Legolas auction now on!!!

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Good luck!!!

Video showcase - Aragorn & Legolas

About a year ago I made a video of my Star Wars Anakin & Obi-Wan customs. At the same time I shot some footage for this Lord of the Rings video, however I only got halfway through editing the thing together because of my exploding workload.

Because my Legolas figure is going up for auction this Sunday *snif* ....I suddenly realised I should get this thing finished! So I spent this afternoon getting the thing edited together. I hope you like.

(and for those thinking about bidding on this Legolas figure, maybe this will give you a better idea of what the figure looks like in person)

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Legolas custom - auction preview

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Honeymoon funding figure sale!

Some of my online friends already know about this, but it hasn't been mentioned here on my blog yet, so....

As some of you know I'm getting married to my partner of almost 12 years (Jane) in September of this year. Woohoo! And we figured this once in a lifetime happening was the perfect occasion to try to make one of our long time dreams come true.

We've always had this dream, since we very first got together, of flying to America, hiring a 30 foot RV, and driving from New York to LA seeing as much of the country as possible in between. But we always knew it would never actually happen. Well now that we're getting married... we can't think of a better time to try to make this happen!

We've made all the plans, and put them up on a website for people to see (including a map of our planned route). This website also has a 'leading up to the wedding' blog (with some posts already made), and some links where people can 'buy us miles' for the trip. Essentially a honeymoon donation pot.

(Yes, we're being a bit shameless about this.... but you know? we don't need any normal wedding gifts having been together for 12 years, and getting to see places like New York, Monument Valley, The Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park is quite possibly the best gift anybody could give us.... ever. We've never been to The United States before, and we may never get another chance... but it looks like an incredible place. (The support we've already had with this from our online friends is beyond generous!)

Obviously we're trying to find ways to save money on the wedding, so that we can save more for the Honeymoon. So we're doing things like making our own wedding invitations, our own wedding cake, and anything else that we can do ourselves for the day.

And here's the big thing I'm doing

You know the custom figures that you've probably seen on this site? (or on YouTube) ...Anakin, Obi-Wan, Legolas and Aragorn.... the ones that have been splashed around the internet, and that I've been interviewed about here and here.? The figures that each represent the very first time I made these characters, my prototypes if you like... and part of my personal collection, to be kept forever as a record of my sculpting/painting career as it progressed, and most importantly... never to be sold! ...those figures?

Well I'm selling them!

I cannot explain strongly enough how much of a difficult decision it was to decide to sell these very personal figures of mine... but you know what, I think it's worth it to get this planned Honeymoon. There's already been a lot of interest from people who would love to own one of these, and over the weekend I'll be deciding which of the figures I'll be putting up for sale first. Hopefully I'll have decided by Monday or Tuesday. (obviously I'll let you all know when the time comes!)





...so which would you like to own?

new upcoming schedule...

recently posted on one of the forums I visit regularly:

I've just gone through my waiting list, and in an attempt to speed things up a little now that I'm back, I've created this list... which not only shows what I'll be doing and in what order... but for the first time I've given myself a deadline for each piece (or batch of pieces)

Hopefully this will get rid of the "oh my god I've got too much to do" mentality and allow me to focus on one week's work at a time... and thereby getting more done. Also it has the benefit of allowing people to see where they are on the list and when (approx) they can expect their work to be finished.

*note: I appreciate that sometimes I'll get things finished before the deadline, and sometimes after... but these are dates I've set myself that I'm aiming for*

If you've paid for work from me, then you'll probably see your pieces here on the list. If you're not sure or want confirmation then pm or email me and I'll confirm if it's your commission you can see.

(I haven't included any of the Terminator heads simply for the fact that the new batch of heads is being cast as we speak... once they get here then I will included them on the list, but for now I'm just showing things I can do right now)

Schedule

4 Terminator full figures - one with swappable neck post
(all figures being made in background whilst doing everything below)

Private commission head sculpt – Estimated finish date (EFD) 11th April

Neo repaint – in transit, to be painted ASAP

Solid Snake repaint – try to get there by 16th April (can not promise)

Victorian Soldier paint – EFD 19th April

3 Faramir repaints – EFD 19th April

Ripley sculpt – EFD 26th April

Hudson sculpt – EFD 3rd May

Padme bust resculpt/paint – EFD 10th May
Luke PF resculpt/paint – EFD 17th May

John Lennon sculpt – EFD 24th May

Legolas head paint x 4 (one full figure) – EFD 31st May

Aragorn repaint – EFD 7th June
Terminator repaint (customer’s head) – EFD 7th June

Buffy PF repaint – EFD 7th June

Anakin head x 6 (4 jedi, 2 Sith) – EFD 14th June

Aragorn figure, repaint & weathering – EFD 21st June
Reese figure, repaint & weathering – EFD 21st June

I hope this helps, and as usual if there's any questions... just shout

ok... let's get back to work!

Hello people.

My Dad's funeral was yesterday. It was a long 17 days waiting for it to happen, but it's finally happened now. It was hard and upsetting, especially carrying the coffin into the chapel with my other brothers, but it is now over. (just a few bits of paperwork to sort out)

So now I'm back to the job of replying to all the emails that have built up... again, and then sculpting and painting and building custom figures. I will work out which pieces should have been done by now, and put them all into order. Then I will email people when I'm working on their custom. I may even type out a list of what is getting done in what order, so people can see where they are on the list. Never done that before so I'll see if it's a good idea.

Anyway... I just wanted to let you all know that I'm back here at work again, all day every day as I used to be... so let's see if I can get this 6 month waiting list brought right down to a month or two.

(Also to say a big THANK YOU to everybody who sent me emails, left messages in forums, comments on this blog or got in touch with me any other way, wishing me positive and loving thoughts regarding my Dad. It all made such a difference knowing that even people I don't know were sending nice thoughts my way. So you all have my lifelong thanks.)