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No recasters allowed!

It´s funny how some people like to make some easy bucks just copying other artists´ work. And they´re not only from Asia, down here in Brazil unfortunately it´s a growing thing, like fucking cancer. I see these people making some considerable money off recasts of pieces like Randy Bowen and other sculptors. I only wish these kind of people would know how much effort it takes to come up with an original sculpt, how long a sculptor can take to sculpt a full 8 or 12 inches statue, then revise them, sometimes tweak them, make molds, make resin casts and painting masters just for approvals. It´s a work of months for some pieces and there´re those like in many other fields who just make it simple, by buying originals (or not) from internet, then buying some silicone rubber and start molding them and casting into resin copies, and not to mention THE POOR quality paint jobs using automotive paints with the excuse of being cheaper than acrylic paints (give me a break, if you want to make money of somebody´s work at least buy decent materials), and some of the paintjobs even a 5 year old kid could do better.

And the worst of all is that the same people who says something like "Hey your resin kit is way too freaking expensive, I will take it for 50 bucks if you want!" are the same people that end up paying 200 bucks for a RECAST and support those rats.

It´s sad but true. How do I know? It happened to me a few times.

But I do not support recasters nor you will see these kind of people here in my website.
So if you´re a recaster dont ask me to link your site here. Get Real!!

Adding some colors to clay

Hi there,

Andre here, I just wanted to show you something really cool. See the images above? Let me tell ya, a good friend of mine Javier or Javy A.K.A. "MiamiLoco" was so damn cool and did something really awesome for me as a favor... He added some digital colors with the help of the almighty Photoshop® to my Justice Lords´ Hawkgirl sculpt.
It is really cool to see what the final painted sculpt will look like, even before been molded and cast in resin.
So on the left side is the original Castilene green color and on the right the digitally painted Hawkgirl, really cool huh?

I would like to send a BIG THANKS to my good fella Javy!! You´re da man!! ^_^

Not the Govenah!

Hi,
Just wanted to share with you a new head I´ve sculpted in an attempt to capture a famous movie character/actor likeness to make a full body sculpt. I aint gonna tell who is supposed to be, you will have to guess, only this way I will know if I´m on right path with this new project... the head is not finished yet, I need to tweak it here and there, well I hope you like it so far. :)


Thanks for looking.

Itsy bitsy spider...

Damn, it has been quite a while since I´ve posted anything. eh. Well, nothing really much to show as of now, as I´m still working on the "Bandeirantes" commission work, and yet looking for a new job, not to mention so many things happened within the last month. I dunno just feel too exhausted physically and mentally, but I´m working hard, as always pushing my own limits.

Anyways, I just wanted to tease you with a little image of something I´ve been working on...Still not ready to give you full images of this piece, so I give you a little teaser which I like to call it...'itsy bitsy spider'...
Now you try to figure it out what this could be. C´mon how hard can it be?


Thanks for looking.
-Andre

54mm 'Bandeirante' miniature

This is my first historical sculpt, it´s a private commission work I´ve started on Friday night for a collector, it´s a 54mm Bandeirante expeditioner. I´ve taken about 8 hours to sculpt this miniature, and it will be the first of a set of 12 figures, being 6 Bandeirantes and 6 Indians. The weapons like rifle, pistol, and knife will be added later as they´re arriving from U.S.

To know more about the Bandeirantes and their history, click on the link below...

http://www.v-brazil.com/information/history/bandeirantes.html


P.S. Although this is sculpt was hella fun to do and a HUGE challenge to sculpt is such small scale, (even smaller than my Rocketeer), I gotta admit that I´m afraid that I´m going to get blind by the end of this work. lol

-Andre

'Helloween Jack' completed.

Halloween´s Grim Reaper is finally completed. Hopefully this
sculpt will become a kit, still pending authorization by the character´s creator. If I get the ok, then this statue will be produced in a very limited run. My plan is to start molding Jack this month and have him ready by March, I just hope I can find some time to mold, cast and paint him, as I´m working on another sculpts.



Thanks for your time. Hope you like it.
-Andre

P.S. You know what? at the begining I wasn´t too confident about this project, because I wasn´t sure how it would turn out, but right now at the end I really dig this mofo. I think it´s a really cool Halloween piece.

"How do I look?"

"Like a hood ornament." This is just a small sculpture I´m doing for practicing, I picked up Rocketeer, because it happens to be one of my favorite movies from the 90´s. This little flying hero, stands around 3,5" tall and I´m sculpting into 3 parts, base stand, rocket pack and Rocketeer. I´m currently detailing the rocket pack and I will have more pictures later. Thanks for looking.