The Chess Advent Calendar

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:23:52 GMT

This year's Advent calendar was made by Semja for me, and it's AWESOME! Chess all the way! :D

( Just look at this lovely modelling! )

I always admire when people are good at working with clay and/or modelling paste - it's one of the techniques I've tried, more than once, to no avail. Lucky for me that Semja has this skill!

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Awesome modelling paste art

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:17:07 GMT

Okay, I had promised to show the awesome piece of modelling paste art I received in my advent calendar from the awesome Nil! :D (Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!!)

Isn't it awesome? It's this huge metal frame (with five-fold symmetry; bonus points for that, it's a nice crystallography in-joke) with a whole modelled landscape inside! Cave, tree, leaves and characters are all FIMO, I believe (modelling paste that's very popular around here), the "water" is actually transparent so it's probably resin or acrylic paste, and inside the cave there's an actual rock. :D The characters are, of course, from my story/art/project thingy. The young lady relaxing on the water is Deeyan. The guy dangling his feet in the water is Koh. The guy in the background, ignoring everything else but the rock, is Dev. :D

Here's a view from above. Isn't all the detail amazing? One leaf and one tree unfortunately fell off in the mail (the whole thing was packaged really well, but, ahem, German mail services...) but I'll glue them back on; the positions where they were are really obvious by the indentions in the ground. And I do own acrylic paste, so... no problem.

This is my dad holding the whole thing in the air, the way this piece of art should be installed. Unfortunately, I still don't have a technical solution for that yet: due to solid metal, solid resin and solid rock the whole thing is really, really heavy. I don't want it to fall off the ceiling. I mean, I care more about potential damage to this piece of art than about any potential hole in the ceiling but the landlord might feel otherwise. Maybe I'll install hooks and put chains between them in pentagram shape - that would be very much in style but would also prevent me from ever having "generally normal" visitors again. (My personal version of "normal visitor" won't mind.)

And oh yes, transparent water is awesome. So is backlighting. This is so... AWWWWWW. Like, one of the coolest pieces of "fanart" (if it can be considered that; it's not as if there's something like a fandom for my commented program code, except it looks as if there is...) I've ever received. :D Anyway, THIS IS AWESOME.

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The Chess Advent Calendar

Awesome modelling paste art