Check please!

He's done!  *flail*

Prepped, primed and ready to prance into your (or your favorite painters!) studio for some color!

I am very pleased with how he came out, and hope somebody out there will love him from his flippy forelock...

to his flagged tail!  It's always a little sad when one of my customs sells, but I love seeing them in some real color!

Somebody snap him up so I can go torture... err, treat!  another pony!  You can find him on MHSP here!

Chop chop!

Riding the slow train

But good things take time, yes?

"I fall to pieces..."

 Okay, that guy needs a lot more time...

But this one is nearly done!  A simple mane and tail change, only 15 months in the making.  :P  Why yes, I do feel like the slowest customizer ever.

Mr. Fancy Prance

 Just a tiny bit left to do on him, then I can get him prepped and primed.  He will most likely be fore sale unpainted as I have nowhere good to paint at the moment.  So look for him on MHSP in, say, another 3 months.  HAHAHA, maybe I can find some magic and get him up by the end of September.  No one hold me to that!  Good things take (a ridiculous amount of) time (around here).  ;)

Long Time Gone

But with any luck, there may be some things in the near future!

Shifu is pleased with creative cranage

Two Transformations - Part 2

Let's just forget the face that I can't count days to save my life.  It's tomorrow right?  :D

Here is my second victim....err...project!  Same as the first guy from yesterday's (ish) post, he was also originally for Blab's stablemate custom challenge.  He is currently even less done than the other!

He started life as a red roan...

And swiftly fell to pieces

This is way to much fun to be legal  XD

Reattach the important parts...

And I shall call him Stumpy

More wire since I lost the legs...

What?  Those are someone else's legs, I swear!

Taking a break, it's difficult pulling yourself back together!

Shifu the stalker

And finally getting ready to jump!  Shifu lends a helping head, err, hand.  No, head.

So lots of work left to be done on this guy.  Finishing the neck, adding muscles to the shoulders and haunches, legs (only semi important right?), he will be getting a totally new face, ears, mane and tail- braided of course, and then he'll be topped off in a luscious bay with a little bit of chrome.  The perfect A rated 4-foot hunter.

Two Transformations - Part 1

In my last post I said I had things I couldn't share yet.  These two pieces were supposed to be for Blab's Stablemate Custom Challenge, but with the end days away there is no way they are getting finished in time.  So now I can show them!  Yay!

The challenge was to start with a selected mold, this time Breyer's G3 Cantering Warmblood, and make it into something else.  This could be with just a paint job, a simple custom (just mane and tail changes), drastic custom (anything beyond many and tail) or a fantasy piece (divided into repaint and custom).  And there were two categories amateur and professional.  I don't know what I would have gone into.

Regardless, I started with just the one piece  and he had no idea what was coming.

So first you cut up the pieces...

Then you rearrange them...

Hmmm, this looks wrong maybe.

Lengthen the back...

WAIT!  TOO MUCH!

Using the head as a guide.  

"I feel funny... and really short."

Reattach the head...

"Yay!  I don't see the underside of my feet anymore!"

Fill in some holes, make a base for the neck, and make a few leg tweaks...

 Add muscle to the neck!

Change the legs some more and sand...

and sand...

and sand...  ack too much!

Around this time is when I got a second idea that just had to be done so I got another body!  A comparison of the changes so far compared to the original.

 Ok, time to put some muscle back on!  This is where he is at right now.  He still needs his legs to be finished, chest muscles added, the right haunch is going to be resculpted, feets, face, ears, details, wrinkles, mane, tail, ears....  And to top it off more sanding!

I haven't decided on a color yet.  He is definitely going to be fore sale once completed, so I might offer him unpainted too.  I'm going to give the second guy his own post as this one has gotten very long!  Until tomorrow!

Rise from the ashes

Silence is brutal.  Even worse is having something to share and not being able to!  For the past two months I've been working on one, then two stablemates for Blab's SM custom challenge.  Part of the rules is no sharing of photos allowed!  I got my mojo back and I couldn't do what I like most, post it everywhere!  Haha!  Just over one month more until the deadline, so I'll be able to post them after that.  Whether I finish them in time, ehhh, that's another story.

But in the mean time I've just started using the time waiting for my stablemates to dry to work on other projects.  I purchased a Phoenix around Christmas since I had some cash and she was cheap.  And I loved her so much that I got another one recently.

The first one is getting new ears, straighter profile, braided mane and tail, fixed neck muscles, small eye changes, shoes removed, flatter cheeks and bigger cheek bones, tucked head, longer withers, and a bunch of other small changes.  I really want to get onto the mane and tail, but those are for last.

The second is getting a much smaller makeover.  Straighter profile, fixed neck muscles, eye changes, longer withers,and possibly a banded mane and new ears too.  She is most likely going to be for sale once completed, painted or unpainted I'm not sure.  I have a ton of colors I would love to see her in, but painting will add more time to how long I need to spend on her.

Yikes, I couldn't take a photo to save my life last night.  Now to get back to working on the SMs again, whee!

Progress

Slow, but I think I see it!

I've been prepping my two Kilbourn resins in between working on my Vtoo custom and thankfully they are all just kind of breezing along.  I wish I had more time in a day to work on them!

Vtoo is getting a few minor tweaks along with her (soon to be his) new headset.  I originally planned on making him into a show jumping stallion with the braided mane, loose forelock and loose tail.  Of course after watching the eventing during the Olympics now I see him locked onto a cross country fence!  So that would mean a loose mane and a pulled tail.  I can't decide which one I should do!  Decisions decisions.  I still have a lot of work to do on the neck to match Sarah's sculpting style, so I guess I should really just start there.

Putting the pieces back togther

Life has both settled down and picked up since my last post.  I think I'm ready to pick up the models again and start working.  Debated selling them all for a little while, but now I'm glad I didn't.  As a mini celebration of sorts, I decided to be a little destructive.

Yup.  I'm sure she is very glad she didn't get sold.  Lol

Onto Smaller Ideas

Since Terrang is finally finished (even though he is staying with me for the time being), I've decided to work on some pieces that I will hopefully finish in a much more timely manner.  Time for some stablemates!

Of course, me being me, I can't make anything easy.  Instead I have 6 standalone SMs planned and a major scene involving another 7 SMs that will all be getting drastic custom work done to them.  The 6 individual ones won't be done until after Breyerfest, which is probably a good thing, and the other 7 are a looooong term project I'll be working on in between.  Hopefully.

This guy I started a long time ago but recently pick him up again since I enjoy working with the Magic Sculp(t) so much.  Well now he's finally got a tail and a base for a mane!  I still have some small fiddly bits left after I finish the mane, but I definitely think he is going to be done first.  I haven't decided if I'm going to paint him up like my reference photo of sell him unpainted yet.  I'm also pretty certain that he's going to have a base to keep him upright, but I have also been considering a peg for the back foot.  Hmmmm.



I still need to smooth the tips of the tail so they aren't so chunky. 



Then I've got 2 Morgans planned.  A G2 Saddlebred to a parked Morgan ala Stand And Deliver.





The other is a G2 Morgan to a park horse.  I need to do more research on what is considered 'correct' for a park Morgan trot.  I think I need to find a horse in a more square trot.



Also Stand And Deliver! 

 As if those weren't enough, I also have a G2 rearing arabian who is getting a new M/T and some minor body tweaks, and a G2 Mule and a G3 Friesian that I'm not really sure what to do with yet!  I'm aiming for nothing too terribly drastic with these as I wouldl like to finish them!  Ha!

The other 7 I have planned out already, all the way down to colors!  But I'm not going to say anything else about those until I've started work on them.  ;)


Also, my camera is in the mail!  Squee!!!  XD

All things must come to an end

And good gravvy if this guy just did not want it to be over!  Sheesh!  Yes, I've finally, really finished my Terrang custom.  There is still more that I would like to do to him, but sometimes you just have to say enough is enough and move on to new things.

So!  My little bugger is going up for offers on MHSP until Saturday June 16th, midnight EST.  I can't tell you how excited I am for him to leave!  Now for the fun part, pictures!

Please take me home and away from the crazy lady!

I can totally see him showing as a riding pony of some sort.  And all I can picture on him is a luscious bay with some chrome but I think he's carry any color well.

I should really move on to finishing painting up my sales piece Smittyn.  Now where in my room are my paints again...

All you need is a little bit of magic..

Once again I blame the Blabbers.  I've fought with the other self hardening sculpts that most customizers use and generally had a dismal time trying to create anything.  Which is why I have not completed a piece in years.  Chopping is easy and fun, arguing with epoxy is not.  So, based on multiple good reviews for Magic Sculp(t) combined with actually seeing some of the results of first time users, I caved and bought some.



Shifu approves!


And the world rejoiced, for it was AWESOME.  What would have taken me days of sculpting, drying, removing, and repeating with my other sculpts took one sitting with Magic Sculp(t).  Once I stopped trying to work it like Apoxie Sculpt, I was off and flying.  I am completely floored by how easy it is to use and highly recommend it!



He's got a butt finally... ha!

In two sittings I managed to just about finish my jumpers tush, allowing time for one side to dry so I wouldn't squish it while working on the other.  I'm good like that.  No I don't have a pic of the other side sadly.  I just can not get my lighting and camera to cooperate.  I can actually see me finishing this guy within the year now.  Maybe.  It's only been five years or so since I started him.

And while waiting for him to dry I played around with more tail ideas in photoshop.  I think this was my favorite so far after my initial posting.  Who knows what I'm going to go with, I still have so much to do on the rest of him before really thinking on hair!  Of course, I also need to decide still if he will end up as an OOAK custom or if I still want to go ahead with a resin run.   Hrrmmm.



Flippy goodness