Rick Jones is A-Bomb

Courtesy from Wikipedia:

Richard Milhouse "Rick" Jones is a fictional comic book character in Marvel Comics. Rick has been a sidekick to the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), Rom the Spaceknight, and Captain Marvel (Genis). He has been an active participant in many significant Marvel Universe story lines including the Kree-Skrull War and the Destiny War. Rick Jones recently acquired powers causing him to transform into a massive creature calling himself A-Bomb.

Enterely sculpted in Magic Sculp white.

Bring the tools back home

Hi,
it seems that I'm sleeping a while, but things aren't always as they appear...
Depsite the fact I'm much busy in this period, I dedicated lot of time in sculpting and not painting, this was because I wanted to have the minor possible number of tools ariound the house...

So, today, I got in progress 13 miniatures.... I'm not going to say which characters one I'm issuing but I can tell that all of them are now ready for painting, so please stay tuned...

The only sneakeye I want to give is this picture of one scratch build character. The picture is a bit dated, the figure was completed yesterday...

Who's that????

What is white is Magic Sculp White, and unfortunatly I have to say that I'm now run out of this amazing product!

What is Grey is something new I wanted to test for the base structure of my scratch built miniatures: Bostik Stone Repair.
This stuff is hardening like a stone, it is a bi-component product and the vantage is that is curing and haredening in 10 minutes. This means that when I have only one hour per weekend for my miniatures it helps a lot!
Other vantage is the cost, that is about 4 euro/pc comparable to the 13 euro/pc of Milliput.

Unfortunately it smells like hell, and you only have 10 minutes for modelling it!!!
No reaction after contact with my skin (at least until after 15 days....) even if the manufacturer suggests to use gloves when handling. But after all also Milliput producers are suggesting to use gloves. definitely I don't think a customizer or a sculptor can use gloves when modelling.....

In the box of this Bostik Stone Repair you will find the two components one "inside" the other: yes, they are two cylinders, one around the other, and when you cut a piece (perpendicularly) you automatically have the right mix of hardener and material. In Milliput instead you have two separate cylinders, one for hardener and the other for the product.

I warmly suggest this stuff from Bostik when doing bases for miniatures. Specially if my skin will continue doing its job for at least another couple of years....

Asgardian Knight

Here is my last custom, just a repaint of a knight taken from a shop some months ago.
I like to have into the collection some general charcter as AIM, Hydra etc... I still was missing one Asgardian Knight, even if I made this for sales...

Hope you like it!

 

Psyklop returns! 3

And finally painted....

Psyklop returns! 2

Here is the progress of Psyklop.. legs finishing

profile view...

 rear view....

 belt and head assemble....

 neck assemble...

 hey you!

 costume...

 mmm....

 rear costume view...

 three balls...

 I'll give you a couple of arms...

 refining arms.... (don't care about fingers, they will refined after baking...)

and after baking.... it was impossible to remove the two screws without destroing the feet... Not so bad accident, cause in any case I had in my mind to give him a couple of millimeters extra lenght in his legs, so....). But in any case my suggestion is: do not use screws to fix it on the base, simply use iron wire!! Easier to remove.

Psyklop returns!

Ok, I started the second character to launch in the market. I wanted something new and unseen, so I choose one from my old "Want it" list. This is Psyklop.
Give me the time and you will find him in the new section opened today: For Sale.

Let's start from a rough iron wire armature

 Let's find a tool that can be used for fixing and working on... I made two drilled holes on this coffee cap, in order to use couple of screws to support the armature.

 Yeah, exactly like this...!

 It seems very good.... But forget it! You will see in the next pages that after baking the figure, the screws made impossible the extraction and destroyed the legs, that I had to reìbuild.... No way! Much better to use iron wire... but this is the lesson learnt today!!

 Ok, now is time to prepare some Magic Sculp white in order to fix the parts pf the armature... Take two egual parts of paste and hardener

 Mix them some minutes

 yeah baby, this way!

 Just mix for a couple of minutes until the colour is omogeneous and white

 ready!

 Then let's use on the main junction in order to fix at least the main parts of the armature

 Then let's fix the white milliput also onto the screws and when hardened let's start to roughly model the figure.... better if considering proportions....

Red Sonja repainted and for sale

Just a old custom repainted, and now for sale.