A while back, I was given these old metal dollhouse candle holders. They're beautifully made, but came with cheap looking plastic candles. But I recently had the idea to replace them with birthday candles. They're perfect for 1/6 scale, and have the bonus that you can actually light them!
I'm always on the lookout for anything I can use for custom figures and accessories, and thought I'd share a couple of recent finds, as well as some fun pictures I got with them. A while back, I was given these old metal dollhouse candle holders. They're beautifully made, but came with cheap looking plastic candles. But I recently had the idea to replace them with birthday candles. They're perfect for 1/6 scale, and have the bonus that you can actually light them! This pack of bottles I found at a craft store are awesome. The square ones make a perfect whiskey bottle (I'll be making labels in photoshop soon): And the round ones are a great addition to my witches lab for my House of Seasons figures: Since the bottoms are rounded, I knocked together a quick little rack for them with some balsa wood and some wood stain. About 10 minutes of work, and I love how it came out Finally, I saw these old fashion lollipops in the dollhouse section, and couldn't resist.
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Wouldn't that just be an amazing new direction for the show to take? If Arrow just went all Lovecraftian next season? The Old Gods would really put into perspective a lot of the little problems on that show, that's for sure. But no, I'm not pitching here for the weirdest crossover in TV history, but just showing off some stuff I worked on, and throwing some attention at a couple of amazing artists I know. A friend of mine has been making incredible 3.75" figures of Tesla & Lovecraft, so I though I'd hook him up with a 1:18 scale Necronomicon for his birthday. It was just something I wanted to make, I thought Lovecraft might need, and an excuse to play a little bit in his world. Check out his work at KungFu Grip Customs here. Aliens, GI Joes, and TONS of amazing Predators. His Tesla and Lovecraft figures are some of my all time favorite customs, and Tesla's giant Wardenclyffe retro mech-armor is just incredible. I've also been helping another artist friend out on a really great project of his. The picture barely does it justice, but I still think it looks pretty damn good. He wanted to do a LED-lit multi-layerd shadow box for 1 of his pieces. So we put our heads together, and this is how it came out. In person, you get a way better sense of the depth between layers, and just how slick it looks. I figured out a few tricks to layer and light, but all art credit goes to Brian Roll, whose awesome work you can find here and here.
You can go see it in person at his booth at Wizard World in Philadelphia, so stop by and visit him if you're going to be at the show. After the show, word is it's getting signed by Stephen Amell and auctioned off at Nocking Point's Philidelphia Wine Mixer for one of his charities of choice. |
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