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Sculptor of gods, monsters, and mortals - in miniature, life-size, and larger; thingsnstuff ©Jo Brumby unless noted otherwise; commissions available, in theory. Find me sneaking around at www.snuurg.com or he/him.

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snuurg@snuurg· 28d

- otherwise, I'm back on the usual medical-model stuff, fifty of these just cranked out and another fifty to start almost right after:

a bunch of sinus-structure models, constructed of clear plastic and bits of rubber, sitting in a box waiting to be incorporated into the main models.

one of the sinus-structures built into a clear plastic 'face' and head, the back of the head being of a beige plastic; several more head-backs are in the background of the image, with red tape around their edges.

a whole set of the nearly fully-assembled models, the heads now attached to their 'bodies', arranged over several separate tabletops. In the rear of the image is a sort of shed-structure built into the workspace, in the two openings of which are visible the archway and the 3D printer, both under construction at the same time, that were shown in the previous couple of posts.

snuurg@snuurg· 28d

meanwhile, some extremely last-minute 'hot coals' requested on a thursday afternoon for a friday finish, luckily I had some dense foam I just sort of picked at a bit, painted bright orange and then drybrushed in black and a bit of grey, kinda works ok, the bright lighting kinda kills 'em though tbh:

some rough,vaguely rock-y looking bits of dense foam in the process of being painted bright orange.

after a bit of dry-brushing with black and grey, the 'rocks' look a bit like hot coals, though you wouldn't necessarily know it from the overly-bright studio-lighting.

snuurg@snuurg· 28d

random woody-whatnots that required some serious lugging-about, while wishing our designers would develop an understanding of how heavy things can be; also, got roped into helping figure out the build of the massive 3D printer that only just fits into the room it's gonna live in:

a large, square/box-section construction in mdf of a more or less rainbow-shaped display- stand, shown assembled, but which has had to be made modular for 'ease' of delivery and installation, neither of which have actually been achieved. There are a series of slots in the face of the lower parts of the rainbow-arch that will eventually accommodate slide-in shelving-units.

the same arch with another piece of oddly-shaped furniture in front of it, also very heavy, consisting of three oblong-section panels topped with semi-circles. Both pieces of furniture have been vinyl-wrapped in a pink-into-lilac graded colour scheme. The whole assembly will eventually be for displaying makeup products, or so I believe.

a lot of aluminium framework being built into a space that is only just big enough to accommodate it all - the finished frame-size is about 9.5 feet long by 8 across, and also about 8 feet high; the room is about 10.5 by 10 by 10.

snuurg@snuurg· 28d

- meanwhile, a bit of catchup on the usual juggling-of-stuff at the work lark; that map-thing, coming along:

a low-relief map of part of London, built from modelboard and acrylic sheet, the latter showing light blue from the plastic wrapping on it.

more or less the same view of the model, but it has now been sprayed to look like bronze, although unfortunately it's hard to see it all that clearly from the photo.

a lighting-test of the illumination-system built into the back of the model, mainly to check that the wiring is working right. The view of the model is otherwise shown from much the same angle again, though some parts of it have been removed to facilitate the lighting installation.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 23

- it's a theme with squeal-appeal, to be sure :) Meanwhile, mouse-miniature by @fenrisgames.com, painted by @voiceofkosh.bsky.social:

a mouse marauder in miniature - tiny mouse figure wearing a cloak, bearing a shield and wielding a sword, shown held in hand to give an idea of just how small it is.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 7

- anyway - blood pressure might've actually been lower than I was expecting, proba-possibly due to having a nice sit in the break room for twenty minutes or so while waiting my turn, and having a look at the outdoors and trees and stuff that I generally don't see more or less all day long...

a view from our break-room window, with a nice blue sky and fluffy clouds, some trees in green, a railway bridge in the background... the traffic of which was honestly not the best thing to have going on during a hearing-test, but hey-ho.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 7

not in any of the pictures here, also some big (6- and 8-foot on a side kinda size) mdf-built frames for... something, though somebody else is dealing with the whatever-else of them, as I'm, well, busy. Meanwhile, with may 4th done, this has come back for scrapping and salvage:

a star wars toy-display scene I built last month, with a space backdrop and a strangely-scaled planet Tatooine as part of it; several vehicles of both Rebel and Empire factions are represented; the Millenium Falcon, to the middle-right of the image, as lost its lid, which is crammed against the inside of the display-case on the left side of the image.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 7

also *also* being fit into the scheme of things, sorting out some modelboard/chemiwood topographicals for a thing I did a test-piece for about a year or more ago that of course came up to be getting got on with within the same month:

one of several pieces of topographical/plan sections of certain bits of London, milled from pink modelboard, in the process of having all the tooling-marks sanded out of it from where the milling-machine has been.

a closer view of one of the modelboard sections, showing some of the buildings being represented on the model,that still bear the rotational marks left by the tooling done by the milling-machine.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 7

*also* also, tinkering bits for a window-display ferris wheel, mainly re-turning a bit of bar several times in the lathe 'cos folks kept twerping about with various bearings to get the thing to run smoothly:

a metal bar inserted through the support-structure of a window-display ferris wheel, here seen only in its upper portions as the top of two support-arches, built from 12 millimetre MDF, sprayed bright yellow.

a further-back view showing more of the elements of the ferris wheel - the support-structure from the previous image can be seen in whole to the rear top left of the image; several red gondolas are on the table in front of the structure, and then in the foreground of the image is one half of the actual wheel, also sprayed bright yellow, sprouting a number of acrylic rods that will be the attachments for the gondolas, as well as spacing off the other half of the wheel.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 7

...finally got asked to sort out the stickers meself with just over a day left before deadline, took me a whole 3 hrs to do the stickers and the rest of the morning to stick the lids to the units; fairly sure the 3 print guys could've dealt with the stickers-bit a lot quicker, a *week ago*, but eh.

one of the plastic lids for the display-units, formed from marbled white plastic, with three 'Kinetic Sand' stickers on it. The lid is a square some 600 mm or 2 feet on a side, the centre of it being a slightly recessed smaller square about 2 inches or 50 mm deep.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 7

meanwhile/also building a bunch of display-and-play units for some 'Kinetic Sand' - their finish delayed by 10 days while waiting for the print guys to put the stickers onto the lids, these here being of a bunch of 20 lurking in that limbo:

several purple outer/yellow inner, open-sided display-units proclaiming 'Kinetic Sand' on their sides, all bearing structures on their tops designed to support the sticking-on of plastic 'lids' that at this point had been awaited for about a week already.

snuurg@snuurg· Jun 7

bah, stupid busy-ness at work causing the usual carnage to getting any socials-ising done, hohum - nothing 'trifficly interesting, just lots of it - not least being back on the medical-model malarkey again, amongst much else...

the beginnings of some medical model works, these being two halves of the sinus-structures of the human head, made in clear vacuum-formed plastic, not yet glued together as there are several processes they'll need to undergo beforehand; also in-picture are several clear plastic 'paddles' that will be part of the 'throat' of the finished models, the whole apparatus to be used for training in the practice of intubation.

several 'larynxes' (I think) also formed from clear plastic, in the process of being glued together under ultraviolet light. These also have paddle-like structures built into them, but they will be used as elements separate from the main sinus models.

snuurg@snuurg· May 10

this film is the reason I see this image in my head whenever anybody types 'lol'

a still from The Company of Wolves film, showing a prosthetic/animatronic man's head with a huge lolling tongue, as he begins a strange transformation.

snuurg@snuurg· May 10

- right, a last coupla bits to put a knot in the end of this thread and call it done - been some Willy-Wonka-lookin' stuff getting polished off this week, as well as all else besides...

a very odd-looking contraption that could easily have come from a Willy Wonka setup - a stack of circular shelves built in fake marble, separated between layers by a copper-laminated core, is topped off by a series of copper-accented acrylic tubes following a circular arrangement, each having a sort of 'collection bowl' at its base, with a turnable wheel just above that will allow items to drop down into the bowls when turned; it is actually for dispensing make-uo items - lipsticks etcetera - but looks for all the world like some sort of overly-elaborate gumball-machine.

a tall and wide shelving-unit that accompanies the gumball-machine-thing, similarly built from fake marble in parts but also veneered wood, with a pink sort of 'roof' at its top, bearing a sign denoting it as 'The Scent Station'. Not visible in shot, it also has a revolving countertop-arrangement similar to the sort of thing seen in a sushi bar or somesuch, by which various items will be conveyed for customer observation and/or pickup.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

Anyway here's 2 parts of the 4 halves of the 2 models to bring an end this torturously long thread, sorry for that. I'm gonna clear off again for a bit having inflicted that on you all, partly from a need to eat, but also cos laptopping for two hours plus has seized me back up and I need to move.

Two halves of the four scenes in one image - the Hoth side of the main model, with the Imperial Shuttle battle scene of the secondary model showing in the background.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

- got into some interesting heat-gun experiments getting various things into position, slightly therapeutic, and some satisfying shapes going on:

various assmeblies of tape holding things in place as the glue sets on some barmily-bent bits of acrylic mounting the toys to the backboard.

a particularly wobbly-looking bit of acrylic rod mounting a T.I.E. Fighter toy to the backboard of one scene side - though to be fair it is a vehicle that's in the process of going into a crash-dive after having been shot, so it's hardly surprising its support has ended up as it has.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

using cardboard cutouts to plan out the two sides of the display and where things are gonna sit, before committing to drilling into things and hoping everything stays put:

cardboard cutouts of various star wars toys set against a space-scene backdrop, allowing for planning of the positioning of the toys for the finished scene, side 1. There are cutouts representing such ships as the Millenium Falcon, The Mandalorian's Razorcrest, Luke's X-Wing and Darth Vader's T.I.E. Fighter, and several others besides.

the same scene but with all the toys now set in place, as per the previous picture's planning.

side 2 scene 2, cutouts again represnting such ships as the Imperial Shuttle, Viper, more X-Wings and T.I.E. Fighters, etcetera.

and as with scene 1, this is side 2 now set up with the actual toys in place -though as yet not all of the planets have been stuck on.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

next up, sticking sticks in stuff, mainly for mounting but also for a loada lasers; also, the background at last, a rather simpler affair than all that rock-building lark:

a whole host of star wars toys with acrylic rods drilled into them, by which they'll eventually be attached to their intended display; there are x-wings, various T.I.E. fighters, and several others besides.

x-wings and tie-fighters with coloured acrylic rods attached to represent the firing of their respective lasers. The toys really aren't built for this sort of thing so I had to add little adaptations by way of narrow metal tubes to allow for the fitting of the rods.

the printed background applied to an mdf stand for the secondary scene - or rather scenes, as it's a double-sided display again. It;s an image of space with a bit of lense-flare or some such, and a random planet off to one side.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

- needed a few quick planets, so - more foam, tape, and filler, and there we have Tatooine and a gaggle of Yavins:

making some planets - or part-planets, at least, since they're only going to be relief-representations of such - from foam carved to shape, covered in tape, and then surfaced with car body-filler.

a pile of four part-planets of diminishing sizes, stacked one on top of another.

three out of four planets, sprayed with various colours of primer that will also act as a base for their paint-scheme. Wrongly, as it turns out, since I started painting them before any definitive planets had been determined. Silly me.

the four part-planets, painted up as Tattoine, Yavin Prime, and Yavins 4 and 8, if I remember correctly.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

I was gonna put up a coupla minute-ish long turntable-turnarounds for last comparisons but apparently they're too big to load, so hohum. Otherwise though, stuck all that lot under the dome and screwed it down so it could go in the back of a van and get sent back whence it came, and all that:

the finished model, secured to a board by velcro and screws underneath, with the dome attached and held in place with several screwed-on supports.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

...but anyway, yeah - Hoth version 1 versus Hoth version 2; the Millenium Falcon flew 'round the other side of the model, the old snow got renewed and more snow was stuffed into scene, and a couple of very quick-crap 'explosions' were bodged in via wire and hot glue:

the original Hoth scene-side, a little the worse for wear after nearly a couple of years on display; two snowspeeders and the Millenium Falcon run an attack on an AT-AT walker; another snowspeeder is crashed in the foreground, where a couple of Imperial troopers zip about on snowbikes, and a T.I.E. fighter is crashed more or less in the centre of the scene.

the updated Hoth scene; the snow has been refreshed and expanded. The Millenium Falcon has moved almost out f sight around the right side of the model, but the other vehicles are stationed as they were before. A couple of 'explosions' have been added to the scene, and one of the snowspeeders now has laser-beams emerging from its guns.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

- because there wasn't time to do all that; on paper there was about a month to get this (+ the other model!) done, but the reality was about 12 days as it was very much one of several side-quests to the main mucking-about manufacturing of stuff I was up to, namely building a buncha other stuff:

the star wars scene very much in the background of a bunch of yellow-interior display-units being built.

a stack of support-structures built from mdf that will be part of the display-units already shown, helping uphold the vaccuum-formed tops of the units as and when that all gets sorted.

a starngely-shaped tabletop, shown from underneath, awaiting fittimgs for its fixing-together, as well as being about to be veneered before I'm done with it. Several of the earlier display-units, for 'Kinetic Sand' apparently, are visible to the rear top-left of the image. A hammer and a couple of other tools lie within the curved head-end of the tabletop.

with some of gthe display-units still *just* visible in the background, this image shows a half-cylinder something-or-other, built from mdf again, that I've just about finished putting a metallic formica veneer on.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

slightly less to undertake on the Hoth side of things, but here goes; the main ask was to have more snow in the scene, so I sorted out building in a bit more slope to tame the verticals; made it nice and easy for myself by building around and between the existing vehicles without removing them...

some tape-covered bits of strangely-shaped polystyrene that will become new additions to the rocky background of the Hoth scene.

fitting the taped slope-scenery bits into place on the main model; they are still removable at this point as it's obviously easier to detail them off-model.

the now-detailed bits, primed and put in place once more.

and in a not-very-different image, the little bit of building-into-scene of the additional bits, facilitated by filler and a lot of faff. The shoulder of an AT-AT walker is in the right-hand foreground of the image, and one wing of a crashed T.I.E. fighter is visible about halfway up the left side of the image.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

- and that's about it for that side, for the Naboo-to-Tatooine transformation:

the original version of the scene as representing Naboo, detailed in lush planting and the odd blue pool here and there.

the altered scene, now transformed into Tatooine, and with a different assortment of toy vehicles adorning it.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

I s'pose I better bung all the toys on too - gotta fit 'em all in and around some more @fenrisgames.com bits and pieces meanwhile, as well as keeping within the restrictions of the dome it's all displayed under:

Moff Gideon flies his T.I.E. past a silo of some sort, part-built with bits from Fenris Games, narrowly avoiding collision with both the silo and the sandstone arch that runs up alongside it.

Boba Fett and Wedge flit about in their respective vehicles near some more bits of scene-furnishings kitbashed from Fenris Games castngs and laser-cut kits; some sort of windmill-powered communications-tower is at top-center, with a water-tank embedded into the sandstone a little lower down, topped off with a hatchway door.

the Mandalorian and Grogu go whistling past a Fenris Games atmosphere-processor sited almost within one of the arch-formations of the rock.

The Millenium Falcon rounds the corner of the scene, passing just above one of the pod-homes shown earlier. The dino-fossil shown several posts ago also appears just off-centre at the top, in its now finished-painted state.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

time to start plonking some plap in place, I reckon - painting up some pod-homes and setting 'em on site - the doors are doctored castings from @fenrisgames.com, likewise with the laser-cut ladders; there are otherwise a couple of little bits of #lego sneakily snuck in:

a pod-home designed after the style of stuff from Tattoine, basically a hemisphere, almost igloo-like, with a bronze-looking door and some sort of power-unit built into one side.

the same pod, plus a second one set lower down, sited into the sandstone scenery; they are separated by several layers or levels of rock, but accessible, to some at least, by way of a ladder joining the main two levels.

another pod-home, looking a little more upmarket perhaps as it has an adjoining wall and small side-building attached to it.

the 'posh' pod-home set into site, at the lowest level of several layers of rock, also served by ladders as go-betweens.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

a couple of zoom-ins to show stuff up a bit more:

closer view of some of the sandstone surface, to show the detail and colour variation a little better.

closer view of one of the arch or 'bridge'-like rock formations, again to show the colour and detail more effectively.

snuurg@snuurg· May 4

right then, so - (egad, a *month* since I last looked in?!) - gettin' some primin' and paintin' going on; a base of barely-lightened yellow ochre followed up by a coupla rounds of wash-and-highlight:

the finished build of the main essence of the scene, unified with a light grey primer. There are some interesting rock-formations going on, several oddly organic-looking arches 'growing' from the main mass of roxk, the whole scene meanwhile exhibiting many strata-layers in its forms.

the same piece now painted over with a sandy yellow-ish base-colour, and looking slightly less sterile.

another view of the scene but with a couple of rounds of dry-brushed lighter tones applied across the whole thing.

...and the more-or-less final finish after a darker wash has been applied, as well as a few more selective highlights.

snuurg@snuurg· Apr 5

- gonna leave it there for now I think and get me dinner, but not before sneaking in a Somesortosaurus as a nod to Episode IV, or whatevs.

some random bits of a dinosaur skeleton pushed into some milliput to create some kind of fossil-in-matrix as part of the Tatooine-scene.

with the milliput cured, I've modelled around the skeleton with car body filler to embed it more convicncingly into the rock-face.

filler and skeleton given a brush of primer to ready 'em up for painting.

snuurg@snuurg· Apr 5

brushed on a bit of primer to start unifying things, and then started sculpting things into shape with the filler to hopefully bring it all together in a reasonably natural-looking manner...