Announcing "A Boy's Best Friend... is his Zombie!" kit release

Finished at last!
Kit is 1:6 scale in 9 white resin parts.
Zombie measures 12 inches tall (once assembled).
Kit comes unpainted and unassembled.
Contact me for details: adam@adamscustommodels.com.

Fido and Timmy finished!

Here are shots of the finished sculpt! I was able to wrap up the last of the details this weekend and I just couldn't wait to get the images on here!

I plan to have a painted prototype ready by end of January, more later.

More detailed shots of the Timmy figure:

The base is a plot of grass from the park scene with grass and rocks and leaves and stuff:

The sculpt includes Mrs. Henderson's chewed arm as a separate piece that can be optionally placed on the base anywhere:

Enjoy! Later - A.

Boy and Zombie update

Hi everyone! Just a quick update on the Fido/Timmy sculpt. I've finished the Timmy portrait and both of his hands (holding ball and glove). I've finished the sneakers also.

The basic body is ready.

All that remains is to sculpt his pants and shirt and attach the hands. I'll be finished very soon!


[Here the ball is sculpted in 1:6 scale (tiny!) and I've done all of the stitching:

The glove is still WIP. I have a few more details to carve after the epoxy dries:

Thanks for looking!

Something new in the works for this next year!

Some slight changes to my model site are coming for those keeping up with me. You may notice that I have taken down the kits section for now.

I have a ton of new and original kit ideas (sci-fi and horror stuff) that has been jumping out of my head and onto my sketch pad of late. And I'm real excited about these new ideas! My site will soon become a place to showcase and offer these new kits as soon as I can get them out of my head and into clay.

In the meantime, I present the last of my borrowed ideas that I am finishing up this month in hopes of a January release date. This will be a 2 figure kit of a boy and his zombie friend. The zombie (pictured here) is completed and the boy is already well under way. This kit will come with both figures and the base, with an option of each figure separate. (more on this kit in January).

Enjoy...

Gollum is complete! I'M DONE!!!!!!!

Well, at long last, I have completed my Lord of the rings model project! Thank you for hanging in there and reading my blog of the progress.

All said, it's taken me about 3 1/2 years to get to this moment, and "whew!" I'm tired. Heh heh. The journey has just been slow, with many delays along the way, but I stuck in there determined to see all of my models finished.

This is the end of the Lord of the Rings series, but not the end of my modeling "career". I have lots of new ideas and things that I would like to try molding and casting. I have just made my mind up that I will not "plan and attempt" ten models all at the same time. Heh heh. What was I thinking??? No, I think from now on, I'll plan, design, and complete one at a time so that I can stay fresh and not get overwhelmed by the project (like I was on this one).

So what we have here, is Gollum. Clocking in at 7 inches tall (from rock bottom to head), which is about the height of one of the standing hobbits. Gollum is, of course, hobbit scale, just seated. The rock helped me get him up to about the same height as the others so that Gollum would not appear small.

I decided not to cast the hair into the resin and, instead, chose to glue individual strands of a very fine doll hair (that I got from one of my daughter's old dolls that had a head scale about Gollum's size). The strands were first attached (after sealer) with light drops of a white glue, then sealed on with a glaze of white glue. I achieved the "greasy" and clumped look by combing the hair with white glue, and I finally re-sprayed the acrylic sealer over the dried glue to bring back the luster and make the model's polish consistent.

I hope you like him as much as I do. Gollum is now my favorite of my LOTR models.

I made 5 complete Gollums, in all. I'm keeping one (of course), stay tuned as I decide what to do with the others. I might try one or two on Ebay at some point. Maybe look for him in a couple months.

I do hope that you've enjoyed my blog. Check back later (might be a while , as I take a break and do some other things) and I'll start working on some new model ideas (This isn't just a blog for LOTR models after all, heh).

- ADAM

My Gollum sculpt is done, at last!

I was a little lazier than I wanted to be on my Gollum sculpt. I should have had him finished a couple weeks ago, but nevertheless, done at last! And he's my best and favorite of them all!

I need to get the ball rolling on getting my molds done so that I can finally complete my LOTR model project!

Gollum will cast in 4 pieces (lower body and rock, upper torso, and 2 arms). Unlike all of my other models, Gollum is not wearing any shirt/coat where I could have hidden the seam between the pieces. I'll have to putty the seam on the arms when I assemble the pieces.

Aragorn Finished!

At last! The final images of my new Aragorn model. If you have been keeping up with me on the "Re-making of Aragorn" posts, thank you.

All said and done, it took about 2 months of work (4 hours a night - give or take) to take this model all of the way from the ground up. Be sure to check out the VR turn-around posted at the top of the page.

Next up, I'll be working on my final LOTR model (and final model for a while), Gollum! See you next post!

The Re-making of Aragorn (Step 17)

Well, you've made it this far, let's see this model finished! Welcome back to my "Re-making of Aragorn" model-making series. In this post, I will assemble the final painted pieces and mount the model to the wood base.

I chose to paint the model in a completely unassembled state for a deliberate reason. Due to Aragorn's dynamic pose, with many overlapping pieces, in was easier to get paint all around the model with the pieces loose.

Before I can assemble the model, I must scrape any paint from the surface of the joints.










I need to get the areas where the glue will go back to bare resin. With a little fore-thought, you could always mask over these areas. I find that with the area a little scratched and roughed-up, I get a better adhesion with the glue, so I don't mind scraping the paint.










This time around, I chose to use a resin-based "gel" glue. This glue has a little body to it and is great for filling in gaps and gluing hand-made parts that loosely match. Apply generously.




Drum roll (bum bubm bubm)... And the finished Aragorn! I mounted him to the final wood base using the foot pattern (from earlier) and re-using the same wood screws I used to mount him to the temporary base. I will finish the model with self-adhesive black felt on the bottom of the base and set him in a nice place on a shelf with the other characters.












I'll be taking my VR photos soon and will add Aragorn to my links at the top of this page. Check back soon for news of my next character... Gollum!