Glyan Squad Verihex

Painted up a whole squad of Glyans.  The base color is MK Green Tea Metallic.  I adore the color, and these guys finished off a bottle.  They're highlighted with MK Clover, Eggplant Metallic, and Kissed Pink.  Green pearl and gloss clearcoat gives them a nifty finish.

Lot F Gallery - In Living Kolor

My name in lights!  Well, first name.  On a website.

Sounds like In Living Kolor Boston was a big success!  All the pieces from tghe show are up in the Lot F store.  Including mine, right up at the top.  I'd be grateful if you bought one, or two.  Or more.

It's a Store!

See the Navigation Bar up top?  There's a link to a new page: The Store!  I've added some of my custom toy projects for your buying pleasure!  Just the Glyos Dice Heads that I've been flogging for a while, but I will have more up later.

The remaining Dice Heads are only $15 each, shipped.  That's cheap!

The Alter-Spacemen

I'm still loving the Outer Spacemen from Four Horsemen Studios and Mel Birnkrant.  The sculpts are fantastic, the packaging is retro-brilliant (and reusable!), and the line has excellent vintage provenance.  I finished up Xodiac to complete my custom take on them last week.  Messed up his helmet though, and am waiting on another set to replace it.  The new sclupts in Waves 3 and 4 should be due soon as well.

These are heading to In Living Kolor Boston for the Monster Kolor show at the Lot F gallery. Couple more pics after the jump:

Starguts Armodoc Mk. II

I continue to stuff strings of LEDs in clear Glyos toys.  This one is a little more ambitious then the last, featuring lots of masked off stars.  Monster Kolor comes in to make sure he looks as good with the lights off. More after the jump.

Recent Glyos Customs

Glyos figures continue to be my favorite custom toy canvas.  See the slideshow above for my latest.  All painted with Monster Kolor.  The Armodoc is probably my favorite.  Black and Charcoal metallic, highlighted with orange pearl, Moondust Silver, and Lemonade Yellow.  Red details on the eyes were hand brushed.  I started customizing it with acrylic paints, and it languished due to my inability to get a solid, brushstroke-free coat of paint on it.  Post-airbrush, I just needed a good concept, and it was done in 24 hours.

Custom Glyos: Aether Explorers

This Pheyden and his research team have spent to much time exploring The Edge of Space, and now their very physical existence has become fragile and ethereal!  These will be posted for sale on the October Toys Glyos boards, $25 + Shipping each.  Full writeup and more pictures after the jump.

Custom Glyos: The Electric Light Delphi

The Electric Light Delphi.

It's much easier to blog when I have interesting things to talk about, for example, the Electric Light Delphi, pictured above.  It's my latest and greatest custom Glyos toy.  Build details and overlong write-up after the jump.

Custom Toys for sale!

SALE! I dropped the price to $15, and I'll ship free!  Also refunded anyone who purchased at the $25+ shipping price.

I put some of my custom toys up for sale at the October toys forum.  $25 each, plus shipping.  The dice are from Gamescience, and the bodies are Onell Design Glyos Glow-in-the-dark buildmen.  Painted with acrylics, and coated with Monster Kolor Pearls and Ultragloss.  They really shine!

If you want one, send an email to sjlongmire at juno dot com.

Glyos Custom: The Light Rig

Matt Doughty continues to consistently release awesome figures in his Glyos series.  One of the last waves included a clear-vinyl rig, that just begged to be lit up.  So I obliged:

Glyos Customs: Dice Heads

Some day, I will learn how to take a good picture.

For some reason, I like dice.  I don't play RPG's, which multi-sided dice are most commonly associated with, but I lurv the little jewel-like dice produced for RPGs and Strategy Gaming.

I also lurv Glyos!  So I combined them!  Glow-in-the-dark Zocchi GameScience dice, painted with Tamiya Clear paint, and with a custom peg added.  They still glow!

I'm zany! Which results in creativity.

Trek? Trek! Toys? Toys!

Trekathalon resumes today, I had a hard time getting the exact right screengrab for the second half of The Menagerie.  It doesn't really matter, but it was enough to completely derail my efforts.

Work has also been incredibly busy, but yay, I still have a job!

Despite being rather broke, I still spend money.  And on completely useless things!  Like these lovely customs from Onell Design:

Mini-Pheyos, and Vegibrain Trooper

I made this!

Norman

Well, some of it anyway.  The base figure is an Onell Design Glyos Founder.  I sculpted the head, hands, and feet from Sculpy Primo.  The paint job is a mix of spray enamel and acrylics.

It's got it's messy bits, but I'm very happy with it, and I think the figure's recepient was too, as this was part of the 2010 Glyos Exchange (they called it secret santa, but I don't celebrate christmas. Also, most of the exchange figures won't be shipped until after the holiday anyway).

The design is a sort of hybrid between the Dr. Who Mondas Cybermen, and their White Robot servants.

Glyos Customs are Fun!

Custom Crayboth, Retnox, the Dice Heads, and Regent Phanost

I've been smitten with Onell Designs Glyos figures.  The concept is an open source toyline, inspired by 70's and 80's classics like Micronauts.  They're fantastic fun, reconfigurable, and made with a great deal of care and imagination.  The community also encourages customization.  I've always been artistically inclined, and these are a great way to work on something creative when one is low on space or funds.