The Saga Of My Adventures In 1/270 (3MM ish) & 1/100 (15MM-HO/87th) Scale Sculpting, and Related Scale Terrain Modeling. WAR ART Also Functions As My Electric Public Diary So To Speak, Where Followers Will Be The First To See Previews Of My Tabletop RPG 15MM Miniatures, Skirmish Rules & Other Gaming Projects.
A terrible swarm of flies descend upon your 15MM Gaming tables...MURG Flies!
I am going to sale MURG Fly Swarms comprised of nine models. You will get three each of the common species of Murg Flies which include: Jumpers, Stingers, and Bloats (Spitters). This production Mold contains three complete swarms.
These models are going out to IWM this week along with the Production Mold One.
After years of struggling to get my little toy company going I have to say that it means very little. I bust my ass to make the best models in this scale, but everybody does what they can, most of the time, so what makes my efforts any better than the next serious artist...not much.
The important things in life are being loved and doing the best that you can to keep it real. I spent the day with some friends and we had a little dinner and what not, and my girlfriend's son came by. We had been talking about computers because Shella wants to get a new machine. She suggested that I show off my sculptures and this silly little Blog, as he had never seen any of my work. He was very very impressed, especially when I went next door to my apartment, and brought over a handful of the Master Castings for him to handle. We then watched a few family videos he had made including one of him playing with his young daughter and the family dog. The fact that he shared that with me was more important than his compliments of my work. It reminded me that this is all just fun and games, and not really that important.
It was a good day. We are so happy because Shella's niece is on the way with barbecued chicken and what not...Lol!
Don't get me wrong Brothers, I take what I do very seriously, but there are other things in life...
I am sending the first set of cleaned Masters to IWM this week.
There are many settings I am going to build for THE WORLD OF TOMORROW BLACK.The Dead Road, The Dead City, and The Under are the main three for representing The Waste. The other side of this coin, so to speak, is represented by the Tech Forts of The New Settlements, and The Bases of TECH Nation and The NAC AKA: North American Combine or New American Coalition.
This ridiculous amount of Museum Diorama Level Terrain is very important to me. These 3'x3' and 3'x6' tabletops are intended to be the direct interpretation of my Dark Science Fantasy World. It is an extremely fun and damn challenging task really, to attempt to make what I see in my head (more or less) become reality in this wonderful scale. I am going to get a pair of Lifetime 3'x3' Tables for my game board.
Now about these Forgotten Places. To keep my sanity, I am going to build a base set of game boards to represent wildly overgrown areas, not waste, and not ruined cities, just open country with little ponds and earthen areas, full of wild grasses. Picture a typical HO scale countryside train layout.The magic comes into this nice setting when you add a variety of Apocalyptic and Retro-tech elements. I am Hell bent on making a number of creepy environments using this sort of Template Approach. These are general settings that can be reasonably achieved. I am going to make enough models to represent an Airport/Military Base, Sprawling Suburb, Open Farmlands, and of course a Dense Forrest. This is also where the entrances to many of The Ancient TECH Tombs and Vaults are located. I have referred to The Forgotten Places in many articles. This is where several of The Small Settlements and large Secrete Communities of The Good Races are located in The World of TOMORROW BLACK. Where do most of The Tribals, and many of The Fighters, Psyches, Hunters and Trekkers all come from? The Forgotten Places...
I have been collecting models and raw materials for the last three years or so now, to build the featured elements of The Forgotten Places Terrain. I have been lucky and my damnable persistence has paid off in many areas, however a key model has eluded me for all of these years, until today. I have been searching for a wonderfully large aircraft model that "Looks right, and is affordable".
Well, thanks to a wacky little franchise of children's films, and Wally World, I now have such a model.
I know it is a stupid toy...but with a little rude converting and a hell of a lot of weathering, and painting I have a splendid "Star Of The Show" for my Airport/Military Base setting. This was $23.00 well spent My Brothers. All I need do now is snap up the all important Quonset Hut or two, and this lovely Traffic Tower model. I already have yards of Chain-link Fencing, Military Jets and Ground Vehicles, along with the odd bits to finish this setting properly. A Large Jet was the last Magic Element, and now that I have one, it is time to get The Forgotten Places WIP Articles started.
The new MTA Yew York City HO Scale Subway Cars arrived today! I love them!
I had to smile and giggle a little when I saw the Number SIX on these wonderful little models!
Here is car number six, long forgotten down here in The Under. It ain't going nowhere, and all of it's passengers are mossy skeletons.
Notice the ease of desassembly friends. I can set my little skellies up inside, detail everything, add greenery, and reassemble the whole model, when it is fully painted and properly aged.
I have wanted some New York Subway Models for a long time, and now a cool company finalley made them affordable in this perfect scale.
Brothers I laid out everything last night, to see where I am with Master Mold Two, I was surprised to find that I do not have a full mold's worth...yet. I was pretty sure that the Bulliod would finish it off. As you can see, even after I add the large base for the Bulliod, it is not going to be as heavy as Master Mold One was.
I am going to keep working and see where I am at in another week say. Mike and the main crew at IWM are going out of town for the first week of this glorious, and wonderful October, so this little "Hey Big Joe, You Ain't Done Yet!" surprise is rather appropriate. I suppose everybody needs a week off now and again.
You can see how Heavy Master Mold One was, when compared with Master Mold Two. It is only prudent for me as a Lone Wolf Company to be very greedy with this money eating mold space. I need to finish up some other bits anyhow so I have a good motivation here with this situation so that I can cram this next Master Mold to HEAVY Status...Kinda Funny.
This damn thing is going to kill me, or I am going to kill it! I have a hell of a lot of work to do yet...but the next stages of sculpting will be the FUN part!
A Word On Design. I am making certain that this deadly machine will LOOK LIKE it can actually carry a sturdy human pilot in full battle armour. I am pretty sure that the body for this model will be produced in resin...of course Mike has the final say on that.
Looking ahead again to future Terrain Projects for TOMORROW BLACK, I found this cute video at Woodland Scenics about making REAL looking water, it gave me some ideas and I am definitely going to buy the products used in this demonstration.
I have The First Production Mold set up now Brothers. These models are for Abominations Of Dark Science Collection One. Each of these Collections will consist of six Monsters. This collection includes 1 Base of Murg Imps, 1 Grizzought, 1 Death Digger, and 3 Rattle Wings.
Production Mold 2 will be for The MURG Flies I think. I am going to sale them in a nice Swarm and the little rascals will take up a loot of room, so they will get their own full mold.
