Last week i did my first custom 3″ Dunny for the Custom Toy Union Battle Bracket! I usually work on my own toy ideas and build up my figures from scratch, but this was a great chance to do a design on a platform toy! I had so much fun to do this little fella! Just finished him in the last minutes before deadline for the battle! Read more about this thrilling competition HERE! at the CTU forums.

aaaaand the winner is…. SHAPESHIFTER by pepe! Winner announcement & all the other amazing entries HERE! Thanks so much to all CTU members who voted for my design trough the three rounds and in the final battle!

now check the entry photo and some WIP pictures where you can get an idea of how i made this tiny wizard:

as a small goodie, i took a short video where you can see all sides of SHAPESHIFTER and how the magic wand is working! ^____^

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“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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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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Today the Wax carving Pencils found their long way from Shanghai to my Studio. I thought about to build me a do it yourself wax carver out of a soldering iron, but for this time i’ve found a solution about a week ago on ebay. Shipping was free and fast but the swiss customs duty was pricey. The product name is “Dental Lab Electric Wax Carving Pencil SJK-II” and the price was 89$, so i suggested a price of 80$ to the seller and he agreed…maybe you could go even with a lower price…i  would definitively try, if i had to buy another one.

For some first impressions, watch the short slide show movie of setting up and testing the Wax carving Pencils.

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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!

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