I had some real bad pillow hair going and i,m in bad need of a hair cut and have enough nick names on this forum without getting a new pillowhead nickname!
Hey joe it looks like you snuck a photo of me when I wasn,t looking, I would have taken the picture with george if I hadn,t looked like I combed my hair with a rock!
The show was on the small side this year with a lot of the venders having gone to the Indy show that was today also but, I still had a good time and found a few good deals and hung out with joe for the day.
lots of work but the finnished result is incredible looking realistic brick finnish.
You have to see these pieces in person to see how highly detailed theses pieces are, and how well painted,there incredible.
I talked with him a bit about how they are made and he uses all kinds of materials in his dioramas but for his buildings he seems to like that poster board stuff like the kids use to do there school projects if you know what i,m talking about, I don,t know the correct name for the stuff but its about a 1/4in. or less in thickness.
For his bricks he uses those pre-cut plastic sheets you can get in most hobby shops that come packaged up already cut into strips of various sizes and then just cuts them into brick sized pieces and glues them all on
When he has a finnished piece he makes a mould and sells them as kits made out of some kind of plaster or something similar.
