you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to contribute meaningfully to someone's healing, function or happiness you've gone wrong somewhere,

An idea I had for Blood of Eden propaganda/recruitment posters featuring some of our favorite guys - combo of digital-print cyberpunk graphic design style with oldschool Saturday Morning Post covers like you'd see Leyendecker paintings on

I was gonna post these ahead of tabling at a small con and selling prints of them but ended up not tabling because turns out grad school is hard