January Update - Monthly Round Up

Happy New Year everyone! I think I must have blinked and missed most of last year.  Anyway, we're here now so here's a round up for the month.

December Content - Now Expired

December is well and truly over and so the content link has now expired. So if you missed Saskia then you'll be able to grab her from my site (which will be up in a few days, I'll make a post announcing when it goes live).  Overall, she was a very pleasant print. The sculpt went well and even getting the supports done was easy. The print came out well and I'm happy with the result.

Poll Winner: Autumn, The Dryad of Verdant Run

So it was a bit neck and neck between Autumn and Maya, and then Autumn and Katsumi. But it seems the Dryad has worked her magic on you guys and the votes have spoken. You can expect some work in progress soon. While the sculpt should be comparatively easy to Molly, the tree as a stand is certainly going to take a bit of thinking to make it work well. She will be emerging from her Home Tree on February 3rd.

The new addition is Gunnhild, aka "Ylgr" (She-Wolf) of the White Wastes.

Model of the Month: Molly Mayhem

Molly is finished and ready to cause chaos on the streets of Night City. My test print came out fairly well but I think it's time for me to change the FEP in my printer and possibly replace the LCD.  I also buggered up the neckline thanks to some dodgy glue, but I'll be reprinting that before photos are taken. 

She is available from January 3rd (or as soon as Patreon is done billing) as a single piece (broken up into the figure, the chair and the base), and as a multi-part set with the option of pre-supported STLs. All are available as SFW and NSFW. I've also included an option for her left arm to not include a cigarette as I know a few aren't too hot on women smoking.

 Please remember that the pre-supported files are experimental. I cannot guarantee perfect results for your printer, I only know that they worked for me on my Phrozen Shuffle with ParaLED 2 upgrade, using Ameralabs AMD3 resin at 2 second exposure time at 30um (for the figure) and 3 second exposure time at 50um (for the base and accessories).  You will need to add your own vent holes before printing with them.

Patreon Goal - 50 Patrons reached (and exceeded)!

I'm continually surprised as my patron count continues to grow each month, slowly creeping up when I least expect it.  Thank you guys so much, you're helping me on my way to realising my goals and you have no idea how much it means to me.

So after reaching 50 Patrons I can now release Theseus to you guys. Theseus is a bust version of what was a much larger project that never quite got finished and with time being what it is, I don't have enough of it to finish the whole thing yet. He comes with a stand and 2 different heads, with and without the helmet.  He also comes pre-supported. As above, the usual disclaimer applies. I can't guarantee the pre-supported STLs will work for your individual set ups. And please remember to add vent holes. He will be available in the content drop January 3rd.

New Goal - 100 Patrons

With 50 Patrons being hit, it's time to add something else. In this case it's going to be a creature I dubbed the Murder Crow. It was previously designed as a character for an independent video game I was working on that didn't go anywhere. The sculpt itself isn't quite finished yet but I'm sure it will be in time for the goal being hit.  For now, here's the concept art I painted for it.

Other Content

As usual the supporting content will be available via the content drop link in the relevant post on January 3rd. The renders and work in progress shots as well as the poll sketches can all be found there in their high resolution forms.

New Year Plans

Sculpting Styles

Previously I commented on the potential themes for my sculptures and following more of a Louis Royo sort of style. While his style is his own and mine is my own, I wanted to incorporate some of what I've come to call "effortless nudity". In his paintings his female (or male) characters frequently appear partially or mostly nude, yet very little attention is drawn to that fact, making the nudity appear natural or effortless, as if it's normal in the worlds his characters occupy.  I think I've taken a step towards that ideal with Gunnhild this month and I'll continue to explore that path and see where it takes me.

2020, the Year of Cyberpunk

What can I say? I love Cyberpunk, not just as a tabletop RPG, or as an upcoming video game from the legendary CD Projekt Red, but as a sub-genre of sci-fi.  I find it both amazing and scary at how close we are to the tropes of this genre becoming reality - and when it comes to the corporate powers controlling governments and people's attention, we're already there. While I doubt I'll be getting my Kiroshi eye augments or Mantis Blades this year, I will most definitely be paying tribute to the release of Cyberpunk 2077 this April.

I had previously worked on an early version of Molly that was intended to be a large format statue that, unfortunately, didn't really work out. I was fighting with 2 bad batches of Fun To Do resin and a model scale that was far too large at a time where I didn't really understand my (then) new printer.  However, I can't let the release of the only game I've been looking forward to for the last several years go without some tribute. The plan is to re-work this model at my usual scale of 1:10, re-engineer the parts that didn't work well and release it to you guys as a bonus for the month of April.

And As Always...

...a massive thank you to everyone, to all who have been here from the start, and to all my new patrons. Thanks for your support and I hope your 2020 is awesome!