Edit 6/5/09 - Circumstances regarding Mr. Carradine’s death are slowly being revealed now…looking less & less like a suicide and more like erotic asphyxiation. A little less dignified than suicide, but a hell of a way to go for a septuagenarian.

Another of my childhood icons passed away this week. David Carradine (December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) died of an apparent suicide in Bangkok yesterday. David opened the world of kung fu movies and television to me, and continued to entertain me long into my adulthood. Thank you for gracing the world for so very long with your life & talent. I hope that you’ve found peace.

My latest mini is another Rusty Alyce from Wyrd Miniatures. She’s a little more “grunge” this time around, and standing in a really foul sewer. Enjoy!

Well, I’m finally settled back in from Games Day. It was a blast this year - the Demon Lounge was amazing & definitely the highlight for me. Lunch with “Dirty Steve” was also an excellent event.

I took home two Demon Awards this year - the first was a Silver in 40K Large Model for my Death Rider of Krieg. The second was a Bronze for Warhammer Fantasy Single Model for my High Elf Mage on Snow Leopard. The Snow Leopard was a labor of love - he was a problem child from the start, and while the final product wasn’t exactly how I’d imagined him, he still put in a good showing. There’s lot of green stuff involved with him, and he was “cobbled” together from 3 different GW Boxed sets. Pics are below of course! Enjoy!

My latest…a little piece sculpted by Jeremie Bonamont, and painted for Iron Painter @ Wyrd Miniatures. He’s just adorable, and he was a fun piece to do in between Games Day stuff.

My most recently finished piece is a “Rusty Alyce” figure from Wyrd Miniatures. I painted her in a color scheme similar to the Lucrezzia Belladona model I did several years ago. She’s also sporting a spunky green streak in her hair. Hope you enjoy!

So, it’s that time of year again…Games Day Baltimore rapidly approaches. Just a little more than two weeks away now, and here I am with nothing finished. The sad thing for me is that I find myself struggling to care. I’ve got two wips on my table, one primed with a little paint, and the other still needing some sculpting done. I just can’t bring myself to spend significant time looking at them - maybe I’ve just chosen the wrongs models. Who knows…the point is, it sucks. I also will be teaching a painting class and hanging out it the uber cool “Demon Lounge” with absolutely amazing painters, so at least that’s something to look forward to.
I recently finished a Wyrd miniatures “Rusty Alyce” which I think may have sucked all the energy out of me. I’ll post pictures of her sometime tomorrow (if I feel up to it ).

This is my latest piece done for the Iron Painter competition. Round 4’s theme is “Quest for Fire”. Instead of a movie interpretation this go around I went for the obvious keyword fire. A little bit of questing is thrown in as well, since this bad-ass is headed to Malifaux to cause some mayhem.

This model is a conversion of the Wyrd miniature “Bishop”. I used the “Flame Base & Accessories” pack & the “Graveyard Accessiories” pack (both also from Wyrd) for the flames, skull and vulture. I painted him & his base using OSL techniques (why would you paint fire and not do OSL?). It’s a technique I’m still pretty new at with only 3 other pieces under my belt using it (all of them done for Iron Painter entries), but I really love the end results. He was photographed with a black velvet background - no photoshoppery on this guy other than some basic color balancing. Hope you all enjoy!

It’s been a little bit since I’ve added something up here. This latest piece was done for Iron Painter Round 3 over at Wyrd- the theme was “Psycho”. I took a literal movie interpretation, using the clip from the film and some still frames as reference. I added some gore, and opted to paint the piece in color. This was one of the most challenging pieces I’ve done, mostly because of the difficulty in making a clear shower curtain and running water effects. All in all I’m satisfied, and it was enough to get me through to Round 4. The next theme is “Quest for Fire”…maybe I post some wips up here for that one once I get started.

Hey there all - some of you may have noticed my blog promptly disappeared yesterday. This was due to me updating Wordpress, some scripts not jiving, and me not being smart enough to have a mirror site or backup to upload when everything went wonky. I hope to have things back in relative working order pretty soon, but all the old posts are lost. Sorry that all of your comments were lost.