X-Com Captain Louise Mertens, Assault

 

Another one bites the dust

He is back!

 

Good morning everyone!

A few days ago, I received a beautiful gift from my longtime friend and colleague in many customization projects, Paxam.

He painted a resin replica of Stan Lee for me and sent it to me.

Below are the photos I took

I immediately added it to my collection, he's in ggod company now, and I invite you to visit Paxam's blog, because he's finally back to publishing miniatures, and his work is always incredibly beautiful.

Find him here: paxsam custom marvel blogspot.com/

What to expect from X-Com wave 2

 

Dear all, 

It seems I've been regularly able to publish according plans, but I see that the ambitious target to finish wave 2 of X-Com within 2025 starts to be too challenging... 

Wave 2 (that just started with the first three issues) still consists of other 24 characters.

Those are the followings:

 1 Alien The Outsider

2 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Assassin

3 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Hunter

4 X-Com Chimera Squad Torque

5 Team X-Com human female new member for Menace 1-5 

6 X-Com 2 Advent Trooper

7 X-Com 2 Team member 2

8 X-Com enemy Within Team Member Scarlett  

9 X-Com 2 Team member 3

10 X-Com 2 Team member 4

11 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Warlock

12 X-Com 2 Advent General (Green sute?)

13 X-Com 2 Advent Purifier (Orange suite)

14 X-Com 2 Advent Priest (White suite)

15 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Resistance Reaper

16 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Resistance Skirmisher

17 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Resistance Templar

18 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Team 6

19 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Team 8

20 X-Com Enemy Unknown Team 9

21 X-Com 2 War of the Chosen Team 10 Mech

22 X-Com Enemy Within Team 11

23 X-Com 2 Team 12

24 X-Com 2 Alien Spectre 

All 24 are ongoing, already printed, any in paining progress...

I hope you will have the constancy to follow my blog, my Youtube Channel and my Cults3D page until the X-Com Wave 2 will be completed. 

And in 2026 it will be launched Marvel Comics characters wave 6: a 125 totally new characters, never seen before, already printed and just waiting for colors and brush!

X-Com Major Jorrit Mulder, Assault

 

Here we go with the Ducth Major Jorrit Mulder, with his Assault equipment.

Bring him all the aliens!

...and the video of Making Jorrit:

X-COM Sergeant Amina Diallo, Assault

 

Here we go, the war for the planet is going to start again... and Amina is ready!

X-COM Corporal Michaela Ionescu, Assault

 

Welcome dear followers (if you exist!) to the XCOM WAVE 2!

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I'm finally done with Marvel Comics Wave number 5 (503 Marvel Comics customs done...), and today is marking the start of XCOM Wave 2.

There are 27 X-COM releases planned, and I'm sure you'll love them. New characters, new members of the Menace 1-5 team, and lots and lots of evil aliens!

Let's start with her: Corporal Mihaela Ionescu, Assault specialist from Romania.

Find her 4D view in the X-Com gallery and eventually give a look at the making of Mihaela in my Youtube Channel below,

3D printed by me, from an STL file of a beefy version of... Lara Croft... and modified with green Milliput.

I hope you like it.

Marvel Comics custom Lady Dorma

Lady Dorma was a noble Atlantean royal who was a key figure in the history of Marvel's Namor, the Sub-Mariner, acting as his lover and confidante. 

Initially portrayed as Namor's cousin, she was later retconned to be his lover. When Namor was presumed dead, she became engaged to the Atlantean warlord Krang, but when Namor returned, she broke off the engagement and reaffirmed her love for him. Her love for Namor was a source of conflict, particularly when she became jealous of his love for Sue Storm (the Invisible Girl), which led her to betray Atlantis to the warlord Attuma.

Here we go with my Marvel Comics Custom Number 503:

And her video....

And since today... watch your back!

The X-COM Wave 2 has arrived!!

Miss 502 Lady Deadpool

 

Here we go with Miss 502, Lady Deadpool...

and the video of the making

Marvel Comics custom Megaman

 

Courtesy Marvel.fandom.com:

Nathan Cooper was transformed into Megaman by an alien which saved his life after he almost died in an accident. Falling into a black lake which sent him one million years into the future and became mutated and disfigured as a result, and was encountered an entity which kept him prisoner. 

He sought revenge on his nephew, Caps Cooper, for supposedly abandoning him (in fact, Caps had believed him dead) and fought Nova. He was horrified when he discovered that the alien, which he believed had been keeping him prisoner, was actually in love with him. 

He went with Caps to see his ex-wife, and found that she had already moved on. He began attacking his wifes new partner before being interrupted by Nova, and they fought through the Coney Island Fun House before circling back to his old home. 

As he began fighting Nova again, the Protector appeared declaring its love for him. Cooper begged his wife to say that she loved him but she kept silent, while the Protector took him back to its time.

He was captured by the enigmatic alien, the Stranger, and was imprisoned in the Stranger's Laboratory World for the alien to study him. He remained there until freed by Overmind.

Marvel Comics Custom N°500 Shard Bishop

 

Dear all this is my Marvel Comics Custom number 500!

Epic target achieved. More to come!

Here is Shard...

...and Shard video of the Making:

Marvel Comics Custom Prism

Just in time for the summer... and crossing my fingers that will be a good summer... here is a old custom I finally can publish here... waiting for tomorrow come---

PRISM!

Making Virgo

 

Dedicated to P.

This summer and after

It's been a while since I've published a "written only" post... and since it's the middle of summer, perhaps it's the right time to give a little background and outline the schedule I have in mind for the coming months.

As I wrote in a previous post, the fifth Marvel wave is almost over.

The publication of Virgo (another member of the Zodiac Team) is almost upon us, and the last five figures I'm already working on will follow. These are, not in the order they'll be published, the following:

1-Prism

2-Lady Dorma

3-Megaman

4-Shard

5-Lady Deadpool

Consistently with my work (the real one...) I hope to complete all of the five by the end of the summer.

This way, I can start the second wave of X-Com Custom Figures.

The second wave of X-Com includes another 27 miniatures that I've already printed and have been waiting for a year to be customized, painted, and placed on their bases.

I selected most of these figures as excellent candidates for the X-Com collection, requiring only a few small adjustments with green Milliput—in short, a lot of painting and very little sculpting.

Since the beginning of this blog, the conversion to 3D has been a major innovation, minimizing the material costs of this hobby. In fact, I'd say costs have been reduced by 90%, while production has quadrupled, as the numbers confirm.

Over the next few weeks, I've also planned to print the figures that will be issued with Marvel Wave 6 and with X-Com Wave 3. I started out with the idea of extending both the Marvel and X-COM collections by another 25 characters, but I have to say I got carried away... Now I find it very easy to work with softwares like SculptGL and 3DBuilder, and as you can see in my videos, I'm also supplementing my works with some small AI tools and add on.

Instead of expanding with another 50 figures... I've basically already published 169 on the Cults3D website!!!

Meanwhile, I've procured 4 liters of resin to be ready for production, but if I've done my calculations correctly, between bases and figures, I'll need at least double that amount.

I'll only count what I've managed to print at the end of the summer, and what I'll have printed will all (finally) be 100% e-Custom, created by me, along with a few e-sculpts made from scratch.

Soon you'll also see the first bases with my logo printed, again thanks to the 3D printer. They might look a little crappy... but it's stuff I printed, as I said, a year ago, and I'm certainly not throwing it away, but I have to be honest: after a year of training on e-sculpt, the difference between how I worked at the beginning and how I work now is huge. Bt this will be visible probably in a year or two when this stuff will be published!

Finally, I'll leave you with a comment on the management of Skif-Socials... Aside from the work I put into each miniature (from selection, printing, modeling, and painting, for a total of about 30 hours per figure), I also put a lot of work into the videos and YouTube channel (always with highly "creepy" tools worthy of the worst hobbyist ever... a cell phone camera and a camera stand made out of cardboard...). On average, with about 30 minutes of footage, I manage to keep videos under 3 minutes and shorts under 50 seconds, which are my standard. Publishing a video, especially choosing the soundtrack, takes me at least 6 hours, which is quite a lot...

The response to my videos is paltry, barely more than a few dozen views and 20 followers, but at least my shorts often get over 1000 views, and that, let's say... helps morale!!

It's a different story for the Skif_MC channel on Cults3D, where I have almost a hundred followers and a lot of people who appreciate my e-customs.

The blog, this Blog, on the other hand, remains silent, with very few comments... and the silence is like deep space... I hope this changes, because the blog is over 13 years old, and I'd like to bother you for at least that many more!

Best regards from your little Skif.

Marvel Comics custom Blockbuster

 

Here we go with a new one... Blockbuster! 

Hope you like it!

Marvel Comics custom Faira Sar Namora

Courtesy Marvel Fandom:

Faira Sar Namora was the servant of Namora.

She was tasked with the mission of retrieving Namorita from the surface, and was interrupted when she discovered Lemuria being attacked by Deviants then by Evolutionaries. She appeared in the surface in order to seek for heroes, but the Evolutionaries followed and captured her, along with two heroes she had encountered, Scarlet Spider and Hummingbird.

They were brought to Wundagore Mountain, for the High Evolutionary. After escaping captivity, along with Nova, who the Evolutionary had captured before, they were confronted by more Evolutionaries, but helped by the New Warriors, who had arrived in the search of Nova. During the battle, the Evolutionary tried to use a machine to kill all those who had powers, but his plan was foiled when Sun Girl blasted the device. After the Evolutionaries and the High Evolutionary left the scene, Namora stayed in Wundagore Mountain to help the New Warriors secure the place.

Marvel Comics Custom Janus (Willem Vincent)

 Courtesy writeups.org ;

Janus is a very minor, presumably obscure Alpha Flight opponent. He was only seen for a few issues during a 1987/88 story arc.

Janus suffers from a severe dissociative disorder, and can physically split into two persons.

The both of him could handle Manikin’s “cave man” body. Therefore, he’s probably a strong and ferocious fighter. But this is not well-established and the game stats are speculative.

In his calm, one-bodied state he’s a particularly creative artist.

Marvel Comics Custom Ganymede

Late at night again....            

...Just after a long day at work...  but nothing can prevent me to show you.... GANYMEDE!!

Marvel Comics custom Agatha Harkness

 

Here we go fellows with the latest one, Agatha Harkness!

Marvel Comics custom Titan, Shi'ar Imperial Guard

Titan is a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, a powerful group of alien enforcers lead by their leader Gladiator.

Marvel Comics custom Whizzer

 

Courtesy Marvel.com

While on a trip to Africa, he was bitten by a cobra and was saved by a transfusion of mongoose blood and soon discovered he developed super-speed. After returning home, he decided to become a crime-fighter.

Marvel Comics Custom Man Elephant

Courtesy from writeups.org

Man-Elephant (Manfred Haller) is a minor enemy of the She-Hulk, first seen in 1981.

Manfred Haller returned in 2008. But with different powers, different visuals, against a stronger and far more experienced She-Hulk, etc..

Haller is a brilliant inventor and businessman. His inventions are always on the cutting edge of modern technology.

His battlesuit is built to emulate an elephant. 

Added features include:

Two tusks which are detachable from the suit’s head, and fastened to powerful chains. These can be used as grappling hooks “or just to tear, gouge and gore”.

The trunk can strangle people or detect “the most subtlest of odors” as well as emit “a sonic signal or knockout gas”. 

And the ears can “amplify voices from afar”.

The body consists of a “hydraulics super suit,” a harness which gives the arms, hands, and legs super strength ; and “heavy-duty shock resistant” skin.

Here we go custom: