SilentSurfer's Laboratory: Come up to the Lab & See What's on the Slab.

[gibby]

Oh, ok, thanks. I was just asking today in that thread if those were still the proto photos. Guess I should have asked you instead.

 

[snakeeyes171]

is the new snake eyes you painted look much better in person.

 

[Niltusk]

After Neyo and now your prot shots, I'm pretty sure what you refer to as easy is just a great talent, because the work oyu do just looks so natural. Way too often BD looks forced or just unnatural in its design or the way its colored.

 

[SilentSurfer]

Thanks Niltusk. To be fair, I have to give credit to the artists at Lucasfilm who created the original battle damage. My talent comes in recreating what I see. But I will go ahead and say I'm really good at that.

is the new snake eyes you painted look much better in person.

Pretty much the same. There really isn't much to him. Shades of black mostly.

 

[MPCanes]

Wow, hearing that Sideshow sits on things for close to two years kind of blows my mind - I guess it makes sense for them from a business standpoint to spread out releases and whatnot, but man that frustrates me as a collector knowing their Batman PF is sitting around, finished, and I still can't pre-order it .

Awesome work on the Droid, Nathan.

 

[SilentSurfer]

I didn't mean they sit on it for 2 years; I meant from original concept to reveal usually takes about 2 years. In the case of the Battle Droids, the proto parts I painted were only paint masters, and were not the finished parts. China did a lot of work on the joints and things to make viable action figures out of them, and then they had to successfully copy my paint apps. That's what took so long from paint to final reveal at Comic Con.

Also, at Comic Con they revealed several variant Droids like pilots and security droids, as well as the brown Geonosis droids which China actually paint prototyped themselves. That all took some time.

And OOM-9 is the third droid related release after the STAP (even though I painted him with the basic droids and before the STAPs), so it makes sense that he is 2 years away from when I actually painted him. I imagine the total project time from concept to reveal was more like 3 or 4 years on the Droids.

But, you are still right to some degree. I know of finished stuff they sit on for up to a year sometimes. They often tease things in production blog videos where you see a sculpt in progress, but the piece is actually finished already.

 

[stshammgod]

Sent you a few emails Nathan, just lmk if you got and/or read em.

 

[SilentSurfer]

I'm pretty sure I got them. Sorry, it's been a crazy hectic few weeks with all the new job deadlines, but I'm at the end of the kickstart assault, and I will be getting back to private commission stuff next week, including replying to emails. Thanks for being patient.

 

[SilentSurfer]

Order up.

 

[stshammgod]

Cool, thanks, just wanted to make sure. that battle droid is a pretty darn good deal, ESP with HT prices lately.

 

[SilentSurfer]

I really didn't expect to be seeing Koto putting this up so soon. I only painted this like a week or two ago. I just heard that the head of Koto said this is the best Hawkeye statue he's ever seen, so...

 

[MarfMaster]

I really didn't expect to be seeing Koto putting this up so soon. I only painted this like a week or two ago. I just heard that the head of Koto said this is the best Hawkeye statue he's ever seen, so...

That makes two of us!

Phenomenal work, Nathan

 

[SilentSurfer]

Thanks, Dane!

 

[stshammgod]

Word! That is awesome and High Praise from the head of Koto!

 

[Entropy]

beautiful work on Hawkeye!

 

[mark7612]

I just heard that the head of Koto said this is the best Hawkeye statue he's ever seen, so...

Congrats man! It's always nice to hear work is appreciated and even better when it comes from the higher ups.

 

[Scarpredatorfan123]

Hey Nathan when you make my custom why not just make a peice of flesh to cover up the damages and just remove the peice a=of flesh plastic when I ant the damaged look to make the damaged none damaged look?

 

[MrRabba]

Hawkeye looks badass buddy, you never fail to impress!

 

[elar]

Really beautiful paint job! You're man!

 

[Ryu]

Awesome work again Nathan!