If you want your very own holo-spy inside Production Platform 3, then I encourage you to check out the otherwise innocuous page of one
Michael McNeill. Somehow, he has an up-to-the-second inside eye on what is happening. Raw pics as they happen! Never miss a moment of PP3 action again!
So, if you don't follow me on Facebook, here's a look at this weekend's MAJOR project. This is easily my largest project to date, in every sense - physical measurements (4"x5"), amount of resin used (3oz!), effort to create the original, everything. This door started out as a small paper model from my friend Glenn Williams at
Finger & Toe Models - his newest release, in fact, Cargo Bay. I took the little door, about 2.5" tall originally, and modified it until I had something that would look good behind an action figure. But it was a flat piece of art, and you *know* I loves me some resin and 3D detailing. So I got to work and made some more modifications and cut and stacked and glued until I had a 3D doorway and door for my lads. So I molded it and cast it today. It is a bit rough. At first, I was so offended by the resulting product that I declared it unworthy of even being given away. But as I cleaned the very first piece up, and as numerous people began commenting and txting me on the piece, I grudgingly came to the conclusion that people might, possibly, be interested in this ready-made door.
Now, Glenn designed this door as a military door, found onboard star-faring warships. As such, it looks pretty heavy-duty - maybe serving as a brig/containment/pressure/blast/airlock portal. If you are building a diorama or display and want something like that, you can now have one with just an email to me and a mere pittance. You see, I'm not at all satisfied with how this door turned out. I plan to redo it in the same design but from material which I feel will be more molding-friendly. I have three more door designs, all similar to this one, that I plan to make and cast. In fact, I have an entire array of wall-panels in mind to design and execute, including windows. My plan is to base them around 6"x6" tiles to make standardizing layouts easy. This would give a rather spacious scale-9' ceiling for figures to operate in as a basic set, but wall panels could be stacked in order to create warehouse or hangar-bay walls. A square wall-panel would allow for placement in multiple orientations, allowing for an inherent degree of customization.
But all that is down the road. Right now, I have a door. A solid door that is flat on the back, allowing two to be placed together for a double-sided vignette. And this door used up all but maybe 2oz of HSIII mold material that I had just bought last week. I didn't realize it would take up so much. So, with an eye toward the future and turning today's door into a doorway to better things, I have decided I *will* make it available for sale, even if just to keep my losses from putting a blight on a project I have been pursuing for ... well, years. Each piece will need clean-up - there are extruded areas to be trimmed away and a gap along the door-to-frame seam that needs to be filled. The edges of the piece need a good amount of sanding to smooth them down. Maybe you expect that from a resin piece, especially from a manufacturer so small that calling them "garage kits" is giving him delusions of grandeur, but it rankles me deeply. I want to give my customers a better product than that - and one day I will. But today, this is the best I can offer. Don't misunderstand me - the piece is entirely usable as it is! Some paint and weathering, maybe some graffitti or labels, and you are good to go. In fact, I have a number of small control-box greeblies molded and I will throw one in as a random door-control with each door you buy. If you want to construct a double-sided door, let me know and I'll make sure you get matching boxes for your doors. (NOT recommended for prison-cell doors!)
If you are interested, the cost per door is $7 plus shipping, which I can handle however you like. I prefer USPS Priority with insurance and delivery confirmation, which will run slightly more than the cost of the door itself, but the advantage is if you want several, the cost doesn't go up until the box won't hold any more. So feel free to drop me a PM or an email and let's talk!
