X-Com Colonel Thiago Salazar, Sniper, from Peru

 

X-Com Sergeant Rohan Williams, Mech. Singapore.

 

As written few hours ago... here we start again...

and the video:

November gone

 

Quick update... I'm still alive and kicking. 

If I haven't posted in almost a month, it's only because I'm busy preparing the third wave of X-Com (scheduled for 2027) and the seventh wave of Marvel (scheduled for 2028).

I'm working on all the upcoming figures, some of which are highly anticipated, directly on the Cults3D website. 

Below you'll find three big previews, those are already available for download in STL format: Berserker, Muton, and Andromedon.

9 figures from X-Com wave 2 are instead ready to be published here, just working on all the videos, hope you'll see something before Christmas!

And here a couple of Marvel Wave 7: The Serpent, Deathcry, Carrion and Aegon... 

Hope you like them all! 

Of course as usual you can download all of them FOR FREE and prin t them from my Cults3D web page by clicking here: SKIF MC CULTS3D

See you soon!

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!