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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 21h

#Witchtober Day 8 - Fates

A crystal ball has somehow come into Penny's possession, unfortunately the information it provides is a bit useless

#Witchtober2025

Panel 1: Penny is holding a crystal ball in one hand as she says "Behold! My new crystal ball!" to her two friends, Josie and Cyril.

Panel 2: Josie and Cyril come closer to get a better look at the crystal ball. "It can show us how we'll look in 3000 years' time!" Penny explains.

Panel 3: We see Penny's POV. Inside the crystal ball we see a vision of three tombstones with the names of Josie, Penny and Cyril (from left to right). Cyril and Josie are impressed. "Wow! Amazing!" they say.

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mintyfresh2490 🐇 @mintyfresh2490.bsky.social · 1d

Over the years, having a branch line to himself began to get to Thomas' funnel.
"I was chosen to run this line," he boasted to Gordon, "The most important line in the whole railway!"
Gordon didn't pay much mind, for Thomas was still a little engine with a long tongue
#thomas #ttte #art

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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 2d

#Witchtober Day 7 - Illusion
Creating illusions of yourself is handy when you want to remind someone of something horrible they did

#Witchtober2025

Panel 1: Mr. Normal is sitting in an armchair, reading the newspaper.

Panel 2: Mr. Normal looks up in shock as a ghostly illusion of his daughter Abi floats in front of him. It says "The accident wasn't your fault Dad, just let it go."

Panel 3: Mr. Normal screams tearfully as he reaches out for the illusion, but it has disappered. The real Abi Normal walks into the room, pointing at the accident in question- a broken vase. "Hi Dad," she says, "I promise I won't tell Mum that you broke the vase!"

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight's video is premiering in about half an hour! I've decided to have another go at combining random Thomas characters to create new ones!

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Combining Random Thomas Characters to make Crazy New Ones!

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 5d

#Witchtober Day 6 - Howl

Not everybody who howls at the full moon is a werewolf!

#Witchtober2025

Panel 1: Abi Normal turns around to look out of her bedroom window. "Oh, no! A full moon! She says.

Panel 2: An exterior view of Abi's house, with a loud howl coming out of the upper window

Panel 3: Abi shields her eyes with her hand, the brightness of the moon proving too much for her. "Why does it have to be so bright?" She says to herself.

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JacobMemeREAL @jacobmemereal.bsky.social · 5d

@rexeljet.bsky.social Hi there, Rexeljet! Just wanted to inform you that your old Toby model has been found thanks to a user named Hilltrack. If you'd like to download it, I can send you the Trainz Lore & Facts server from which it was sent.

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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 6d

Witchtober Day 5 - Bite

Ms. Gwracham is feeling a bit peckish, but she'd reckoned without Penny learning a new skill!

#Witchtober2025

Panel 1: Ms. Gwracham is holding a blueberry muffin in her hand and opening her mouth to eat it.

Panel 2: The muffin gets yoinked away by an unknown force, causing Ms. Gwracham to shatter her teeth

Panel 3: the muffin is floating in the air. Penny (left) is pointing her fingers at her head and concentrating hard. "Look, Miss!" She says, "I've finally learned how to do psychokenesis!". Ms. Gwracham (right), with destroyed teeth, says "Well done Penny, well done" in a sarcastic tone.

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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 9d

#Witchtober Day 4 - Stab

Here's a new character (Sorta)! Abelia Violet "Abi" Normal is different to the other witch characters I draw - she lives a non-magic life, but practices black magic in her spare time. This makes for a nice escape from the people who try and pressure her into acting normal

We see a dimly-lit bedroom. To the left of the scene we see an 8-year-old girl (Abi Normal) with a pin in one hand and a voodoo doll (with a pencil moustache and a 1950s businessman hat) in the other. On the floor is an open spellbook, and on the wall is a framed picture of Abi's father who shares some details with the doll. A dart has been thrown at the picture, shattering the glass layer.

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Milos15Gameplays @milos15gameplays.bsky.social · 9d

It's been a while since posting a fully finished art, but here it is. The first illustration I did for Thomas goes Fishing.
#TheRailwaySeries #ThomasTheTankEngine #RWS #Thomasgoesfishing #TTTE

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · 10d

New video premiering very soon! This week I cover the narrow gauge engine characters introduced in the HiT Model era, and try and figure out how they'd worked if they were in the Railway Series

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Drawing NARROW GAUGE Engines from the TV Series in the Railway Series Style!

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · 10d

What's the name of Germany's national railway again? Oh yeah

A picture of the Hornby Skaledale Dutch Barn in its box (The joke is that Dutch Barn sounds similar to "Deutsche Bahn". kinda. not really)

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · 10d

Sure, you can do that! (his name is spelt Kenny!)

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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 10d

#Witchtober Day 3 - Root

I eventually decided to adapt this prompt by showing Penny's friends rooting for her as she zaps her enemy!

#Witchtober2025

On a stone bridge during the evening, we see a witch (Penny) zapping a witch hunter (Niall O'Neill), making him jump in the air and scream in pain. His assistant (Emile O'Neill) looks on, dumbfounded. Penny's friends (Josie and Cyril) cheer Penny on. Cyril is cheerleading with pom poms, and Josie is wearing a giant foam hand with "#1" written on it. The scene is lit up by a street lamp.

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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 13d

#Witchtober Day 2 - Shadow

Penny and a couple of her friends have decided to put on a shadow puppet show using their hands, albeit employing a method that some purists would describe as cheating

#Witchtober2025

Panel 1: Cyril and Josie are watching shadow puppets projected onto a large rock. The shadows take the shape of a swan, a rabbit and a bat.

Panel 2: We see three witches- Penny, Bertha and Millie- in front of a campfire and with their hands taking the form of a swan, a rabbit and a bat respectively. Penny says to Millie "That shapeshifting hand spell of yours works a treat!"

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Max Champion @troubleandtoil.bsky.social · 15d

It's #Witchtober once again! I've got a very busy schedule this month so I'll be posting every other day this year. Day 1's prompt is "punk", so here's Sinéad listening to the infamous Punk compilation CD that doesn't contain any actual punk music (she doesn't know that though!)

#Witchtober2025

In a small room we see Sinéad (right) dancing next to a recovered boombox that has been crudely restored. next to the boombox is the box for the notorious "Punk" compilation CD released by Warner Special Products and Starland Music in 1996. This CD contains no punk music, as is evident by the fact that the boombox is playing Karma Chameleon by Culture Club. Penny (left) looks on, not knowing what to make of the situation.

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · 16d

It took a while to finish but this week's video is premiering in 25 minutes! To celebrate my channel reaching 20000 subscribers, I've decided to answer some questions

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20000 Subscriber Q&A!

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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DB's Mansion (Comms Work open on Ko-Fi & VGen) @dburch01.bsky.social · 23d

Funny..I don't remember Percy and the Oil Painting ending like this

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · 24d

New video premiering in half an hour! I thought it would be a fun idea to translate the bios of Thomas characters into a bunch of different languages, then back into english, and draw the results!

youtu.be/qD1rEXtgU6U

I Translated Thomas Characters Badly... Then Drew the Results

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · 24d

New video premiering in half an hour! I thought it would be a fun idea to translate the bios of Thomas characters into a bunch of different languages, then back into english, and draw the results!

youtu.be/qD1rEXtgU6U

I Translated Thomas Characters Badly... Then Drew the Results

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · Sep 15

New video premiering in about 35 minutes! Today we're looking at the infamous "scrap engines" illustration from Stepney's book and figuring out how they may have looked during their working days

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Drawing THE SCRAP ENGINES in their prime!

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Follow-up to the Matchbox Thomas video is premiering tonight! Make sure to be there at 8PM BST if you're interested!

youtu.be/TMRBm4ltBP0

Making MORE Thomas Characters in the Matchbox Style!

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Follow-up to the Matchbox Thomas video is premiering tonight! Make sure to be there at 8PM BST if you're interested!

youtu.be/TMRBm4ltBP0

Making MORE Thomas Characters in the Matchbox Style!

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm currently working on a sequel to the Matchbox Thomas video. It'll probably release Tomorrow (i.e. Tuesday) and will feature more characters than the first part

A screenshot of the Material Preview mode in Blender, showing a Matchbox Duck the Great Western Engine (based on the Matchbox No. 47 Pannier Tank)

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rexeljet.bsky.social @rexeljet.bsky.social · Sep 6

A new Rexeljet video at this time of the week? Well sort of- it's a compilation video but there's an original segment at the beginning and some editing errors from the original videos have been fixed:

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Over 2 Hours of Mystery Thomas Characters to Fall Asleep To

YouTube video by Rexeljet

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