more commissions :)

This time they were for variations of my Dateline inspired Disneyland 55th retro customs, the first having Dumbo, the teacups and Big Thunder Mountain painted on the back..

 

The second featured Space Mountain, The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean on the back.

 

Next up was a version that this time featured Disney California Adventure, it has the Mickey wheel on the front and Tower of Terror and Grizzly River Run on the back

 
 

And the final duo in this commission were two versions of my Sunset over Disneyland custom, in these variations I chose to do a dawn scene and my commissioner asked for them to have one as Disneyland's castle and one as the Magic Kingdom's castle

 

Disneyland                  

  

 

Magic Kingdom               

1" high vinyls!

So a while back I bought one of the Vinylmation necklaces, it was an inch high and it gave me the perfect idea for so many customs. But first I tested making copies of it, the necklace was costly for something so small so I didn't want to loose the original in testing on it. I made a mould of it and here's the first thing I made with it, I painted it purple, then with black around the bats I'd decided to have on it. and to top it off I went back over the bats with glow in the dark paint

 

 The second thing I made with the mould was this poor thing, a messy snowman LOL! He's quite bad, I made him with this fake snow builder/volume paint I had so he's squidgy yet a little stiff because i covered him in fake snow.

I then toyed with making the mould a few more times, I would make several at a time, the ears are so thin that some of them would break on taking them out of the mould, sometimes all three would come out complete and sometimes only one would. I was left at the end of an hours work with nine little vinyls, I had them all lined up in a row base coating them with paint and a thought clicked in my brain, they looked like the seven dwarves! I set two aside and started painting them each to be the dwarves and before long I had them all done, But there was something, no someone missing, Snow White! With her made I think they looked perfect. I still giggle over how I had them finished just as it was announced that Disney were releasing their own set LOL

Grumpy being Grumpy LOL

Evilos Blind Bags 2 submission

My piece for Evilos' Blind bags 2 was my Sunset over Disneyland custom, I took a yellow clear and stained it from red to orange to the base yellow. I got that far and scratched my head as to what I could paint on it before I came up with the idea to paint the silhouette of the Disneyland castle and the partners statue. I almost didn't want to send this one off, I still miss not seeing it on my shelf, someday I will have to remake this version for myself!

Abominable Snowman Mickey Jr

I loved the Abominable Snowman Mickey I made for the winter custom swap and decided to make myself a Jr version and here he is, complete with a little carrot nose and fake snow

100th custom!

A good friend had said way back when I first started making commissioned customs that he wanted to have my 100th custom, so we decided at the time that his VMK custom would be it. But since then, Nat got a job at his local Disney Store and that changed everything, so here we have Nat in his Disney Store uniform, Custom #100 :)

Christmas Custom swap 2011

He's Abominable Mickey Snowman with his little star ready to put up on top of a Christmas tree. I figured some may make a snowman mickey so I switched him up and added snow texture paint to add depth to his head, eyes arms and body (and his little carrot nose! and then after painting I added some fake snow to make him look freshly made hehe.

The lost vinyl pics..

They're out there somewhere, for now this is all I have of one of them.

I think I shall choose to blame myself for the lost pictures, I could have sworn that they were on one of the cameras, I even checked the recycle bin on the computer in case i'd deleted them by accident. I had this one picture on my phone though, thank goodness for having been texting update pics to my friend!