Super Secret Christmas

Since sometime in November I've been working on a secret project that only my household and my father (who gave me a lot of tips and figured it out) knew about. You see about three years ago I wanted to sculpt a miniature Krumm/Nox figure that I could use in board games and such. Part way through the process I realized I didn't have the required binocular/microscopic vision needed to make that happen. So the figure I ended up with was bigger than intended though I still get incredulity from people when they see how small the figure really turned out. He's about two inches tall. I worked on it for a few days after work and when my eyes had finally recovered and stopped crossing on their own Krumm and Nox were finished. I made them out of tinfoil, toothpicks and Super-Sculpy as you can see and there they sat on my shelf. I asked my dad who had recently gotten into casting with silicone and resin if he could help me cast the figure so I could paint them and essentially have a toy but with me living in Fort Lauderdale and him in Orlando it was kind of hard to make that happen.

Jump a few years forward to today and I was at home doing homework and I kept getting a nagging feeling that I was sick of starting projects that never get finished (I started a life sized Nox at one point out of PVC and he was coming a long as best I could without having the right tools to work on him. Also started a real 6" Krumm action figure but only got as far as the head because I was trying to find standard ball joints that I could use to sculpt around.) With small Krumm on my shelf I resolved to finish it finally and cast it even though I had absolutely no idea how and I was dreading the whole time that I was going to ruin my only Krumm figure. I got the websites for Silicone and Resin from my step-mother and Father and along the way I got the idea that maybe I'd give them out as Christmas Presents to friends, family members and one lucky person who happened to do fan art for my comic at around the same time.


And here we are. For scale I added an image of Krumm next to a quarter from three years ago and a few others from when I finished it. I would love to show you pictures of the whole process but my computer felt the need to dump my photos of Krumm half buried in clay, the shots I took of a handful of Noxs and the painting process. So you get kind of an abridged version. You get to see basically the major points of the process. All the figures, from the clay original (with a metal cog from some shoe that I filled in with orange sculpy to make the base) to the white resin cast to the "Limited Eight Figure Run" I did over the holidays. The Nox on the far left was my fiancee's present, the Blue Noxs are an idea I have for later down the road, the two baseless Krumms were for me including "Black Shirt Bonus Comic Krumm" and the Blue one with a special removable Nox Feature.

Each of the other figures I signed on the bases and numbered. Part of me was considering making them all "1 of 8" just so everyone would feel important but I decided not to. There's also my molds in the Cup of Noodles Box (which I'm keeping), the box of unpainted figures and finally the Unsung Hero of all this. The beat up looking Krumm with all the scratched paint and his Nox were actually the first figures to come out of the molds and were the giunea pigs for paint and clear coat and they're actually the ones I tend to carry around in my pocket.

Anyway even when he was just the clay figure I loved having him as an actual thing. I have a lot of toys around my room and it's fun sometimes to put Krumm next to things and see what kind of ideas come up. The Bonus Comic number 6 is actually one idea that came from such a practice. I had a Planet Hulk figure that came with an Annihilus head for the build a figure in the line and I set Krumm next to it and poof. You get the following comic.

http://goggledhero.com/panel_bonus6.php

So in closing:

Merry Christmas to all and next year everyone gets books or movies....

P.S. New comic page is coming I promise...