Art

  Basics, Accessories

• Custom large base: A 2.25" base made from a cheap picture frame. November 2008.
• Custom unit base: A lid from a plastic box that happens to be 1.125" square. I have since discovered you can get Vanguards for 25 cents a piece online, so I bought a load to take apart for bases. December 2008.
• Dismantled unit base: A 25 cent Vanguard's base taken apart so you can see how it goes.
• Building storage: A way to transport all those custom buildings I've been making. December 2008.
• Charms:
  • Destroyers Agenda charm: A quick little necklace or bracelet charm for the Destroyers. December 2008.
  • Martian Menace charm: Not exactly how the simplified faction logo looks on figure bases, but working at this scale is really hard. :) December 2008.
  • Vanguard charm: Well, after I took that 25 cent Vanguard off its base, I decided to add it to the charm bracelet. December 2008.
  • Carnidon charm: Just unbased this, added the connector and painted the "soles" of the feet. I like the Carnidon paint job, and didn't think I could really improve it. December 2008.
  • Planet Eater charm: Another reverse-relief charm. January 2009.
  • Source: Mechanical charm: I tried just drawing the gear logo and sealing it with glass stain paint. Didn't work out so well. January 2009.
  • Source: Mechanical charm try two: I got a Dremel engraving tip and tried again on this symbol with the tried and true reverse relief trick. January 2009.
  • Charm bracelet: Got this at Wal-Mart, two for $4. The other one is pink. I had to drill an extra hole to fit it on my "not a teenaged girl" wrist. January 2009.
    • Laid out flat
    • Worn on wrist
• Spraypainted ID Rings - Used some Krylon Fusion paint to make my ID rings green. March 2009.
• Monster Island hat - My Halloween 2010 costume, using a railroading hill, an army surplus helmet and a bunch of cheap Monsterpocalypse units to make a wearable island.
  • View from right side
  • View from left side
  • Connection detail
  • Mirror photo, me wearing it

• G-B.O.P.P.E.R. - A G-Tank mixed with a B.O.P.P.E.R. from the classic microgame "Rivets". October 2008.
• Galatea - Prototype Self-Aware Converting Mecha codename Galatea. A G-Tank cut up and mixed with Heroclix "Boom Boom" to make an Elite unit that's not up to dealing with Monsters, but is pretty good against other units. Unpainted version. October 2008.
• A Vanguard with cow: A 1:1000 scale cow made from a bit of styrene slat. Painted the Vanguard up with neon details to rice it up proper, see it under blacklight. October 2008.
• Mr. Creosote: A Meat Slave turned into the character from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (the "Better get a bucket!" one) using Apoxie Sculpt. Unpainted version, to show the puttied areas. October 2008.
• A-Type Shinobi: An Aerial Type Shinobi made from a Heroclix Gravity and some bits. Under UV light. December 2008.
• Space Penguin Force: A bunch of penguin miniatures placed on bases repurposed from cheap commons and painted up to match Pengonn. March 2009.
  • Beakers - Melee specialists with Penetrator.
  • Squawkers - Blasters with Extinguish.
  • Skyswimmers - Flyers with both Blast and Brawl.
  • All of the above posed with Pengonn
• G1 Strike Fighters: Painted up as G1 Decepticon jets. April 2009.
  • Grunts: Thrust, Dirge, Ramjet.
  • Elites: Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker
  • All six together
• Equutha's support units: Bella Sara horsies with the flocking removed, rebased and painted up in Lords of Cthul colors. May 2009.
  • View 1 (all views include unmodded figure for comparison)
  • View 2
  • View 3
• K-Type Shinobi: A City of Heroes character done to look like a new kind of Shinobi, the katar-type. July 2009.
• Matchbox Green Fury Van: A Matchbox VW Bus rebuilt into the Green Fury van. July/August 2009.
  • Work In Progress
  • Completed
• Carnitron repaint: I stripped all the original paint, including the clear orange basecoat, and then repainted in a slightly tweaked and more metallic version of the original color scheme. October 2009.
• Bronze G-Tank: Trying out a technique on a cheap G-Tank before using it on a more expensive figure, but it looked nice so I took a picture. Red Shimmer metal leaf pen, then Pledge Future acrylic floor polish mixed with blue paint to get the nooks and crannies. April 2010.
• Metal Vanguards: Got some AlClad after doing the Bronze G-Tank, and decided to experiment on the Vanguards I cut off their flight bases for the flying penguins. One in AlClad chrome, one in AlClad copper, one in Krylon gold leaf pen, just to see how they compared. The panel lines were done with various paint colors mixed into Pledge Future. April 2010.
• Metal Carnitron: Having finished the "messing about" phase with the AlClad, I decided to chrome up a Carnitron, and used Pledge Future with yellow-orange paint to tint the clear bits some more. I decided that the "mouth" was really an eyeslit and painted it accordingly. April 2010.
• Fire Kami LOLpocalypse: A Fire Kami decides to express how it feels about Ignite. May 2010.
• Chromed Shadow Raider: An Elite Shadow Raider chromed and otherwise touched up. May 2010.
• Dom-kun: A knockoff MS-09 Dom figure based onto a G-Tank stand (stats are about right) and repainted to resemble Domo-kun. I used neon red on it, so it glows under UV. November 2010.
• Big Science: A Shapeways "Retro Super Robot" by Trent Troop of Prize Inside, painted up in GUARD colors. September 2017.

• The Inevitable Ares Mothership Mod: Moo. Had some N-scale cows left over from old Battletech modding, and one could be fit into the support pillar for the Ares. October 2008.
• LOLpocalypse Gorghadra: Mega Gorghadra looks kinda like he's made of candy corn. November 2008.
• Pengonn: A new Planet Eater of my own creation, made from appropriately-sized penguin figures. November 2008. Now available on the K-girls page.
• Rogzor a la Kirby: The canonical Planet Eater, drawn in a Jack Kirby style as if he were a 1950s Marvel Monster. December 2008.
• Equutha, dread pony of the apocalypse! A trio of Ponyville figures from My Little Pony turned into Alpha, Ultra and Mega forms. Views: 1, 2, 3, 4. January 2009.
• LOLpocalypse Xaxor: Crunchy Halo! May 2009.
• Teddy Khan: A spare Carnidon modded into a plush Terra Khan for the K-girls to cuddle. July 2009.
• City of Heroes Terra Khan: An attempt at making something like Terra Khan in the City of Heroes character generator, a Fire/Invulnerability Brute. Didn't actually go all the way to playing it, just saved the image. August 2009.
• Rules Team Gorghadra: Got a spare Gorghadra figure from another modder, and added a t-shirt with Apoxie Clay. References the various Rules Team posters. October 2009.
• Dairugger XV LOLpocalypse: If they make a "Vehicle Voltron" Monsterpocalypse, the morpher rules will require some adjustment. July 2010.
• Darth Cthugrosh: I got a defective headless Mecha Cthugrosh. Once the replacement from customer service arrived, I took the defective one and added a Darth Vader head from my bin of leftover Attacktix bits, then painted it up. Front view, rear view.
• GUARD CAV: I got a set of the CAV Bones Kickstarter, and decided to paint up one of each robot in GUARD livery. Not really big enough to count as Monsters, but definitely too big to be Units. December 2014.
  • Dictator '70
  • Razor and Cougar
  • Spectre and Assassin
  • Halberd, Tiamat, and Wight
  • All together

• Stomped Banks: Parody logos for my three Bank Headquarters: Ameritank, WhamU and IndySmack. All based on financial institutions that failed recently, and so won't miss a few buildings that monsters stomp on. TIFF of the labels in case you want to do this yourself, although you might want to darken the grays. October 2008.
• Tokyo Tower: A chromed-plastic Tokyo Tower souvenir thing (seen in the picture frame base pic above in a layer of black spraypaint) on the custom base. I tried a bunch of washes and drybrushing to bring out details, but in the end decided a flat color scheme fit the tone of other buildings better. November 2008.
  Comparison to official Tokyo Triumph
• Osaka Castle: From the same set as Tokyo Tower. The Underground Network power is because of the tunnels under the castle. I hot-glued a stack of Legos inside the castle. November 2008.
• Five Story Pagoda: I think this is supposed to be the specific pagoda at the temple in Asakusa, but the architectural style is common enough I decided to make it a non-Limited generic pagoda. Not that I'll ever have more than one. :) The spiritual power makes it a Power Producer, and I figured Helpless would best convey how Fiends like to destroy it. November 2008.
• National Diet Building: Same stats as the official Government Building figure, but built from a model of the Diet. Yeah, it's a bit too big for the base. November 2008.
• Residential Neighborhood: A nice soft target made using Plastruct's 1:900 scale houses and cars, plus some scratchbuilt scenery. December 2008.
• Grocery Store: Another soft target, this one with High Occupancy to represent the food inside for Nature-powered monsters. December 2008.
• Liberty Memorial Tower: The central part of the World War I memorial in Kansas City. The Abilities were chosen more for their rules effects than their names. December 2008.
• Courthouse: I almost made this a library, but I didn't want to try sculpting 1:1000 scale lions for the pedestals out front. Note the handicapped access ramp in back. December 2008.
• G1 Transformers Space Bridge: That's supposed to be Bluestreak approaching the ring, as he decides he's not getting enough screen time and heads back to Cybertron. December 2008.
• Chromed Arsia Outpost: Not a custom building so much as a repaint, replacing the silver with AlClad Chrome. I also added a couple of bits of clear red. May 2010.

    This got big enough to merit a separate page. Last updated: 10/9/10 (Kristi Shore added.)

Writing

    This is likely to be just fanfic for Monsterpocalypse. I don't feel qualified to write strategy articles, and any general kaiju essays go on the main kaiju page.

• "I Eat Glory": A short piece of Monsterpocalypse fanfic. 10/14/08.
• "Smiles Cost Extra": Trouble comes to Grover's Mill, NJ. 10/15/08.
• "Tolerance": featuring members of the Green Fury, a herd of Cardinones and some Squix, with cameos by Armodax and Yasheth! 10/30/08.
• "The Problem With Branding" - A Just So Story. 7/20/10.

• Ares Mothership vs. Defender X: Early on, near the end. This was back when I only owned a couple of monsters and a handful of random units, hence the sparse map.
• Transformers to scale with Monsters.
• Scünci rubber bands as figure markers.
• My Starters: 1, 2. Pics taken to prove I have enough gear to be a Press Ganger for Privateer.

• Rise Spreadsheet - An .xls file with the info on all the units in the Rise set. I'll add info to the spreadsheet as I get it. Right click and download the link, there's a key to the notation used at the bottom of the sheet. Current version: Oct 26, 2008 (got the Strategy Guide, so all info should be accurate now)