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Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:01
by nectaroustheine
Boeings? As in, the plane company? O_o
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:03
by Merrymaking
Exactly. ;D
Your reaction is exactly what I've been getting when randomly trying people out.
So. Hence the expected refusals. ;D
If it's not a living reference, people get scared. ;D
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:07
by nectaroustheine
So... *trying to wrap brain around this* To clarify, you want living creatures designed after airplanes?
Can I ask what the motivation is? It's just so unusual!

Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:12
by Merrymaking
Yes. 8D
As living as Knuffel are, of course.
I mean, you can transform a bird, a bat and a sheep into a human-like form. Why wouldn't it be possible with airplanes? They've got enough characteristics :)
Well magpies are the obvious obsession, but another deep one is civil aviation x3
I've always been totally in love with those big birds. And Boeing is my favorite company, as far as those are concerned. But if it turns out to look like an Airbus you won't hear me complain either. xD
Just. Commercial airliners. <3
It would be totally awesome if someone could make a Knuffel like that.
I already had an idea for a smaller, old fashioned airplane. You know, those double-winged piles of scrap. :')
But it's gonna be detailed and I'm pretty bad at that. >>
So it's gonna take ages.
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:16
by nectaroustheine
It's actually an intriguing idea. I can sort of see how it would work. *rubs chin thoughtfully* And I like the biplane idea!
I'd offer to make you one, but I'm not confident in my skills with coloring metal. Maybe when I work up the nerve. Haha.
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:18
by Merrymaking
Hahaha it's experimental anyway so I'm challenging everyone who'd like to give it a try ;D
And it's not as much metal as it's aluminum and kevlar ;D
The biplane (thanks for the word! xD) in my head is so awesomely oldfashioned. You know, a mustache which turns into a propellor and all. xD
I just wonder how I'm gonna have to do that without ruining his face...
And he's getting a leather cap with goggles. xD
He'll start as a pilot and turn into the plane. :')
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:22
by nectaroustheine
Ahaha! That sounds cute. xD
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:24
by Merrymaking
I hope I can make it turn out the way I want it to. ;o
Ah well we'll see. Challenges, challenges. :D
I'll add it to my to-do list. x3
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:26
by Vindrae
Sorry for taking so long! I was vacuuming! ^^;
I’m pleased you like them! The baby was so, so sweet! As you can see He or she did not have a proper tail yet *adorable*
I’m sorry, I actually don’t know much about magpie breads and sexes.
All I know is that they are beautiful and miss understood.
The hated people have for them is so unjust! They clime that they are evil because they eat birds eggs and baby birds. But that is what they have done even before humans where around!
How can they be evil if that is a natural way of a magpie ;___;
It like they see a lion take down a baby gazelle and say it’s a truly beautiful animal. But magpies are named as evil vermin. :C
If there is a more vermin based species it the humans ~ over breading and such.
Sorry for my bad spelling! I look like an fool ^^;
Re: The Magpie's Nest - Only 2 Days Left For Shaw! WIP: Huds
Posted: Apr 15th, '12, 18:39
by Merrymaking
Awww no worries, hun ;D
Vacuuming is more important!
(Then magpies? Nope. Than KofK? Yeahh... well. 8D)
Yeah, exactly!
They look so... incomplete haha. And they always look like spoiled, angry brats. :p
And most of the time they only do so in the time their own eggs have just hatched and there's not enough food around to feed their own babies. And they just need the animal nutrition. And still... it's nature! Lions eat antilopes, foxes eat rabbits, humans eat just about everything xD
None of those people is crying about the calf on their plate at dinner.
I have way more trouble with the way humans are emotionlessly and industrially slaughtering any kind of animal for their own food (guilty as charged, I admit. I'm a carnivore.) than any kind of animal that hunts because that's what nature tells them to do. xD
But that's not the only reason people 'hate' them of course, they've always been seen as devil's familiars and bringers of bad luck in our parts of the world. Just like rats and ravens and stuff. :')
I actually think the folklore is rather interesting. I love to discuss it when people bring them up to explain what's so evil about magpies.
Just. Don't try me on the baby bird eating thing. xD
...I should learn to read the full message before I reply, 'cause by replying per alinea, I've only repeated what you said in your next alineas xD
/bad
Haha that's okay, it's not that bad right? :o