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My new gossamer support spindle, made by local Australian artisan The Spindle Shop, along with a reversible support bowl arrived. This spindle is absolutely lovely. It’s made from banksia, lacewood, and frogwood & weighs 16 grams. The support bowl has a shallow dimple and a deeper dimple & is made from camphor. This is my…
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The simplicity of the colour scheme of this design is making it incredibly relaxing to do up.
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Started up my Harmony roving on a new banksia pod spindle. Meanwhile the 100g Ice&Fire roving was finished and pulled off onto the niddy noddy (498yds / 455m), freeing up the spindle for the next 100g ball.
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Decided to do another diamond paint. This one is tricky as the symbol sheet is printed incredibly poorly and many of the colours have very similar symbols.
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Scored this vintage german-made manual mitre saw on ebay for $50. I dissembled it and cleaned all the parts using mild soap mix applied with a toothbrush, rinsed off with clean water, toweled, and left to finish air drying. After all parts were bone dry, I went back in with fine steel wool and WD40…
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Finished the lake foreground & skyline scrub sections, and have started on the clouds.
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‘Superbia orciapis’ WE kirin. This piece is painted using FolkArt metallics, FolkArt colourshift, & atelier acrylic paints, and is sealed with a UV protective gloss topcoat. The colour scheme is based on the orchid bee. I’ve decided to keep this one for my collection but will be painting more windstones in this colour scheme in…
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Significant progress on the parasaur head. This is the most confusing pattern I’ve ever done, mainly due to the complex colour transitions.
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Spent all of a morning shading all the scales. Also added in the metallic black details.
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All the fur pieces for the parasaur head. I’ve grouped everything into the four main sections which will be assembled first, then those larger sections will be fitted together.