Lots of sets this week, some of them quite good. Our favorite skin is the Shamanism Pump by Estavos, for its frenetic and Rusty graffiti. Great work!
A golden phoenix against a rusty iron background, aged finery all around. The bird is not so much a distinct creature as an impression of feathers and motion swirling around the barrel, grip and stock.
We could say the phoenix symbolizes the frequent deaths and rebirths of the player as he rises from death again, and again, and again. Or maybe it’s just a fancy golden bird painted over a brutal and popular war machine. Either way, it looks pretty good.
By BFS
The Chaos set is a vaguely Romanesque collection of roadsign armor with Gothic influences—lots of red and black iron sharpened to points along the edges, replete with leather, buckles, and golden studs. A bloody hand print is splayed across a front plate, no quarter asked or given.
Predatory and merciless, the armor stays Rusty without giving in to gimmicks or unnecessary ornamentation. Truly one of La Crampe’s finest sets. Drop by his workshop to see the whole thing.
Nobody on the Workshop does graffiti like Estavos. We suspect he lives in an “interesting” city, with lots of urban tribalism to inspire his work. Case in point is this here shotgun, where Urban Punk meets Native Tribesman, and they ain’t smokin’ the peace pipe.
Fantastic, faded colors and wear, all covered in an angry street scrawl. Great work at the end of the barrel and around the gun stock, and a welcome addition to the Rust Workshop’s extensive graffiti skin inventory.
Rust could be about to get a lot Friendlier with the new Peacemaker set by Badtrip, which may soon be smiling above you as you bleed out on the warm, green grass. It’s a standard roadsign set, with kilt, coffee can helmet and vest, all peace symbols and smiley faces against a dirty pastel metal background. It’s a hippie scrap metal kindergarten with sharp edges and rust—so much fun!
The set matches Badtrip’s Peacemaker weapons from last week. Although there have been no approvals in the set to date, we think it’s solid work, particularly this armor set. Taken together, it’s just the sort of thing that will enrage your opponents on the battlefield, and isn’t that what Rust is all about?
LittleRanger presents a sheet metal door with chunks of scrap welded to the front like a square-jawed demon grinding its rusty metal teeth. Heavy studs help hold the pieces together, while the red and black paint hides the corrosion beneath. Lots of personality in a limited space, perfect against a sheet metal wall.
Finally, we have a gun from Badaxe for the upcoming swamp biome. The light tan and green color scheme ought to look good in the muck, but we think it also fits in well with temperate zone mountains and their denizens.
Whichever place you find yourself in, always keep your rifle handy—you do NOT want to be caught unarmed out there. Rusty camo without excessive embellishment. What’s not to like?
A light week in the workshop, but here's a few gems for you. Our favorite: Little Monster Garage Door, by Badtrip.
A metal box of sculpted demons and damned souls, the sort of thing found in demonic temples, mad cultist retreats, or remote islands owned by secretive billionaire madmen, like the one you’re on right now. De rigueur in all the trendiest mad scientist vaults and inner sanctums, you wouldn’t want your evil lair to be without, especially since the box matches the rest of the MaryJane420 and Badaxe’s Judgement series so well.
Although no element of the Judgement series has been approved to date, they would fit right in with the Hellfire portal and furnace skins by the same artists. Drop by the workshop to see them all.
There has been a general and perhaps unconscious trend toward graffiti-cute in the workshop these last several weeks, and Little Monster is definitely part of it. Painted sickly green with two big eyes and a wide mouth full of crunching teeth, the little monster will server to attract, repel, irritate and possibly motivate neighbors and passing travelers.
It’s certainly appealing enough, and will go great with any graffiti skins you’ve already collected and deployed. Good luck, Badtrip!
Here’s a beautiful set of metal tools such as the real world has never seen. Perhaps the Pharaohs had something like this made for them for those times when they went out to chip stone for their own tombs, but who else would put that much energy into a couple of hand tools?
Well, TonyaeR and Odissey, that’s who. But now, through the digital magic of computers, their hard work can be freely duplicated for all Rust players with a sense of taste and fashion. Both the hatchet and the pick axe share the same rich colors and materials, and both share the screaming mummy emblem so prominent on the hatchet. If you’ve picked up any other Egyptian style skins, these are the perfect addition to your collection.
And now for a completely different kind of hatchet by our resident High Priest of Weirdness, Shedmon. It’s a stone hatchet with one of his typical toothy demon-beasts painted on the blade in exquisite, almost comical relief, with a red rock face and empty, black eyes. Harmless enough as a drawing on a stone tool, but you wouldn’t want to meet a thing like that in real life, let alone have one clamp on to your leg.
Black leather and chains bind the beast to the wooden haft, which is itself bound in Gothic iron rings and studs. Excellent work, although we don’t like the featureless gray ring of material at the grip. If you like the Dendrobate, be sure and drop by this artist’s workshop—he has such sights to show you.
A pleasant and dreamy sheet metal door by Fora, Night Sky can add color and comfort to just about any base, however primitive. It’s so peaceful, looking at it can soothe the savage beast within and temper your atavistic, violent urges.
Well, perhaps that’s taking it a bit far. If my neighbor had one of these, I’d stop to admire it for a few seconds…then apply the c4. Aesthetics count, but only for so much.
And yes, the stars are visible at night.
In the market for a new rock? LittleRanger has it covered with his new Adventurer’s rock, a starting rock with a chalk map and drawings scrawled across its surface, and a big red starfish for color. It’s a nice, subtle skin that doesn’t call too much attention to itself, but instead quietly replaces your boring old default rock, making your most recent resurrection a tad more bearable.
There are small, interesting drawings all over the rock, so the more you look the more you’ll see, which is the case with most of LittleRanger’s skins.
Eight pix for you this week, from the primitive to the modern. Our favorite: The Hunter's Crossbow, by Littleranger.
Vitalik’s continuation of his successful Bumble Bee concept from last week, this furnace takes advantage of the endless humanification possibilities afforded by the wide gaping mouth on the mesh. The expression is usually anger or hunger, and here we have anger in black and yellow warning stripes.. The bee has two glowing eyes similar to the glowing eyes on the riot helmet, a honeycomb top, metal “wings” in the back and a honeycomb base. Strong technicals and lots of attention to detail.
A rusty armored door with a pissed-off lion painted on the front, ready to savage any and all challengers. The door is double-sided, serving as warning on one side (walking in to the lion’s den) and inspiration on the other, with a drawing of the same big cat from a different angle, watching you carefully.
This is a straightforward skin, two drawings against a rusty armored background. You can see the other side of the door by visiting the artist’s workshop—drop by and have a look!
By BFS
This assault rifle is conceptually related to Badaxe’s approved Morocco python from last week. It’s got the star symbols found on the python, and repeats the radiant star and gear pattern while adding sun and moon symbols. Although the color set is blue and gold instead of red, the painted portions of the gun share the same half-rusted and faded appearance.
We think Morocco was a more focused and direct skin than Marrakesh, but the assault rifle has a lot more real estate to cover. One nice feature is the large wavy sun at the back of the gun, which is something the python cannot have.
Johnnyoldboy’s latest skull and bones set, with flames. Bone Rider (not to be confused with Ghost Rider) has pants, boots and this here hoodie. All pieces feature grinning skulls, meatless bones, and the fires of Hell in the artist’s trademark hyper masculine style. The back of the hoodie is particularly interesting, with goggle-skull eyes and demonic teeth ringing the collar.
The boots have a large, toothy grin all along the front, with barbed wire for shoelaces and flames running up the ankles. They are actually the strongest element of the set and look awesome with or without the other pieces. You’ll want to check them out in the artist’s workshop.
So it’s another over the top biker set, but unfortunately, there’s nothing to ride in this game (yet!). We’re Hell’s Angels without Harleys, stranded on the side of the road looking to hitch a ride. Here’s to hoping for a set of wheels in the not too distant future.
By Johnnyoldboy, Mdemon, and Rus_Donn
Here’s a sleeping bag that actually looks comfortable for a change. It’s got a soft bamboo / wicker backing with a heavy canvas top. Leather stitching and an elaborate creeping vine design decorate the top, and it retails at Macy’s in the bedding department for just $79.95 plus tax.
Every detail is strong and the bag is very appealing, but we think it’s a bit clean for the game, unless you figure it came from an untouched box at the ruined supermarket. Note the colors and the vines should help hide the bag under grass and bushes.
By La Crampe
Badtrip just released an extensive Bandit set of clothing with a shiny Python revolver to cap it off. The set is all High Desert browns and tans, and includes a boonie hat, burlap shirt and pants, a bandanna, and this here low-down, villainous bad guy gun.
The gun’s a sleek brass and chrome pistol with a walnut handle and a few Badtrip skulls on the barrel and grip. It’s just a bit scratched and worn, but all business—you’ll look like a real desperado with the gun, especially when you’re pointing it at someone. Very sharp work on the gun, but we wish there was a bit more contrast and color in the clothing set.
An iron monster from the 8th dimension, or the result of the fevered imaginations of shivering, half-starved survivors on a hyper violent radioactive island? Iron Calamity is a black metal furnace clad in painted metal sheets, with bits of melted scrap for teeth and a steel maw always hungry for more ore. It’s rough and dirty and fits in just about any base, the more man-cave the better.
We like the filthy, half melted appearance of the metal around the mouth and base, as if the owner couldn’t care less what kind of ore was smelted, what kind of metal produced, or what happened to the remains and waste.
By Shedmon
Last we have the Hunter’s Crossbow by Littleranger. It’s got a medieval look to it, with metal reinforcement and bracers on both the inside and outside of the bow, a red background, and crude metal lacing running along the body. A couple of sanded wooden grips and a gratuitous silver skull above the trigger complete the picture. Lots of sharp, clear details that will still look good at a distance.
Dirty, primitive, Rusty and straight to the point, just the way we like it.
A light week on the workshop, but we found eight excellent skins to showcase here. Our favorite: The Caution Python, by Badtrip.
Badtrip extended his Caution series of skins this week with two new entries: The Caution Python and the Caution Box. Both skins share the black and yellow color scheme and safety striping of the series, and both enjoy considerable attention to detail, rust, and wear.
Time has not been kind to this python. Some parts have been entirely replaced with scrap, like the rebar under the barrel, while the rest has been painted over or reinforced. If you look closely, you’ll also see stenciled warnings and directions, some personal trust advice and a couple of Badtrip skulls.
Good view at the top when looking down the sights, and very nice work on the pistol grip, but that’s hard to see in-game because your hand covers it up.
This is the other Caution skin released by Badtrip. It’s a small wooden box covered in warnings and safety striping, and it’s a major improvement over the plain, default wood box we’re all so familiar with. Lots of people use small wood boxes, but there are very few skins for them, so the Caution Box is a very welcome addition.
Caution boxes will look good stuffed under workbenches, or grouped together to form a step against a half height wall. Just remember: KEEP OUT, and trust no one.
This door is a sheet metal door version of last week’s grand and successful Bandit Garage Door by La Crampe. Same color scheme, but the bandit emblem is raised bare metal rather than the flat black stencil on the garage door. Other details, like the corrugated sheet metal at the bottom of the door, the chain link fencing, and the rivets and bolts are essentially the same.
We think the two different kinds of bandit emblems makes for a nice contrast between the two doors, especially since we’re so likely to see the two together in a base. We’re glad to see this follow up to the garage door, and hope to see more in the coming weeks.
Badaxe this week presents Morocco, a richly decorated python that somehow reminds us of cut-rate Mediterranean hotel decor, or maybe casino decor in an old Bond film. It’s simultaneously graceful and tacky like fashion gone out of style, and the engravings on the cylinder look a bit like slot machine iconography.
We like the way the star on the handle matches the sunrise behind the trigger, even if the star is hidden by the player’s hand during game play. We also like the subtle rust in the trigger and red portions of the gun.
The judgement series continues, this time in the form of a tormented soul trapped in carbonite, or whatever material they use these days to keep the spirits of the damned in place. However it’s done, the soul doesn’t look too happy about it. Cryptic runes mark the edges of the door, but whether they’re there to keep the spirit in or out is not clear.
Of course, it could just be a clever painting on a sheet metal door meant to frighten away the semi-primitive savages infesting this small, radioactive island. The door is not Rusty, but it is good looking.
By Maryjane420 and Badaxe
Brony-O’s begin your day with a BANG! It’s the only breakfast cereal to have “200% of the recommended daily allowance of sugar”…and that’s just what it says on the box. We’re pretty sure there’s a lot more in there than just sugar.
Brony-o’s certainly brightens up the otherwise plain default satchel charge, offering a colorful and comical wrapping to lighten your mood as you go about your raiding day. It’s a continuation of StabbyMcStabface’s approved Brony Hoodie and Brony Sleeping Bag, and we think it’s a worthy addition to the series. Sugar, anyone?
Pirates remain in vogue on the Workshop, and Vitalik just produced a fine waterpipe shotgun for seafaring survivors. It’s got a handy Jolly Roger draped over the stock and pinned in place, fine brass fittings against a black iron background, a brass Jolly Roger on the breach, and some spare skulls stamped on the barrel.
All the wood is nicely polished, and the gun looks well oiled and maintained. A great weapon to go with all the pirate stuff we’ve been seeing recently, and one that enjoys the quality Vitalik brings to all his workshop skins.
Finally we have the Slaughterhouse Garage Door, once a (relatively) innocent warehouse and factory door, now imbued with a deeper and darker meaning. The door is a simple, rusty roll-up garage door proclaiming Cherry Farms’ slaughterhouse and packaging business. Colors are plain and unassuming, and the door fits well into the Rust landscape.
We can’t think of a better door for a cannibal den or roof camper tower. If you see the slaughterhouse advertised on an unknown base, take warning!
By Kosem and StabbyMcStabFace
The Workshop was humming along this week with tons of excellent submissions. That means the Top Ten is ten again, and they're good ones, too. Our favorite: The Badboy Set, by TonyaeR and Odissey.
If you like a lot of detail in your skins, you’ve come to the right pair of artists. TonyaeR and Odissey consistently produce some of the sharpest and most carefully crafted skins in the Rust workshop, and we shudder to think of the hours that must go in to the work.
This set is no exception, and includes boots, gloves, pants, and this here hoodie. The attention to detail and the number of features are phenomenal, and include shoulder pads, biker logos, straps, studs, strings, zipper, belts, armbands, pockets, chains, and leather. Colors and contrasts are pleasing, and the individual set pieces work well together. Perfect!
This light but powerful submachine gun features a fierce fighting wasp on the body and stock, along with faux honeycomb and plenty of rust. It’s in good repair, though, and the plucky little wasp will make you float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee.
It’s good to see an MP5 skin on the workshop—they’re not as popular as they once were. We suppose getting shot by an MP5 isn’t a harmless wasp sting, or even a punch in the face by the Champ, but the gun just doesn’t have the stopping power of the mighty AK. Still, there’s a lot to be said for rapid rate of fire and low recoil of the MP5. Maybe Facepunch should drop the crafting cost in the game.
By TonyaeR and Odissey
Bumble Bee reminds us of an earlier riot helmet by the same artist, the excellent Furious Raider. It’s got the same opaque face mask and round “eyes” as the earlier helmet, but this time with an angry bee theme. Two metal antennae sprout from the forehead like raised eybrows against black and yellow stripes, and two round, angry eyes glare out at the world. A row of jagged metal teeth lay below, and the entire cast of the helmet radiates menace and comedy in equal measure.
The eyes also glow a soft orange in the dark. We’re not a big fan of glowy stuff, but these glowing eyes definitely add to the character of the skin, and provides just the touch needed to make a good skin great.
By Vitalik
Krovv’s been on a roll recently, and we think this here double barrel shotgun really nails it with a pirate theme, corroded brass fittings and baroque emblems and imagery everywhere. The barrels are decorated like a pirate’s cannons, and the sanded wood stock depicts waves, wind, and whales.
The artist took the time to provide some excellent screen shots and diagrams for the Buccaneer Twins, definitely worth a look in his workshop. Drop by and see for yourself!
Following the Buccaneer Twins inspiration, Krovv moved on to the Last Blast, a weapon from the Buccaneers of the 17th century now finding its place in the ruins of the present. There’s little difference between a 17th century flintlock and a post apocalyptic Eoka, except that a flintlock was a lot more reliable.
This one’s got the same twisted metal barrel as the Buccaneer Twins, and also shares the baroque embellishment, the polished wood, and the little golden skulls at top. We included both these weapons on the top ten because they are so good looking, but not quite a set together.
The Judgement set is a metal face mask / chestplate combo by MaryJane420 and Badaxe from Hell. The theme is about imprisonment and silence, and you can see from the mask the wearer is a man of few words. The chest plate shows a vivid empty rib cage in the back and a screaming skull in the front, but lacks the direct, horrific simplicity of the mask.
Both are good pieces, if a bit fantastic, but the mask is what really makes it a good set. Down a player, then stand over him in silence while he bleeds out with nothing but this mask to see. Bwa ha ha ha!
The World Cup is upon us, and Krovv thought to provide the Rust community with a uniform. Now your whole clan can storm the castle wearing a bright, easy to identify uniform. Of course you’ll all be #10 Newman, but this is Rust, and silk screening and professional tailor services are a world away.
The set consists of a simple red t-shirt and shorts sporting the number 10 and the Newman name, with a couple of little Rust logos in the right places. It’s a bit too clean but otherwise well executed. Perhaps if this set gets accepted we could get another color for use in special events?
JohnnyOldBoy extended his famous Scrapper series of clothing, weapons, tools…and doors this week by adding this glowing armored door. It closely follows the over the top Scrapper style, with its grinning demons, tattered racing checks, and giant, jagged fangs. It’s the demon that glows of course, and the fangs, so you’ll know what kind of clan your dealing with when you come to the door.
Don’t forget that glow will attract all kinds of visitors, but what fun’s a base nobody ever attacks?
The Police Set is Badtrip’s extension of his earlier unapproved (yet popular!) Police Burlap Shirt and Pants. The two new entries are a metal chest plate and this here riot helmet. They’re simple but direct, with police wording and coloring that looks suspiciously homemade. Nevertheless, the equipment is unmistakable, and people who see you coming will know what to expect. It will be up to you get them to respect your authority.
Last up is Badaxe’s Corinthian Door, a follow-up to last week’s Trojan assault rifle, only this time from the other side of the legendary siege. The door features a full face Hoplite helmet atop a stylized sword and shield with a bright red jewel in the pommel. The background is a subdued red and yellow over lightly corrugated sheet metal. It’s a warrior’s door: grim, determined, and well acquainted with violence.
No lies or misdirection here. The door isn’t Friendly, and doesn’t pretend to be, either. We like the wear and rust, and the door should look good on just about any base.
Eight fine skins on the List this week with a surprisingly Friendly skew. Our Favorite: The Hollow Point Gifter, by Krovv.
Another bright and colorful skin by Vitalik to sweeten your mood and lift your spirits here at the End of Days. Three wrought iron flowers trace delicately above the mouth of the furnace, while stems and leaves rise gracefully up the back. The furnace is crowned in a wreath of iron leaves, and the flowers glow when the furnace is lit.
All this sits on a rather simple stone brick base, which makes it the only dull part of the skin. The rest is very nicely arranged and Rusty enough for any taste and most base styles.
The Gifter is a mean, business-like python with an aggressive black and steel color combo. The rubberized grip and machined metal barrel enhance the no-nonsense image, and brass highlights here and there add a touch of color.
We think the Magnum plaque adds realism. A quick search for pythons with a brass plaque like the Gifter’s didn’t show results, but engravings proclaiming “.357 Magnum” on pythons are quite common. Lots of people like big guns :)
Beautiful work by Krovv
Another lurid and over the top skin by MaryJane420 and Badaxe, this one a garage door with a 3-D biker logo, all macho and full of majestic violence. It’s absolutely perfect for a clan base, being that biker gang violence is what this game is pretty much all about, minus the bikes.
We’re not quite sure how this door is supposed to roll up, but this is a video game and it works no matter how impossible it may seem. Try it, and you’ll see.
We couldn’t wish for a better foreground, but the background garage door should have got more attention. Quibbles aside, it’s an impressive and imposing skin.
An eclectic mash of symbols and styles, this motley collection somehow works together as the “Mad” shotgun. It’s got racing checks, painted teeth and flames, and jagged metal afterburners welded atop a pair of old truck mufflers. Oh, and the bottom of the barrel looks like reptile scales, which makes no sense, but…Mad.
But there’s method to this madness, and we can see a good balance of contrast and colors. Technicals are strong and all the textures stand out nice and bumpy. It’s also worn and Rusty as Hell.
By LittleRanger
A simple marble hammer with a fancy golden bull in bas-relief, Minoan in style, but probably far beyond the metallurgy of the time. It’s baroque and noble in a bovine sort of way, bespeaking strength, courage, and a certain dull stubbornness in the face of adversity.
All of which you’d need, especially strength, to lift that giant chunk of marble and swing it with any hope of control, then courage that it wouldn’t shatter into a million pieces on impact, and finally stubbornness to keep swinging when you could surely find a better tool.
We like the top of the hammer with the attention to the stub of the wood handle and the little crack alongside it. Although the hammer is not part of Mishka’s recent Heavenly Legion series of skins, it fits right in. Drop by the artist’s workshop to look at those skins all together, and you’ll see what we mean.
Speaking of the Heavenly Legion, Mishka and MDemon released this AK in continuation of this popular series. It’s whites and golds against luxurious red upholstery, with sunburst emblems on the grips and a serene, but somehow menacing angel on the body. Judging from the “repent” plaque on the side of the gun, the Heavenly Legion is dedicated to restoring justice and piety to the post apocalyptic world…or else.
This fine series has already got an approved roadsign armor set, an unapproved sheet metal door and large wooden box, and now this here AK. It’s a good looking, cohesive set, and we hope to see more Heavenly approvals in the near future.
Sfonsper has a certain bumpy style with textures, and you can just about feel the golden swirls and raised filigree with your eyes. Every part of the gun’s been detailed, from the ivory grip to the silvered cylinder, and we’re happy to report the artist has placed a noble lion’s head just under the hammer, which you’ll see every time you take aim.
There’s more. Half the grip looks like a lion’s mane, and even the hammer has a detail that looks like a tail. Finally, there are two tiny lions, one just below the end of the barrel, and the other just below the beginning of the barrel. Lots to see here!
Last we have a new dinosaur gun by BFS with a ferocious, terrifying grass-eating herbivore splayed across the body of the gun, kind of like a giant, horned snap turtle. It’s very slightly cartoony and quite unlikely to strike fear in the hearts of your enemies, but we cannot fault the art or the treatment given to the rest of the gun.
We guess it’s nice to see a Friendly skin from time to time, and this gentle beast seems agreeable enough. Nice work with the scales on the gun, but the ammo clip and back of the gun could have used a bit more rust.
Eight solid skins for you this week, from humble garage doors to fully automatic assault rifles. Best skin: The Bandit Garage Door, by La Crampe.
A black skull against a red background rides on wings of death straight at the viewer in unmistakable threat—No SOLICITORS, please. The rusty, salvaged metal and overall shabby condition of the door only serve to reinforce the image of an armed and pitiless band of desperadoes who will not hesitate to take everything you’ve got, and everything you’re ever going to have.
We could not ask for a Rustier door than this, with its scrap metal, chains, patches and ragged welds. Creatively strong and superb quality.
By La Crampe
Another splashy BFS gun, this time with a large crocodile in mid-lunge, jaws straining for the unwary prey that ventured too close. The upper jaw runs down the body while the lower jaw of the monster extends down the ammo clip a bit, strands of water and drool between. The rest of the gun is all swamp green cloth and crocodile leather.
Should it win approval, we think Lurk will be popular—Rust players like man-eating beasts. Nice drawing and solid work on the rest of the gun, but we do note there was little attention to the top and back of the gun, which you see whenever you take aim.
Just about every player in this game is a lumberjack, and that’s O.K. (sorry!) The door’s a sawmill and scrap metal masterpiece, with corrugated tin backing, rusting machine parts, and a wide variety of blades and saws that would be great to actually have in the game. Who uses a hatchet to chop down a tree, besides desperate survivors on radioactive, post-apocalyptic islands?
As a collection of metal junk bolted together to help keep out a hostile world, the door looks sturdy enough. It’s also caked in dirt and rust, which we like, and features the careful attention to detail we’ve come to expect from Vitalik.
Is it just us, or is this dragon yawning? It’s printed onto a sleeping bag, after all—could be a bedtime dragon. Sleeping or not, best to just keep your distance and hope it’s not very hungry.
The bag itself is clearly of pre-apocalyptic manufacture, looking like an expensive silk screening job on nylon or some other artificial material. Time and global catastrophe have not been kind, and the bag shows lots of wear in the background.
Note this bag is a follow-up skin of the approved BFS Golden Drake AK from a few months back.
Also continuing a successful series, Jesin added this hammer and an AK to the workshop this week, making four solid skins in his Trophy Pirate series. It’s a pirate theme with a skull and tentacle thing going on, a little bit like Cthulhu or a monster from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The hammer’s got a nice wood finish, with two metal bands and a wrapped pirate flag grip, which you generally won’t see since it’s covered by your hand. But you will certainly see the handsome brass skull and tentacles attached to the side of the hammer every time you put the tool to use. Given how often you need to use a hammer in this game, it’s a good skinning choice.
And this is the AK Jesin released with the hammer. It’s much more elaborate than the hammer, of course, with brass and steel fittings against a fine wood background. A cheery pirate flag is wrapped around the ammo clip, and the brass skull-tentacle thing is simultaneously worn, rusty, and beautiful.
We note the AK and the hammer are working with a different color scheme than the trophy pirate door and box from last month, and the skulls and tentacles are a bit different, too. But the match is close enough, and together the four skins would be perfect for the game’s new attention to watercraft and water bases.
It’s been a little while since we last saw a nice graffiti / urban set, so we were pretty happy to see the Vandal set show up in the workshop this week. It’s the usual vest, kilt, and coffee can helmet trio, and each piece is well matched to the whole. The art’s a soft mix of cartoony monsters displaying a variety of emotions and drug addled expressions. Some are angry, other sick, and still others are rolling their eyes, biting each other, or just freaking out.
It’s pretty happy and colorful for battle armor, all the better to troll and enrage your victims with. Just remember they’ll see you coming from a mile away, so stay alert. If you want to see the whole set, be sure and drop by the artists workshop for a look.
By Relic and Porter
Finally we have an unusually straight up, non-grotesque skin from Shedmon, a brightly colored and highly Rusty sheet metal door that gives no clues as to what lays behind it. The door’s a good match for just about any base in the game, having clearly come from the depths of one of the radioactive monuments that dot the island. Whatever it was protecting is lost to time, but Shedmon couldn’t help but give the door the suggestive “TESTroom” name. Testing what, exactly?
Straight from the Land of the Ice and Snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs glow comes the Viking set by Johnnyoldboy. It’s roadsign armor made from a combination of metal, wood, and fur, with runes and viking braids lining the edges of the metal. The vest has a broken wooden shield strapped to the front, with a Viking longboat in bronze on the back.
It’s a standard roadsign set, with a coffee can helmet, kilt, and vest. and it’s packed with detail, all of it smart and sharp. Well worth a trip to the artist’s workshop for a look at the whole thing.
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