I’m already a big fan of Jonathan Kuriscak’s skills at customizing action figures, but his scratch-built Nautilus is phenomenal. Straight from Johnathan:
The Nautilus, Captain Nemo’s Submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was scratch built from various materials. At 38 inches long, glass port windows, and with over 5,000 hand laid rivets this build was a large undertaking!
Tai Hake works upstairs from MAKE, and I’m always happy when he comes down and shows me his latest Warhammer 40K creations. I thought I’d share his latest one, which is the most detailed one I’ve seen him create. What’s unique about his tanks is that they’re made of scavenged hard drive cases. This one in particular is a Plague Marines Chaos Rhino.
Our favorite action-figure sculptor, Scott Hensey, talks about the toy sculpting wax that he uses.
Toy sculptor Scott Hensey in our new video series, “Make: Believe.”
For the second installment in our new series, MAKE: Believe, we visited model maker Fon Davis who has had his fingers in tiny landscapes that have become our favorite big screen worlds.
Tune in to MAKE’s new series about the people who bring fantasy to life. We will spotlight miniature-making, sculpting, molding, figure-modding, latex mask-making, and much more with tutorials, interviews, reviews, and good stories.
http://www.stage.makezine.com/go/believe
Fon Davis has been working for over two decades in tv and film, creating amazing miniatures, models, production design, drafting, fabrication, and more recently writing and directing. Fon is the creator and a co-writer on MORAV and Lee’s Chinese Robot Shop.
Fon’s first feature film work was Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Since then, he has worked on over 30 feature films including blockbusters like Starship Troopers, Pearl Harbor, and the Star Wars and Matrix series.
http://foncocreative.net/
Lex Rudd walked us through how she designs lifelike puppes, fabrication techniques, including early sculpture, pattern making, molding, casting, prototypes, raw materials, and finished products.
Give a gander at Lex’s website www.alexisrudd.com for some of her other works.
More about Make: Believe: stage.makezine.com/go/believe
