Sentinels Craft Swap- Discussion

General GTG Sentinel Comics Lore
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(Edit: The First Sentinels Craft Swap is now happening! Check it out!)

 

Okay, so over on this thread, I was inspired for the idea for this thread:

We've got a bunch of people here on the forums who like making stuff and we do all love Sentinels, right? Right! 

Also, who doesn't love getting stuff? No one, that's who!

So here is the proposal: We do a Sentinels craft swap. I'd even volunteer to do the organisationals. 

Crafty forumites get partnered up and make each other a Sentinels themed thing. Then they send that thing to their partner, and once they've got it, they put a picture of it on here and we all get to admire that thing (and be crazy jealous, because that always happens). 

Anything is a thing: scarf, pencilcase, doll, ornament, notebook, somthing useful for the game, jewlery, cookies (okay, that might be a mess), a funny hat, a fancy token box, a t-shirt, fridge magnets, artwork, woodwork, metalwork, yarnwork, fimowork, 'turning-one-thing-into-another-thing' work... 

What I want to know now is:

Who might want to join this swap?

 

(Also: Can we get official approval for this swap lest I get keelhauled for running some sort of IP piracy racket?)

 

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I would be in for this. I have little to no technical skill, but am inventive enough to sometimes overcome this barrier, and I love getting stuff :P

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I will trade my hand written book of poetry from high school for a crochet Expat, the original, not the less cool Dark Watch version.

The poetry horribly embarrassing and really, really bad.  So bad my wife couldn't even stop herself from laughing at me when she read it.  (she normally achieves this feat, which I can promise you takes a lot of effort)

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I'm generally interested in this sort of thing, but I've got too many projects going to be able to participate right now; I'll have to finish a few of them first.

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I always have far too many projects; (un)fortunately, my idea for this is sufficiently fun that I've pushed other stuff (like revision...) back a bit.

EDIT: Does anyone have scans of Unity's bots, by any chance?

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Well, I wasn't going to suggest to do this swap now or tomorrow even. I am currently in the midst of organising/writing/making props for a huge game at convention and that will keep me way busy for the rest of the month. Heck, I don't even actually have time to write this post! ;)

But if we all agreed to have a swap in, say, June, sorted out swap partners at the beginning of June and then set out our things at the end of June, that would give us all sufficent time to make room in our busy schedules for it, I think.

Just an idea though, I am totally open for discussion on this. If people wanted to do it now, I'd still be up for organising, I just would have to drop out of the participation side of things.

 

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Yeah, I was thinking more on the order of six months to a year from now. I'm pretty strapped for time and the thing that I want to do for this will involve a pretty big learning curve once I get started.

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Half of my project can't be done until near the end of June, so I'm good with that, but the first half is in my head now and won't let me rest until I sort it out :P

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I'd love to join in on the swap.

 

But shipping is a... nasty business, at least for me sending things, or people sending things to me, especially to/from America.

 

June is near impossible for me as well, but I could do July.

 

(June is exam month, and July is my mid-semester break)

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Secret Santa Sentinels Swap!!!

I'm down!!

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I'm up for this too.

Are we thinking of randomly assigning swap partners, or some kind of selection process? 

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Well, we could each list up what we can do, craft wise, put down some info on what we'd like to have or who our favourite heroes/villains are and then try to do the pairings so they fit best.

Or we make a totally random draw of it, and then the partners figure out afterwards what they can feasibly make for each other. Which has some drawbacks, and some advantages.

Or, third option, everybody goes ahead and just makes one thing they wanna make (according to some pre-set dimensions) and then we do a circular sending thing. So you would not be getting something from the person you made something for.

What would people prefer?

 

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I haven't painted figures in a while but I would gladly paint a figure from Tactics in exchange for a crochet Setback.  I do a good job of painting.  I won a contest when I was 13.  I don't think it was an age-based competition.  Hmm.   I'll have to send some pictures along.   A sort of resume... :D

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I do like the idea of giving info about who our favourite heroes are, at least. Makes it easier to work out something to make

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Co-incidentally, I was going to ask you if you'd like a crocheted Setback (or whoever else you wanted, but I figured Setback would be a good guess) as a little thank you for shipping…

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Aw!  That's awesome!  But in return I will also paint a figure from Tactics.   Pick one and I'll do what I can.

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Ooh craft swap would be good! I can umm… try to make a mess of various different things. Although my main skill is foodstuffs I’m sure I can find a way to make something shippable.

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My Perler creations are on the Fan Art topic.  I've assembled a fine collection of Nemesis symbols (but don't ask me to do Sky-Scraper's...her unfinished design mocks me...accursed perlers merely having three types of grey...) and a few arts inspired by game sprites.  I imagine I could come up with something for someone else (I've been trying to figure out how to do some modifications to some DynoWarz:  The Destruction of Spondylus sprites for Unity and Mr. Chomps...).  The Nemesis symbols are easy, and I can modify anything people find lacking (should've gone with grey rather than that obnoxious clear green for the Argent Adept background...).

I'm in.  Whoever gets me will just have to look over my wares and see what they would like and how hard they want me to work!

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This may be my inspiration for finally getting around to doing crafty things. Sadly, I have no idea what I'd do.

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I have a slightly used spacecraft to swap... or is it not that kind of craft?

 

Sadly jokecraft goes criminally undervalued