(From “Silver Streak Comics” number 3, 1940.)
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(From “Silver Streak Comics” number 2, 1946.)
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I’ve just uploaded the “Legwear-Male-Pants” set to HeroMachine 3. It’s broken out like the Spandex I put up the other day, with the complete item, just the hips, the right thigh, and the right lower leg. Here’s a sample:
Let me know what you think. I’ve got room for probably another 4-5 complete items (to be then broken down) if there’s something egregious missing.
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(From “Silver Streak Comics” number 2, 1946. I’m pretty sure that date is wrong but the scan I have is so bad I can’t tell for sure — issue 1 was in 1942 I think, so odds are this one is too. But it LOOKS like 1946.)
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Courtesy of buddy John, a fan has uploaded behind-the-scenes photos of a stunt shoot from the upcoming Captain America movie showing some costuming details. Enjoy!
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(From “Silver Streak Comics” number 2, 1946.)
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With Mark Shute’s advice, I have refined the way Legwear is apportioned and, accordingly, have updated the Legwear-MaleSpandex set of items for HeroMachine 3. I’ve added roughly double the number from before, and you can see how I’m breaking them out here:
When I first did Spandex, I was on my high horse about the “right” way to use HeroMachine 3, using layers and masking and patterns with just a handful of the basic items to make pretty much whatever you want. Since then, I’ve moderated my thinking and understand that not everyone wants to work that hard, even the hard-core users who know how to do it the more advanced way. Also, the true vertical and horizontal patterns don’t always look right when laid over the angled legs. So I ported over the most popular legwear patterns from HeroMachine 2, including the fishnet, the stars, and the hand-drawn chain mail.
Mark helped me set on a template for how to divide the leg up per the online discussion we all had, so hopefully it will be easier and more visually persuasive to manually position these pieces for alternate poses.
Due to the tapering of the bottom of the thigh, it’s harder to make different length “shorts” with these spandex items than it will be when I give Pants the same treatment, but the idea is the same.
Anyway, hope you like this update. I’m now going to return to Pants to try and get those in line.
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(From “Captain Flight” number 2, 1944.)
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All-around All-Star Mark Shute has completed the ItemRight-Rifles set of items for HeroMachine 3, and it is now available for your shooting pleasure! He wanted me to pass along the following notes on the set:
But that’s not all! The careful reader will have seen item 2 and thought “But there IS no Heavy Weapons set!”, and thereby be led into confusion. Never one to foster confusion (except for tonight during my fantasy football draft, when I will encourage our new members to draft all kickers and defensive backs in the first four rounds), I am very happy to announce that Mark has ALSO started on the ItemRight-HeavyWeapons set, AND the first batch of items is already posted and ready. How’s THAT for coming back strong from a holiday weekend!?
OK, granted, all I did was delay Mark’s hard work by a week, but still.
Here’s a preview of those Heavy Weapons items Mark has produced to date:
This is your chance to request specific items to go in this new set for Mark. He prefers links to images showing exactly what you mean, and ideally they should be in the correct side-on orientation — he can’t produce these from photos with, for example, the barrel pointing mostly at the viewer, they need to be seen from the side.
Be sure to thank him for all his hard work, these are great items that I would have been much (much) slower at producing and which probably wouldn’t have turned out half so nice. Great job, Mark!
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Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
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