I’m at the do stuff and wait part with Mina. You’ll never guess what I’m working on next.

Cleaned up her teeth. Now I’m gonna see if I can attach her snout and jaw and inside skins.

There’s always an “ugly” phase in art where you’re not sure if it’s gonna come together. I think I’m on Mina’s 4th ugly phase.

We’re in the downhill stretch if I’m painting. Fun fact: I’ve never done this before either. This is called psycho paint because you have to be a psycho to paint with it. It’s silicone paint and it has to be tinted with pigment separately and applied in a zillion layers.

Did my first wall mounting test to see if she holds. She does!! Her jaw is printing and that’ll take a couple more days and I have to wait on material for other things. But she’s finally coming along.

Every day I’m grinding away and never really feels like I’m making progress. But her upper teeth are in. This is the old skin just got a fit test. I’m working on the inside of her mouth and throat and tongue as well as getting her brain sorted. She better be perfect when I’m done!!

I was fiddling with her eye movement behavior and as a goof I thought I’d also see how her eyelid blinking affects her skin and I found out that her eyelid mucks up her eye sculpt. So she may not blink but that eye looking around is gonna look real and ferocious.

I had a freaking breakthrough! I didn’t know how loud I could make her. I thought she’d sound weak and fake. Hell no. Turn the sound up and keep in mind she’s gonna have two speakers. This is just one with the volume BARELY turned up.

I got it right.

Working on eyes. This is mid process. I think I’m getting it right finally.

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole." -𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

If you believe that Dem leadership is fighting for you, ask them what they did when the Supreme Court took away the human rights of 50% of the nation, when two thirds of Americans disagreed with the Court’s decision, and we had the presidency. More than 3 years later. Ask how they’ve fought.

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

I’m getting better at making eyes. I got a dope one I just made. But here’s the progress so far from my first lousy attempt to one of my recent ones. 1: painted 2: painted with resin 3: sculpted, painted with resin 4: sculpted, shaped, painted with resin

So I’ve been learning odontology. I think I’ve found the perfect combination to crate teeth that can scatter light as if it’s showing the separation of enamel and dentin. If they were solid, Mina wouldn’t look real and she’s gotta look real!

blaming jews for the existence of trans ppl is nazism. like the nazis actually did that. that’s literally why they started burning books.

So I guess it’s taken me about 2 weeks to learn animatronics and some engineering. Next update will be a painted one with hopefully a better looking eyeball and cooler movements.

So I figured this out.

Already working on Mina 2.0. This is her eye under UV light to cure. Her eyes will be fully articulating and she’ll be able to blink. I’m also figuring out how to automate her jaw and making her roar on command.

Stay safe for those going to protest tomorrow. Stay peaceful & watch out for outside agitators. There WILL be outside agitators using this peaceful event to paint the left as violent etc. based on past events they’ve tried to infiltrate. Record/document it but do not engage. That’s what they want.

Found this old photo of a pair of happy customers who commissioned these pieces. I really enjoyed doing this for them 😊

I know the last pic is darker but it’s the same as the first ones. It’s side by side with my first super lame attempt.

So I decided to begin on Mina 2.0 as I figure out original Mina and I decided to use sculpted eyes instead of just painting a smooth sphere.

Doing an upper tooth check on Mina. I’m finding a ton of little things that aren’t perfect on her which I was hoping to avoid but considering I’ve never done this before, I’d say she’s a good prototype and I’m learning a lot.

Started working on her other side for coloring and doing patchwork. I also threw in my hand so you can see just how big she is.

I threw a placeholder eyeball in her to see if the size is right and painted some more. I’m confident I have to resculpt her upper teeth. But I think I got the coloring down so I’m gonna get her skin secured and start painting her all around.

Painting progress of Mina as I learn how to paint her. I don’t even know if she’ll end looking like this at all but we’ll see. When I figure it out I’ll paint her other side too. When I get her all glued on and teeth in, the roof of her mouth should blend into her gums seamlessly.

Still figuring out how to paint Mina. But she’s coming along.

So I thought, yeah I can paint anything. This should be no different. Nope. I’ve never painted something like Mina before so I’m having to learn how to do it efficiently but also to make her look real. Still a work in progress!

I couldn’t help myself. I had to see if regular airbrushing would work and so far so good. she’s going to go through a bunch of layers and fine tuning but the paint seems to be adhering. She’s only taken 5 years but I’m sooooo close!

Got her skin on! Had a few tears but I think I can fix it. But she’s coming along.

For Mina’s upper mouth in and slapped some silicone on there. Hopefully it looks good when it’s painted.

Finally got her upper chompers made.

Got Mina’s top skull finished along with her jaw and lower teeth. The alignment hole for her jaw to articulate is off by about 1/4” but I think I can fix that.

My latest Mina updates. I got her cast and now I’m just cleaning her out for her first mold.

Came all the way back here just to let @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social know that tonight was the first time I failed at making Mayo 3 TIMES IN A ROW! But I managed to figure out how to save it because yes, every time I make it, I think of you.

I’m back on the twitters as ItsColinTheCMan Come find me or follow me back for Christs sakes!

No, clay. Sex trafficking is illegal in all u.s. jurisdictions - for now.😒

I also think that, in addition to being disrespectful to the people who died there, calling everything Auschwitz is disrespectful to those currently interred in the uniquely Trumpist American concentration camps. They also have their own unique *current* and *ongoing* horrors.

I can’t tell what’s worse. A well orchestrated, organized dictatorship or the one that can’t even do THAT good. It’s like you’re being tortured and your torturers tied your knots loose and they bicker over the whip or the bat and you’re just sitting there like “let’s get on with it already, damn!”

It might not be apparent from the outside, but it seems to me that — for a variety of reasons — every decent person I know is suffering right now. Some of it a result of having human empathy, and some of it is very first-hand and immediate and painful. Just a thing to bear in mind, friends.

Could have stopped after "facts"

dem strategists: in order to win we must be more bigoted. we have to win bigots over by being more right wing. vote blue no matter who: *nods* minority non-voter: i didn’t vote bcos dems are too right wing and they’re bigoted toward my community. vote blue no matter who: ENJOY THE CAMPS! 😠

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

We must let go of our reflexive ick re: porn. We can advocate for the industry to be safer, more ethical, less toxic. But choosing not to care what happens to porn a). is saying fuck you to sex workers, which we don’t do here, and b). allows the right to hide censorship bills.

Okay… which one of you jokesters came into my place last night and opened all the kitchen cabinets? 😱

I guess we’re officially at war with Iran now if the felon’s post on his media site is true that we bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Perfectly timed on the longest day of the longest fucking year.

Called it