Big Daddy Style conversion

I have about twelve Deep Sea Diver action figures (see "Salvage Teams") they were at the Dollarama being sold as "Team Calypso " something, anyways, I bought them all. Water figures very prominently in the mythos of Any How Town and things hidden in the water are featured in almost every story that I've started to write.

Most of this week I've been building AHT instead of painting pictures, my interest has been firmly placed with building a few more sets and vehicles, but this weekend I decided to do the above (see above). I bought Bioshock 2 and starting playing it last weekend, it's possibly the best designed video game I've ever seen, I am almost positive my success with the Deep Sea Diver paintings in May of last year (see other blog, madcraftshoppe) was because of BioShock bringing them back into the mainstream consciousness.

I've been looking at the el cheapo ninja figures at the Dollarama for some time and decided to do some mild conversions and make a larger deep sea diver, I'll post a comparison photo later (See Top) when I get some more stuff done, but on the left is what you buy, and on the right is what I made. And yes of course, I ignored my own rule when I started this figure, "If you're going to build one, build three" so I've started a second and may do a third on this long weekend.

all the best,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Hard at work goofing off

I think some people over on fb are under the impression that these vehicles and scenes that I'm building for A.H.T are whole kits, it's time to set the record straight. What I do is take many different elements, popsicle sticks, tiny dowels, dollarama vehicle kits, stray chunks of wood from carpentry shops and assemble them into sets, vehicles and whatever else I'd like to build for A.H.T, it all comes from my imagination. Pictured above is a transport vehicle and also a groovy electric wheelchair. I wanted to show some stuff at the unpainted stage so you can see that it's all me.

I have been building a ton of vehicles and sets (let's just call them sets instead of dioaramas) and have not hardly had the time to post anything here to explain what each vehicle is or the locations I'm building, at the same time I don't want it to be wasted, if I write about everything there won't be any excitement to discover new things in the stories. SO I promise that I am going to go back into the blog and write detailed things about the stuff that is already here, that way when publishers and folks in Hollywood get to the blog they can already see what will become the action set pieces in the A.H.T trilogy of movies.

enjoy, all the best, we'd love to hear from you,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com