Archive for October 28th, 2026

Apologies for the silence, I was sick like a dog, I needed the rest, real bad. It isn’t quite gone yet either, but I feel way better.

So what IS new?

I started working on (another) small modeling project: A scary looking knuckle duster. It is based on a few ideas that have been swimming in my head, and one of them is related to my novel of course. Erika von Kroenen’s mechanical arm (as if it wasn’t enough of a weapon as it is) features a steel “strike plate” that covers the weak spot where the control cables for her fingers enter each individual fingers. It is basically a thick piece of polished steel engraved with “Kaiser + Reich”, like the slide of her pistol.

She could see the fine braided cables running through each fingers like tendons, the dozens of motors and miniature gearboxes nesting within the forearm struts. How every fingertip ended into a cruel-looking talons made of something else, something much harder, polished to perfection.

It looks like a brass knuckle, and she uses it as such.

Anything else?

Next, I’ve done some work on my 3D model of the Froznovia compound, I did a little bit of detail work on the A-serie housing blocks, basement wells, window frames, glass panes, and bars.

I also scared myself because I completely forgot that I had one of my reference models standing behind the window for scale…

I also think I’ve nailed an amazing material setup for the revised textures of the prisoner’s uniform. No idea if there is a good way for me to release that given the lack of detail texture support in SL, but I haven’t tried to see what it looks like at 2K yet.

I also did a mild amount of writing, new things and I have yet to finish the revision to Alina’s induction.