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I finally got round to finishing the Wolverine blank I mentioned in an earlier post, that I’m hoping to turn in to chocolate lollipops for my wedding.

I kept putting it off because it was taking a lot of work trying to get it all symmetrical, smoothed out and to the high level of finish that I wanted, but my fiancée reminded me that most people that will be seeing these aren’t comic fans and so won’t care if it looks like who it’s supposed to, or if the right and left sides of his costume match, and it’s only likely to last about three seconds after it’s discovered that they’re made out of chocolate before someone bites the head off anyway, so as she was happy with it I decided to leave him asymmetrical and call him finished.

For a bit of variation, I knocked out an equally asymmetrical Spider-Man (black suit so I didn’t have to try and sculpt the webs ), the texture looks a little weird on him, as I ran out of primer mid spray.

Figures are in 1/12th scale.

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

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Saw this a few days ago over at Angry Zen Master and couldn’t not have it up here, I had mixed feelings when I heard they were making this film, but if the rest of it is like the trailer it could actually be pretty good.

Saw this old post a little while ago, about Jim Lee sketching on the back of a door in a comic store, which was recorded and later edited together and narrated by Jim Lee, but it looks like he only ever got as far as making parts 1 and 2. Read the rest of this entry »

Episode #3 is here, or check out my favourite episodes on my Heroes, Villains and Artists page.

They also have these episodes available to download on their site

I had plans to start the new year off with a whole load of sculpting work, perhaps get back into doing a bit of CG and animation too, and certainly to start making much more regular posts, but it seems as always the shock of going back to work after the Xmas break has partially broken me already and I have managed almost none of those things.

Well I’d best get off now and carry on working on my ‘Wedding Action Figures’ so I’ve more to make posts about I guess, hopefully I’ll have some WIP pics up fairly soon (well before next January at least as I need them finished by May )

Merry Christmas everyone,

You’ll have to excuse the blurry pics, but here’s a shot of my contribution to the Christmas décor at my house, well he’s wearing red isn’t he…

Now this is something that I would usually have posted about whilst I was making it, but as it was a surprise birthday present for the other half I couldn’t.

She loves the book Wicked and as I also bought her a copy of the book, I thought it might be nice to try and make her a proper sculpt rather than one of the simple penguins I usually make. As the ‘witch’ is the hero (anti-hero?) of the book, I wanted to sculpt my fiancée as the witch and, although I’d actually given up trying to capture her likeness, in the end I’m actually quite pleased with how it turned out on that front, and think it manages to look something (if not completely) like her. I went for a slightly more comedy, friendly generic ‘be-witched’ style, and as I was only working on this when I was alone in the house didn’t manage to complete it to the standard I wanted or start painting it it’s still probably my best piece so far.

It’s roughly in 1/12 scale so if the witch was stood, she’d be about 6″ tall, and is about 5 1/2″ tall sitting from boot tip to the top of the hat.

Saw this over at Angry Zen Master he finds some of the coolest links and videos.

I’m just waiting for the boffins to invent ones which can use weapons, and this will be ‘proper’ robot wars.

The second instalment of Heroes Villains and Artists TV (the previous 2 were just separate parts of episode 1) is now up to watch, just hit the link on the right.