1/6TH MINIATURE PETS: LEON THE CHAMELEON

Just snapped some quick shots of some miniatures I've had for ages, yet again catching up on stuff I should have shared a long time ago. This is Leon, Gillian's pet Chameleon. He's just a small handpainted (not by me) resin lizard I picked up at a flea market last year sometime. I need to get and do up reptile tank for him.

UPDATE: Marci Nairey

I finally got all of Marci's gear finalized and on her and I'm pretty happy with how she finally came out.

SHINE A LITTLE LIGHT ON ME....

I picked these up a while ago from http://www.dealextreme.com to use for with my Adventure Team and various explorers as portable lighting units. I paid about $2.50 a piece for them with free shipping. These are clones of the Stanley brand keychain and you get what you pay for. They are decent, but the switches are a bit iffy.





All in all, an OK purchase, and a neat prop when you can get them to work. I'm thinking of picking myself up an actual Stanley one as I am sure the reliability is improved.

GILLIAN EXPLORES AN ICE CAVE

So, while out the other day taking pictures with Amber, I also came across another photogenic spot. So Gillian decided to explore a cave behind an ice formation in the mountains where she was hiking. She's a bit adventurous, deciding to do it despite not being dressed for the weather.

















Enjoy

ADVENTURE TEAM AMBER

Amber Michaels is one of my characters who I have neglected getting some really good pictures of. An adventurer / explorer should be outdoors, so with the good weather this weekend I took the time to finally take some good outdoors photos of her.













Amber is a Barbie Alice in Wonderland head on a Takara Cy Girls 2.0 body. Her outfit is from the Hasbro Secret of the Savage Swamp set with a Sam Browne belt and knife from DML and boots are Hot Toys. her Fedora is from one of the Ertl hunting figures that I drybrushed with brown acrylic to pick out the details. The Adventure Team logo on her shirt is custom printed on inkjet printer fabric.

Marci Nairey: Soldier of Fortune

Marci Nairey knew at an early age that she wasn't cut out for a typical girl's life. Born into a wealthy family and being a born fighter, she spent her educational years in prestigious private girls schools. Instead of going to college Marci decided to travel the world to experience and learn new things and meet foreign peoples... with the intention of being paid to take their lives...

She travelled the globe tagging along with soldiers of fortune and getting the best paramilitary training her parent's money could buy (unbeknown to them) in various countries to learn the arts of war in pursuit of her ideal of a fun and lucrative living as a soldier of fortune herself.



Marci spends the majority of her time living and working in the many hostile regions of the third world countries of the African continent.







Marci's livelihood has certainly left it's mark. Often seen with her hair covering the right side of her face in an attempt to hide an unfortunate mar to her beauty... a large facial burn scar caused during an explosion several years ago.







Marci is based on the Hot Toys Blonde Secret Service ERT Girl. I originally repainted her eyes to brown when I got her. I only recently decided to add the scarring the other day after looking at her and thinking of an interesting reason for how her hair lays over her right side of her face. The scarring was done using Liquitex Light Modelling Paste mixed with some Liquitex flesh tones. I simple stippled the mixed on the face (It has the consistency of cake frosting) and then I sponged it with a mixture of pink / purple, and then finally drybrushed it to blend it. Overall it came out looking quite nicely like the reference photos of facial burn scarring I looked into prior.

Her gear is a mix currently of 21C, Hasbro, BBI, ACE, and Sideshow.



Enjoy.

AEON FLUX

Well, since it's a new year and I've got a new camera, I've been catching up on some long needed pics. So I figure the best way to usher in the new year and new posts to my blog is to show off a custom I did about 3 years ago that I never took good pics of...

Aeon Flux

This was my custom take on Aeon Flux, wanting to merge aspects of both the movie and the animated series.

I started out using a BBI Tan Perfect Body as that matched the head I chose to use. Aeon's head is an Integrity Janay and Friends "Alyssa" that I modified to mount on the body and trimmed her hair. The outfit is a Triad Toys "Bond Girl 1.0" outfit over an OJI black leotard. The stocking boots are Triad bootfeet simply slipped into OJI black tights and then put back together.

Her weapon is the latest edition, having only been added at the time of these photos today, and that is a Triad Toys "Vanity" KRISS SMG, mostly for its futuristic look.

Enjoy...