Hello, everyone! I posted the link the the google folder for the art challenge over on discord! Please Include the name of your piece and your name in the file name!
If you aren't on there and want me to send you the link directly, send me a DM before this coming Thursday.
Have a great weekend!
Hello, everyone! Hope you’re having a great week so far. This week, I’m working on a bot for an upcoming collaboration! Bill Making Stuff created a bot randomizer that uses a D20 to determine the prompts. This is my interpretation of the prompts I came up with! The main focus was on the cyclopean eye and buster sword. The design reminds me of one of those robots from the Portal 2 multiplayer campaign.
The January/February “Ancient History” art challenge is almost done! The deadl...
2024-02-20 04:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy! Hope you are all having a great start to your weeks!
I just finished painting this eel and diver for my next video, and I'm pretty happy with the results! I used the same painting technique on the rocks/corals as I did for my landing platform and once again, the method worked very well! I also had a lot of fun kitbashing the diver and his harpoon gun.
Just over two weeks until the art challenge deadline! I'm looking forward to seeing your ancient history dioramas!
Hello, everyone! Hope you’re all having a good week so far. Can’t believe January is already over!
This week, I decided to make a landing pad for 1:72 scale ships. The first ship to land on the platform will be a Y-Wing from Bandai, but I plan to swap that out for some original kitbashed ships for it eventually!
Hello, everyone! This week, I'm making another small WIW animal encounter. If I'm honest, this build was mostly an excuse to use these cacti that I've had sitting unused in my collection for years. I'm not from a place where Saguaros grow, so they're pretty novel to me!
Anyone here live in the desert?
Hello, everyone! Hope you’re having a great week. I have been considering this specific build for a couple years now and finally bought a model kit close enough to the source material to make it happen. There will be LED filaments involved.
The build is a little off brand for me. Any guesses what I’m making?
2024-01-18 03:35:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, everyone! This week, I added the 11th building to the town. I figured the town folk needed a public clock of some kind to help everyone stay on time for duels and other important social events. I’ll be slapping the face of an old wristwatch in that empty box on the front of the tower!
I only have a couple more buildings before filling in the roads, populating the town with people, and calling this town good.
Hope you all had a great week and have an awesome weekend!
2024-01-13 22:16:20 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Hope you've all had a great week. It's time to vote on another art challenge! The submissions will be due on Thursday, February 29th!
All categories are open to interpretation and all artistic mediums are welcome!
The theme with the most votes in 24 hours wins!
2024-01-06 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! Hope you had a good Christmas! Deadline for the Unexpected Christmas Present art challenge is this Friday night! ( Dec, 29th) Link to the google folder for submissions will be over on Discord! Let me know if you have any trouble finding it!
For my unexpected Christmas present, I'm kitbashing my first official full sized prop from the WIW! Working with things at full scale is different, but I'm enjoying the challenge!
2023-12-26 22:39:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! Hope you all had a great week.
For my Christmas episode, I decided a shepherd diorama in a snow globe would be fitting. I attempted to give the diorama some object source lighting and while it isn’t perfect, I’m happy with it!
Have a great Christmas, everyone!
(P.s. Next week is the last week to get your unexpected Christmas present builds done!)
2023-12-23 03:07:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! In honor of the 20th anniversary of the film adaptation of The Return of the King, I made a diorama that my 10 year old self would have loved. I restored some miniatures from my collection that had been in storage for over a decade and did my best to give them a second life! A friend of mine also gave me an old Mûmak to add to the project which was very helpful!
Just a reminder: There are two more weeks till your Unexpected Christmas Present art challenge builds are d...
2023-12-14 03:15:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, all! This week, we're back in the WIW with another riverboat and accompanying monster. I was thinking through monsters that I've added to my universe and giant anaconda wasn't on the list. I decided to change that!
I'm going to light up the boat and throw it in some shallow pour resin with the anaconda slithering underneath.
Have a happy last day of November!
Hello everyone! Hope you’re all having a great week so far. I’m very excited about this next project! It’s an epic battle, sponsored by Hero Forge. They gave me ten physical minis and digital files of the rest. I knew I didn’t want to waste the opportunity to go crazy with access to so many custom minis!
It’s basically Smash Bros or Fortnite, but a diorama. I’m look forward to sharing it with you all!
P.S. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who’s celebrating!
2023-11-23 05:37:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! Hope you're having a great week. Currently editing the footage of a project I finished a couple months ago. The idea came from a 1:24 scale Vespa and rider that were leftovers from my Five Nights at the Local Hobby Shop diorama. I was inspired to use the motor scooter for a sci-fi themed piece of concept art!
This one is just a stand alone piece and my focus was to use kitbashing as creative fuel for world building and story prompting. I enjoyed process. Hope you enjoy ...
2023-11-16 01:28:01 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to everyone who voted on the last poll! The decision was made to combine the November and December challenges into one.
Submission deadline is December 29th and the video will go live on New Year's Eve!
Each of the options are open to your interpretation and all art forms are welcome!
2023-11-08 15:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy! I was very happy with the number of people who participated in the last art challenge! Such great builds all around. I am wondering if you would rather do another paired Nov/Dec art challenge for some extra time or go back to one per month? Please vote below!
I will post a poll for the next theme once this poll has closed!
This week, I’m making one of my most requested folktale monsters, the Slide Rock Bolter. It’s a legendary creature from my home state of Colorado!
I did some research on it and made a few small creative changes, but for the most part, I stayed true to the legend.
This one is going to require quite a bit of real-estate to realistically display… I wish I had a nice big, steep mountain I could use…
2023-11-01 22:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you’re all doing well!
I’m just wrapping up my video for this week (a new type of spider for the WIW), and I’ve also begun work on next week’s art challenge build! Monsters in the sea obviously called for resin, so getting a head start seemed like a good idea.
Submissions for the art challenge are due next Friday, Oct 27th! I’ll post a link to the Google folder over on discord. Looking forward to seeing everything you all came up with!
2023-10-20 22:48:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! Hope you’re all having a great week.
I bought this SHFiguarts Luke a long time ago and this week I felt inspired to do something with him. He’ll be facing off against Vader in their iconic throne room duel.
2023-10-12 05:15:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! I’m back in Denver after a great road trip and we saw some awesome things along the way.
One of those awesome things was the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park. I wanted to recreate it as it likely would have looked in the 1100s while it was still being lived in. The second photo is how it looks today.
If you ever find yourself in that part of the world, it’s definitely worth seeing.
Hope you’re all having a great week!
2023-10-04 18:46:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! I’m currently on a trip around the Rockies, and it’s been an amazing trip so far! I was able to get a video done before I left so there will still be a video this coming Sunday!
The photo above is of Morning Glory Pool in Yellowstone. It was fun to see this beautiful feature that I recreated in one of my favorite dioramas to date!
I have a couple more stops before making my way back to Denver, and I’m sure I’ll grab much more inspiration along the way! <...
2023-09-28 01:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, everyone! Hope you’re having a great week so far. Some of you may have noticed in my last video that I hinted at the possibility of a giant bearded dragon in the near future. Well, the future is now, and here’s that bearded dragon!
It is just about life sized compared to me, but compared to a 1:72 scale man, it’s the size of a bus, which makes it far less cute and far more terrifying.
Looking forward to releasing it into the Wild (Imaginary West) on Sunday!
2023-09-21 17:58:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in the WIW this week with the next installment of my town! It’s part of a collaboration with Gameyy Builds, where we both decided to build something lumber mill related for our own original universes.
I kit-bashed the mill from a preowned model railroad building and a few other scraps I had lying around.
Hope you all have a great week!
2023-09-13 16:34:53 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all! Hope your weeks have started well. It's time to vote on the next art challenge!
I have something going on the end of the September that will keep me from being able to launch an art challenge video, so I'm combining September and October. This should give you some extra time to come up with and complete your submissions!
This will be the Halloween episode, so the build can be on the spookier side. I would ask that you keep your builds appropriate for al...
Happy September, everyone! This week, I decided to do something different but fun. I sculpted a little Snoopy in pilot attire who will be in a dogfight with a WW1 bi-plane.
Hope you’re all having a great week!
P.S. I’ll get that next art challenge poll posted in the next few days!
2023-09-06 16:25:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone! Hope you’re all doing well. Just wrapped up my submission for the art challenge! The little misshapen ball is supposed to be the Death Star.
For anyone who made their own space station inspired artwork, you can upload the photos to the drive folder I linked over on Discord.
I’ll be accepting submissions till tomorrow, (Friday) night!
2023-08-31 23:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone! It’s been a crazy month for me. I’m pushing the art challenge deadline back by a week! The link to the Google folder will be over in the discord.
I’ll accept submissions until Sept 1st and the video will go live on the 3rd!
2023-08-25 05:55:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you’re all having a great week!
I’m adding a second set of dinosaur bones to my WIW collection. This time, it’s a Triceratops!
In this diorama, a digging crew is working hard to dislodge the giant skeleton from a cliff face. They are under the paid protection of the mercenary faction seen in light blue. Any name suggestions for this particular mercenary group?
2023-08-17 04:21:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone! Hope you’ve had a great week. I was in California attending a wedding and didn’t have the time to work on a video for this Sunday. Sorry about that!
I did get some personal crafting projects done which felt nice.
Next week, we’ll be back in the WIW!
2023-08-12 15:16:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt's voting time again! The theme with the most votes in 24 hours wins.
Submission deadline is August 25th!