Overlord alphabet (updated for S4)
updated for season 4 I didn't think I was going to be able to decipher the alphabet in Overlord because there was very little on-screen text whose meaning could be…
Tate no Yuusha no nariagari alphabet
as used in the first season The anime uses a number of different alphabets, but I think only one of them is "real" - the one appearing on maps, some…
Fixing a stuck FTf-50 bell generator
Documenting this fix, since it was not obvious to find. I got some helpful hints from "buzz" at fieldphones.org. The Feldtelephone Modell 1950 (FTf 50) is a field telephone used…
Slava 2414
The Slava movement is not one of my favorites, because it has a seemingly unnecessary large number of parts, and those fiddly balance jewel retention springs. It is somewhat peculiar…
Vimpel with Tongji movement
Vimpel (the watch brand, not to be confused with the ultra-thin Soviet watch movement) was the trade mark of VPZ ("Vitebsk device-making plant") factory in Vitebsk in 1990s-2000s. In Soviet…
“Maou Gakuin” alphabet
Summer 2020 brought us the anime "Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha" with another funky on-screen alphabet. By episode 6 I'd seen enough samples to confirm that it is an actual Roman-style…
Another Lunch repaint
An interesting little figure of Lunch riding a monocycle, apparently in the middle of a bank heist. Toriyama loves his vehicular contraptions. There is some fun detail with the dust…
Attack of the JS redirections!
My WordPress was apparently hacked yesterday, and a couple hundred of my posts had their contents replaced or infected with a poorly obfuscated Javascript like < script type=text/javascript > eval(String.fromCharCode(…
Hamefura alphabet
The anime "Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta..." (Hamefura in short) uses an on-screen alphabet that at first looked like random scribbles, but by…
QPosket Emma Watson figure
Since the Maleficent QPosket figure was quite fun and these are ridiculously cheap on the Chinese market, I acquired this Hermione Granger to repaint: Unfortunately the "before" pictures are all…