Today a very short update: I stitched all the zippers into the teddy bear suits. The one shown here fits pretty well. Some of the other suits are a little smaller and do not close completely with a toy inside. Painting the toys is the only step that remains until the finished custom run.

1. The incision on the head: I usually don’t plan that much when making a unique custom but here it is different. I try to plan ahead and mark the places where incisions need to made so that the whole run is as similar as possible.

2. The opened heads with a vertical brainy-toothy grin: I must admit, I enjoy making these small custom runs. It gives the whole process a different sense of legitimacy.

3. Previz: Temporarily holding everything together gives me sense of where the custom is heading. For me this is much more helpful than trying to imagine everything.

4. Same story here: I thought I’d pick up some of Bob’s original Nightgamer story and here is a first test. It looks weird but that’s nothing bad, right?

More updates soon. Stay tuned.

I have the incredible honor of working on a small custom run of Bob Conge’s (website) Nightgamer figure.

Here is the beginning. I washed the toys in hot soapy water as the instructions recommended and then quickly proceeded to cutting away some of the parts that I tend to change…

More updates soon.

Next to the previously mentioned Cheburashka remake I also worked on this one-off paint job on my Karl Diesel resin toy. The colors I used are basically the same as in the first release but I switched the black sprays on the arms. I’ve also refrained from masking the teeth and used only the airbrush and some brushes.

It has been almost a year since I began working on this toy. Back then it was meant to be a submission to a local show about Russia but unfortunately I never made it. After the show I had to shift my priorities towards my graduation project and ever since I have been looking at a couple of blank resin casts that were demanding a paint job. Finally I found the time to paint of these little buggers and I am quite happy with the result.

This resin toy is about 13 cm in height and it comes in four parts. The only point of articulation is the turret of tank which can turn 360 degrees. Like all my recent toys this has been painted with special automotive effect paints. However, the details on the figure and the tank have been added with ink.

Here is another shot from the time when I was working on the sculpt.

Since a few days ago I finished working on my collaboration with Eric Nocella Diaz of Argonaut Resins and Lord Mesa on their Kalua Moola. My custom turns the “Recession Agression” version into a Netzwerk pest called “Mohawk Kid”. These gang members can be often seen in the seedier areas of the Netzwerk and are distinguishable by their use of glowing hair and eyes and the scars from many fights and their constant drug abuse. Cheap color shifting skin is also quite popular among these.

This one off piece was made of a resin toy about 4″ high and modified with an internal battery powered LED circuitry and optic fibers. The light switch is hidden under the coin in the back. Pushing the coin up towards the mohawk activates the LEDs. The battery is replaceable.

Available at the Argonaut Resins Online Store for mere $158. Includes a header card signed by Lord Mesa and Eric Nocella Diaz, a small vinyl Netzwerk logo sticker and a hand drawn original header card by me.

This is the other custom that I finished on the same day as the Eyezon custom. This vinyl toy has a clear outer casing and a visible guts inside. These were just as transparent as the outer vinyl when I got the toy but I decided to darken them by burning the plastic with a lighter and paint thinner. I then installed a motion activated LED each inside the brain and the belly. The eyes are gooey strands of silicone that were attached to the outside of the puffer balls I got the LEDs from. The whole has been finished off with some color shift paint, glitter and lots of high gloss coating.

One of the customs I have been working on recently. In a way this is very traditional since it just features paint as a form of modification. Of course its is the automotive effect paint I have fallen in love with as of late.

I’ve been taking things a little slower in the last three weeks since the graduation. I’ve sent out a few of my Netzwerk toys and then painted this custom General Kyoufu by Cannibal Kaiju. The production for the next edition of Netzwerk toys will start soon.

I’ve been very bad at updating this blog in the last few months. I have been working steadily on my graduation project which will consist of my own line of resin cast art toys. Here is a first sneak peak.

The toy will be released in the second week of November with the opening of the “Russians” exhibitions at rotopol.

You can pre-order the toy and/or support this project by donating via fundable.com

Anyone donating the minimum amount will receive a limited edition signed and numbered print which will be only available for this purpose. It won’t be available anywhere else.

Anyone donating more than 140$ will receive the print and the actual toy.

If somebody donates 300$ all at once I will create a customized version of the toy just for you.