Video Projects

OK, I'm still working on pics from DragonCon 2010, so at some point I'll finish that and post them. I still haven't rolled a dice in anger in months, so no new gaming news to speak of. But I've gotten the movie making bug again, so to go with that I've posted up some older projects.

First up is this piece, shot at DragonCon 2005. I never really finished it, but now its done, because I say so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cWqBHQwV4


Next, Star Wars Shrapnel, a collection of lost and deleted footage from the classic trilogy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBnHumK5KgI

New Guns!

OK, new guns!
Well, they were new guns back in August, but I never got around to posting them...

So, I came up with a new, totally top secret way to put a nice fake wood pattern on repainted plastic toys. I like it, and I kinda just took it and ran with it... so here's the heat the wife and I were packin' at DragonCon:

We'll go ahead and start with the Lady's pistol. Now, there's a joke behind this. Lots of girls tote around little stuffed dragons and the like at cons, but that's just not oddball enough for Celeste so she got her self a duck. I took one look at it, and knew what gun she needed to carry:


I made the holster, too, with scrap leather and pop rivets. This was the first one I made (I'm going to post some more holsters shortly) and I had a lot of fun working with leather.


So here's the gun in close-up. Regrettably, it no longer works, but it broke a long time ago. Its a pretty simple mod, just painted brass, with the fake wood on the frame and some fake leather (I do that with textured spray paint and lots of ink and dry brushing) on the grips. The label text is a dry-rub transfer.



Here's the side arm I had slung on my hip (holster to come, in that other post I was talking about).


Its a small Nerf gun, with lots of extra junk plastic hacked off and lame details smoothed over with putty. The leather grips use the same texture spray/ink/dry-brush trick. I've since removed the metal ring from the back. The gun still shoots little foam darts, 'cause that's what makes Nerf guns fun!


This one isn't steampunk at all, but I did it at the same time, and its a gun, so there. Its really just a paint job, all I did to the original resin cast model was fill in the casting gaps and sand it smooth. The only neat trick I pulled was to air-mix the paint, spraying with two different colors of spray paint, one in each hand, at the same time.


For the same reason John Chriton called his "Wynona," I call mine, "Milla." ;D

DragonCon 2009 -- The Ladies of DragonCon

DragonCon 2009 Posts:
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Thrusday and Friday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Saturday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Sunday and Monday
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk
DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes
DragonCon 2009 - The Ladies of DragonCon

Here we are, at the end of our coverage of DragonCon 2009. As such, I give unto you... the Ladies of DragonCon. (Just like the other posts, right click and view image or save for full-size, and if you want to see the shots that didn't make the cut for the blogpost, check it here, on photobucket.) Now, without further ado...

We'll start with a few lovely ladies I met while hanging out with Photognome:












Show us the pasties!








DragonCon, natural environment of certain breeds of goth hottie:






























Hummmmmm.... Ilsa....


















I love how the dude in the back is trying to not be in my obvious hotty shot.


Elf booty got soul










Yes, you can kinda see it...




Barbarian Booty!


this old guy ain't goin' nowhere






















She comes every year...








Everyone loves a make-out shot


lucky bastard, no one tried to hit me...


Clonetrooper: "Yo!"


So, so tall...






Not bad... just drawn that way


Dawn, the comic with the most skew between popularity of comic and popularity of costume


Clan of the Cave Women...






She was having fun, much like the dude in the back, until the law caught sight of it...








As a child, I watched a lot of Star Trek, and I'd like to think I learned a thing or two from Kirk.


Deal me in.


You can't see it here, but she had lights in her hair




Love the light-up corset
















Love the contacts... and hate that damn yellow tartan! (Actually, that's just 'cause the guy in it was a chode)


















check out the shoes




Another happy customer!




















more spanking...


"Costume" becomes a very loose term by Sunday night...





And, in closing, I think this t-shirt sums up my position perfectly:


Yes, yes they are.