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06/29/2025

A repaint of a seeker droid for a client for his Mandalorian cosplay. Initially grey client wanted it to match his medic kit colors.

02/03/2025

Several months ago there was an art challenge to honor the late Vern Clootens who was a member of a free reference photography page that I belong to. He had an amazing eye for nature and freely shared with us his photos for use in art projects. As an amateur artist who has dabbled in the many aspects of art I really wanted to participate. I had just started a sessional job and was unable to finish it within the month time frame given. But I kept going. It started off with a Maple Burl and pyography but the muse took hold and I ended up woodcarving, staining and acrylic painting the piece. The eye is gold leaf. I hope you all like it. It has taken three months to finish.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!
~Ember Tracyn

09/24/2024

Fitz and I are looking forward to this week. Hope to see you there! Ember Tracyn.

09/03/2024

So I've got alot done on the repeater project lately. The main issue is still sourcing a prod that works as well as any of the commercially available hand crossbows (or better).

So far each prod requires alot of customizing on the design files due to the strength of the prod and the brace height (the distance from the prod to the string in the relaxed position).

The only prods I've found that are relatively easy to get on a repeatable basis that don't require manually cutting down are the 50lb and 80lb fiberglass prods for small hand crossbows like the Badger.

The 50lb are available through Ali-express for under $20 but take more then a month to arrive, the 80lb are available via Amazon for roughly $25 and take about a week.

The 50lb prod functions really well and shoots maybe 30-40 ft max. (In the photo's it's the top repeater with the smaller Arrow keeper)
The 80lb has a shorter brace height and caused me all kinds of headaches to get it to catch and caulk the string catch without being to week for the prod. but I finally got it working and it is shooting about 40-50ft.

The 80lb is significantly harder to draw out so I'm not sure if I'm even getting all the power on it that I can.

I incorporated a suggestion from David Maxfield and instead of putting a butt stock that rests on the front of the shoulder like a shotgun I instead added a hooking stock that goes under the armpit and hooks the shoulder from behind allowing me to use my whole body to brace against as I push outwards and away from me on the prod. It helps significantly with the draw on each repeater I've tested it on.

Adding the hook made the stock significantly longer then before making even the small repeater more difficult to travel with, so then I modified the handle so the stock can pivot 180 degrees to fold forward under the prod and the Mag on front will fold back and down (need to adjust the second mag a bit so it fols all the way).

Then I got another idea alltogether and spent most of the day modeling it out (had to order another prod and still have to print a bunch of parts out before I can tell you all about it). In the meantime, enjoy some messy shop photo's.

03/31/2024

Finishing my Mandalorian kit was a great pleasure. Taking photos in it out in the wild was amazing!
Mando name: Ember Tracyn
Clan: Krayt
Location: Utah

03/30/2024

has been trying to get me to paint D&D figurines again.
I don't know why I have been dragging my feet. I really have fun doing it! Tomorrow, I may finish up some dragons!

02/05/2024

Larpers, anyone looking for a small 19.75" diameter punch Shield?

Wiped this up last week after giving an impromptu PD shield Tutorial here at my shop. I'm getting ready to start another film so I'm not sure when I'd get around to Plasti-dipping it so as is I'd sell it for $150. or if you want me to PD and paint it I'd sell it for $250 (that would take up to a month for me to complete pending film schedule).

PM me if you are interested. Shipping would be extra.

12/05/2023

Lots of sanding going

09/28/2023

Ember Tracyn on shift at the starwars booth this last weekend! I am so excited to share what my new paint scheme looks like finished, and it glows!

09/09/2023

Latest project. Feathered helm!
Stay tuned for more pictures soon.

09/03/2023

Finished painting these plastidip shields that Fitz made for some live action Larping!

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