Don't mess with my Aliens obsession!

Any one who knows me in person knows that I LOVE Aliens. It has been my favorite movie since I was a kid, even with all the nightmares it gave me. This obsession has bled over to modeling and I want to acquire all the old AEF 54mm aliens/marines resin models.  So i've gotten a few off of ebay and I happen to find someone who had some and recast them.  Well I got them and they were not the best casting job to put it kindly.   So I didn't ask for my money back I left neutral feed back which you can see here:

It's not cruel or mean, I just wanted others to know it wasn't the best kit.  But you will notice that the seller decided to insult me as a person. I had my website information connected to my Ebay account  (which i've since removed) and I guess some how he found my facebook account (which isn't suppose to be public "Thanks facebook!")  and he is making a comment based on a joke picture I took while working with some E6000 glue which I'm allergic to.  I usually wear gloves and a respirator when working with it. 

This picture:

I have no fear! Let my freak flag fly high and proud!  I mean how could I not wear a light up mohawk with my respirator?!?! Who runs Barter Town?

By the way you can get the mohawk at Toys R Us near the check out.  You know you want one!

Ok so what could be so bad about the kit that I would leave a neutral feedback for? Well I took some pictures and you can judge for yourself. They are unaltered except to brighten up a few of them, and you can tell me what kind of feedback you would have left. 

Here are those blobs of putty I was talking about, you can even see a finger print in the flamer blob towards the front of the gun. 

Lots of air bubbles, most of them were missing their fingers, and more putty blobs to accentuate his armor.

  Putty Blobs

Let's stick some putty in here and file it down, no one will notice!

 Blobs and filed down again

 Air bubbles in the fingers here.

 This piece isn't too bad ;)

 Oh noes he is missing his toes!

 Who needs their chin and fingers? I know I don't.

 Double mold lines! He didn't bother to clean up the original model before making his mold. So now you get two mold lines for the price of one.  (If it's not clear , these are recasts from originals)

So yeah that is a neutral for me, he shipped fast so I didn't wait long.   I was willing to let it go with just a neutral feedback and not asking for my money back. I'm still not asking for my money back. But I honestly don't believe I deserve to be insulted in my ebay feed back especially by someone who is trying to make a new business and is a Chief Firefighter.  (BamBam Models).  I just don't understand why someone who is there to protect our communities can be that way not just to me but to his other customers who were not happy with his product or service.  Shame on you Sir! You are suppose to be a model citizen.  Shame....

I run my own online business and I'm always kind and work my hardest to make everything right for my customers.  Customers /Fans are what make your business successful and grow, insulting them will not accomplish that.

Artemis - Work in Progress

It's been a while since I've actually posted a work in progress update.  Here is one of the many version of Artemis by Hasslefree miniatures.  I'm painting this girl up for WAMP's HF painting contest.  There is still plenty of time to paint a miniature if you want to enter as well.
So far i've mainly just worked on her skin tone and had just finished added some purples, reds, and pinks to her skin.   Since these pictures I've started in on the NMM pieces so I can come back to the skin later and do touch ups.  I plan on painting a picture onto her shield as it's a large blank canvas and needs something awesome to fill up that space. Also I've already got her base chosen and ready to be painted as well.  Of course you will have to wait for the finished piece to see it.

The Baby Sitter ... or was it Butcher?

Now this is a bit of a funny story, well it's funny / cute to me.  
I've had the Butcher from KD sitting on my desk waiting for inspiration to hit and my boyfriend says to  me "wouldn't it be cool if he was a baby sitter?" implying he would watch demon babies for his friends but never set down his knives, and of course I can see it in my head and the ideas start flowing.  Originally this idea was for another friend but she hasn't picked up her miniatures in a year or more now, so I claimed it as mine and went to work. Of course it took a while to get together the demon babies and playroom goodies.  I was honestly surprised I could find baby room miniature bits. I didn't even use them all.  But Wyrd came through and I ended up using the blocks, rocking horse and magic mirror.  
I thought it would be fun to have them sitting on top of a toy box as a base and picked up one of those little wooden ones from the craft store gave it a good sanding and primed it black. The walls are styrene  because I really didn't want to mess with anything more difficult. In the magic mirror i tried to paint the mirror from sleeping beauty but it didn't turn out as nice as I wanted.  I still like it though. 
Now I don't know how the clowns happened but I think it's because I wanted to paint something festive on the box, just like a normal toy box. They usually have pictures of trains, ballons, clowns and other fun things.  Since this is a demon toy box I went for the scary clown first - Penny wise, and originally there were going to be ballons on the other side but they were just kind of flat. So I painted over them and started in on another clown - Bozo.  I'll apologize to all the clown fearing people out there in advance.   And of course the box says Toys on the front, can't you read it? It's plain as day. ;)
I know most of you are going to say WTF??? when you see this. But that's ok I would probably say the same thing.

  

Winning! 3rd place

So the Freebooter contest on WAMP just finished up a few days ago and I actually received 3rd place.  I'm totally blown away by this since I never win anything on the internet. Of course now I can't say that anymore.  Also Check out the winner I know I voted for it!

Here is my entry incase you missed it. Queen of Shadows from Freebooter Miniatures.

[pimp]Now if you like to paint for the fun of it and enjoy contests WAMP has a few other ones running right now.  The Hasslefree Contest  mostly nekkid girls, and the BaneLegions Contest for those that like big monsters.   They are a lot of fun and it's a great community, you should give it a try! [/pimp]

I will probably enter the Hasslefree contest as I already have one primed up on my work bench waiting for some paint.
I also promise to have an update on my current project very soon!

Big Trouble in Little China Mighty Muggs 2009

Since i'm working on a big project right now and don't have anything to report on it yet, so I figured I would share an older project that I still love.  

I customized these back in 2009 before I started this blog. 

The other day I was looking at them sitting on top of my display case and thought they needed some new pictures and to be shared again. 

Well during my lunch break I dusted them off and stuck them in the light box and took a few pictures. 

They originally started with Jack Burton, I made him for my boyfriend and then I just couldn't stop, I had to make Lo-pan and Gracie.  Anyways I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.