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

[SilentSurfer]

So, I take it he did the head sculpt.

 

[SilentSurfer]

I've got a couples of his custom head sculpts in my commissions queue to be painted.

 

[SwedishHeat]

Kato worked on this too??

Man, Sideshow's just hiring everybody from the Customs forums, eh?? Probably a lot safer than Craig's List.

 

[stshammgod]

On the table today: Trevor's River Tam

YESSSS! Can't wait to see it!

 

[MarfMaster]

On the table today: Trevor's River Tam

Cant wait to see that!

I've got a couples of his custom head sculpts in my commissions queue to be painted.

Or those

Kato worked on this too??

Man, Sideshow's just hiring everybody from the Customs forums, eh?? Probably a lot safer than Craig's List.

Seriously It's pretty awesome that we are able to have some of the team that creates Sideshow's prototypes available to help with our most wanted unlicensed 1/6 projects

 

[stshammgod]

Unlicensed? These guys DO have a license.... to thrill....

 

[SwedishHeat]

I'm laughing that people are hating on the pleather jacket and (presumably) Kato made it.

Oh well, nobody's hating on the paint, so good on ya' SS!!

 

[SilentSurfer]

Thanks Heat. Granted, it wasn't the most challenging piece I've done. It was cool to paint it though. I never could have imagine back in Jr. High that I would one day take part in making the newest, coolest versions of one of my favorite toys. It's just

Kato worked on this too??

Is Kevin Ellis Kato?!!! What a trip. I see him when I go to Sideshow. I had no idea.

Seriously It's pretty awesome that we are able to have some of the team that creates Sideshow's prototypes available to help with our most wanted unlicensed 1/6 projects

It's pretty awesome to be able to do both at the same time. It's a job, a hobby, and a lifestyle. What more can you ask for?

Unlicensed? These guys DO have a license.... to thrill....

You know it, baby.

 

[LordAzrael]

SS said he thought it was based on Rutger Hauer. I think it looks like a blonde Starkiller.

I actually thought he looked a bit like 80's Dolph lundgren.....

 

[LordAzrael]

YESSSS! Can't wait to see it!

You and me both ;-)

 

[Kevin Ellis]

Is Kevin Ellis Kato?!!! What a trip. I see him when I go to Sideshow. I had no idea.

Let me jump in here before this rumor spreads like wildfire. While I am more than flattered at the thought of this, Kato and I are indeed two different people. To say that he and I are the same person would diminish his contribution to the piece. Kato is an extremely talented artist. We have been very fortunate to work with him, and i would hate to take any due credit away from him.

 

[paulcarson]

Some time ago, I got a nice deal from Sideshow on a distressed packaging Elvira PF. It was originally missing the dagger as well, but that wasn't known when they sold it.

Sideshow did hook me up with a dagger though, and I finally got around to enhancing the paint with Alclad II metallics and some translucent colors.

I'm letting the paint set some before I stick it in her belt. I'd hate to find out one day that the paint glued itself in.

I still need to figure out what to have her hold. I've been given some good ideas, but I'm still waiting for the one that hits the spot.

Given your love for Friday the 13th I'd go with a hockey mask.

 

[SilentSurfer]

You mean, like this!

Well, maybe I will make her one of her own then. In that line of thinking, a Freddy glove might also be cool (for her to be holding, not wearing...but then again).

I actually thought he looked a bit like 80's Dolph lundgren.....

That was actually my first impression when I got it to paint.

Let me jump in here before this rumor spreads like wildfire. While I am more than flattered at the thought of this, Kato and I are indeed two different people. To say that he and I are the same person would diminish his contribution to the piece. Kato is an extremely talented artist. We have been very fortunate to work with him, and i would hate to take any due credit away from him.

Thanks, Kevin. So, I'm guess people meant Cheng then? Crazy coicidence on the last name.

 

[Buttmunch]

Her wearing a Freddy glove would be awesome!

 

[paulcarson]

Yes! Exactly like that !

 

[SilentSurfer]

Or...her wearing a Freddy glove with a Jason mask hanging off of it!!!


Overkill?


No, it's cool.


Great! Now if have to make a custom 1/4 Freddy-gloved hand for my Elvira.

 

[paulcarson]

Can't wait to see that !

 

[SilentSurfer]

Another gorram headsculpts by Trevor Grove. I loved painting these. Thanks Trevor.

Summer Glau as River Tam in Firefly/Serenity. Shiny!

 

[MarfMaster]

Holy....

 

[Trevolver]

You truly brought more to that sculpt than is in it. She's SO hard to sculpt, but that feels just like her. Awesome!!
Trev