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motetusI could spend my entire life drawing nothing but the most beautiful, magnificent, explicit gay porn, and still all I'd be known for would be this stupid duck. WHY DIDN'T I JUST DRAW SERVIUS PLACIDUS' GIANT THROBBING UNDERWATER ERECTION?
On Friday I had the creature known as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ainsoph15 turn up on my doorstep bearing cupcakes and a certain Pleistocene mammal*, and therefore I had the task of keeping her fed and watered and entertained for the weekend. For the first I had toad-in-the-hole (now with extra batter!), for the second gin and tea and port, and for the third I dragged her to the university museum, mainly because I thought it was finally time I said a proper hello to the T-rex skeleton I walk past every day on the way to work. One of these days I will go back there again with my camera to document the sarcophagi of these two ancient Egyptians buried in the same tomb who were totally gay for each other (names suggested they were brothers but they were very clearly not, and they were buried with little dolls inscribed with each other's name. Aww!), but the point of this post is what we found in the museum gift shop.
Paint-your-own rubber duckies.
Yes. Fabric store for supplies, back home, stayed up late (and this morning) trying not to accidentally drink the paint water instead of our G&Ts and sever arteries with aluminium shards and nails and needles. So uh, say hello to Centurion Ducky and his little Brigantes friend, everyone.
If we'd been a bit more organised we would have taken progress photos, but we weren't. I think it's fairly obvious what we did though - all the metal stuff is from aluminium cans and very thin wire. Which was why we needed to drink those G&Ts, yes. ALCOHOL FOR ART.
Off on their wee ducky adventures. Apologies for the rather boring setting - I would have taken them outside for better lighting and scenery, but have you seen how miserable it is out there today?
Brigantes Ducky and the totally unsubtle tattoos I gave him. They are dark blue, really! Evil camera magic has sort of killed off how blue they and his tartan cloak are. Yes, that's his little dagger too.
Centurion Ducky in more detail. I cannot claim any credit for the beautiful metalwork on the helmet and lorica segmentata, that was allainsoph15's work. I would have ended up with many fingers missing had I tried to do it. And anyone suggesting that the top of the helmet needs to be more rounded should try persuading the wife to let us construct a miniature blacksmith's forge in the living room.
Aww, duckies. ♥♥♥
* It's official. I have a mammoth collection. :D
His name is Mrc. Because he is big and soft. YAY MAMMOTH.
On Friday I had the creature known as
ainsoph15 turn up on my doorstep bearing cupcakes and a certain Pleistocene mammal*, and therefore I had the task of keeping her fed and watered and entertained for the weekend. For the first I had toad-in-the-hole (now with extra batter!), for the second gin and tea and port, and for the third I dragged her to the university museum, mainly because I thought it was finally time I said a proper hello to the T-rex skeleton I walk past every day on the way to work. One of these days I will go back there again with my camera to document the sarcophagi of these two ancient Egyptians buried in the same tomb who were totally gay for each other (names suggested they were brothers but they were very clearly not, and they were buried with little dolls inscribed with each other's name. Aww!), but the point of this post is what we found in the museum gift shop.Paint-your-own rubber duckies.
Yes. Fabric store for supplies, back home, stayed up late (and this morning) trying not to accidentally drink the paint water instead of our G&Ts and sever arteries with aluminium shards and nails and needles. So uh, say hello to Centurion Ducky and his little Brigantes friend, everyone.
If we'd been a bit more organised we would have taken progress photos, but we weren't. I think it's fairly obvious what we did though - all the metal stuff is from aluminium cans and very thin wire. Which was why we needed to drink those G&Ts, yes. ALCOHOL FOR ART.
Off on their wee ducky adventures. Apologies for the rather boring setting - I would have taken them outside for better lighting and scenery, but have you seen how miserable it is out there today?
Brigantes Ducky and the totally unsubtle tattoos I gave him. They are dark blue, really! Evil camera magic has sort of killed off how blue they and his tartan cloak are. Yes, that's his little dagger too.
Centurion Ducky in more detail. I cannot claim any credit for the beautiful metalwork on the helmet and lorica segmentata, that was all
ainsoph15's work. I would have ended up with many fingers missing had I tried to do it. And anyone suggesting that the top of the helmet needs to be more rounded should try persuading the wife to let us construct a miniature blacksmith's forge in the living room.Aww, duckies. ♥♥♥
* It's official. I have a mammoth collection. :D
His name is Mrc. Because he is big and soft. YAY MAMMOTH.
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:32 pm (UTC)I LOVE IT ALL.
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:58 pm (UTC)That centurion crest is indeed feathers from feather boa-like material. Should I ever get bored and decide to do modernAU!duckies, I can totally make stripper Duckies with the rest of it.