santa claus is on his way

OK, so this is SO not anything to do with mecha, but it is a sculpture project I'm working on right now. So I'm posting an image here, if only to let anyone who actually reads this blog know that I am working on SOMETHING.



And furthermore, I will be cleaning this up then making a few molds and casting copies of this over the next few days. So that'll give you a chance to walk through a simple moldmaking and casting process. I'll shoot some video so you can see the finer points of RTV and resin mixing and pouring in a flat one-sided mold.

New Custom Vinyl

Last Friday there was a custom toy show at my local comic shop, the Vault of Midnight

Here are a couple of pics of my contribution:

More Painting on the Tachikoma

Doing some texturing on the body of the Tachikoma with Mr. Surfacer 500.

And putting some color onto the "eyes" or "sensors" or whatever complicated technical name I'm sure Shirow made up for them. For details on the paints used for the finish (which looks even more interesting in person) watch the video below.