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[The Voord]

I finished-off my 16" tall Talos from JASON & THE ARGONAUTS yesterday evening and this morning I sold the sculpture to Creature Features/Killer Kits UK.  On top of materials used, a worthwhile profit was made.  Not exactly big licks, but not bad for two weeks' worth of, what is for me, a hobby . . . with the likelihood of further sales in the future.  It will also be very prestigious to see my work marketed and distributed to a wider audience.  Happy with all that.

 

I took some final photos this morning prior to delivery.  Next time I'll be seeing this will be as a resin bust . . . which I'll paint-up once copies come off the production line.

 

 

 

[The Voord]

Talos has now been cast by Killer Kits/Creature Features UK (a garage-kit outfit) and will be made available as a resin collectors' bust, standing at 16" tall.  Here's the first copy off the production line . . . 

 

[The Voord]

Work-in-progress on a new sculpture for Killer Kits/Creature Features UK . . . a 15" tall KING KONG from the original 1933 movie.

 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 6/26/2022 at 2:15 PM, The Voord said:

I finished-off my 16" tall Talos from JASON & THE ARGONAUTS yesterday evening and this morning I sold the sculpture to Creature Features/Killer Kits UK.  On top of materials used, a worthwhile profit was made.  Not exactly big licks, but not bad for two weeks' worth of, what is for me, a hobby . . . with the likelihood of further sales in the future.  It will also be very prestigious to see my work marketed and distributed to a wider audience.  Happy with all that.

I took some final photos this morning prior to delivery.  Next time I'll be seeing this will be as a resin bust . . . which I'll paint-up once copies come off the production line.

 

[The Voord]

Finished off the King this morning.  Selling him to Killer Kits/Creature Features UK on Sunday.

 

[The Voord]

Talos painted-up . . . 

 

 

[The Voord]

Work-in-progress on my latest sculpture . . . a 17" tall bust of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925).  Should have him finished during the course of next week, then delivery to Killer Kits/Creature Features UK for him to be cast as a resin kit for collectors.

 

 

[The Voord]

My 17" tall sculpture of The Phantom of the Opera (1925), for KIller Kits UK, all painted up.  I'd like to think I did a decent likeness of Chaney as The Phantom.  I'll be painting King Kong over the next few days.

 

 

[SuperBird]

I create mostly-not-very-good 80s style RPG paintings for adventures I run. 

[The Voord]

My 15" tall sculpture of the original 1933 King Kong, now painted-up.  Currently available as a resin bust from Killer Kits UK>

 

[BuraddoRun]

On 9/22/2022 at 6:04 AM, The Voord said:

My 15" tall sculpture of the original 1933 King Kong, now painted-up.  Currently available as a resin bust from Killer Kits UK>

 

WOW Voord! Last time I regularly visited the forum and peeked in this thread you were making Outer Limits sculptures for personal fun, having just picked up the hobby recently, I believe. Now you're making movie monster sculpts that are being turned into resin kits for everybody to purchase. That's nothing short of awesome!

[The Voord]

On 9/30/2022 at 2:06 AM, BuraddoRun said:

WOW Voord! Last time I regularly visited the forum and peeked in this thread you were making Outer Limits sculptures for personal fun, having just picked up the hobby recently, I believe. Now you're making movie monster sculpts that are being turned into resin kits for everybody to purchase. That's nothing short of awesome!

Thanks!  I finished off all the do-able Outer Limits sculptures last year and wanted to continue with other stuff.  Dave Nicholson, of Killer Kits UK, took an interest in my work and asked me to try my hand at doing Talos from Jason & the Argonauts.as a kind of test project.  He was happy with the end result, bought the sculpture, which has been well received by his customer base and is selling well, so is now feeding me new projects.  We discuss future sculptures, in the sense it's something I want to do and is something he thinks will sell, which is pretty much the way forward for me now.  Currently I'm sculpting Maria the robot from Metropolis (movie still attached).

 

Edited September 30, 2022 by The Voord

[The Voord]

Some work-in-progress photos of a sculpture I'm currently working on . . . The Cyclops from 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, measuring about 15" tall. This will be a waterline diorama, based on the screen-capture from the movie I'm also attaching. He will have two (expressive) arms. Still tons of work to do, but I should have this one finished-off by around mid-January.

[M-F0uRce99]

Thanks to the OP for starting this topic. I've really enjoyed checking out the great talent here. If anyone here resides in the southeastern USA, there's a pretty cool venue in Georgia where a lot of creators display all kinds of amazing artwork like the stuff seen on this thread. At the last show there was a lot of comic book character art, Americana art, Pop art, etc. It was a lot of fun! I'm not an art historian, but I honestly believe we're in the middle of a Neo-Pop Art movement in the USA. 

 https://www.facebook.com/people/North-Georgia-Folk-and-Outsider-Art-Festival/100080680776231/

[The Voord]

Well, I actually managed to find sufficient amounts of Vallejo airbrush colours in my paint-box to complete the paint-job of my working copy of The Cyclops from 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1959), measuring 15" tall and cast in resin. It's a waterline version, as old one-eye wades into the sea to chase after Sinbad and his motley crew in an early sequence from the movie.  I've also now decided to re-do the two arms as I wasn't quite happy with my first attempt (see photos in which I'm holding the revised arms against the main body). Also included in my photo selection are a shot of the resin-cast body.  I should have the revised Cyclops, with new-improved arms, finished-off sometime next month,  Currently, I'm on to a new Harryhausen project . . . 

 

[thethedew]

For years now, I've owned a Weiringo splash from Fantastic Four, framed and on my wall.  I've felt the whole time that it didn't display as such very well, as it is pencils only, and I don't own the Kesel inks.

I recently muttered to a couple professional inker friends that I was thinking of inking the page myself, so it would display better.  They were, of course, aghast that I would consider touching a Ringo original.  (Settle down, guys, OF COURSE I'd be inking a blueline print.  Sheesh!  Probably should have mentioned that first, eh?)

I was pretty happy with the inked version, similar to the published version, I presume.  But I'd realized early on I'd rather have a version for display that was obviously distinct from the published version.  So I invested in some Manga screentones and tried my hand at Zip-style toning.

Turned out well.  Screentones create a fun effect, but they are expensive, fussy, and really really fragile.

 

[Rick2you2]

I’m envious of those who have artistic skills like these. Mine haven’t progressed much since third grade. They have gotten worse.

But while I can’t draw, sculpt or paint, I can write. So in my free time, I write stories. If anyone is interested, send me their email address and I’ll email my latest to you. All I ask is that you don’t circulate it (to keep it out of the public domain), and you let me know what you think.

[The Voord]

Finished waterline-version Cyclops sculpture with revised arms.  The copy in the photo is going to an American friend who requested a copy from me.  He measures about 15" tall.

 

[The Voord]

A resin cast of a recent sculpture, a 14" tall waterline version of the Kraken from CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981). For this one, I altered the angle of the shoulders at about 45% to achieve the effect I wanted of the Kraken lunging towards you, arms outstretched in a threatening pose. I'll paint him up soon, add the fangs, and replace this photo with one of the painted statue . . .

This will shortly be made available as a collectors resin kit edition rom Killer Kits UK.

Screen-capture from the movie included for comparison.

 

[The Voord]

Work-in-progress of my sculpture of the beastie from Night of the Demon, 1957 (known as Curse of the Demon in the USA). This is a working copy . . . with a base yet to be added. The background shows a scene from the movie.