Mandarin Orange Crate Craft, Part Two

I've decided to make an AT-AT Snow Walker out of the mandarin orange crate. The three pics above are the four feet for the legs of the walker, the second pic. is the cab for the driver to sit in and the third is a fold down back down so people can get in and out in vehicles or on foot.

Updates soon come! This is fun!

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com



Mandarin Orange Crate Craft

This is the last day that I can be sick, this is day Four and I can't stand it. I haven't really been able to concentrate on any work, but my head is clear enough today to turn this mandarin orange crate into something cool.

STAY TUNED!

Also this is the last weekend to see my work at the Cameron House, head on down and buy a painting, prices range from $140.00- $500.00 see the work at the "mad craft shoppe" blog (links right side bar)

okay, I've got my glue and I've got my Kleenex here we go,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Robot Dino Riders and the Curse of Monopolies

Here's the first of the painted robot dino riders and I know I couldn't have done it without you Dollarama but other smaller dollar stores are closing because of your market domination and I don't like it. I picked up these awesome little wooden kits (just look at that crazy frog) at a store that is being put out of business and these amazing birds (birds are really hard to find, buy them in multiples when you can) from another store that I'm sure is also feeling the pressure.

Variety is the spice of life and I know my kitbashing will suffer if I can only purchase from you, yes you sell some great things for my purposes but you don't sell everything I need. You don't even sell wood glue!

In book news I'm almost finished my hand written edit of Book One and then will do my type edit. I'm pretty thorough when I edit my work and this method just works best for me. The query letter is sharp and the synopses is great so each day we get closer and closer to sending the book out to agents.

Tomorrow is Saturday and from 4-7pm you can come by the Cameron House for the reception for "popular/mechanics" my latest show of paintings. Music will be  provided by Colonel Tom and the American Pour from 6-8pm. If you want to read more and see the work, just head over to the "mad craft shoppe" blog (see links on the right side).

alright, back to work

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com



Building Popsicle Stick Robo Dino Riders!

Here are three of the Dinosaur Kits that I've bashed (kit bashing is a word that's been around a long time that I just learned, it's more or less what I do but originated with more complicated models, like the World War Two model kits) to make two legged vehicles similar to the Sputterjack racing machines.

In Any How Town Book news, the synopses is almost perfect, I'm moving onto getting a solid query letter written this week and I've finished the final edits on the first fifty pages of the first book so things are moving along just as they should.

If you're in downtown Toronto head to the Cameron House to see my paintings, you can preview the show at my other blog, "The mad craft shoppe" (see sidebar,right) and the reception is Saturday, November 24th from 4-7pm.

get your toque on,

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Ladies and Gents, the Hazard Viper

I've mentioned a couple of action figures of note on this blog before, Battlefield Captain America and The Red Hulk have a new figure to add to their esteemed company, may I present  the G.I Joe Hazard Viper. This guy isn't even a main character, he's a grunt who works with toxins, but geez, just look at that detail! You can see through the goggles, the helmet comes off etc. I just can't say enough about how incredible this figure is and if you head to a winners you can get them for $6.99 !

Mother of Pearl! What a price!

So next week we get into the final edit of Book One and cover letter writing, should be fun, it's high time Book One was finished and sent out for judgement.

Also if you're downtown head to the Cameron House to see "popular/mechanics" a show of my paintings, the reception is Saturday, Nov. 24th from 4-7pm with music by Colonel Tom and the American Pour and some of the wonderful food will be supplied by Chef David Friedman and Red Fish Restaurant.

Head to my other blog "The mad craft shoppe" (see links) to see the work.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Our Heroes and their friends

I rushed this last drawing and all I can see is a witch riding a broomstick and that will not do. How did this happen? Well, I drew the pose and then started inking it and THEN decided to add the staff, big mistake. Maybe the further we get away from Hallowe'en the more it will look like Jin is just holding a staff, here's hoping.

I also included here (and added to the first post in the drawing series) early sketches of the characters, they are BORING sketches, they don't stand up, Any How Town is an exciting place and those poses are DULL. I also included this Last Airbender figure that I used as a reference but I realize what I have to do in the next attempt at the design of this character is make their outfits unique - simple but totally unique.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Our Other Hero In Action

Oliver Stinson, reluctant hero

I thought I'd post both pictures that I did of Oliver I want people who come to this blog to see that it's cool to just try things, if you go back to the earlier diorama posts and then go forward you can see how I improved on building things, it took time, it was something that I concentrated on and got better at. Just like drawing, painting, building models, if you keep doing it, you'll get better at it.

That being said, I can also see that in the second picture Oliver's boots are too small, so I'll have to fix those.

keep on making things.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com



Our Heroes in Action

 Sinawa Eaglet Rainland, one of our heroes

 If you follow this blog at all you know that I constantly complain about my drawing skills, or lack of time I dedicate to drawing and how I always swear that I will try to draw every day, or at least once a week, or every other month. I wanted to get some action shots down of the characters as they are now not like they were all the way back to when I started this blog. I finished this picture of Eaglet last night and then did a horrible drawing of Oliver, which I'll post with the finished Oliver hopefully later today.

Next week I'm starting in on the final edits/draft of Book One and finishing typing up the second book, yes I wrote all four books in longhand it's just faster for me that way, I want to get Book One out to agents by the end of November and have a great cover letter thingy finished to go with it - fingers crossed.

When I've cracked and can type no more, I'm going to draw, hopefully every second day and get some great action up here to really get people curious about the world of Any How Town.

If you're in Toronto and down town, please head by the Cameron House to see my latest show of paintings, "popular/mechanics" (they open at 4pm) any funds from sales will be going to keeping me working on the AHT series, we're so close to getting Book One ready to go it's driving me crazy.
UPDATE: Here's the sketch of Eaglet I was talking about in the last post, "Our Heroes and Their Friends, do you see how boring this is ?
A.Shay Hahn
madcraftshoppe@live.com