themodelmaker

This is the personal custom munny I made for my best friend. He is an architect and  tenor. He is working hard and making progress so  he will sing in Metropolitan Opera soon. I decided to make his first action figure, long before Mattel
At the moment you can only hear him at shower but I will push him to record some videos for YouTube
Happy 30th birthday Waldek!

I was asked by Vince from 909Toy to customize his new toy, which will be for sale in few hours. I am waiting for box, it should arrive soon. It is going for sale 23,24,25 July from 9.00-11.00 Honk Kong time and in very limited numbers!!! It is going to be a big hit, so I recommend to go to his website: http://www.909toy.com/store/ and get one while it last. First come first served.

Every day it will be only 30 black and white, 10 black-gold and 3 wood for sale.  I expect it will sell in few minutes, judging by the comments on other blogs. The toy is unusually complicated and composed from 56 parts!!!( I love details, I am going to add another 50 parts in my custom ) The production process took 2 years and it finished with success. Another models will be coming so give them your support for all the hard work and great design!

I found this little contest before weekend and decided to test my drawing skills on my dusted cheap Trust tablet. I bought this toy few years ago, but never really used and it was lying on the shelf. Now was the chance to try it. I did this Breinstein, because I am looking on my half sculpted munny sitting on my desk. I wanted to submit another toy for munny munth competition – Einstein in “use of human hair” category. I did this mini munny face sketch while waiting for my 7inches being shipped from kidrobot.com. I didnt make it before deadline, but I will finish it for my own pleasure soon.

The voting process just ended. I am here under this link Thanks for all your support!

I was commissioned by one gentleman to make this custom engagement ring box. His girlfriend and now fiancee is a big fan of movie “Up” and all Disney related. I thought he has a great idea so I crafted it for him. I used the design of my first miniature in scale 1:160. Its modified a little so it opens at the bottom. It is made of cardboard with red fabric inside. The ring on the picture is not an engagement ring, its the biggest ring I could find in my girlfriends drawer just for this presentation. The box was shipped to USA safely and they are already engaged.

I wish you Gennady and Maggie all the best, long and happy life together. Have a great wedding!!!

This beautifull munny was customized by my friend an collegue from my office. Ania is an architect and very tallented designer. This is her first munny and her entry to the munny munth contest. Please vote on her if you like it, she is on this page. She doesn’t have her own website yet so she allowed me to post her work here. She started her deviantart gallery so you can post a comment and encourage her to show more of her works.

UPDATE 15 JULY 2010: Ania’s munny won 3RD place in category: “Best use of accessories”. Congratulations!

It is my first custom munny I made. It was customized before Rocky and Shrek last month. I used mini munny so I couldn’t enter to competition with this one. It is a young  version of Carl from Disney/Pixar movie Up. I sculpted his hat with epoxy putty, added shorts and shoes. Glasses are made of laser cut plywood.  This project started my addiction to toy customization. You can try it yourself!

This is a custom munny I made for kidrobot’s munny competition. I wanted to sculpt a lot with this one. Original toy’s hand reminded me boxing gloves so I started to think about boxing stars. The first thing on my mind was Rocky Balboa, one of the heroes of my childhood I did some research and found this brilliant caricature painted by Sebastian Kruger. I imediatelly saw the Sylwester’s face on munnys head. I needed to extend it verticaly and create huge jaw using munnys ears as a base. It looked like a challenge, so I decided to do it. Here you can see some progress photos.

The body is from 7 inches DIY toy, but the head is taken from  mini munny. All figure measures 25 cm. Its painted with spray paints and airbrushed acrylics.

UPDATE 15 JULY 2010:  This little guy won second place in “best movie event reenactment” category at Munny Munth Contest !!! Thanks for all who voters, supporters and contestants. You chan check other winning entries here

I played a little with munny customization. This is second mini munny I customized. Its 4 inches tall. I used DIY canvas toy from Kidrobot’s mini munny series – Bub. His body looked like shrek  right from the beginning. I just cut his ears and add nose chin and new ears so it looks more like shrek from dreamwork’s animation. Its painted with montana sprays and acrylics.  It was great fun making it. I became addicted to customization and ordered 8 more munnys, so few more toys will follow.

Finished sculpt of Ellie from Disney/Pixar animation Up to fit the dollhouse. She is going for adventures with Carl and Russell in their flying house. My alternative happy ending

This is second character I sculpted to fit the 1:48 dollhouse I made before. He is made of epoxy putty and painted with acrylics. He is 28mm tall. I used Hot Toys figure as reference, but I am not planning to make his rucksack, he wouldnt be able to stand on his legs then. My next figurine is Ellie. She is already sculpted and waiting for colours, I will post it in few days so visit soon