The In Rust We Trust Secret Santa 2026 Experience
I love giving gifts. I'm actually great at gifting, nobody gifts like I do. Since In Rust's annual secret santa event was now open to people outside the US, I knew I was going to join and make it clear that I was the best gifter of ALL TIME. I'll bring you up to speed if you don't know how the event works. Every participant is required to give a short prompt to give your santa an idea of what you'd like to recieve, and then you get matched with a victim giftee, read their prompt and off you go. Everyone is required to kitbash something that fits the prompt, but painting it is optional. The deadline for shipping was december 20th, which gave me a little over a month to complete the gift. The prompt I was tasked with fulfilling was "Retrofuture, Armored, Violence", by Elijah (who you can follow on instagram here ). I loved the prompt, and it really sync'd with my mood at the time. I wanted to do some scifi, I wanted to revisit armor modelling and I w...
