The Minimalist Approach...Walkers

I've been wanting to do a TWD poster for a while, just couldn't settle on a satisfying image to use for it. I think this one turned out ok, I'd like to do one for each season, hence the Season One at the bottom...

1/72 DML/Dragon Mi-28 Havoc...FINISHED!

Using the below two pics as a basis, I finished my first choppah model in some time. For being a 20 year old kit, it wasn't too bad - some fitting issues and some decal silvering but all in all not bad. I'd like to find some more recent choppah kits just to see how the retooling has improved the detail and fitting. Anyway here we go...

The first two shots are my favorite that I took, the first you can actually see the gunner through the canopy. The rest follow from various angles. Enjoy.

New Comics...11.23.11...

Little late with posting these, long holiday weekend and all...

Not much to report, but here goes...

COTW Hellraiser Masterpieces #2...very cool vintage reproduced cover.

Blind buy - John Byrne's Cold War 1 and 2...know of this guy from his recent various Star Trek runs, very good artist/writer...this is a cool spy series set during the Cold War obvious...has a little James Bond feel to it. I like it.

Prometheus...Coming Summer 2012

Earlier this year, I did some early, early fan poster mockups for Ridley Scott's Prometheus...his prequel/not prequel to the original ALIEN. Today, some new promo shots were released by Entertainment Weekly, so now this has happened.

The Minimalist Approach...Anatomy of a design...

So I was thinking the other day, has anyone ever really noticed how the islands of Japan looks very similar to the spines on Godzilla's back at a certain angle?

I can't believe I never noticed it before, and as a result you get this...in both American and Japanese language versions. Ha!

Funny Godzilla Post of the Day...Honor him...

Found this on a google search, too good to pass up.

Old Movie Posters from the 1980s...

Been meaning to post this for a week or so...these were apparently found - unused movie poster art from 1980s films like The Fly, Vamp, Batman and Witches of Eastwick..very, very cool...below are two of my favorites for Vamp and The Fly..also the link for all the rest!

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/2011/nov/16/famous-movie-poster-rejects-youve-never-seen-exclu/

The Minimalist Approach...For a friend...

A little something for my friend Jay, who is quite the little choppah pilot. Ha!

1/72 DML/Dragon Mi-28 Havoc...painting done

The workbench...

Underneath pylons and gun...

The "Business End" of the nose...

Rotor blades...

1/72 DML/Dragon Mi-28 Havoc...first coat down

First coat of dark blue/grey down. Doesn't look too bad - perhaps one more coat will do it.

The Minimalist Approach...Update

So I had a little inspiration and wanted to try a texture overlay on the Hobbit poster artwork. A little color fix and transparency tweaking here and there, and voila!

The Minimalist Approach...Fool of a Took!

Ok so The Hobbit is still a year away BUT here is a small brainstorm of some poster ideas for it. The first would be my preference but the second could be a two-fer that fit together to make a larger piece.

New Comics...11.16.11...

Batman #3...Cover of the Week...simplistic and effective.

Star Trek 100 Page Spectacular..wheee!

Justice League #3...

1/72 DML/Dragon Mi-28 Havoc...time for painting...

I think I'm finally to the point of getting some paint down on this thing. It's taken longer to get it to this point than I anticipated, BUT the end result should be nice - surprising number of pieces and parts for such a small model...but I like the attention to detail. The canopy "glass" at first seems problematic with its darker color but I think once the camo goes on, that dark glass might actually look right against the military colors. We'll see...

The Minimalist Approach...Kill em All

Having a little fun - I'm sure the slogan is used by the US Army or Marines, but it fits in this case. Haha.

The Minimalist Approach...Nuns with Guns

Watching The Town (2010) last night...pretty good movie although derived from the superior HEAT (1995). Here are two posters for it...the second being a funny haha version.

The Minimalist Approach...Haha

Funny ha ha!