Origami Grasshopper

This is an origami grasshopper of my own design. Following the most basic of rules, this grasshopper was constructed from one square with no cuts or gluing done. I am working to make a version with antennae. As you can see, it does not like to stay flat.

Scratchbuilt Anti-Tank Gun

This one took a while to make. I worked on it on and off for about five months before I finally called it complete. I first built the main gun then could not decide how to tackle the rest of it. It is completely scratchbuilt from paper and was colored with a mixture of acrylic paints and a metallic sharpie. The wheels were the largest obstacle as I could not make something that I was satisfied with until I decided to make them spoked. The wheels can spin and the bracing legs can be adjusted. Once again, the lego brick is included for scale.

Panhard AMD-35 Paper model

A 1/72 scale paper model of a Panhard AMD-35 that I made a few years back. The plans were downloaded from a Japanese website that I have long lost the link to. It came in black and white so I painted it with watercolor paints. The base was made by mixing dirt and debris with white glue and spreading it out on aluminum foil. Due to the foil being a non porous surface, the glue is easily removed. I spent a total of about 4 hours on this from start to finish.

Kamen Rider Ichigo

Kamen rider is a long running franchise in Japan in a similar vein to Power rangers in the US. This was basically a proof of concept piece seeing how well I could make fabric textures in the scale. It was sculpted from terra cotta color milliput and painted with testors enamels. A total of five to six hours spread over three days were needed for the sculpting work. No armature was used, a mistake I will not make again.

Kamen Rider (C) Ishinomori Pro

Laputa Robot

By far one of my smallest sculpted pieces, this is a recreation of the robot from Hayao Miyazaki's film Laputa. It is made from terracotta colored milliput sculpting putty formed around an armature made of staples and painted with a mixture of testors enamel model paints. A total of around five hours were spent on this piece. The lego brick is included for scale.

Laputa (C) Hayao Miyazaki

First Post

This blog will basically be a catalog of some of my works and maybe serve as a portfolio if/when I need it. Now that that's out of the way the next posts will be filled with pictures so get ready!