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Just finished my latest. I started out by taking apart one of these things and using the prism inside it to get a kind of ghostly floating head effect.
https://i.imgur.com/saAguLG.png

 

You can see the effect in this video where I documented my build process. 
https://youtu.be/VPwD2ZhzCr8

 

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It's Chas E Baldwin. I kind of feel like it's the kind of name that works for the time period and setting.

You're absolutely right about the noir influence. I am a huge fan of the genre. That's a big part of why I got into scratch building. It's the only way to get the figures that you really want. 

 

Everything was basically made from in those dioramas is scratch built and of my own design. For the recording studio I wanted to emulate the cover artwork that was seen on the late 50s jazz albums designed by Neil S Fujita and Jim Flora. 

Time Out, and Mingus Ah Um, designed by Fujita was my jumping off point here.  I wanted to just barely reach the point of abstraction where you could tell what all the band members did. I based the lineup of the band on Brubeck's band for the recording of Time Out.

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I just finished building these box dioramas a couple weeks ago.

 

 

 

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Just threw together this Ampex model 300 tape machine using some odds and ends I had laying around. 

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I have sold some prints of photos that I took, but never tried actually selling anything that I've built. I am definitely considering that though.

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Thanks. I started sculpting about a year and a half ago because I began to realize that the figures that were commercially available would never really quite be able to do what I wanted them to do. These were the first two that I sculpted, and I think I've made decent progress since then. 

 

@NightmareOnElmStreetI've been a scale modeler for most of my life, mostly painting figures and vehicles. I took up sculpting because it was the only way to branch out into the subject matter that I wanted to.

 

 

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Well I've already started my next project. I don't want to reveal too much of it yet, but it will be a noir thing. I've sculpted and painted some of the figures. 

 

 

I should finish the whole thing in a month or so, and then it will be on to the next project. 

 

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I got into sculpting figures recently, and decided it was time for me to build a diorama. For this, I decided to build a box diorama of the final scene from the opera Pagliacci. 

Little did I know that sculpting and painting 26 figures would be as time consuming as it was. I had decided the scene would take place in the early 1890s, and this meant doing some research on the fashions of the era. 

 

The final product.

 

This is what the scene looks like without the box around it. 

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I've been building models for a long time, and then one day I got bored and started taking photos of them attacking my brother's cat. This project has evolved over the years and my hobby has reached the point where I have gotten some illustration work out of it.It's been a really fun project that offers all kind of opportunities for experimentation.

 

You can find my work at http://armymenaroundthehouse.ca
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