The Mad Modellers Lab

Making Frosty 2.0 Part 2 - The Body

2010-10-29T21:34:00.001+01:00

Well as the title says this is part 2 of the semi how to on building Frosty. so after splitting the body asunder I realised that it would be a good opportunity to only attach the parts to one side of the model so that I could open it up if I decided to add LED's or the such to the model at a later date. The next thing I needed was a way to attach the head to the body as I was after a "Mr Freeze"esque look for this character I thought it would be good to add a dished type look to the neck with a raised section in the middle that the head would sit on. Luckily for me gold old trusty EMA to supply me with the parts for this, and yes I did part with a good deal of money to EMA and my local model shop for parts for this guy

Next I glued in the ellipse to the one half of the body so that the "freezer" parts could be added here to keep Frosty Frozen.

With the top of the body glued in I could move on to the neck piece that would sit in the centre of the body, for this I went back to my EMA bits and used a tube cap to achieve this base look ( note that a magnet has been glued in the middle of the tube cap to allow for removal of the head

Ok so we are done for now, look out for part three

Making Frosty 2.0 Part 1 - The Body

2010-10-29T20:30:00.001+01:00

Well I thought since I haven't got much news at the moment I would post a kind of how to on how I'm building Frosty 2.0. So where to begin? Well a while a go I had the ideas for some weird characters and one of those were Frosty 2.0, the back story for him was that the old fun loving Frosty from the song was involved in an accident with a zamboni machine, and was rebuilt by a mad, sorry slightly angry, scientist. I started off with this concept to begin my build

it took a lot of searching and false starts with this puppet before I finally found a body that I was happy with, and as it always seems to be it was while I was trawling the isles in a local toy store that I found this buzz Lightyear body.

so with the body found I was able to start stripping him down.

me removing the screws that was such a blessing 4 screws and the figure was in several parts so easy to work on:)

Frank Frazzetta Passes Away

2010-05-12T17:49:00.001+01:00

As I said on my FaceBook Page the great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta Passed away yesterday you can check out the details on my FaceBook Page He will be missed

Foam and Latex Puppet Experiment

2010-04-18T12:58:00.003+01:00

Well I had a great Idea about 2 weeks ago to try the 2 part flexible Polyurethane foam I had here along with the latex to build a "foam latex" puppet, so I knocked up a body out of clay and made a mould, painted the latex in and then built an armature for it, and filled the mould with the foam and ened up with this

A fun Little Video I made

2010-04-16T18:08:00.002+01:00

Well as I'm having a day of not doing much today I thought I would get on and upload some of the stuff that I have been meaning to for ages, so I thought you may like to see some of the videos that I did for a dvd Project that I dropped in favour of a how to book series.

Well here they are

The video that was going to be on the main page of the Mad Science Lab Project

This one was the animated main menu for the DVD

and Finally the animated logo

The soon to be new site logo

2010-04-16T10:36:00.002+01:00

Well as mentioned earlier here is the first of our posts with some peaks at the new content,

We proudly present the new logo

let us know what you think of it

Just An Update

2010-04-16T06:54:00.003+01:00

Well I hope by the end of the day to have some pics of the test Foam puppet up here and the new Mad Modellers Lab logo up as well as the new animated Psycho Styrene Logo

A new Start

2010-04-15T17:14:00.000+01:00

Hi Guys well This is the first Post for the Mad modellers Lab I thought I would just let you guys Know what we would be doing here.

Ok so This is the Blog for the New Mad Modellers Lab How To series of books from Psycho Styrene Publishing and here we will have updates and sneak previews of the volumes as the come out as well as some exclusive offers and How To's just for those that follow us here