Past Few Weeks

I've been a bit quiet since I finished my 3A pieces. I've been trying to get a bit more sleep but obviously I've been working on projects still. I am waist deep in my Most Wanted 3 figures of which the sculpt is done but I still need to nail down the design. I'm working on a Hexadecimal Mini Munny that will have 5 interchangeable faces that is turning out really great. And I just finished up this huge project for my day job that involved a good range of my skills from digital composing and file prep to sculpting, molding, production and custom packaging. I also recently visited the High Museum to see the Kaws installation. His show at the High opens in February and he will be live painting for 5 days and since Amanda and I have memberships I will be going to watch him paint as often as I can. I also made some gift boxes for my 2 sisters and Amandas 2 sisters to help them pick out their dresses for the wedding in Hawaii in July. Most of the contents were Amandas ideas and I designed the box and whatnot. The right compartment holds a chalkboard Munny. Here are some pics from the last few weeks.

Hexadecimal with a blank face. The faceplate comes right off and is held on with a magnet.

 Most Wanted 3 proto.

Box for work. I had to make 20 identical boxes.

Original donut sculpt. I made a silicone mold from this sculpt and popped 20 copies using Alumalite white resin.You can see Hex's faceplate in this pic too and I used the same resin to pop 5 versions of the faceplate.

 Super cute Amanda. The Companion is sweet too.

I pass Dinosaur World every time we go to KY. I need to go there eventually.

 Gift boxes for Amandas brides maids...our 4 sisters. Each one was personalized.

Process Shots

So now that my 3A customs are finished here are some process shots. Sometimes I'm really good about taking them and others I'm not. One thing I can say is my work space gets larger and more cluttered by the day.

Final pics of 3A customs

Here are some of the final pics for my 3A customs. There will be many more to come but here is an initial taste.

Jurassic....what a coincidence.

So I love dinosaurs. One of the first customs I ever did was Munnysaurus Wrecks...which is sort of Wrecks' dad and after that I did a Dunnyceratops and a Munny-Raptor. I still own all 3 of these pieces as there was a combined love for them by me and dis-interest by others. So when I started thinking about the decals for Wrecks I wanted to include some hand-written note type things as if the human soldiers he fights aside did it...and I thought "Michael Crichton was here" would be clever and a shout out to one of my original literary inspirations. I did some quick research on Crichton because I knew he died recently and low and behold... He died on November 4, the same day as the opening of the 3A show in San Francisco. It will be 3 years to the day that Crichton died of throat cancer. It was a sign to me that Wrecks is gonna be the shit and all of my customs will go over amazingly.

Hoping to do the final shoot of the rest of the finished bots tonight. Man I'm strapped for time... and I have to host goddamn trivia tonight too. Best stay sober or else the late night photo shoot will turn into a not so late bed time.

More 3A

Recent WIP pics.

Crappy Pics of 3A

Here are a few pics I snapped last night of things almost finished with 3 of my customs that I've dubbed as part of The Z00 battalion. It includes Wrecks, Rasp and Rover.

Wrecks is a goddamn beast, built from a 1/6 Heavy Bramble, not only will he trample you to death, but he'll tear your body armor to pieces and blast you in stride as well. Still finishing up the decals on Wrecks but here is the main Z00 decal.

Rasp is a close combat tank hybrid. Beware of his deadly claws... and if you manage to escape he'll mow you down with his gatling gun tail. Carries 1 custom World War Glyos figure and is still in queue to get his decals. Paint app is about done though I still need to paint the driver.

Rover is a recon and rescue bot. His forte is stealth infiltration. He is lightning quick and silent as a ninja. His tail mounted HD camera relays real time footage back to head quarters while his legs carry him across enemy lines without a trace. Got a man trapped behind enemy lines, Rover will sneak in with emergency supplies and get your man back safe... or make sure he doesn't talk.

Rover is complete with decals and I recently added his back mounted pouches. I did alter the camera some to make it look more like a camera as well as weathered the pouches. So final pics still to come.

And the Cybermen bot head is just about done. I decided to take some creative liberties with the line work on the head and here are the results. I will probably tinker with it until the last minute but I think he is looking really good. Mouth glows really well and looks dope. It will be a nice contrast to the rest of the heads since none of them will have mouths.

The Dunny Walker is about done as well. I finishing the sculpting on the Dunny and just need to finish painting. He looks awesome in the cockpit because his Grunt helmet literally sits on the edges of the cockpit and you can only see a sliver of his face....it just looks seamless.

Aliens Mech Walker is behind schedule but I have most of the raw sculpting done...got alot of fine tuning to do as well as painting still. This is gonna be a barn burner to finish this one.

3A Rolling Out

My 3A customs for the I Am Legion show in San Francisco are nearly finished and I'll be posting up some pre-photo shoot images right here later tonight. I just need to add the decals and final weathering layer to the 3 animal bots that I am designating as part of The Z00 faction, I need to finish the Dunny for the Dunny Walker, the Cybermen head is done, and I still have alot of work to do on the Aliens Mech Loader. Check back here later for pics.