The Argonaut Resins toy arm of GoldMane Ent. Inc. has been busy. Wave 2 for the Tuttz resins and wave 3 of the Agents are in the works...***UPDATED!***

Gold Edition Exclusives - Going on sale this Saturday – June 19th, 2010 at 10:00am EST. The Cookies-N-Cream mobile shop will be parked at the corner of Prince street & Broadway street in the Soho section of New York City. Find out more here - http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/

...and here on the Cookies-N-Cream website - http://www.bakedinny.com/

Update # 2 -

Argonaut Resins X ToysRevil......watch for it.

Sam Fout's Bone Ghost Agents releasing tonight at 9PM Est. here in the Argonaut Resins online store (http://argonautresins.bigcartel.com/)


...and coming up next week at Argonaut Resins - Bubble Gum Tuttz wave # 2...watch for it.

Guess who's back?


Sam Fout's Bone Ghost Agents in Wave 2 mode that's who! More images, info on pricing and release dates coming soon here on our toy arm blog Argonaut Resins - http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/

My Xmoor Studio's - [http://www.xmoorstudios.com/] publishing biz partner Robert Garrett will be at the ECCBAC - [http://ecbacc.com/wordpress/] this Sat. May 15th in Philly with a bunch of freshly printed comic titles. He'll have Ajala, Galtow trade paperback, Inheritor's #1 and Galtow book #1 full color reprint. We decided to reprint Galtow issue #1 in full color as the black and white issues have all sold out and figured it would a great way to introduce new readers to our ongoing flagship title. To find out more info on all these titles check out our Xmoor Studios blog - [http://xmoorstudios.blogspot.com/] We hope to see some of you there!

SpankyStokes.com and Argonaut Resins (our toy and collectibles division) are pleased to announce that the release of a exclusive "Ash" edition Tuttz is going down today, Wednesday May 12th at Noon PST (West Coast Time) in the SpankyStokes online store here - http://spankystokes.bigcartel.com/ We will be releasing wave 1 featuring 6 limited edition "Ash" Tuttz colorways to the public... 5 of which are different tints of gray, not one being the same and then the exclusive chase figure that is dark gray, almost black, clear tint with gold trim painted by END. These are going to be sold Blind Boxed for $50 each plus shipping, so you have a 1-in-6 shot at that chase. All figures will come in custom packaging with signed Certificates of Authenticity by END.

The toy division (Argonaut Resins - http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/ ) is on the move with some new Tuttz Bubble Gum Edition resin cats with custom hand sewn vinyl bag packaging for sale. I brought in master bag maker Terrence O'Neal of Obed (http://www.obedboardbags.blogspot.com/) to hook up the vinyl bag packaging for these cats.

We're only making 24 cats and bags total for this Edition and you can get the first 12 in wave 1 now online here: http: //argonautresins.bigcartel.com/

I've been invited to the Dragatomi "Not Vinyl Show" in early May. I'll have some designer resin pieces up for sale in this show. My new Tuttz resin cat may make an appearance! For more info check Dragatomi's blog - (http://dragatomi.blogspot.com/) and their website/store - (http://www.dragatomi.com/servlet/StoreFront)

I got interviewed on Neon Monster...
Jeremy Brautman (http://www.jeremyriad.com/) did the honors of hooking this interview up (thanks man!) on the awesome Neon Monster site. It has some never before seen pictures of my first paid sculpt gigs from waaay back in 1996 and a lot of what I've been doing since then. You can check it all out here -

http://blog.neonmonster.com/gallery/meet-your-maker-eric-nocella-diaz/#more-1579

King Tut's cat...

...is coming soon. Stay tuned.

I'll have a table featuring designer resin sculptures from my toy division Argonaut Resins (http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/) here at the Toy Street show sponsored by Cookies-N-Cream (http://www.bakedinny.com/) this Friday from 4-9PM, NYC.

We're finally taking the toy show on the road - look out!!!

DeadKaijuSamurai - my custom SketchBot revealed!

See all the images here (couple of making of shots too) - http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/
This custom is now up for sale in the MyPlasticHeart online store with all the other customs from the show - http://www.myplasticheart.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=MPH&Category_Code=0000SKETCHBOT

SketchBot Custom show tonight!!

I have been invited by the uber talented Steve Talkowski to take part in his custom toy show for his SketchBot vinyl toy at the MyPlasticHeart toy store in NYC opening tonight. I don't normally make many customs these days but this was on a awesome "robot" platform (and I looove me some robots!!!) so I had to break out the paints and take a shot at it. Below is all the show info on Steve's amazing flyer for all the mega talented artists involved, time and place -


Check out Steve's site and get even more and some sneak peeks of the customs that will be in the show here:
http://sketchbot.blogspot.com/
Here is a sneak peek of what my custom SketchBot will look like -

See you at the show!!!

Finally got a chance to download the rest of the Toy Fair project images of the sculpt I was working on in the live demo at the show. This guy is six inches tall and very clunky. Maybe one day I'll finish it, but you can get a overall idea where I was going with the design.

Our GoldMane Entertainment Promotions blog is up and running. Need some custom promos?
http://goldmanepromotions.blogspot.com/

This is the sculpt I was working on for the 2010 Toy Fair live sculpting demo for the Creative Factor (based off a character in my sketchbook). I didn't finish it but you can get an idea of where it was going. I also want to give a big shout out THANK YOU to Brett Klisch for always inviting me down to be a part of his Creative Factor crew.

Toy Fair day 1 was fun. I got to catch up with some old friends, make new ones and saw a ton of amazing products from all the big companies. The snapshot below is some of my work featured in my day 1 set up that included vinyl toys, resin toys, maquettes and a garage kit bust. I'll have a slightly different arrangement and pieces for day 2 and will try and get a shot of the demo sculpt I'll be working on live next.

I will be at Toy Fair (http://www.toyassociation.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Toy_Fair) this year at the Jacob Javitts Center in New York City on Feb. 14th - 16th. I will be doing some type of sculpt demo (how to work in Azbro Toy Wax) at the Creative Factor booth and showing a few designer resins/waxes (depending on room and display space) at this show. My set up hours at the Creative Factor - Booth # 4822 will be as follows -
Sunday Feb. 14th: 11AM - 2PM
Monday Feb 15th: 2PM - 5PM
Tuesday Feb 16th: 11AM - 2PM

If you are at the show feel free to stop by and talk shop! I hope to see some of you there and if you have any questions feel free to email me at - eric(at)goldmane.net

CyberAnt is back!
Remember this guy? (http://www.cybernetikhomicide.com/#) Just got a email from a client I did a prototype sculpt for a few years back that he posted it up on PatchTogether - http://www.patchtogether.com/designs/cyberant-2808.html


I'll post the full color shots of him later (the full color paint was by master painter Rick Cantu of http://dragonstoothminiatures.net/ - or just go check them out on the PatchTogether link above.

Our toy arm Argonaut Resins has a new resin figure release tomorrow
Jan. 27th 12 noon Est. in the online toystore (http://argonautresins.bigcartel.com/). Sam Fout's Bone Ghost Agent - check out this awesome little movie add created by the grandmaster toy blogger Andy Heng of ToysRevil fame (http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/) hailing from Singapore!!! -


Find out more info about this designer resin release here - http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/

The Keylon Jakes 15 pieces bust sale starts now!!! 15 pieces on sale at $30 each plus shipping in the online store - http://goldmaneentertainment.bigcartel.com/ Three faux bronze versions are available -

...and 12 full color versions are available. See even more images in the earlier post below.

All come with a signed Certificate of Authenticity by writer/ creator - Robert Garrett (http://www.xmoorstudios.com/) and sculptor / producer - Eric Nocella Diaz (http://www.goldmane.net/). Sale ends Feb 28th.

Next week in the GoldMane Ent. online store (http://goldmaneentertainment.bigcartel.com/) I'll have a major sale on some bust sculpts I did for Xmoor Studios (http://www.xmoorstudios.com/) now in the form of pre-paint statues. The factory gave us a case of extra's so - guess what? That's your gain because I'm letting these go for half the normal price we usually sell them for AND to spice things up I threw in some all new faux bronze versions. This big sale will only last until the end of February 2010 - so if you ever wanted a Keylon Jakes Galtow Warrior bust at a great price - now's your chance! There will be 15 pieces on sale and up for grabs - starting Monday Jan. 25th.

Making designer resin custom toys for a charitable cause - find out more about it here - (http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/2010/01/onegatives-custom-destroyers-for.html)


Operation Smile here we come!!! (http://www.operationsmile.org/)

Charlie Meshaw's Space Monkey Al now available here in the PatchTogether store (http://www.patchtogether.com/store/store/view/id/85) and reviewed here with more detailed pictures on PlasticandPlush's toysite:
http://plasticandplush.com/2009/12/review-space-monkey-al.html
If you scroll way down on this blog I've posted pictures of the prototype I sculpted and cast up of the Space Monkey Al figure for Charlie.

Got a new designer resin toy releasing this Friday, Nov 20th @ 12 noon est. with Gold Coin called - Stick Up!!! More info about it on the toy division blog: http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/

What's Halloween with out some Halloween toys??? Our toy arm Argonaut Resins (http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/) has released a few gems yesterday in the online store (http://argonautresins.bigcartel.com/).

This is why the Yankee fans hate Pedro Martinez. How could he do that to our beloved childhood TV icon??? What!?

Don't teach your wife Photoshop and watch too much Yankee's baseball - lesson learned...ehhh...okay back to work. Happy Halloween everybody!!!

GALTOW - Book 2 Director's Cut - coming to iTunes !!! I'll post the link where it can be purchased and downloaded very soon. New text added in this never before seen FULL COLOR remix for iTunes...Books 3 and 4 will also follow in this new format.

Want to win a free designer clear tint resin toy from our Argonaut Resins toy division? Enter here at the ToysRevil blogspot to win:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2009/10/tre-contest-win-volcanic-destroyer.html

The Volcanic DESTROYER from artist O_Negative is up for grabs and it's sculpted and painted up by me. Go for it!