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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2025

Bro, I fucking hate PC gaming sometimes.

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 21/10/2025

Probably my quickest platinum yet. This game had me HOOKED.

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 20/10/2025

Late post, but shout out to the homie @recked.dev for snagging this for me at the gundam base pop!

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 07/10/2025

They cooked on this “The Art and Music of South of Midnight” box set 😍 @pikachulita.bsky.social @compulsiongames.bsky.social

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 11/04/2025

This the one right here. Not sure the source, found it on a homie’s IG story

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 11/03/2025

Week 8: Glassware This is as far as I got on this, but I'm calling it done #Blender3D #B3D #BlenderWeeklies

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 04/03/2025

Week 8: Glassware I've been planning to get in on these for a while but it always crosses my mind too late in the week. Getting an early start on this one to give myself time. WIP on some lab stuff. #Blender3D #B3D #BlenderWeeklies

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 02/03/2025

My man Vince from Recess was like "the studio still using the same barber?" 😂

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

That's basically the long and short of it! I'm probably forgetting some steps along the way, but hopefully y'all enjoyed the brain dump. I needed to get this out of my head and on record before mentally moving on to the next thing. Wingspan pic for posterity

Full view of the build showing the wings fully expanded

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

The base, which will probably be re-done in the future, is based on a location in V Rising called "Dracula's Demise" where you fight one of the coldest mfs to ever walk the earth: Lord Styx the Night Champion. I pulled the "blood crystal" model directly from the game files and 3d printed it.

V Rising screenshot of the "Dracula's Demise" location

Custom action base (poorly?) resembling Dracula's Demise

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

After assembly, I snapped pics, crudely traced them in Procreate, and experimented with some color schemes before landing on this one (Cerulean has a color theme every year, 2024's was red). The scribbles at the bottom were me deciding which of my existing paints I could mix to make these colors

Procreate drawing showing the chosen color scheme (purples + red)

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

LUCKILY, I had an old kit that met all the criteria AND had an even larger "chest sphere". I ended up benching the MG Epyon chest in favor of the chest/torso from the no-grade 1/100 Dynames (Gundam 00). This posed its own problems because I had to figure out a new way to mount the wings

Epyon chest compared side-by-side with the Dynames torso

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

Originally, I chose the Epyon's chest piece because it had a spherical section in the center that reminded me of the the big orb in the center of the V Rising HUD that shows your blood level. I pursued this idea for as long as I could before I managed to break some of the small pieces around it 😅

Early kitbash photo showing Gundam Epyon Chest

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

I started thinking of ideas that would fit the V Rising/Vampire theme. My first thought was to combine the Epyon and the Deathscythe Hell from Gundam Wing. The pieces on the side of the Epyon head reminded me of bat wings, and the Deathscythe Hell's wings/active cloak had big Dracula vibes already

Master Grade Gundam Deathscythe Hell kit

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

The game I played the most during this time was V Rising. I played it a lot on PC during early access, but picked it up again on PS5 when 1.0 released. Meanwhile, with the topic of mental health and model kits firmly at the top of my mind, I decided to participate in The Cerulean Project.

Playstation 2024 Wrap-Up screenshot showing playtime stats for V Rising (216 hours, 39% total playtime, 43 trophies)

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Thuggy McBattle @thuggymcbattle.blacksky.app · 16/12/2024

A little backstory on the build I posted yesterday, along with the non-camera phone image I submitted with the build, and what the kit looked like pre-paint. 🧵(TW: pet loss, depression) #blackskymodelkits #gunpla #plamo