In the last few days since my last update I’ve started painting the Nightgamers and I thought I’d let you in on the progress.

1. (Above) I primed the faces/heads with gesso. Some parts are simply layed in with a brush while the fade is a combination of rubbing and dry brushing.

2. The pink here is a light rub. There is also some pearlescent paint but it’s hard to tell in this picture.

3. I added a golden rub in some areas.

4. Here I used a orange brush pen to lay in the paint. The colors of the Pentel brush pens have a wonderfully bright hue. It is quite fluid and the application is very even.

5. I added some more orange to the lips and gums

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.

Here are a few more progress shots from the weekend.

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.

This morning the mold to my Lucky Tiger toy failed. There were already a few problems in the last few casts but today it gave in. RIP mold. This means that there will be another batch of 7 toys soon but after that there will be no more. So, get yours now. Of the current release there is only one left at my store. So act quickly!