February UFO Sightings in the Workshop

 I've been getting way behind on bloggage again.  As usual it's because I'm completely buried under an avalanche of UnFinished Objects in the workshop.

So in order to give you an idea of what I've been working on (instead of sitting down and actually writing anything worthwhile) here's the latest round-up of works in progress...

First up, there's this pair of alien taxidermy mounts that I've decided to dust off and drag toward the finish line:

The Xenomorph head is a leftover from Jazmine's magic wheelchair project (LINK) which we built years ago.  I've been wanting to mount it on the wall ever since, but hadn't gotten around to finalizing the sculpt for the neck and shoulders.  

The massiff was a 3D sculpt by Sean Fields that I printed and molded years ago, but it was overcome by events and I never got around to sculpting out the mouth parts to go inside.

Now both of these are going to get finished pretty darned quick.

While my 3D printers were sitting idle, I decided to have one of them turn out a Gungan skull:

This has started me on a kick making all manner of alien skulls.  More on that later.

Next up, I decided to dust off my giant pet bee project and tune up the parts for molding:

Banana for scale, but I ate it.

On the subject of completely random projects, I decided to make a 1/12th scale model of the MkII PBR (Patrol Boat, River) like the US Navy used in the Mekong Delta in the Veitnam war:

This is the same kind of boat that was made famous again in the movie Apocalypse Now.  I'm not sure what prompted me to start this project, but I'm at the point where I need to install jet drives and radio control gear and it'll be ready for sea trials before I finish all of the armaments and details.

Getting back into my usual cosplay lane, there's this beauty:


This is the Horde emblem worn by the forces of Hordak, the villain from She-Ra.  His top lieutenant was Shadow Weaver who wore this emblem on the front of her belt.  So now it's up to Rachel to get the rest of the outfit together:

Also on the subject of cosplay projects, I'm nearing completion on my Warhammer 40K Techpriest build:

The collar and backpack are fiberglass since they'll have a lot of other parts mounted to them.  That said, my first raw cast copy of the backpack weighs about twice as much as I was aiming for:


So the second copy will probably come in around six pounds or so.

Speaking of changing the subject, I was thinking of other ways to get more out of the little alien vagrants I brought to Neotropolis last year (LINK).  So I decided that I needed to scan their parts and print them in miniature:


The heads and hands will be grafted onto some tiny dolls I stocked up on:


I've been approved as a vendor for Neotropolis, an upcoming cyberpunk-themed immersive event down in the Mojave desert.  So I'll be opening an alien pet store and now I need hurry up and generate a whole bunch of little alien critter props to sell on site:


We've launched a Kickstarter campaign to cover the initial material costs (LINK)

And I'm making new pests to hunt down as an exterminator once we get there:


Stay tuned for more on that.