Completed uniforms for the officers and crew from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children. #unity3d #blender3d

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Finished the female officers for my neovictorian steampunk personal project. #blender3d, #unity3D

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The daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic 2) doing a thing that starts tomorrow.

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I’ve finally started to create female uniforms for the #neovictorian fantasy #steampunk æthership from the bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children.

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