"My love for you is like a truck..."

I've been doing work for Soda Pop Miniatures for a while now, at least a couple of years which when you look at just how much I did doesn't seem like much but on the other hand is a pretty heavy break from my usual, The Noh for relic Knights are in the, "monstrous," scale that I'm usually asked to sculpt in but the armor is in a much more detailed, mecha, symmetrical style then I'm used to so here's hoping that I've pulled it off. Chris Walton did the concept art for these guys and it's always fun sculpting from his references. For the Berserkers I wanted o make sure that the parts between the two figures were compatible so that means the forearms, hip armor, hands/weapons and loincloth should be swap-able with both body types. I'm not sure how many you can field in an army but I wanted to make sure that people could do a bit of customizing with their figs. See! I've got your back! 
Oh, and since John Candice posted it on his Facebook page...

Photos provided by various sites I snagged from and painting by James Wapple (I think?) art by Chris Walton, "Green" by... Me!

Wrath of Kings Ucuzo

This was my first figure for the new Wrath of Kings line from Cool Mini or Not and he seems to be a limited edition. I am not too sure about the factions or overall themes for the game so I can't comment on what it's all about but he is a big guy for the vampire-ish(?) army I think... Gortisi? This figure was done back in Feb. of this year and I would give credit to the painter if I knew who it was. 
Picture provided by CMoN.

Storm Trollhammarin

Yup, 'nother Troll. This one has the Ben and Jerry's flavor of lightning added to it, my guess is he drags his feet on the carpet a lot. I'm pretty sure I did this guy sometime around March/April of last year.
Picture provided by Privateer Press and paint by the PP painting staff.

Carnivean Extreme

Wow, at last I can talk about him. This guy was finished in Jan of '10 and has been lurking around Privateer waiting to be put into production. This was the first Extreme sculpt that had concept art provided for me to work off of. All the others were my take on the icon creatures /machines of the factions but I guess they were nervous about what I would do with this guy when I started on him. Chris Walton did the art for it and drew up pretty much exactly what I was going to do already with a couple of exceptions; the skin texture was my contribution to the design, (something I wanted to do for the Carni as I thought it looked more disturbing and unnatural) and I didn't do the pose I was originally planning which was far more gruesome. Before I was given the art I had planned to have the Carnivean feasting on the corpse of a Dire Troll Extreme, the troll being part of the base while the Carni pulled great bloody gobbets from an exposed rib cage.  I thought it would have bought the whole Hoards beast thing full circle since it was the DTX that started it but maybe it's best I didn't, people can be so reactionary. Something I thought was funny is that PP plays their cards close to the vest when it comes to future projects so I thought it interesting that in Chris Walton's profile pic on the PP site that had been up for a couple of years had the concept art for the CX in the background. Accident or on purpose? Who knows but squint in the upper right of Chris's profile pic to see how things hide in plane sight. Anyhow, here is the latest of the Extreme sculpts and kudos to the painter who got this guy presentable in record time.

So, usual suspects for credit on this; pics provided by Privateer Press and paint by Privateer paint squad.

Adepticon angel?

Oooooohyeaaaaah, I remember sculpting this. God, something like a year ago, forgot that I did it but just ran across a picture of it. Took a few seconds to realize it was one of mine. This was set up by John Candice over at Sodapop Miniatures (which is why there is a little soda pop bottle at her feet) and has alt weapons and heads for those of you who like a little choice with their minis. This is the first female figure I have sculpted to go into production and I'm pretty sure the only "human scaled" figure I have done for anyone other then myself. 
Apparently it's limited to 500 and you have to have a ticket for Adepticon 2012 to get it so to those who go and get one I hope you enjoy.
Picture shamelessly snagged from Adepticon website  http://cart.adepticon.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=29&products_id=560 and figure painted by James Wappel

Let me be your hawg!

The Road Hog was not one of my favorite designs to work from, I thought him too goofy and the face didn't look much like a boar's, the tusks were too far back and the goggles insinuate that his eyes are forward and not more to the sides. On top of that the odd douche-gun arm is just... Well, odd. Oh well, it's not my place to be artistic, just to reproduce the art given to me. Speaking of which, this design wasn't done by Chris Walton who did the War Pig so that is one of the reasons why there is a drastic difference in style. But, here he is.
Photos provided by Privateer Press, paint by Privateer painting crew

Super Dungeon Violator

I've been doing work for Sodapop miniatures for about.. A year or so now? John Candice has been giving me strange and interesting projects to work on which has been testing me, I mean, just because you can sculpt something dosn't mean you can sculpt EVERYTHING. Or at least sculpt it well which gets me into some funky situations sometimes. One of the odd things about this job is that if you do one type of sculpt well you end up getting pigeon-holed into doing the same thing over and over again. John has been giving me some assignments that are waaaay out of my norm, so much so that I have been unsure if I can do the art justice. But he took a chance and asked me to do work on his Super Dungeon Explorer core system. He actually let me play with the designs and bounce ideas back and fourth with the final product. If you have the game, "Rex" and all the dragon hatchlings are stuff done by me. One of the coooool things I love is that after looking at the concept art and talking to Mr. Candice I came up with the wee flying dragon miniature, that ended up having it's own artwork by Andrea Confrancesco. Checkitout!


http://graingnome.deviantart.com/art/Super-Dungeon-Explore-illo-208871650


 I love that, it makes me feel like I'm actually doing something to progress the hobby. 

So far I've been hearing good things about the game, people seem to be taken with the mix of chibi figures and old school vid game theme of the game. Something new and invigorating for the industry, it can't be all warhammers and grunting steroid men with skanky women in ineffectual armor, every once in a while we need a push in another direction to remind us all of why we do it.

For fun. 

So here is hoping you all have some.