Update

I wanted to let everyone know the reason for my long absence. I had a shoulder problem that ended up with me having to undergo surgery. I am now trying to get it back into productive use and then hopefully back to the bench! Thanks to all for the kind words and thoughts and prayers.

Hope to add something to the blog one day soon!

A little more work on the first highlander

Here is just a little more work done on the highlander. I am hoping to get really busy on it soon. Also, a quick picture of the 3 of them. This is not their final position but just a quick look at them all together.

Battle of Culloden vignette

I am excited about this new project. It will me a joint project with my friend Gordy. I have wanted to do this scene for some time but never had the time or the energy to do both the sculpting and the painting, that is where Gordy comes in. He is such a talented sculptor and we thought it would be fun to do this together. This is the first one of three. He will be holding a long weapon and the others will be a standard bearer and an officer.

Here is the start to the project and I hope to keep this post up to speed during the build.

Completed custom of Chris Chamberlain LB St Louis Rams

Here is the completed figure. Thanks for looking.

Chamberlain Update

Here are some updated pictures on the Chamberlain custom. I am hoping to start painting him next week.

New Custom..Chris Chamberlain LB St Louis Rams

Here is the start of a new custom I am working on. It is for Chris Chamberlain. Chris asked for this particular pose. I was not happy with my original attempt but this pose is getting better.

A close up

Here is a close up shot of Billy's figure.

Finshed Rams custom

I finished up Billy Bajema's custom. I was able to give it to him and he was very pleased. I did noticed I had omitted an NFL logo on it and then he brought it back to the house for me to correct.

Here are pictures of Billy's custom and of him and I when he came over to pick it up.

Thanks for looking.

The body of my new football player

This is going to be a custom for Billy Bajema, TE St Louis Rams. Here you can see some of the different parts that I have used and some of the putty were I have sculpted what I needed. I used AVES to sculpt.

The start of another Football Custom

I am in the process of doing another football custom. This one will be of the St Louis Rams TE Billy Bajema. Here is the start of the helmet. I had to free hand the horns and it was a little bit of a challenge but I think it turned out ok. I know on the next one that there are many different things that I will have to do to try and make it better. Anyways here are some pictures.

Joe

A few better pictures

As promised here are afew new and better pictures.

Joe

My first custom finished!

I was able to finish up my first custom today. Sorry for the pictures. I rushed to take a few to see what it looked like but have since taken a few better ones that I will post later.

Thanks for looking,

Joe

Box art figure for Thunderbird miniatures

Here is a new figure that I have just finished painting. I was trying to get it finished sooner for Mark but I had several life things happen and I was able to finally wrap it up. It was fun to paint and now that I have finished it up for the box art I will remove it and then place it on a base with more groundwork. I painted it the usual way using all acrylics. I think this was very well done by Anders and it has many possibilities. I may have to get another and see what I can come up with for a conversion.

Thanks for looking,

Joe

Ground work done

Here is the finished groundwork. I need to clean up a few spots on the base. I should have the figure finished either tonight or hopefully tomorrow.