Patrick-K

I have been working on producing my own pulp sci-fi miniatures game for many years now, and thanks to Kickstarter that is now a reality. All of the new miniatures that have recently been added to my gallery will be available through the Bombshell web store next week along with the rulebook and helpful PDFs. Let me know what you think of the new figures.

Counterblast 

Been away from here for a while. I did add some new pics of one of my recent sculpts for Dark Sword Miniatures.

The big news is I am starting my own line of miniatures featuring strong, iconic female characters. You can see more about is on my blog page for Bombshell Miniatures!

www.bombshellminis.com/

Okay - one, I've been away from here too long. Two, I certainly have a reason to be back! As of August 2009 I was able to launch out and go full time as a freelance self-employed professional sculptor for the tabletop gaming industry. It is something that I had done sporadically as a hobby since about 2005. Since then I had managed to land a handful of clients that I did work for on occasion to make additional income.

After being laid off for six months and then returning to another cubicle situation under severely strict working conditions for half the previous pay I had enough. I lasted there about six months and then quit abruptly with the intent to grow my client base to replace my income. After the first year we were able to tread water, keep the house and the lights on and keep the fridge stocked so it seemed to work okay.

After attending GenCon this year and forging some new working relations along with adding to my clients from online contacts, 2011 seems to be shaping up to be better than last year. As of now I'm already fully booked about four months ahead of schedule. I think I'll really be able to start to feel comfortable when I have a least six months booked at a time.

Anyway, I will be adding more to my gallery here once the pics are signed off from my clients. Enjoy the show!

Okay - I know I haven't posted ianything here in (just) over a year, but that whole movie-project-thing ate up all that time. After finishing the flick and getting it out to the festivals I have been completely devoid of any creative motivation. So, what motivation needs is a little inspiration.

I have been kicking around the idea for future film projects involving high-concept Sci-fi and Steampunk subjects. I figured I'd hit the net again and surf around to see what everyone else has been up to since I'd been emersed in vampire chicks for the last year.

Coming up on September the 5th the layoff from my job begins and I will have six month's severence in which to art and sculpt and write and create, which will hopefully get me back on track. Woohoo! Let's hear it for off-shore outsourcing!!!

After knocking myself out all of June to get stuff ready for the IDEX show it would have been really cool to take some time off and relax. However, I had made the (enthusiastic) mistake of telling my brother-in-law (who is a RenFaire costuming fiend) we could make some Warcaster armor out of fiberglass castings.

So - All of July was spent sculpting the pieces, and all of August has been molding them. We are desperately trying to get it all finished in time for Dragon*Con. So far I have all of the parts sculpted and molded with silicon/plaster molds and will start casting the resin tomorrow.

September will be a complete change of gears (once again). I will be starting an all new project that has been cooking for a long time and will be posting a production diary of the process on the blog site here as well as the production art to my DeviantART gallery. Stay tuned!