Finally got around to starting the female Galtow warrior bust sculpt - Jiya!!!...also for any of you that wanted to check out the Galtow comicbook series - Galtow issue #1 is now available to view for free (downloadable in pdf. format) in the preview section on
www.xmoorstudios.com
Check the blog section there too for exclusive sneak peek images of the Jiya sculpt in progress.

Galtow on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/galtow

Galtow on Comicspace:
www.comicspace.com/xmoor/

Issue #3 is finished and is at the printer and issue #4 is under way (issue #2 is being reordered since it sold out)....busy, busy, busy.........

Found this on Jpidgeon's blog - a really nice pic of my old Capt. Fred toy sculpt from the Mcfarlane Beatles yellow Submarine line I worked on a bunch of years back. This was a chase figure I'm really surprised was released at all at the time...Jeff had some really nice things to say about the line - thanks Jeff!...(quoted below the image) - I'm glad people really liked that Yellow Submarine line as I had a great time working on them with my old buddy Rick over at the old FunHaus...


J_pidgeon on flickr says -
I was ecstatic when McFarlane Toys announced a line of Yellow Submarine
figures - I love the film's design, and the prototype stills treated the
character models like holy writ. The line completely lived up its promise,
and my only disappointment was than it didn't go beyond two series of toys.
There were so many more cool characters and creatures to make!

The Beatle figures were all paired with a supporting character - Musicland had an
exclusive two-figure blister featuring Paul McCartney and Old Fred, the
captain of the titular ship. The sculpt here is terrific, and the paint work,
while a little spotty, is generally fine. Fortunately, the designs made for
meaty figures that stand well and won't sag over time.

Check out Jeff's awesome pics on his blog here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67896537@NOO/

SECOND PLACE!!! - aint that bad....
Andy Heng over at the www.toysrevil.blogspot.com finally recieved his second place prize for entring our Xmoor Studios draw Galtow characters contest. Talented devil made a comic strip showing the arrival of the rare Grey Maquette version of the Keylon Jakes bust...he took a lot of nice pictures too - check them out here:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-keylon-jakes-galtow-warrior-bust.html


This one was my favorite. Congratulations Andy!!!
(He's got a hot little blog there too so make sure to go check it out!)

Also - Rob and I are currently updating the www.xmoorstudios.com website so it may be down for a bit (got a lot of new stuff to put on there, so please be patient...soon, soon) - got some interesting news coming....

What?! Another contest?! With free stuff??? Who - what - where - how - and when.....

Xmoor Studios (www.xmoorstudios.com) has a contest running over at www.mania.com and we're giving away some free Galtow merchandise:
http://www.mania.com/C-81/
"Mania is happy to announce our latest contest, a giveaway of various merchandise from the comic Galtow. Prizes include: One Galtow bust, three copies of an autographed issue of Galtow #1, a Galtow t-shirt and Galtow hat."

Interested? Email maniaent@gmail.com to enter and include Galtow somewhere in the subject/body of the email!
That's all you have to do to win!!!
Good luck to all.

NYC COMIC CON Part 2!!!
So many awesome toys n stuff debuted at the con this year and you know I rolled up my sleeves and got some while the getting was good. Here's some of my comic con haul (some of which did not make it out the building with me...)

NEW YORK COMIC CON part 1!!!
I had a blast at this years con even though I didn't have a table in Artist Alley (con powers that be had lost our application -WTF?! or should I say - yeah riiiiiight!!!) with Robert Garrett doing our usual Xmoor studios shindig. But I got to catchup with some biz associates and good peeps like my pals Lesean Thomas (we couldn't walk like 5 feet without him getting interviewed or stopped by fans and friends - way to go man, way to go), Erick Scarecrow (who's Liberty toy SOLD THE F*$K OUT!!! at the show - Congrats man!) and Manny Galan! (Dookie Poo rules!!!) Got me some awesome swagg and Kaching/Mindstyle was gracious enough to host the Galtow Warrior bust in their glass case display (big ups to MD for the prime real estate hook up!!! ) Shucks - I even dropped the gold exclusive ESC Toy version up in there - which MD is now proud owner of...rumor has it next years show will be even bigger and in a warmer month?! I hope to hell so - it was dagnabit cold as a witches you-know-what on Saturday morning!!! I heard the line to get in went all the way up to the Bronx! No way!

Big ass crowd everywhere all 3 days!!!

Can't keep Galtow out the show!!! Best set up was the Kaching/Mindstyle booth...bad ass black tent!

Big dog Lesean holding down the Midtown booth signing - all the sketchbooks sold out! I didn't even get one - WTF?!

Liberty vinyl toy - Sold Out!!! I don't want to say I told you but hey - I told you so!!!

Big dog Manny G! Killin em with the funniest character out right now - Dookie Poo! Want to laugh? Go to the Dookie Poo blog and that's that!
Part 2 next!!!

TOY FAIR 2007!!!
The Plasticandplush site (http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/) had some nice images of round two of the FLCL Canti robot done up in some new crazy designs for 2007 for Ka-Ching Brands. The Toytoons site (http://photos.toytoons.com/showgallery.php?cat=997) had some great coverage of the Toy Tokyo booth with a nice shot of Kano's MoneyGrip toy.

The Big Apple Con NYC this past weekend was not only big fun but good business. Robert Garrett and I held a raffle to give away two free Keylon Jakes Galtow Warrior busts (one regular red version for 1st place and a soon to be revealed all grey maquette version for the 2nd place winner). Any purchase from the goodies on the table got everyone a raffle ticket and a chance to win...we had a great turnout for only 2 days and sold out of issue #2 of Galtow!!!
AND THE WINNERS ARE....check the Xmoor studios blog to find out...hehe...
http://robertgarrett.wordpress.com/

As soon as I get some confirmed mailing addys the prizes will be mailed to both winners....Thanks to everybody that came by to talk shop and support us!

Big Apple Con - NYC!!!

Xmoor Studios and I will be at the Big Apple Con (http://www.bigapplecon.com/) this weekend, Fri and Sat only - January 19th and 20th!!!
Fri 1-8pm - Sat 10am-7pm

Admission is FREE!!!
So come on down. We'll be raffling off another free Galtow Warrior bust and I hope to see some of you there.

Penn Plaza Pavilion
401 Seventh Avenue at 33rd St.
DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
FAN APPRECIATION SHOW !
FREE ADMISSION!
1996-2006
to Celebrate Ten Years of Fandom !

Anybody going???

These are the first wave of the Galtow Warrior limited bust variants...this series of 5 come with metal claws (like the original bust) and a metal sword. We have a few other variants in the works over at Xmoor Studios...maybe less than 5 of each probably...not sure yet. When I get the other variants done I'll take a pic of all of them together.

Happy New Year!
Another year in the can...hope everyone had a blast and didn't party too hard!
I'll drop a little teaser of some new goodies to come in the new year...enjoy.

More on this guy later...Here's to 2007!

Found a few shots of some grey version maquette sculpts I did a while back of characters from the animated television show Sheep In The Big City. Ten grey sets and one full color set was made of 4 different characters from the series.

Here's another oldie - cold cast bronze resin Earth X Captain America that I gave to Alex Ross a while back. One day I'll do a full costume version of the captain...

$75 + $10 USD shipping and handling (for US only - overseas will be more depending on where you are located). Paypaler's head over to the Xmoor Studios website store...All orders by Money order and checks (only if I know you will I accept personal checks - absolutely no Monopoly money or food stamps will be accepted) - email me at eric@goldmane.net - put "Galtow Bust" in the heading so your email wont get deleted like a can of Spam.
Those of you that pre-ordered or got on the advanced list - I'll be emailing you for your mailing addy's...

There will only be 200 of these prepainted Galtow busts offered worldwide and they will come with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity by Robert Garrett - writer and creator of Galtow, and myself - as sculptor.
Special thanks goes out to Erick Scarecrow of ESC Toys for helping to make this happen.

Last month Xmoor Studios ran a Galtow fan art contest on the Herotalk Forum hosted by the always uber gracious Omar (at Blacksuperhero.com). This was the winning entry submitted by Quasilucid (www.quasilucid.com - check him out - this guy is crazy talented!). There were a bunch of outstanding entries from the other mega talented forum members (thanks guys) but this entry by Quasilucid knocked Rob G. and me out.



We have another contest coming up soon that will be open to everybody all over so keep ya eyes peeled!!!

More old stuff. Couple of DC character bust studies.

I was cleaning up the hard drive and found a few images of some old sculpts I thought I'd start posting up for fun. This is a vampire bust I never got to finish.

I started posting up a step by step on how I sculpted up the Galtow Warrior bust on my Deviantart site: http://arthammer.deviantart.com/ in the SCRAPS section. Here's a 2D image of the Keylon Jakes character from the Galtow comic book series written and created by Robert Garrett and illustrated by the uber talented Patrick David (issues 1 and 2 only):

Above is the cover to issue one. Robert Garrett and I will be dropping isue 3 with an all new art team very soon. We also put out a limited full color ten page teaser that's currently on sale at MidTown Comics and a few other select comic shops around NYC.
Here's a pic of the finished bust featured in the step by step:

Keep an eye out soon for the big art contest when we'll be giving away a "special version" of this bust to the winner. Wanna win one?

Vinyl explosion!!!
This is where all the toy sculpt magic happens...not much eh? And yeah - I still use sculpey on some projects...but toy wax is how everything is finished before resin castings are made... Just my little sculpting corner with "out the door" projects in various stages. Got a nice lineup dropping early 2007. I'm dying to see all the packaging for these guys n gals...it's such a pleasure to work with all these talented artists and pop their concepts off the paper.



Been under the weather a bit so I'll get to more posting soon as I heal up.

The Keylon Jakes Galtow Warrior bust sculpt will be dropping soon from Xmoor Studios...a limited run of 200 prepainted pieces numbered and with a signed certificate of authenticity by the writer creator Robert Garrett and myself as sculptor (GoldMane Ent.) and product managed overseas by Erick Scarecrow of ESC toy...Late november 2006 - it's on!!!