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Finished sanding and priming all 14 pieces for this 3" Hawthorn the Adventurer figure, and also made a couple more faceplates with different expressions.

Tedious work but satisfying to see it all fit together.

Finally on to moldmaking then~

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Spring showers and a busy bee.

Took this video a couple years ago and had it sitting in drafts since then. Since rhododendrons are blooming now, thought I'd finally post it.

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Made a cold cast bronze casting of my Adventurer Dahlia Knight and let Lumecluster make a patina experiment out of it.

Love the result. It's so crunchy 😆

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Stumbling through the work day.

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Needed a more efficient way to paint my Hawthorn figures, so I cut up the model into a number of parts and will be making molds of them after some more cleanup.

Having so many separate parts will make it easier to paint or cast in various resin colors 🤔

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Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you :)

233/365 | #964

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Various Knight Blooms throughout the years. New colorways coming soon✨️

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The items I designed for Lumecluster are now available as Gift bundles 📚🔖📑📖

Lumecluster.com

Bundles include a mix of metal bookmarks/stickers/pins.

Gold Tones Gift Bundle ✨️: For those who enjoy the warm and radiant glow of golden hues.

Silver Tones Gift Bundle 🌌: For those drawn to the cool and tranquil calm of silver hues.

Harmony Gift Bundle 🎶: This is a tribute to the beauty of many coming together to work in harmony—much like a piano's hundreds of parts working together to create beautiful music.

Adventurer Gift Bundle ⚔️: For those who need a little light armor and steadfast companions for their next adventure. (I am partial to this bundle because the little Berry Adventurers are in here 😆).

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As I finish painting the other Berry Adventurer characters, just wanted to let you all know that I have washi stickers of each character in my shop. They're kind of a translucent paper material that can be unstuck if needed, a bit like masking tape. Perfect for journals 📖

Ngfiona.bigcartel.com

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Painting Goji the grumpy adventurer 😠. The Berry Adventurers started out as an offshoot of my Grogu sculpt from a few years ago. At that time, I had used that Grogu sculpt to make some red panda versions.

Though Hawthorn and Juniper are the main Berry Adventurers, I had to make a red panda version as a callback to those previous versions.

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Posted this 10 years ago today. How time flies 😣.

I had so much fun making custom toys of people's @guildwars2 characters back then. I'd love to make more, but I don't think I have the time or patience anymore.

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I don’t often post WIP photos of my customs on this blog, but I really liked the distinct black and white sections in this one…hehe. She’s all primed up and ready for paint. Already started on the hands.

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Prototyping some new designs to complement the Hawthorn pendant/sculpture 🌸 for the future Wonderlands Collection with Lumecluster

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After the previous post, here's one where synthetic human has its face on (and it has a little Lumecluster mask)

Orignally posted: February 13, 2017

Figure:

1/6th Scale 1000Toys | TOA Heavy Industries | Synthetic Human | Released in 2016 (2nd run)

See other pages from my Toy Photography Photobook

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Seems I went on a K2 tangent, so let's go back to Synthetic Human.

Here's one of my fav photos of this figure. Apart from its removable face (plate?), I just love the hands it comes with. Simple and graceful, which makes posing it so versatile.

It's also my go-to Halloween pic.

I made a follow-up photo to this one HERE, but didn't include it in the book. It had a type of creepiness I didn't really like.

Orignally posted: October 31, 2017

Figure:

1/6th Scale 1000Toys | TOA Heavy Industries | Synthetic Human | Released in 2016 (2nd run)

See other pages from my Toy Photography Photobook

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A variant of the WIP Hawthorn pendant where Hawthorn's just sitting and staring and. contemplating life 😐. It's also smaller and switches out the teapot with an apple and the gourd with a...gourd-shaped vase.

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100 Pumpkin Knights 🎃

What started off as a few customs salvaged from failed castings turned into an interesting project over a couple years.

I've lost count of how many I've made in total now, but these were the 100 that had similar enough photos to go in this video 😆.

Last year, people were pretty receptive to the keepsake box versions, so they might be coming back later this year (there are still some non-keepsake versions in the shop: Ngfiona.bigcartel.com)

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Final K2 photo in the photobook

Orignally posted: December 31, 2017

Figure:

1/12th Scale Hasbro The Black Series | Star Wars: Rogue One | K-2SO | Released in 2016

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