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If you aren't following Punished Props, you should be. Bill and Britt Doran do an amazing job providing a wide variety of content for those interested in prop and foam fabrication, electronics, painting, and oodles more. The latest feature is on turning toys into amazing props with the magic of paint and one of the features is the Spirit Halloween Deluxe Proton Pack that I've been eyeing since it came out. Every time I've gone looking for this beauty it's been sold out or only available on fleabay at three times the price. With this nudge, however, I decided to...

Tracey: When you can’t run, you crawl. And when you can’t crawl, when you can’t do that… Zoe: … you find someone to carry you. When Firefly first aired in 2002, I hadn't jumped on the Whedon bandwagon. I remember thinking, "Space cowboys? Whatever." and never gave the show a second thought. Then about a decade ago, after I had gotten caught up on Buffy and Angel, a friend asked what I thought of Firefly and was disgusted to know I'd yet to watch it. He handed me the boxed set and said, "Don't give this back until you've seen...

I've become something of a pattern hoarder of late. A couple times a year it seems that the major companies do $1 a pattern sales and I go nuts buying anything that I don't think I already own, which is probably why an article about 83,500 vintage patterns being available online caught my eye. I haven't had a ton of time to search through these yet, but it's essentially a wiki for patterns that provides images of the front jacket and details about the origination of the design with links to pertinent resources. A quick perusal of the article led...

I started playing WoW in ye olde vanilla times but have been a casual since just after the launch of Cataclysm and around the time I started costuming. It probably won't surprise you to know that whenever I make a new toon I tend to design it as something I'd actually want to wear. So while on flights hopping from battle pet trainer to battle pet trainer tonight, I was going through my saved pages on Facebook and came across this little gem that I apparently saved back in 2015 after the launch of Heroes of the Storm. It features...

I tend to paint a lot of similarly colored Mandalorian armor. Black, red, and gunmetal are strong choices, but I often find myself yearning for something different. Maybe brighter. Maybe with some geometric patterns or sculptural details.  I was cruising through Pinterest the other day and found these cool color scheme palettes that I thought might inspire those trying to find the right colors. Where do the colors come from? They're inspired by pixels in the given image! Then it occured to me that I might entice people to step away from standards if I'd offer them the opportunity to...