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That's fantastic! The Vex figure was very definitely one of my highlights of last year's Lawless, and Midnight is even better! Brilliant work as always, Trooper McFad!

Thanks Mike - Midnight is packing her bags to make the trip south this year as she's heard how good Lawless is 👍🏻😁

Thanks guys. I was sorely tempted to do a figure with an opening "mouth" but I couldn't (yet) get the hinge right to disappear when closed. But never say never I could always return and do another one

Great milestone Jim. Have a great celebration and I wish you and your good lady many more.

Happy Easter to those that celebrate and to everyone else happy Monday.

This is no April Fools!!

It's been a couple months since my last figure but I've been beavering away and my next one is ready.

It's just a coincidence that this character has just made a reappearance in the prog but a very welcome one in this Squaxx eyes.

This time I give you MIDNIGHT INDICATING SHAME to go with my previous figure of Porteus Vex.

Midnight was shaped with a kitchen foil core and covered with air dry clay. Her eyes, nose and mouth were added using milliput as well as her arms which have a wire core to add strength.
The eye lashes are made from cut offs from a previous model kit and shaped accordingly.

A little shaping and sanding and Midnight was ready for painting. This was one of the easier and quickest paint jobs I've done.

You'll see the usual stages and a couple of pics with her buddy Vex.

Enjoy

Wow Bissler that's some setup. As is the want of MC-1 sooo much going on in such a small space. Never a dull moment.
With such a setup you could have multiple clashes (games) going on at one time - would be chaotic but that's MC-1

Enjoyed the vid👍🏻

😂😂😂 Zombo sings word up - this made me chuckle 👍🏻

I need to do a full re-read and find out where the stories slide!
I have the first 30 (30 is the magic carpet one) and stopped buying after How Obelix fell into the the cauldron.
I haven't read any since the early 90s so it will be interesting how much I enjoy them.

I get how it could be funnier in French to the French - This is a French (Gaul) hero who is giving it to the oppressor so the language is for a local market- at the time I don't believe the writers could have imagined how world wide it would have went and maybe that's why the stories/wit slide as they go for a more global readership?
I have always thought that Scottish comedy (based on a Scottish character) written by Scots is funnier to Scots- same as Welsh for Welsh, Scouse for Scouse, Geordie for Geordie etc etc.
everyone still gets the jokes but the wording or specific phrases strike at the funny bone a little harder for those who it is aimed at.

What scale is that?

Do you use an air brush for your sculpts?

Was that air dry or "baking" clay you used?

So many questions just trying to learn as much as possible from anyone willing to share.

Scale is about 3 quarter size, not far off full size.

For larger pieces I mostly use oil/wax base Monster Clay which comes in either, Hard, Medium or soft.

Hard and Medium are my go to clays. I favour the Hard for very detailed work as it holds the details well and is less likely to 'smudge' details as you work.

Then mould them in silicone or waste mould in plaster, then cast in resin.

Yep airbrush & traditional artist brushes.

For smaller pieces I use polymer clay (oven bake), Sculpey  is more consistent whereas cheaper polymer clay can feel oily/sticky, but it can be made more workable by leeching out some of the oil by sandwiching it between a couple of sheets of ordinary printer paper.

I also occasionally use water base WED clay for quick practice/ideas sculpts.

I never use air-dry clay as it drys/shrinks inconsistently causing cracks or misshaped pieces.

Hope that helps.

Great info - I know what you mean with air-dry clay.
If I had a larger work space then I'd like to try using the stuff you use.

I'm getting into making smaller parts for larger models and bringing it all together. Using Sculpey and pining parts together.

I will plod on using Air-dry clay as it has its uses for some of the models I try.

atp that is awesome.

That paint Job is brilliant. It trumps anything I could create.

What scale is that?

Do you use an air brush for your sculpts?

Was that air dry or "baking" clay you used?

So many questions just trying to learn as much as possible from anyone willing to share.

Sorry to hear about your hands it must be frustrating to someone with the talent you have if it's limiting what you can create.

Hopefully there's a couple more sculpts left in them.

Nothing as well- sort of glad I'm not alone but I do like to get it every week to give me a heads up on upcoming events/merchandise/web shop exclusives etc

I'm looking forward to the top 100 👍🏻

The reviews of those that didn't make have been very interesting and I will go back and make a wee shopping list.

Keep up the good work

Mate.

I'm a bit stunned by this, and eternally grateful! What a wonderful piece of work!
A genuinely massive thank you from me for this one x

And that there Giant is awesome too 

It was a pleasure doing it I just love that pose you drew many moons ago.

Enjoyed that Shark - loved the film back in the day, not seen it in a long time.
The future take on it is good 👍🏻

I've had issues today as well had to log in twice today when I should have been continually logged in!

Been a while since I last looked in on the forum, but as always this thread is my first port of call.

The Christmas dome came out fantastic, I particularly like the Dirty Frank Santa, (Frank is one of my favourite support characters).

Good find regards the Halcyon Mean Machine, and a really good arm conversion there. It must have been a bit of a tricky conversion given that the original model is fairly small, and the plastic is also pretty thin to work with.

What can I say that hasn't already been said, all of these conversions are superb.

Harlem Hero Giant, great airborne pose, paint job up to your usual high standard and using the base from the Mean machine kit is a stroke of genius as it easily passes as
a section or arena.

It's good to see the amount of thought and care that you put into each conversion.  Looking forward to your next offering.

Thanks atp I'm going at a slower pace this year but my production line will continue. Currently working on 6 different figures! (including the Xmas offering) but they are all at different stages and I like putting a part finished model down and stare at it over a few weeks and make any needed changes rather than rushing something and then don't like the finished article. 3 of them I started last September/October so shows my progress is slow I'd started Giant way back in July. Yes well spotted on the Mean base being used for the arena floor that was a eureka moment pondering on what to use.

Any plans on creating anything yourself?

I'd love others to add to this thread.