“GOBBO” – a hunting trophy i brought back from the swamps

support my design & VOTE now on DeliciousDrips for my GOBBO Skully Custom:
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-> 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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Have a bunch of wood & resin toy projects going on right now. I really hope i can release these little fellas as a DIY edition in march when spring is coming and the sprouts are growing! ^_^ Now i have a lot of details to sort out, especially how to export the cress seeds from the “Happy Gardening” Set i’m planing…

Meanwhile some WIP pictures of my first custom i’m working on: “Golden Age” AncientCritter. Hope you like him

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Our Test labs are full of new organic experiments with all the different AncientCritters. We had to send out our best recources to get some new rare species and varieties for the “Happy Gardening” Kit

Nasturtium officinale

Medicago sativa

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The Release of the AncientCritters will be in late February with a first run of 33 DIY pieces, handcasted and numbered by the artist. Differents colorways and some surprises will follow till then, stay tuned!

Now it’s time to share some secret WIP shots of our new fellas. Last week our studio turned into a greenhouse and the first AncientCritters resin casts were used for planting series of experiments. I’m petty sure the AncientCritters will bring the best out of you and a green touch for your desk & toy collection! ^_^

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You can see on this short slideshow the silicone molding process of AncientCritter ALTRO.  I have placed the the prototype and the seem line in a slightly strange position for this two part mold but I had the feeling I should give my silicone-plug-system-technique™ a shot

Now after the first few resin copies i have to say, casting is going pretty well so far …and I’ve got some wicked ideas for these fresh Resin Critters right now! Stay tuned.

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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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The first bunch of XMAS PEARBLOCK Angels are gone for Christmas and
few more waiting for their new owners. Happy Hollidays to all!

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Ok i’m late as usual

…so i’ve worked today on my small series of XMAS PEARBLOCKS.
I droped the arms because they where to small for my taste, i’m fine with
only the two wings on the back of the body.

All the pieces are now finished with semigloss varnish. Still have to
assemble them and have to find a nice giftpackage solution…no idea
about this, very simple i think. For iron branding it will be too late
…grrr no time. (and srry for the blurry mobilepics i’ll update you
with better pic’s of this series PEARBLOCKS when Christmas is over)

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Last month I had so much work to do in the model building studio and nighttimes i was more on the painting-some-stuff-wave. Finally I’m ready again to work on my Toys and I’m really enjoying it to work with wood. It’s such a wonderfull material and it offers so many ways to cut, drill, mill and carving some nice toys out of it.

For the time beeing I’m working on a first small series of my PEARBLOCK Wooden Designer Toy. Have some ideas for these first 15 pieces. I want to spend them two angel wings out of bright wood (maybe maple), but I’m not shure if it fits well…any suggestions? I planed to give most of them away as Chrismas presents. Check the WIP pictures of the process so far…well, still lot to do till x-mas! …and if you be in luck, maybe Santa won’t give away all of them and you can get even one of these guys in my shop, stay tuned

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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

PEARBLOCK and PEARDEER (3 inch/ 2.5 inch Wooden Designer Toys)

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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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