Since I'm not really very practiced yet at either customs and larger digital photos, I did a lot of stuff that ended up Not Quite Right. Good practice for me, better than I expected, but meh. So they didn't get boxed for the shows.
Here is where I dump, vent and shamelessly grovel for brutal yet constructive advice.

Mercury Bukkake Snowman (internal light and internal gid too weak to photo, bah) :


Collecting in the midwest:


Will post a couple more if I don't get totally ignored or run out of here over this.

I have that big Baltan, looks good with the lawn flamingo!! I used to have a light up cow from a nativity scene in my yard all year long, my wife didn't appreciate that or see it as high art like myself.

Light up cow? Now I am jealous. That would truly upgrade my whole neighborhood, whether they like it or not!

that paint application actually kind of works for the snowman guy. i don't know what they typically look like, but the messy, dripped on application adds to the character of the piece

i think if the underpainted parts were to be cleaned up just a little then coated in that white glaze, it could be stronger





as for the baltan, i like the soft, matte finish for it in that context (next to a flamingo)

you could carry that same application to his legs with pastel colors all over the figure and get a good, campy scheme going on him

Had some trouble shooting the snowman. The LED light and GID paint on the inner surface wouldn't show except in a low light shot that had more green noise in it than Paris' phone videos. And in bright light, I couldn't capture how the metallic silver has a nice shine under the semi-transparent bukkake layers. At least a sixteenth of an inch of paint there. Everything that you're not supposed to do when painting a toy, I did on that one, mostly just to see what would happen while I was painting 6 other toys.
Akshully, the paint on the baltan was stock. Am gonna paint it in a vulgar manner to accessorize with flamingos and lawn dwarves. The baltan was gonna be a photo entry but after wasting time in photo shop I realized that the concept may have been okay but the composition basically sucked. Reworking this shot later in the week and sent in a diff. piece for the show.
Thanks though.