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Prometheus Rising is going to be the one-stop place for my scale modeling work and war gaming miniature work, along with information about commissioning me to do some work for you, along with whatever else I want to put here, hopefully including helpful articles and maybe some technique stuff.  Check out the links on the right for work in whatever genre suits you, or just scroll down and see what’s new!  It’s also host to some toy collecting photos, basically whatever I’m messing with at the time.

 

BlobPus Painting Contest Blob

BlobPus is a designer vinyl company that I do not know much about, but they have some really neat designs with lots of tentacles and a ’softer’ sculpting style than most figures.  They are quite well established, to the point of hosting a painting contest.  Normally an event like this would end up in Japan only, but contest blanks were sold through the retailed lulubelltoys, so naturally I had to grab one and give it a whirl.

I based my blob’s paint scheme on the color scheme I use for my HORDES Legion of Everblight dragonspawn figures, a scheme I have not painted in a while and was itching to try with the airbrush and new paints.  I used multiple shades of purple for the undertones, and highlighted the highest points with everything up to pure white.  Anything tentacle sucker-ey was colored pink and given some red ink details.  The base blank figure was clear, so I wanted to try and use some of that in my paintjob.  The eyes are sewn shut, but I painted the inside of the eyes with clear yellow and green, and allowed some of to show through like a glow of power leaking through.  I also decided the skull on the one tentacle would be a magic blast of some sort, rather than just a gross tentacle holding a skull.

The one part I had a tough time on was the mouth area… I wanted it to be bloody at first, but figured it would get lost among the red tentacle details, so I tried to give it a green glowing effect after the fact.  Really I should have done like the eyes and painted the colors from the inside and just gone light on the white and purple, but it is too late now.

Edit:  I just (9/25) received word that my figure was one of five chosen for the show!  I think that 5 is just chosen from the non-Japan people who contributed, and it is an honor and thrill to be chosen!

 

Space Troopers Cloud Patrol

Here’s the second pair of figures in my Space Troopers commission, Cloud patrol Troopers.  These are the counterparts to the Soviet guys and have an ‘America’ feel without being too overt… I considered a more Captain America-ey direct enemy to the Soviet squad, but brainstormed trying this cloud camo with my airbrush and really wanted to try it.  The heads on these guys are GID so I figured they were ghosts instead of radioactive zombies, so I left their suits cleaner.  Glow shots to come later (when it’s dark!)

 

Soviet Space Troopers

Space Troopers are a line of figures by vinyl company Toygraph.  They feature a modular design with multiple arm weapons and heads, and a classic sci-fi funk.  I am currently working on three pairs of Troopers in different paint schemes, and finished these Soviet themed Troopers last night.  Troopers usually have a simple masked spray pattern and are kind of boring, but I thought that they could be vastly improved with a matte finish and some proper weathering and detailing.  I freehanded the wavy camo over a classic Rooskie red suit, and added brass colored joint work and some yellow trim, looking at my Big Red Large Martin for inspiration.

I’m really happy with how these came out, and might have to whip up some more in this scheme.

 

Clear Kaiju Eyezon

I finished up this second Kaiju Eyezon before break, but only finally took good finished photos of it this morning.  I painted this clear figure with translucent colors in a similar paint scheme as my ‘Sprouting’ GID one for a customer and painted the guts to match the plant theme.  The ‘bones’ are all green in order to look like stalks holding Eyezon together, and the guts are colorful so they contrast with the earth tones of the body.  I made the irises much smaller this time so the big clear eyeballs could serve as view-ports into the guts.  With some light behind it this guy really shines, and all of the guts are silhouetted.  I sprayed a bunch of coats of Future to give the figure a really shiny finish and get the colors as translucent as possible.

 

Collection Update

Vinyl figures conquer the shelves!  Phil Reed’s (from Battlegrip.com) gonna hate this update… he’s currently trying to keep himself from falling off the vinyl cliff, and here I am pushing just about every robot toy I own out of the way for more vinyl!  I’ve got standard-sized Kaiju up the wazoo… I’ve got a separate space for unpainted M1 Kaiju, sort of as holding area for them, and then a Max Toy Co shelf, with more Neo Eyezons on the way, and an ‘everything else’ standard-sized shelf.  On the bottom is the Real X Head shelf… I’ve been having alot of fun seeing all the different colorways out there… especially in the Chaos family.  Of note are the two Mark Nagata handpaints, Toybot Studios Rock and Roll Kemur Seijin, the SDCC Goto-san painted Drazoran, M1 Lucky Bag Red Ultraman, and the awesome Superfest Kikaida paint-scheme Chaos Adult.

 

October Shelves/Haul

An update on the toys that were waiting for me at the end of this college term… some updated proper shelf shots are in order of my now awesome vinyl collection.  Kaiju have muscled Gokin and Transformers out of the way to take over!  Lots of M1 Lucky Bag blanks, a ton of RealXHead, including the first Gatchigon (Smokey clear with GID vinyl shards and green baby), and two non-vinyl victories, the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers Megazord and Thunderzord, two of my favorite toys! Also note the Marka Nagata handpainted Captain Maxx, as well as my Toy Karma 2 Mark Nagata Neo Eyezon and Toybot Studios Rockin Kemur Seijin show pieces.  Transformers-wise, I managed to score another grail piece, Micromaster Sonic, partner to Sonic Bomber, the missing piece of my Zone Powered Masters trio!

 

Hot Toys Iron Man MkI and 1/6 World War Robot Square

Snapped some shots messing with some 1/6 toys tonight… I’ve finally been bitten by the 3A Ashley Wood toy bug, so expect lots of and lots of 1/12 Bramble pics when mine comes in.

 

Eyezon Comission WIP Shots

So I’m working right now on a a clear w/ guts Eyezon based on the colors of my GID one, and here’s some progress shots.  The colors are pretty much done, but I’ve still got to finish shining it up with Future and deciding how to do the eyes… I’m thinking very small irises so you can see the guts through the completely clear eyes.  Thoughts?

 

Real Head Chaos

Just a quick snap tonight while I was playing with the Real head figures I’ve accumulated while at school… I am apparently a bigger Chaos fan than I realized!

 

Real x Head Panzer Bigaos

The Bigaos is a rarely-seen combination of the Chaos body and Bigaro head, created by Akro-kaiser and the evil Mutants.  I always liked the heavily-armored looking Bigaos combination, and made my own from beige flesh blanks.  I wanted to emphasize the heavy-duty feel I get from the figure, so I painted it closer to a war-machine than a living mutant, with camouflage and weathering.  This also gave me a light-weight opportunity to try free-handing camo on a figure before crossing that over to tank painting, and I’m pretty pleased with how it came out.

 

RxH Chaos Adult

Just playing with a new figure…