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Poster!

I was yet again inspired to make a fake propaganda-esque poster for Battlestar Galactica. This time I decided to make a fake ad for a nonexistent clothier/supplier.

Finished (for now)

I have pretty much finished my first Monarch! Wings are laminated photo paper.

I will take "proper" photos against a sweep later in the week, after I add in the "eyes" on his breastplate logo, and gloss in the eyes/teeth!

I will probably redden/lighten the beard/eyebrows, as the brownish-red I made seems a little too dark.

All in all, I'm pleased. I opted for a wall-eyed look, so maybe I'll try a sideways glance next time. Here's a Coke can for scale:

I'll start on the Dr/ Girlfriend sculpt soon, but I have an awful lot to do between now and mid-July, deadline-wise, so she may have to wait a month or two. I don't want to rush her!

Enamel

Waiting for enamel to cure to a rock-hard state is like watching a pot of water come to a boil.

Progressing nicely, but the wait on the yellow is agony! I redid the flesh tones, making him sicklier and more pale. Left a darker tinge around the eyes and the edges/undersides of the nose. I'll go back in and deepen the lips a touch.

The casting worked nicely though.

Skin!

My molds were successful - a Monarch parts set was pulled that I could then assemble and paint.

After cleanup, beard attachment, and priming, I painted the skin tones on the Monarch. There's about four shades used - it's very subtle, and will show up better when he's photographed correctly... currently, I have masked this area off and have shot him with gloss yellow, for the armor.

More soon!

Wings

I made the Monarch's wings today.

That wraps up all the pattern work. I'm going to make molds this weekend, and then I can finally get a casting that I can paint and finish!

The Monarch

Oooof, I gotta post more! Here's a sculpt I've been working on this month. It's the "Monarch" from a cartoon called The Venture Bros.

I started off with a ball of tinfoil that I covered with Sculpey, creating a rough mock up to get the general shapes and scale down.

I then shaved off the detail, leaving a rough form, and baked it. I then coated the cured Sculpey with Apoxie Sculpt, sculpting some of the underlying features as the Apoxie cures in 24 hours to a rock hard surface.

I further refined the shapes, adding the beard and smoothing areas.

I then separated the beard (for ease of molding) and began constructing the crown.

Now all that is left is final refinements and smoothing of any rough spots! I hope to get this molded and cast in the next week.

The Orthrus

Hi gang. Sorry for my absence as of late, but I've been finishing up some long term projects and a commission job that I had to keep off-line. Back to the show!

So besides the Cerberus I plan on building, I am using spare Pocher parts to make a smaller similar AI model, which I've called the Orthrus. I will have a build diary on my main site soon! Here it is so far:

Wooo new toy!

I'm very excited. Today I received a very rare (and horribly expensive) model kit - the Pocher Rolls Royce Phantom II Torpedo. It's going to horrify car enthusiasts, but I'm gutting and hacking it up for donor parts to make a Maschinen Krieger design that Kow Yokoyama made in early 1983 - the Cerberus.

Vital parts - the Fenders:

Other necessary bits, cannibalized from the engine, mostly:

Here's the original, which I had a chance to study last year, when Lisa and I went to Tokyo!

BusyBee!

Hi gang, I have a whole slew of updates to post, so it should be a fun week or so! First up, I have been "building" some things out of model kit parts - these are modular, and will be joined to the main body soon (not shown).

The twin-boom shapes will have much more detailing done to them, once they are affixed to their armature!

My latest article

Heya gang! I just received my seventh issue of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Modeler, a book/magazine (bookazine?) published four times a year, from the UK. I have an article about the updated Cylon Raider from Revell, which I did the box-top mock-up for. I also talked a little about the other Raider models I have made, so the reader can see the options available. I'm working on another article for their end-of-year issue.

That one will be on a Maschinen Krieger model (the one I was posting about earlier)!