Quad Stug print arrived today!

I received the 3D print of the Blighter Quad Stug today.  It is insane!  It is so big.  It dwarfs the vert tank.  I took some pics of it next to the scale allied grunt.  I have to get some molds made and start shipping these guys out.  I can't wait to set these guys up in a battle scene.  Now I totally have to make an allied bazooka trooper unit to help take these monsters out.  Let me know what you think.

FYI the legs are separate so that I can cast them independently.  I modeled in a little joint so that the legs can be attached at different angles.  They fit so nicely I just slipped it together for the pics.

New Reference Book

I'm addicted to buying art and reference books and  I just got another called Uniforms of WWI.  It has tons of illustrations and pictures.  I wish there were more photos because sometimes details are lost in the artist's interpretation, but overall it seems like it'll help a great deal with coming up with new Rivet uniforms.  It even has me thinking of the looks for the other nations that are part of the allies and blighters.  I'd also like to do a horse mounted unit and maybe something like that crazy dog towed machine gun.

Rivet Land Battleship/Carrier

I've always been fascinated with land based battleships.  The idea of a GIANT tank that is pretty much just a battleship with tracks sounds so cool.  So I was watching starblazers the other day and that got me sketching some ideas and I decided that Rivet Wars needs one!  Why hadn't I done this before?

So here is a really rough sketch and 3d model.  It's similar to a Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship in that there is a runway so it can handle aircraft as well as a ramp in the stern for deploying troops.  I added some big guns so it also has the firepower of a battleship.  Oh and a giant drill like the sub in Atragon :)  That's so it can go through mountains and obstacles.  It's the Rivet version of a wave motion gun :)  I'll do more design and sketching but I'm digging the feel of the massing and where it's going.  Let me know what you think?

Will I make a toy of this?  Absolutely.  I'll probably make a smaller one to start, like 6" long maybe?  I'd like it to come with a couple tiny planes and vert tanks that you could put on the deck.  Making one to scale with the 55mm vert tanks would be pretty crazy but never say never...

Tattoo avec rivets

There are some rivets in this image so I thought this might be interesting to some Rivet Wars followers :) My friend finally got a tattoo of a piece of art I drew for him.  The tattoo artist did an amazing job capturing all the detail and complexity of the original piece.  I'm pretty honored that someone would permanently ink on their body something that I had sketched.  I'm really glad that it came out so well.  Good stuff.

This is the original sketch.

Vert Tank Cross-Section

This is still a Work in Progress, but I'm really liking how it's coming along.  Tons of rendering and detailing to be done.  It's got the feel of those tank cut-throughs that I love so much.  I'm going to make this into a print and a t-shirt I think.  How cool would it be to build one of these?

Here is the kind of tank cross-section I'm trying to emulate.

and I got my ticket to New York Comic-Con!

Blighter Quad Stug is off to the printers!

I felt like the Stug model was finished up so I sent it off to be printed.  This is a much bigger model than the vert tank.  The legs will be cast as separate parts from the body.  This is allowing all the cool detail that'll appear in the legs.  Can't wait to see a couple vert tanks take on one of these :)

Rivet Wars Painting hanging in the Toybreak studio!

So I was watching episode 183 of Toybreak today and I noticed that there was something familiar hanging on the wall.  Then I realized it was the watercolor that I had sent to George and Ayleen.  How cool is that?!?!  I'm such a fanboy :)  But it just blows me away that my stuff is up there with so many other great pieces. To me that means a lot.  Good stuff.

I had to document this moment.