“GOBBO” – a hunting trophy i brought back from the swamps 
support my design & VOTE now on DeliciousDrips for my GOBBO Skully Custom:
deliciousdrips.com/submissions/submission.php?i=421
-> short update: WIP Making of Slideshow of GOBBO
GOBBO made it to the 3rd place in the PVC Contest!!! HERE are the results
thank you all for your support & the votes for my custom Skully GOBBO!
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Designer and Architect Mathias Bax from Germany has created his first DIY Resin Toy the Ham-ster Cavy. I’m pretty shure the Ham-ster will become a nice plattform to realise lots of awsome custom jobs. The Ham-ster’s comes in two versions one with movable arms and one with fixed arms (for kids;). A piece will cost approximately 10$ plus shipping costs.
So get your hands on your own DIY Ham-ster straight from his creator and place an order at bax.architekten@arcor.de. He will handling production and shipping by himself. The first cute fellas will find their new owners right now in January 2010.
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Voting for the DIY Designer Toy Challenge on aarting.com is on!!!
Please vote for SQUIMONK till 15. november 2009 (every vote counts, you can vote every 30min for my design). If my concept wins, SQUIMONK will be produced by Aarting and you can grab your own 4.5 inch blank D.I.Y SQUIMONK for customizing! 
VOTE HERE! thx
SQUIMONK – my second entry for the Aarting DIY Toy Challenge.
Today is the deadline for the DIY Contest at aarting.com. I really want to participate with an another toy design than my “monopear”. But to realize with 3D modeling what I’ve got in my head, time was to short to learn all the stuff so quickly. Now then, I’ve done my second entry the old-fashioned-way: sculpting, sanding, molding, casting in resin, again sanding and finishing with white primer (well i guess, not really less time-consuming… 
) The prototype stands only a 3/4 inch high, so i would love to see them much bigger as an Aarting DIY Toy ready for you to customize!
This afternoon I’ve grabbed my cam and finally hunted some blank SQUIMONKS in the wild …check the picture series.
SQUIMONKS lives high up in the threes and rarely come to ground to pick up the jummy fir cones. That’s the reason why they have a slightly beer-belly, they know very well how to do really tasty fir cone beer in their brewery
Please vote on aarting.com for the SQUIMONK!
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Last week i spoted on aarting.com a D.I.Y Designer Toy Contest. Check the submission guidelines, download the templates and design your own toy. This is your chance to design the toy’s actual shape. That’s right, designers from all over the world will be able to customize something that you designed! This means that you’re now free to come up with any original shape you want, in any style. The deadline for the toy entries is the 30. Sept 2009.
If you don’t want to participate yourself, please just register shortly over arting.com and vote for my designs, i would really appreciate it!
For the time being i’m working on a new series of five critters for a small limited series. It’s a new way to sculpt my creatures out of wax after done a quick mold of the clay prototype. I haven’t finished yet my actual sculpting tutorial on this but i do take hearty work in progress pics, so be sure to check the tutorial section again. Until then, i’d like to share with you some of the finest online resources about sculpting, d.i.y toymaking and molding stuff. Enjoy!
Over the years, many of you have send me a message to get my free vector outline XBOX 360 Faceplate & Case Templates from my old blog faceplatecarver. So i decided to move the files over here to my new place smallstuff.ch and get them ready for you as free downloads.
It’s quite a time ago since I’ve done my custom 3D Faceplates, but i think nevertheless a game console is a nice canvas not only for painting, also to sculpt stuff on it. You can use my templates to scribble down you ideas first before you do the case modding stuff like cutting holes into your Xbox360 and things like that… at least it’s never bad to have a plan where the holes could be
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