Sunday, October 20, 2024

Friday, October 18, 2024

MORE WRESTLERS: Swerve Strickland


Some of the figures on my wrestling Wish List got down to a price point I’m comfortable with, including Swerve Strickland1

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Saturday, September 28, 2024

SEPT PILE OF LOOT: Bossk!




 FIVE DOWN, ONE TO GO.

ACQUISITIONS/PHOTOS: Catchup Post!

 


Blogger appears to have fixed the fuckery that kept me from uploading photos under iPadOS 18, so let’s talk about what I couldn’t post except on Instagram, newest to oldest.

Saturday, September 14, 2024

RECRETIONS: London Ladders, Pagehausen


 Had the house to myself during Labor Day week, so I set up the big photo box and set some stuff up.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

IMPULSE BUY: Brian Cage


 Around All IN weekend, I was comparing the current AEW roster to my figure roster and marveling at how much roster churn competes with the time it takes to put a figure out. And remembered I didn’t have a Brian Cage.

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

IMPULSE BUY: Full Gear MJF/Moxley Two Pack (feat. The Crowd)

 


OK, i sort of spent $20 on a robe.

I’d seen this Full Gear-themed 2-pack of Robed MJF and Jon Moxley in Target for a couple of weeks, not really knowing the price, seeing $19.99 shelf tags around it, but thinking they couldn’t possibly be selling a two-pack of normally $19.99 figures for twenty bucks, right? Well, they were. And I didn’t have MJF’s robe, and I didn’t have Jon Moxley due to relative apathy, so…

The MJF also has a more beardy, more smirky head, which is nice. The Mox is fine, although facial and head-hair wise he hasn’t looked like this for a while. But he does have the BCC sweatshirt, which I can technically use on two other figures as long as I don’t show the back where it’s Mox-specific. So, yeah, for twenty bucks, I got, in order of preference, an MJF robe, an MJF head, a BCC sweatshirt, a Mox figure, an MJF figure, and two more microphones. Not a bad deal.

This also features my first attempt at using the Arena (photo box with real scale ring) and The Crowd to form a single picture, and while I’m still working out some details and techniques, I ain’t mad at how it turned out.

Monday, September 2, 2024

PROJECTS: “The Crowd” Part 1”


I’ve been working on this, on and off, for over three months.

The Crowd: a stadium crowd built out of Normie Squad action figures. Barricades, figures shot in folding chairs in groups of five, all painstakingly assembled into a 16000 pixel by 12000 pixel Affinity Photo document.

It was going to be bigger. My original plan was closer to 30K by 15K pixels, featured two sets of stairs, and… it broke. I had so many layers and so much going on that my document screamed for help. Probably spent the better part of a month trying to solve or avoid the problem before settling on scaling back.

What you see above is a shrunken version, but the idea is I can take chunks of it as need be and have hi-res sections of it at my disposal for whatever I need. And as you’ll see now, it works good. Too good.

It works so good I want more. I want to figure out how to do the other parts of a wrestling crowd - mainly the sides and he people facing the ring on the hard cam side. Which means digging all the Normies out from the bins they got re-relegated to after the first shots were done in June. That’s gonnna take a while.

 
 

Friday, August 30, 2024

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

ACQUISITIONS: Evil-Lyn and Two-Bad


Some more fun with Masters of the Universe Cartoon Collection, as the Pile of Loot with my Evil-Lyn pre-order arrived the same day as the Mattel Creations SDCC Two-Bad.

Friday, August 9, 2024

RECREATION: “Particularly Harrowing Memory”


At this point, I’m doing enough moment / scene re-creations that they should be their own separate thing.

Thursday, August 8, 2024

AT LONG LAST PRE-ORDER: Scarlet Spider!


 OK, we’re doing these a little out of order, technically, but since Hasbro just dropped a whole new wave of Adcross The Spider-Verse figures for pre-order, and I grabbed three of them and may be in for one or two more down the road, and now I don’t have to be tempted by the $90 Bandai Pavitr Prabhakar, let’s go with the Technically Not An Across The Spider-Verse Marvel Legend of Scarlet Spider!

Friday, August 2, 2024

All Art Is Political


When Hulk Hogan spoke at the Republican National Convention, I knew I needed to buy me an Iron Sheik.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

FIG PHOTO: “Bro time!”


OK! This is the last thing I have ready to go for the time being. Nothing new coming in the door for a bit, and it’s gonna be about a week before I’m in a position to start any new pics. I do have a project in progress, but it’s stupd complicated and stupid fussy and is producing something to be used in other pics down the line. So let’s go out on a deeply ridiculous note.

Monday, July 8, 2024

JUNE WAS WRESTLING MONTH FINALE: TIGHTEST TITS IN THE GAME

 

Been a long road. Seventeen wrestling figures acquired during June. Technically a five week period starting the last week of May, but that was just one guy and it’s June enough. And we end with the final release, the figure that kept my four-figure preorder waiting until mid-June, the best smile in the biz, the tightest tits in the game, “All Ego” Ethan Page.

Sunday, July 7, 2024

JUNE WAS WRESTLING MONTH: Wheeler Yuta


Almost done! One more acquisition post and one more fig photo post and then I’m caught up, with time to spare before a Gamestop preorder hits my stoop. Wheeler Yuta!

Saturday, July 6, 2024

JUNE WAs wRESTLING MONTH: Honoring The House

The last shipment of June was an older batch of orders/preorders from ringside, including, finally, Buddy Matthews and Brody King.

Friday, July 5, 2024

FIGURE PHOTO: “Danhausen And The Danhausens”


 So, I have four Danhausen figures. Three of these Danhausen figures have capes. To me, this added up to 60’s singing group, because, well, that’s how my brain works. And so, the work began.

Monday, July 1, 2024

FIG PHOTO: “Sea Men” or “High Three!”


Had two underwater guys, wanted to see if I could pose them swimming at each other. Turns out I could!

Just a bit of fun with tridents. Are they fighting each other? Are they smacking tridents for fun? Is it a weird sex thing? I leave it to you, the consumer of art!

Sunday, June 30, 2024

JUNE PILE OF LOOT FINALE: Super Action Stuff Effects

 

Since it’s the end of June, I should probably post the last thing from the June Pile of Loot, which took me a while to be able to photograph. It’s an accessory pack from Super Action Stuff that went on sale in a BigBadToyStore /daily Deal so I got it for cheap. Super Action Stuff are the people that made those arcade machines full of fun accessories I got earlier this year.

Anyway, the guns, swords, knives, and head are all from my Joe Classified accessories bag, but everything else - all the firing effects, the blood swipes, the blood splatter, the rocket, the lightning, etc. are what came with the pack.

A lot of the fire effects have holes and pegs and such but I don’t know what thye’re supposed to be sized for. Certainly nothing Classified. But that’s what blue-tac is for. Not sure I’ll ever need the ricochet effects, but again, it was on a good sale, and most of it should come in handy at some point.

As or the rest of june? Four wrestlers, five impulse non-wrestler purchases, and three things I did just for fun. I mean, I do all of this for fun, but you know. Specific ideas for photos versus “look what I just opened up” pics.

Saturday, June 29, 2024

JUNE IS WRESTLING MNONTH: ROH Claudio Castagnoli


 Fun fact. After compliting a bunch of photo editing this morning, I have 13 pictures after this one to post to get caught up with my June purchases and projects. WHEEE! Anyway, Claudio!

Friday, June 28, 2024

FIG PHOTO: “we Wrestleternia!”


 Some more fun with the Masters of the Universe figures and my grotty old ring background. This is another one I’d like to redo once I set the ring up again and finish another project I’ve been procrastinating on HARD.

Anyway, w’ve got Sekeletor and Mer-Man vs. New Day and Cringer, with Adam efereeing. 


Tuesday, June 25, 2024

JUNE IS STILL WRESTLING MONTH: Piper / Steele 2-Pack!


Got figs 14, 15, 16, and 17 in the mail today, so Wrestling Month is… almost over? Here’s some classic flavor.

Monday, June 24, 2024

JUNE IS WRESTLING MONTH: Ring Of Honor Danhausen

 

OK, I didn’t have time to set up The Arena for this, which is a shame, , and all my old arena pics are in different software, so you’ll have to settle for this kludge.