ANY HOW TOWN

This is the fourth year that I've built a mandarin orange crate vehicle, this year I decided to try to do a helicopter. There are som...

If you want to add texture to your brick walls, here's a simple trick. Water down some wood glue (just a bit) and brush it onto...

There's a great craft store in Perth (near Ottawa) that my wife and I visit about twice a year. They have a whole display of sm...

Hey everyone, I'm still here I've just been busy on the other blogs (see mad craft shoppe and Homeless G-Men posts) but I thought...

Here are the first three steps in assembling the empty factory room that I'll use for a few different shoots for AHT, Noir Town...

Hey folks Happy 2014! I always wanted to make a cool loading dock set and got to it this weekend. I was shooting the whole pro...

So after getting the base coats on and adding highlights, dirt and shadows it was time to make the walker legs. I figured that it wou...

 Day Three Two Colour Basecoat is on. This is the day when I start to question why I built the thing in the first place. Basecoating is d...

I've added the adjustable helicopter launch pad, I also beefed up the front walls of the walker to get rid of the straight l...

I've started a tradition every year I take a couple of mandarin orange crates and make walkers out of them, it's a fun thin...

Pitch Wars announcements are on Dec. 11th, I've been drawing a lot since the contest began, my skills are pretty rusty and I'd...

Here are the rest of the sketches, there will probably be more especially if crazy events like Gmail actually crashing from mentors...

I submitted to Pitch Wars this year a contest that pairs writers with mentors who work on manuscripts together and then go on t...

(Click to see the Adventure Fellas Team!) We're up to six figures now (which sounds like I'm talking about money, but I'm n...

Now what you see here are a Star Wars Mandaloran Clone guy (on the left, I cut off his "dress" in an earlier blog post) and a f...

Just a quick paint job and the addition of a G.I Joe Retaliation bomb disposal vest that I cut down the middle to make a jacket. I'm ...

Right now I'm up to my elbows getting work ready for my annual November show of paintings at the Cameron House so I haven't ha...

Picked up some Reindeer Moss today at a Dollar Tree, it's less tightly packed than that combat coloured thick ropey fake moss that is...

Once I get myself a little further ahead than I am now with my paintings for the November show at the Cameron House (see "mad craft ...

Got a great chunk of Book Two transcribed yesterday so I'm taking the day to do some drawing for my annual show at the Cameron Hou...

Back from a great weekend out of town, hikes in the woods, digging through abandoned Mika (how do you spell Mika?) pits, shooting pool,bu...

First off, I wrote a great chunk (22 pages) of the end of Book Two yesterday, sure it's barely legible and covered in notes and...

Does a character have to have a personal tragedy in their lives to be the catalyst and motivator in their quest? I wrestled with this a l...

I really enjoy creating villains and the books are full of them, there are all kinds of dastardly and nefarious gangs running amok in the...

As you can see while I was laid up with a mangled jaw I did do some small builds for the dioramas I made a bunch more of these cogs fo...