xtab's Rust Skin Pix

Two sets this week, and an uptick in tribal / Native American style skins.  Our favorite pick this week: Blood Dragon Rifle by JohnnyOldBoy.

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Finally, a set that understand the kind of people Rust players really are. It's more a mindset than an actual physical condition for most of you, since real savages probably couldn't make clothing as complex as this.

The set's got a vaguely native American style with spiritual themes and full metal jackets. On the back of the hoodie we see a bird depicted with wings spread, silhouetted in flight against the bright morning sun.  On the front are motorcycle chains and Kevlar padding--See? balance!  Mankind in harmony with nature and ballistic fiber.  

The set comes with pants, of course, and a handsome pair of skull-boots. The pants are camouflage but the hoodie is not, but they seem to match just the same.  By LittleRanger in collaboration with Woock.

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Speaking of Native Americans we have a...Native American set by Nevil112 and MDemon.  Coincidence?  We think not.  It's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness. Follow the link for enlightenment.  

This set is much more Native American in style and uses the burlap mesh, which is great since that's what you're stuck wearing for awhile after a wipe or involuntary trip to the beach. There's burlap pants, burlap foot wraps, and this burlap shirt here. The artists stuck with entirely natural materials, so this is a great set for role players or clans looking for a memorable and noteworthy uniform.

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Aaaaand another tribal style skin, this one Aztec. That's three in a row.  It's all part of the cosmic plan. This one's got a kind of Temple of Doom thing going for it, with an unfriendly looking spirit or god with fangs dripping venom and eyes dripping blood, forbidding entry. 

The god carving is laid over a rebar lattice, which makes this sheet metal door seem more solid than it really is.  We like how this touch of the modern mixes with the ancient, and we really like the character and expression in the god's face.  It's cartoony, but not at all comical.  Just dark and hungry.

By Jesin in collaboration with Mishka

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This tough armored face mask and leather cap by Milho Frito exhibits his usual attention to detail and quality. The mask is a combination of different kinds of metal held together by bolts and heavy staples, and cut in an expression of either battle rage or jolly good humor. The sewn leather cap doesn't look like it offers much protection, but seems comfortable enough.

The metals are a bit tarnished, and the mask looks suitably worn. There are three color variations in the workshop, but we like this nickle version the best.

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Our second Milho Frito pick of the week.  Cobalt crate is a straight forward large wooden box with a clear and sharp Cobalt logo on it.  What the company put in these boxes is unclear, but judging from all the Cobalt skins we've been seeing, they must have been the Omni Consumer Products of the pre-apocalyptic world. 

The box looks interesting, with plastic and rubber ringing the edges, and bare boards on the top, as though it's been stripped of a protective outer layer.  There are two other versions of this box in the artist's workshop, though, one with metal and the other with plastic where the boards are in the red version.

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Even cannibals enjoy their comforts, and who would want to travel and be stuck sleeping outdoors without their shrunken skulls and spirit fetishes?  We certainly wouldn't.  Can't just store them in a bag. Sometimes in the busy and bustle of travel your bones fall apart, or get mixed up with the wrong ones, and then you've got problems.  But weave them into your bedroll and they all stay sorted out, and they'll be right there with you if you need them during the night.

The leather texture does seem a little nice.  We've wanted to buy a couch with leather like this for years but couldn't quite afford it.  We think the material could have used a little dusting up, but maybe these cannibals looted a a furniture store in good condition.

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The Versailles of assault rifles, Glorious is a baroque AK47 in white and gold and red velvet, resplendent and glorious in all ways including its name, which is explicitly spelled out in gold mosaic right on the weapon body in case you forget.  You'll be able to see the name for a moment when you reload, so you'll get frequent reminders.  The skin is big and loud and not at all bashful--pick it up if you're looking for something flashy.

The gun was made by Veys for Vertigo of Youtube fame.

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Our second Veys pick this week, we really think Reptile came out well. It's an armored face mask molded to look like reptile scales. Faux fangs curve up from the bottom of the mask, and leathery ears fold back against the side of the skull.  The artist favors a Klimt style mosaic pattern which he employs in some of his best work, and you can see that here in the scales around and below the eyes.  

The mask doesn't actually look like a reptile, rather just a reptilian mask. We like that--it was clearly fashioned by people with limited access to modern machinery. There are two versions of this mask in the workshop, one green, the other a rusty red and corroded green metal.

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A burning red hot waterpipe shotgun with stylized flames licking up the barrel. It's heavy, primitive, grubby, and very well detailed in all ways, from the rough wood textures to the grit around the rings. It's also colorful, flashy, and...timely since we're all finding ourselves using lower tier weapons for a lot longer in the wipe cycle.  A welcome change!

By Vitalik

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Blood Dragon Rifle
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Yes, it is red. Blood Dragon Rifle is part of JohnnyOldBoy's series of blood dragon skins, which include an armored face mask, chest plate, and this here semi-auto rifle. The skin is etched front to back in a fine, swirling dragon motif and symbols, and nothing is left untouched.  Textures are realistic and bumpy, highly convincing, and metal tarnish and aging are impeccable.  Fantastic work!

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xtab's Weekly In-Game Skin Review

Halloween approaches, and we're starting to see more monsters, skulls...you know, scary stuff.  It's not as though we don't see those themes during the rest of the year, just that we see more of them 'round about now.  Our favorite:  Sleeper Catcher, by Badtrip.

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A simple gray scale camouflage hoodie by Madroce for all you nightstalkin', bushwackin', door campin' layin' in wait crocodile sumbitches who rob me coming home after a hard day's work.  The hoodie is mildly aged but still looks presentable, with just a few minor tears and smudges here and there.

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Matching pants for the hoodie.  We actually think the pants came out better than the hoodie. Same material, same pattern, but the banding around the thighs adds interest, and the belt makes for a mild and pleasant contrast. Quality with all of Madroce's skins is far higher than your average cut and paste skin job, and you can certainly see that here.  Look closely at the natural bumpy wrinkles and seams and you'll see what we mean.

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An SAR painted a shocking shade of purple and graced with a...giant rat?  Opossum? Yeah, yeah, we know it says "Hellcat" but we're not so sure.  It's got a prehensile tail and a bony set of spikes along its spine.  It looks hungry, rabid, and quite fierce.  Wouldn't want to get bit.

Skin quality, aging, and decay are strong, and it's a nice pick for Halloween.  Congratulations BFS!

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Beast Hunter Hatchet
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This one looks like a wolf.  We're pretty sure about that.  It's a good looking wolf--scary, angry and lots of teeth.  But for us, it's not about the wolf.

It's about the texture pattern behind the wolf, the tarnished metal and the worn leather grip tied to the polished wood of the haft. It's about the tiny nails in the metal where the blade attaches to the haft, and the mold groove in the back of the blade.  These details, all of them inconsequential by themselves, are what makes a good looking skin great. They're what your eye sees without seeing when you're judging quality and realism.  By szINFERNO

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The Panther AK47 applies Sfonsper's Damascus steel texture to a heavily corroded black assault rifle. molded to hint of the stalking black predator. It's got teeth, claws, and a baleful yellow eye with slitted black pupil. to stare down prey.  

We like how the skin hints at panthers without expressly drawing one. Sfonsper is probably taking his Damascus steel theme a little far, though--we don't see why it was used with this gun.  

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It's easy to picture in your mind an autistically focused Newman carefully painting his revolver, with its one glaring eye and toothy mouth that goes around and around and around.  Finally, he writes "shoot!" on the hammer to remind himself what he should do if he finds himself pointing the gun at someone or something.  It's not as though he ever thinks of much else, but he who hesitates is lost.

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The Glass Cannon
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The term "glass cannon" usually refers to a delicate weapon or military unit with a very powerful offense. Something that can dish out the pain, but can't take it. As you can see here, a real glass connon would be a one shot weapon, most like with disastrous results and an early end to the day's raiding.

Someone suggested in comments the glass should be clear so you can see the smoke fill up inside the chamber. We like the idea, but no such animation exists, and it would probably require programming attention from the devs.  So we'll have to settle for opaque, but ominously cracked glass. 

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KeKe's Survivor BAR was one of our favorite picks from Monday, and we're delighted to see it in the game.  At first glance a graffiti scrawled mess, the gun is in fact covered with manic and clever drawings and symbols, just the sort of thing bored and possibly deranged survivors might do with their time. There's a lot to see on the gun, so go slow.  The longer you look, the more you'll see.

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Another skin rescued from the depths of the suggestion pile, Sleeper Catcher by Badtrip is a pre-apocalyptic sleeping bag in good condition with a giant skull painted in the middle. We'd like to say you can't find anything like this in the modern world, but we're pretty sure we'd be wrong.  And if you couldn't find anything off the shelf, you could order it, and make it glow in the dark, too.

Alas, this one does NOT glow in the dark.  But Halloween is right around the corner, and the Halloween contest is ON, so there's hope we may see glowing radioactive sleeping bags by the end of the month. Sweet dreams!

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Unholy Grenade
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A sharply detailed grenade formed out of human bone, with skulls on the pineapple ridges and a dark, evil-looking script running down the safety lever. It's hard to get a good look at it until you're ready to use it, but you'll see the details up close as you prepare to throw. It's a cool skin, even if you don't get to keep it around for long,

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An amalgam of scrap metal, soda cans, street signs, and lead pipes all throne into the forge and partially melted together. The result is something stronger, heavier, and probably toxic after prolonged exposure.

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Heavy Alloy Pants
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xtab skin

Lower body armor formed of partially recast metal scraps and machine parts. It's heavy, but strong, and has a peculiar chemical odor that arises when heated.

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Wyrm Chest
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Successful raiders need strong, stylish places to keep all the loot they pry from cold, dead fingers of their prey. The Wyrm Chest is solid oak construction braced in steel and sheathed in crocodile hide.

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Halloween Skin Contest

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Announcing the Rust Saltyween Contest

5 Awards!
* First, Second, and Third place decided and awarded by esteemed judges: Veys, StabbyMcStabFace, and Bugs from Rustafied.. There have been 30 submissions so far.
* One People’s Choice award for the skin with the most upvotes on the Steam Workshop.
* One Noob Award for best skin from a contestant with fewer than three approvals.
* No prizes awarded, but you’ll have better than average chances of approval.

Rules
* All submissions must be posted to the Steam Workshop no later than Sunday, October 22, 2017
* Each submission must be Halloween-themed and must have the hashtag #Saltyween2017 in the description, as well as a link to this blog post: www.xtab.me/blog/2017/10/11/halloween-skin-contest
* You may submit as often as you wish.
* Winners will be announced here on Tuesday, October 24, 2017.
* Comments and Questions can be submitted here.

May the best skinner win!

xtab's Rust Skin Pix

The skins on the Top Ten this week are outstanding, with a new Oxums set from Badtrip, a Cobalt AK from Veys, and more.  It's ALL awesome, but our favorite pick this week has got to be the Oxums Guns Team MP5 Racer, by Badtrip.

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First up we have the Oxums racing team set by Badtrip.  It seems Oxums (the ruined gas stations you can find in the game) were quite successful back in the day and had their own racing team, logo, colors...the works!  

The vest is well representative of the set, which is a stop sign armor vest, kilt, and coffee can mask. It looks like it was made from pieces of advertiser signage and maybe auto bodies, and displays this artist's characteristic focus on quality and details. Go Team Oxums!

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Not only did Oxums have a racing team, but a gun team as well.  They may be the same team, since number 23 shows up on both the gun and the racing armor.  But exactly what kind of marksman team needs an mp5?  It ain't skeet shootin'....

While the colors of the weapon are bright and quite unattractive, the detail and aging are fantastic.  It looks to us like the gun survived the gamma flash and heat wave off a nuclear blast, and has sat exposed to the elements for decades. We love the look, and we love the idea of a corporate sponsored Mad Max televised death race, brought to you by Oxums!--Your family service station!

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T-shirts are rather uncommon mesh choices for most workshop artists, so it's nice to see this extremely high quality T-shirt presented to us by AlmaTadema. AlamaTadema's work has a soft, 2D creative artist look to it, which works perfectly on the mesh and gives us this filthyl, blood-soaked sports shirt.  We're not sure which sport, but we think it is Rust Blood Sport by the look of it.  League try-outs daily.

We'd like to note that the use of the name Rust or the logo are allowable, but Facepunch has said in the past they consider it a negative, so if you're thinking of making Rust skins be aware of that.  Nevertheless, this skin is so strong we think it's approval chances are good.

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So what you got here is your basic unholy hand grenade. There's a skull on each square of the pineapple, and each skull is different.  You've also got yer unholy script running down the safety lever--not sure what it means, but it's probably something like "Say hello to the Devil for me!"

This is a great skin, really well defined and with different details like the skulls on all parts of the skin.  Trouble is that people don't use grenades very often, and when you have one you don't have it for long.  But you can get a good look at it in your hand before you throw.

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Skulls are always in, even when Halloween is not just around the corner. Wrecked depicts the skull and bones of some poor drowned sailor, brains eaten out and inhabited by a beastly octopus.  There's also some kind of teeth / fang setup over the left-hand grip. Not sure what kind of animal it belongs to, but it's not a "good" one.

The gun's got a burnt orange cast with ground-in dirt concentrated around the muzzle and ammo clip.  The body is a bit clean, but the overall picture is Rusty enough for us.

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Keke does it again with another Survivor weapon, this time a bolt action rifle covered in his trademark angry/funny/spiritual graffiti. As with all Keke skins, it appears simple until you look closely.  Once you do, you see a new level of detail, and the features and visual humor just keeps coming the longer you look.  In particular, check out the bizarre animal above the trigger guard, and the demon face and graffiti on the back of the gun, which you'll see every time you take aim.  

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Milho Frito is back with his new Desolation series of pistols and rifles. The guns don't really have a gimmick or theme, just very high quality, very high detail, and very Rusty.

The SAP comes in two colors with fine rivets running the length of the body. Aging is superb, and may well seem more realistic than a genuine rust process. You'll never go wrong with a Milho Frito skin--be sure and check out his extensive workshop.

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And now for something completely different.  Bombing by Freddy rivals Milho Frito's Desolation for quality, but takes the skin in the opposite direction. Instead of the careful, sober aging of a highly detailed skin we get a weird bomb drawing--totally whacked--amid a heavily aged semi-auto rifle mesh with a bombardier theme.  The back of the gun features a bombing sight, which you'll see as you take aim, and you'll see the bombing character all the time as you carry the gun around.  

Interestingly, the gun looks just as worn and old as Desolation, but in a very different way.  Every artist has his style.

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A makeshift rocket launcher painted like a medieval battering ram, a gape-mouth monster with racing checks. You'll cut a dashing figure belching rockets out the monster mouth while you batter down base walls and doors.

We've seen a lot of rocket launchers painted to resemble things like barrels or cannons or whatnot, but this is the first we can recall with a monster mouth, WW2 Mustang style. LittleRanger excels at this cartoony style, and we like the character it lends to the weapon.

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Just what kind of company manufactures aerospace equipment and custom assault rifles for their own private security forces?

You know exactly what kind.  And it's that kind of company that has killer tanks patrolling its ruined, radioactive facilities decades after the Fall. This particular weapon seems to have been repaired quite a few times, or perhaps it's been rigged to operate in vacuum. Either way, it doesn't look very reliable, but it does look Rusty.

Cobalt! Making the world a nicer place, for you and me!

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xtab's Weekly In-Game Skin Review

A whopping seventeen approvals this week, including one armor set and one clothing set.  Our favorite this week remains Cobalt Survival Bag, by La Crampe.

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Now that you can actually sit in things, Veys' famous Still Life with Roof Camper is one step closer to reality with this rusty old metal chair. Stick it on your roof and sternly survey your empire in...well not comfort but style. Shoot anything that moves.  Now all we need is bottle of whiskey we can drink from.

We can't say the chair will look good in any base.  It's not going in someone's nice Better Homes and Gardens wood shack, but for your average raider or cannibal den it will fit right in.

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Halloween is approaching, and we're starting to see skins to match. Hatchets are pretty traditional--there's nothing scarier than getting chased around by lunatic with a bloody hatchet--so Brajkula made this spooky Soul Collector Hatchet, with the hands of the Damned reaching for help, or maybe to pull more souls into the pit with them.

We think it's the latter. Misery loves company.  Soul Collection services by Brajkula.

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Here's a skin nobody can claim isn't Rusty.  It's a sharpened strip of rusty sheet metal, thin, brittle, and full of diseases you've never even heard of. It's got a big metal wrench wrapped in black duct tape for a grip and suffers from no delusions of grandeur--just ugly and mean as the welfare department. 

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This pickaxe matches last week's Damascus Steel Hatchet.  The flowing, swirly marks on the blade are the hallmark of Damascus steel.  The process is lost to time--nobody knows how to make it, but it is very durable.  Now people can go farming resources with archaeological treasures of the distant past, blissfully ignorant of their rarity and significance. 

The pair of tools look good, but they are not distinctive from a distance.  You have to look at them close up to really see their most interesting details.  By Sfonsper.

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Tribal Stone Hatchet
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Andrey won approval on his Tribal Stone Hatchet, a tomahawk with native American style drawings and etchings, perfect for role-players and actual savages alike.  While there have been many tribal skin approvals in the past, we must say the painting on the stone blade looks quite a bit more realistic than the others. The skin is sharp and distinctive, easy to see and to recongnize from a distance.  

Best of all, the red pigments in the blade will flash down in streaks as you smash the skulls of your sleeping enemies. Totally spiritual.

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Head Hunter is a pump shotgun from Badtrip that makes ugly look good. The gun is shaded a sickly, faded yellow with crosshatched metal plates decking the top. The crosshatched plates and the rest of the metal work give it a tough boxy look; greasy, grubby, and very well used.

We're not sure what the number 84 stenciled on the side is all about.  Racer 84?  Death Racer 84? Skull Demon gun number 84?  We may never know, but Badttrip has not skimped on the skulls.  We've got 'em on the sides and the back, where you'll see it whenever you take aim, which is hopefully quite often.

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This ornate chain is badtrip's second approval this week, and doesn't seem to fit his usual themes of skulls, violence and death.  Granted, it is yellow, but he also did a red version, so maybe he was just covering his bases.  

No, the chair is actually kind of pleasant.  A little cold and hard for a cozy little shack, but stone-agers like yourselves can't exactly order delivery from the Pier One catalog.  We do wonder what's up with the red gem in the center of the back.  Ever see anything like that in a catalog?

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War Machine AK47
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A fine war machine by T.O.N.Y.A.E.R., one of the best artists in the Rust workshop. We were afraid War Machine would be passed over, but Facepunch plucked this out of the suggestion pile from a few weeks back and that's good because skins don't get much finer than this.

War Machine is not colorful and flashy, but it's hard to beat the subtle textures and details you see everywhere.  Check out the supple leather in the shoulder brace, the wrinkles in the duct tape, the polished wood in the grip, and the the rubberized ammo clip.  Most photographs don't look this realistic.  Hell, the dirt is so real it is unreal.  Amazing work.

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War Machine Chestplate
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The War Machine Chestplate and Face Mask are the only matching armor set approved this week.  Many of the same comments we made about the War Machine AK apply to the armor set as well--highly detailed and realistic, super fine textures, and a loving attention to grit and dirt.  

The one thing different is that the armor is flashier than the gun just because it is yellow.  It also has more room to advertise it's grim, tough purpose, which it hammers home boldly and decisively. Finally, it's got a very UN-T.O.N.Y.A.E.R. mini skull center and top.

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This is the armored face mask that goes with the chestplate.  While closely following the chestplate's pattern and style, the mask has a few features of its own.  

First, note the cap.  A lot of artists ignore the cap as though somehow it wasn't more than 60% of the skin. T.O.N.Y.A.E.R. has added those metal ingots you see in the armor all over the top of the cap.  It's got multiple pieces welded together, and it has a pair of goggle strapped above the forehead.

Second, note the black leather flaps sewn into the lower cheeks.  An entirely unnecessary detail, but a black on yellow contrast which makes the mask seem leaner...and meaner.

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Cordite and Patchouli.  We can almost smell it from here.  Make my Day and Kumbaya all in one package. 

BFS has enjoyed a respectable winning streak for a few weeks now, and this gun, drawn from the depths of the suggestion pile several weeks back shows why.  This is some good stuff!  We like the faded effect from the tip of the barrel to the back, of course, but we really like the soft hippie cloth wrapping the rough wooden pistol grip.  Perfect!

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Shedmon finally scored an approval this week, and it wasn't for want of trying. We think if he focused half as much on quality as he does on quantity we'd be writing up his success on this blog quite a bit more often.

This is a pretty good waterpipe shotgun, with the chamber appearing wrapped in a heavy spring, the stock wrapped in light leather, and a scaly metal pattern running along the barrel. Wood textures could use a little more love.  The gun's not flashy, but it is Rusty.

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Cobalt Survival Bag
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The Cobalt survival bag, made from space-age materials for stone-age people. The culmination of centuries of science and engineering, Mankind's finest achievement picked apart by naked, flea-bitten savages and squabbled over like chickens fighting for a choice piece of meat. Ah, Rust!

La Crampe does a good job here, with shiny and relatively clean space-suit textures, the Cobalt logo, and the creative application of the vivid silver and blue colors in a sleeping bag.  It won't hide easily in the bushes, but it will look great in your base.

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A fancy hoodie of a kind worn by a new breed of modern warrior seeking land, plunder, and war.

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Conquistador Pants
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Practical yet stylish trousers for the modern conqueror. The shin plates flex at the knee under the cloth, and spare bullets hang in easy reach for those situations where the conquered offer some futile resistance.

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Prospector Hatchet
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An attractive but perhaps over designed hatchet sold to gold and silver prospectors for general use. This one's survived down the years in good condition, with only a touch of rust around the handle to mark the passage of time.

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A well preserved tool meant for hand mining and field testing and exploration. The blade is not as sharp as it once was, and there are traces of tarnish here and there, but it's in pretty good condition.

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xtab's Rust Skin Pix

Two strong sets this week by T.O.N.Y.A.E.R. and LittleRanger.  We think the Cobalt Space Sleeping Bag is the best skin for quality, creativity, and game lore, but all the skins in the blog are very strong this week.

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This is a sleeping bag made of space-age materials, which is quite a bit more advanced than a bag made of stone-age materials, which is where we have returned. We think it is safe to say Cobalt did not make sleeping bags for the Moon, so this bag must have been made from precious, irreplaceable space suit materials found at their ruined facility.

It certainly looks warm. The skin is a bit clean, but that fits the idea--material ripped straight out of the cockpit, untouched by the passage of time.

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Now here's something a bit more in the reach of modern technical capabilities--a Maori War Chest for the modern stone-age family. Actually, that's not entirely fair... to the Maoris.  It would take ages to figure out how to weave bamboo fabric so skillfully, or to build the molds and pour the iron for those handsome metal disks inset in the box. And don't even get us started on the intricate patterned carvings in the wood frame.

Please don't get us wrong--we love this box and really hope to see it in the game.  Sure, there's no way gun-toting cannibals like yourselves could make it on their own, but maybe they picked it up at a ruined IKEA.

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An armored chest plate covered in hardened leather dyed a proud and ominous shade of red. The leather is on the outside of the armor, not the inside, so it's for show.  And what it is showing is a fanatic focused on violence.  Don't run up to him and ask if he's friendly.

This highly popular armored chest plate goes with last week's wildly popular Blood Dragon Mask by JohnnyOldBoy. 

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This second large wood box by Vitalik is a little more within the crafting capabilities of the people trapped on our little island. It's a simple wood box plated with sheet metal and painted blue.  It's got a cheery little fire drawn on the sides, and the word "wood" tacked on top in case you can't remember what the fire drawing represents.

It's a rare box skin that's got the word "wood" on it, and actually looks good. Tons of players complain that they want to see skins with contents words on them because they think their mates are too dumb to sort it out.  Most such skins are low quality, but here at last we have convergence! 

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On the heels of his highly successful Metalhunter set from last week, T.O.N.Y.A.E.R. and OddyseySuper have released a new stop sign armor set. It's a collection of junk, not nearly as solid-seeming as Metalhunter, but embellished with scary drawings, warning signs... fish-net...whatever materials could be found.

As always, if you buy a T.O.N.Y.A.E.R. skin, you're buying quality. The set comes with this vest, a coffee can mask, and a kilt.  Drop by his workshop and you can see them all.

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The second set we saw and liked this week is the Mad Armor set by LittleRanger. It's a somewhat eccentric wooden stop sign armor set embellished with skulls, rainbows, child palm prints and motorcycle chains.  No, most stop signs are not made of wood, but just...play along here.  it's only a mesh.

LittleRanger's work has a certain balmy polish to it. Everything looks dirty and old, but kind of nice just the same, like with this vest.  The rest of the matching set looks just as good, and includes a coffee can mask and a kilt.

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Owned by a succession of Bond villains before finally getting picked up at a yard sale by Dr. Evil for three bucks, this chair has survived moments of unimaginable violence and emerged unscathed. Now it makes its way to your base where it will bear witness yet again to more evil schemes and extreme violence.

Badtrip made two color versions of this chair, but we like red the best, because red is a better color than yellow, obviously. The chair manages to look aged but cleaned up, and makes a great throne upon which you can survey your empire of dirt in fashion and in style.

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If you're not so into a Doctor Evil lair, how about Game of Thrones?  Veys offers up this rusty (bloody?) chair that nobody would ever want to sit in, let alone fight Machiavellian wars for years on end to win. Still, it will look great in your throne room if you have one, and we can imagine a screen shot of a room filled with corpses, with a single character sitting in this chair surveying the damage, ideally while wearing JohnnyOldboy's Blood Dragon Mask or something similar.

So...we like it! it's nasty, but it provides tons of screenshot and role-playing possibilities.  Good luck, Veys!

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Following a hiatus of several weeks, Milho Frito is back with Desolation, a riveted copper and iron weapon of war. The red cloth wrapped around the stock compliments the metallic red copper in the body, and the black iron contrasts well with both.

Milho Frito made two versions of this gun, one low contrast with blue cloth ("tempered"), and the higher contrast version you see here.  Both are examples of this artist's mastery of the medium.  If you aren't familiar with his work, be sure and drop by his workshop. Great stuff!

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And finally we have an excellent tribal style stone hatchet by Andrey. The artist does a very good job of making the hatchet blade look like stone with chalk or pigment markings.  The wood is rough and the cloth is carefully decorated with the markings we typically associate with hopelessly primitive, pre-modern savages.

Quality is solid, but we are unsure of the chances of approval.  One one hand, it is a stone hatchet, not an AK, so competition in the space is not as tough.  But on the other, we have seen quite a few tribal stone hatchets, and some have already been approved.  Will Facepunch approve another?

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xtab's Weekly In-Game Skin Review

About half the skins approved this week are from the back burner or have been sitting in the suggested pile for awhile. Of particular note is the Metalhunter set, an eight piece set that just saw the final four approvals go through.  Our favorite approval: The Dead Pirate Rifle, by JohnnyOldBoy.

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WTF Fisher Sleeping Bag?!? But we liked the Fisher Wooden Dooaaar!  Well, there's always next week. In the meantime we can enjoy the bedroll and the rustic aesthetics it lends our humble starter hut. We can also imagine the smell of old fish rising from the fabric, and are grateful we're not there in person.

Congrats to T.O.N.Y.A.E.R1

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A hatchet made from a roughly polished wood handle and a Damascus Steel blade.  Most likely the blade was found in a museum or collector's house--certainly the savage people inhabiting our charming island could not reinvent such a wonder.

The artist, Sfonsper, did a good job in aging the leather wrapping the handle and the metal attachment to the handle. For those of you who refused to click on the wiki link, those pretty flowing swirls on the blade are the mark of Damascus steel.

By Sfonsper.

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A beat-up old locker dragged from the security office at Cobalt and put to use in your shabby raider base.  Not that the security office wasn't shabby, too--rules seemed a bit lax from the looks of it, and the furniture budget was running more than a little thin near the end.  And while we can't quite make out what that note in the middle of the locker is saying, it's probably a memo warning employees not to allow the press on the premises nor to discuss last week's unfortunate radioactive steam release.  And besides, everything is now under control.

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Painted in sickly shades of purple and maroon with a large poisonous centipede running down the barrel, Sting by BFS is an aptly named semi auto pistol. We think it's a good pistol for female players staying in character, or for people who just like their weapon to seem painful and nasty-looking. Too bad you can't poison your bullets, or coat them in Teflon.

@Facepunch--how about different kinds of arrowheads, and poison for them?

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Sometimes when raiders hit a base, they take everything but the kitchen sink.  Figuratively speaking, of course. And now with the new rules that let you pick up many objects, they'll take your boxes, your furnaces, rugs, shelves...even the fuel out of your lamps if they get your tool cupboard. They'd take the kitchen tiles, if you had a kitchen.

That's what this quirky hammer by Veys and Caglayan is about--raiders putting everything to use. It's a wooden mallet with homey kitchen tiles glued to the sides.  They wouldn't stay there for long in real life, but this is a video game, so your hammer will be fine.

Used with other rustic and appealing skins like this week's Fisher Sleeping Bag and you can put together a cozy little cabin pretty easily. You might even be able to forget just what kind of murderous savagery lies right outside your cute but flimsy wooden door.

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After six long weeks, Facepunch finally gathered the remaining pieces of this spectacular eight piece clothing and armor set by T.O.N.Y.A.E.R. and approved them all at once. The set includes this armored chest plate plus the gloves, light stop sign armor and kilt you see here as well as a hoodie, pants, boots and armored face mask already approved several weeks ago. The older items are no longer available in the Rust store, of course, so you'll need to pick them up from the Steam Market to complete the set.

The set is not particularly colorful and flashy, but is is the most integrated, sharp, and exquisitely detailed set we've seen to date. So follow the links to Tony's workshop and feast your eyes on the large images you'll find there.  You gotta see it to believe it.

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This is the stop sign armor for the Metalhunter set.  This vest conflicts with the armored chest plate in that you can't wear both at the same time. You'll also have to choose whether you want to wear the gloves or the boots because there aren't enough slots for the whole thing.  (@facepunch--c'mon, just add another slot)

We've already raved about the quality quite enough, we're sure.  But note the dented metal, selectively applied rust, small snags and tears and the copper wire holding the pieces together. The more you look, the more details you find.

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Metalhunter Roadsign Pants
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This is the kilt for the Metalhunter set.  It best matches the roadsign armor, but you can still wear it with the armored chest plate and it'll look good.  

Besides the well stitched and aged leather belts, we'd also like to point out how solid the armor seems in comparison to most roadsign armor.  This set looks tough, and makes you believe it could actually save your life in a fight.

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Metalhunter Gloves
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These are the gloves for the Metalhunter set.  Details on this skin are about as good as they can get--padded leather backs, fine stitching, ground-in dirt on the palms and in the seams--it's almost photo realistic.  

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Caution DBS
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A double barrel shotgun made from what looks to be high pressure fuel piping. The original title of the skin was "Fire Extinguisher DBS", but the tubes don't flare at the end and Facepunch renamed it on approval, so we view them as pipes. We like this skin--the DBS is all about big noise and sudden death, and fiery red is the way to go. 

Although the colors are vivid, the overall paint job on the gun is worn and faded, as it should be. The DBS is a short range weapon, so the bright red barrels don't affect concealment so much.  When you find your target, he'll know know you're there. :)

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Night Howler AK
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Night Howler is a wildly popular AK skin by BFS featuring the rad wolf that killed you in the dark last night and ate your liver, not to mention your weapons, armor, and 12k of wood you had just chopped. It's mean and nasty and just like its name, a furiously aggressive, rage driven weapon looking to kill. 

The glossy, metallic pain is sharp and clear, but the gun is a touch on the clean side.

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Dead Pirate Rifle
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After Night Howler, the Dead Pirate Rifle by JohnnyOldboy is the next most popular skin this week.  It's an elaborately carved Ak, emblazoned in metallic bas-relief with seaweed, kraken tentacles, shells, squids, and JohnnyOldBoy demon skulls.  Two big ones and a small one one top of the nail driven into the stock.  Since that one's in the back you'll see it whenever you take aim.  That, and some kraken tentacles.

The wood's dark and made to seem as though it's suffered some water damage. Rust level is low, but it is anything but factory fresh. Excellent quality.

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Dynamo
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xtab skin

A strange modern composite of pre-apocalyptic machined parts and salvaged electrical substation housing.The cloth wrapping the grip is a tie recovered from a linen closet in a ruined house.

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TacCom Security Door
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A heavy security door pried with great effort from its frame in an abandoned mobile tactical command center.

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Steel and Brass BAR
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A decrepit bolt action rifle made in the days of factories and precision parts and left to the elements, now restored and plated with a dark alloy of copper, zinc, and unknown, heavier elements. It's surprisingly strong and rust resistant.

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