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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Blessed image. Captain Dola could have been like a mother to me.
Humorous art of Captain Dola from the animated movie 天空の城ラピュタ
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Anything with hand painted art on it gets an automatic A+ from me. No other company has ever come close to the thematic ambiance GW studio artists unleashed on cardboard from the early 80's to the early 2000's. Richard Wright, Gary Chalk, Dave Andrews, Nuala Kennedy, et al.
Hand painted central folding tower scan (retouched) from the original Necromunda box set. Richard Wright (presumed artist.)
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Rest in peace JB.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
And what a legacy.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Added some Sorcery! too. Because page after page of scrappy Blanche illustrations is a very good thing.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
大ファンでした。🙏
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
John Blanche and Ian Miller 1989 And a link to a scan of their long out of print joint artbook, Ratspike. gofile.io/d/oedbAG
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Bell of Lost Souls tolls for John Blanche, legend. R.I.P. to a truly prolific master of illustration, groundbreaking miniature painter, and all around great man, you will be missed.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
So the 80's are now "very old"? Fuck. But that's great news about Votoms. The missions get a little stale at times but the way the game manages to cover all the main TV arcs as well as some Blue Knight Berserga is pretty neat. Time for a replay on a fresh memory card.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Pushing around vertices is fun, but my wrist is now blown out. Home stretch and time for a break.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Digital clay sculpting. Blender and a Wacom tablet. Photo reference of the original Jes Goodwin miniature from the lovely Lost Minis Wiki
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Went back and checked the color scans and yeah, that was bleed through, fixed. Shifted HSV to move the blacks closer to the scanned pages. Going by other period works, I wonder if this was a color piece printed black and white for the magazine.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Makoto Kobayashi Newtype March 1987 A painful two page spread stitch. Mr. Kobayashi's deep texture layers of hatching and screen tone makes for a lot more effort in blending and fill. A glorious work, with a near perfect checklist of all that is good in traditional SF illustration.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
類似点 John Blanche Naoyuki Katoh (加藤 直之)
John Blanche Adeptus Mechanicus painting for Rogue Trader
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Just noticed that the KV-98 is hiding at the very top of the previous stitch. I guess I was more concerned with touching up the pixel and color gradient shifts than admiring the mecha.
Black and white settei production drawing showing  a lineup of Labors at scale. The KV-98 is TALL.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Yutaka Izubuchi in 5709 vertical pixels. Stitched from Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days.
A long camera pan across various green mecha (Labors) drawn by Yutaka Izubuchi.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Above was incorrect on printing, attached is correct scaling. Sometimes PS guides make me scream.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So glad some of his doujins have been scanned.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Teacupping in modern Patlabor, we really do live in a cursed timeline.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This should be scaled properly to caliper out more measurements from the drawing. Should print nicely on US or A4 letter size.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Did a rescale and slight layout adjustment to this Rabidly Dog Blueprint from Dual Magazine no.9 (June 1984). The original was 1/35 scale but 1/72 moves A.T.'s to a very manageable ~6cm tall. Seems a fun modeling project. Sourced from the excellent Votoms section of @timeldred.bsky.social 's site.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Figured out a thing. Though that annoying seam has to go. photoshop and blender.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Just 10 terabytes to overwrite a human consciousness.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Gets me every time. Wtf Xenosaga staff. I'm sure there is a deeper meaning with ID/EGO, or the JOY/SUFFERING divide, but that is pretty creepy. (warning, contains a flashing gif of a cute Bunnie)
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
XenoCard Promo Pack C: Bunny x3 Kunihiko Tanaka (田中 久仁彦) on art I presume, just by feel.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Why?
Why fish? What does it mean? Shopping in Y2K alien hell.  
Xenosaga Ep. I
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Happy 31st Birthday Front Mission.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hyperart Thomasson 超芸術トマソン
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
There is a certain level of mania inherent in rebuilding vintage videogame assets, such a massive time sink. All for the love of the game, I guess. Gepard Acht and Neun, Front Mission 4.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I keep meaning to set up PCE/MacPlus to play this, but get sidetracked.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I'm going to treasure this Clotho 新年の寿, thanks bunches @combattlerrickv.exportaud.io
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Even inexpensive low run Japanese kits will have slide molds now to minimize part count and create more complex detail. Bandai would probably add color in color injection too. A recent-ish Premium Bandai accessory kit blew my mind with its multiple injection process articulated chain.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Did the Blender 5.0 Donut, learned some new things.
I don't like donuts, I like coffee.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"I'm going to retrain myself from the beginning" Made a Blender hotkeys zine to take notes in as I do tutorials for 5.0. Thanks to Blender Guru on YouTube for the PDF. I really just did the (IKYK) cover and did a spreads layout.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I love mecha. メカが大好きです。
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red. Violets are blue.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
3025 map of the Inner Sphere overlaid on the Bluesky map cluster. You could probably rotate the cluster arbitrarily and get some poignant results. #battletech
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Well that tracks, exactly where I would wish to be. Big shout out to all those Indonesian K-Pop fans for shining so bright out there on the fringe. Someone needs to overlay this with a map of BT's inner sphere.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
You can just watch the SDF Macross SD opening on repeat.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Presented here is the John Sibbick cover for Rogue Trader (1987), as well as a comp of the preparatory layout. This one always annoyed me as most searches return a heavily cropped version. This is from a photograph of an early poster release, still very slightly cropped but much nicer.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It's been a long winter, but drawing SD Macross can brighten your mood and cover your desk with eraser crumbs. The bottom and left VF-1J's were drawn while referring to the original production materials.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Back to work on my Vai-O-La OC.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I was just looking for Zebee Corter Mortar Headd references, but then got to thinking about all the untranslated notes in the FSS English volumes. ずりっ ぴっかりこん mimetic ideophones じょおうけん反射 tricky without the rest of the kanji in 条件反射 And a young Colus VI easter egg here way before he is born?
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
日本人ではいないけど末然のアイシャドウをもって生わる人もいるんだよねとんでもねーハナシだわい Mr. Mamoru Nagano's tiny handwriting is too hard to read. I'm pretty sure I messed up transcribing this panel margin note about Sopp's natural eyeshadow, but this is pushing my skill limits.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Scanning last few year's sketchbooks and revisiting old projects. MWO Corsair reimagined as a production militia mech. Goals: Lots of corrections. Incorporating more JPTech design elements. Emphasizing reuse of existing industrial components. Properly readable asymmetry.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Old long since. I drew this 22 years ago.
Cover art for a Reno/Portland single speed bicycling zine.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Still one of the coolest SF space ships, regardless of canonicity/lore. Battletech Argo Blender w. PGI's assets
A quite large spaceship, improbably low in the atmosphere.
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totallyrobot @totallyrobot.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Needed a new vertical BG for monitor 2: Sid Mead's Moon 2000 (1979) HSV, Levels CRT mask, curvature, vignette. Bit Rot
HSV & Levels so I don't go blindCRT mask, curvature and vignettefully stepped on
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