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Some new sculpting finished . Again the Pirate theme . This time the story from the Pirates inn . Having a party with the help of a lot of rum and some wild wild women. The scenery is made from balsa foam. Scculpting was done using magic sculpt en green stuff. Some heads and hands are from the...

It has been a long time since my last post . 2 years in the making this diorama is finished .I know this is usually not the place to post projects more related to modeling , but there are 21 figures in this diorama . The jeep and the truck are from Tamiya . Most of the figures are from...

Does anyone have an idea where the next world expo will take place ? Usually there are rumours during the Week end .Names of possible kandidates are then released.

Name of a dangerous fish but also one of the most succesful comic book series edited by Dargoud. Scriptwriter Jean Dufaux and illustrator Jérémy Pétiqueux created almost a cinematografic style in their work . The stories take us back to times when Pirates ruled the world . The serie is drawn in...

Pirates bad day Well what can I say ? You’re a Pirate . During the same day you’re shipwrecked because you lost you’re ship in a battle. Floating in de sea a seagull passes and then again some bad luck falls down on you’re head. This small scene is made with some heavy converted parts from...

It’s been a while since my last post on PF. Because of time shortage it took me a while to start a new sculptingproject . Again I was inspired by the pirate theme as in previous work . This time the concept is not from an existing ( pirates of the Carribean) scene but a bit of fantasy took...

Some time ago I posted the completed sculpt of a little vignette with 2 figures . The title was A Mermaids Song . The idea came after I saw the last Pirates of Caribbean movie ( by the way the mermaid scene is the best in the movie ) . It shows a shipwrecked pirate lured by a mermaid sitting on...

How many clichés can you put in one figure . Well I supose I've done my best . The sculpting ended some time ago. And now painting is finished. Mother of all pirates was inspired by the concept art of W. Disneys imageneer Marc Davies who created the Pirates world as we know it now . This figure...

Mother of all Pirates . After the previous 2 projects “Pirate’s Party” and “ A mermaids song “, both inspired by the concept art of Disney’s imageneer Marc Davis ,I returned to an original idea of my own . Mother of all Pirates combines all the clichés used in the artwork of pirates...

Some time ago I discovered the Steampunk style in figurines . Some manufacturers of fantasy themes have introduced this style in there work . So I decided to make my own figure using all information I could find . This figure is based upon art work I found on the internet . The girl is dressed...

Well here it is . 1 year in the making ( 6 months of sculpting and 6 months of painting ) . The job is done . Based upon Mark Davies original concept art of Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney’s ride at Disneyland 1967 After finishing the sculpting part I past it on to a female member of our...

A mermaids song Like half of the world I also saw Pirates of the Caribbean 4. One of the best scenes in the movie is the mermaid scene . So I had the idea of bringing the mermaid to scale . This one figure had no dramatic effect . So I once used some Mark Davies drawings as a start . The...

Destruction of the temple I’m kind of soft when it’s about old style movies . In times when CGI and motion capture performance did not exist, everything was done by hand . And sometimes we are still astonished about the fact how they did it . Cecile B. Demille directed the 1949 Paramount...

PIRATES PARTY It’s been a while since my last posting . After the single figure a made last time ,my next project is a vignette with 3 pirates . The basic inspiration for this came from drawings I found on the internet . Beïng a Disney fan I came across some concept art from the well...

Private McBain at the battle of Malplaquet The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on September 11, 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, the United...

Some time ago I posted a finished scratchbuild bust , based upon the Neytiri character from Avatar .It took me some weeks to finish the bust because of the complex hairstructure.And I decided to leave the paintwork to a fellow figure painter.Sonia did a great job and it has received several...

Searching information and illustrations about the history of the Southern states, I came across a print showing slaves working the cottonfields . For some reason I got the idea for sculpting the first pregnant figurine . The concept of the figure is very simple . There is no uniform and there...

It's been a while since my last post . The last few weeks and months I was creating a bust after seeing Avatar the movie . A great SF adventure with great graphics , but a very small story . Cameron has been watching the old cowboy and indian movies very closely . The story about and outstander...

Some time ago I discovered a series of comic books called " CRUSADES ".A new series of pencil drawn tales of the great crusades during the middle ages . The authors used a mixture of history, fantasy and adventure to create a new world in witch the main characters are living . The cover of...

After 4 months I finished the vignette called "Brotherhood Off The Wolves " Based upon the opening scene of the French movie Le pacte des loups . In an older posting I discribed the storyand the succes of the movie also in theUSA . So it became the most succesfull foreign movie ever . As...