Halloween Hot Armor Standoff...

Hot off the compositor.... Big scary Mecha for Halloween.

Merry Christmas!

3 ships from the 25th Quiet Storm Squadron, dumping a multi-morphic programmable flare show in form of this traditional seasonal greeting (Its great for shaking off the Evil Robot Santa too!).

This year has been just crazy, for so many reasons, work and personal, sadly, I have had no time to blog recently, with just over a week left of it, where did 2014 go, hmm?

I wanted to cover so much more, but it has not happened, much to catch up with in the coming months. I promise more frequent updates and hope you all enjoy this christmassy image, made using one of this years (and so far undocumented) Aurora VTOL special-ops aircraft, a miniature prototype constructed for our good friends, Clearhorizon miniatures. 

I wish you all the very best, have a great holiday!

-Steve.

Cars! Again...

Here in my car / I feel safest of all / I can lock all my doors / It's the only way to live in cars.

 I designed and built WAY back in summer 2012 (I think some obscure primitive sporting event was on in the UK)  in a particularly hectic month where I also started working on big spaceships for Halo IV 

I tried to give each vehicle a sophisticated, integrated look, no jagged sticky-out bits or machinery visible, everything contained within a soft rounded shell suitable for use in a city with lots of soft, squishy people around, or smoothing the airflow on the aerobahn.

To give the limo a touch of extra class i went for a pillar-less look and butted each frame of glazing against the next, giving it the appearance of a more expensive style of manufacture.

Here's a couple of pics of painted production models.

The Wrap-around glazing offers an unfettered canvas for those looking to push the boat out... swish.

wicked paint jobs, looking like something out of Bladerunner, now, where did I leave my stim pills and sexbot?

Whar?  Not enough cars for ya? Thirsty for more? Head on over to JBR's 3D compound in the desert for his offerings available from CMG.

Phalanx Gunship

"Some amazing heavy gunships" - Mr Harold

Why thankyou, Mr Harold:)

Here are some wintery, HD desktop wallpaper sized renderings, enjoy!

And some pics of painted production models:

Paint credit: Dwartist

Draconus Interceptor

The first of a new line of spaceship miniatures, the scale of these are roughly equivalent to a 3mm figure scale.  Three further examples of this range have been completed, these will be shown in future updates.

The ever delightful Dwartist has a painted example of a production miniature here.
http://dwartist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-draconus-class-interceptor.html

 Here's a sneak preview of one of the accompanying ships, the twin engine Altair fighter - smaller than the interceptor.

And an even sneakier slice of... Something.... 

"Fighting Orb!"

Some renders of the Orb, the "Skinny Looking" aliens were modelled by myself previously, I'll probably detail them soon, its another challenge to integrate those models with a vehicle or other hardware but I think these worked out pretty well.

A truely spectacular paintjob for this model is featured here: http://thirdfatecreations.blogspot.com/2013/11/fighting-orb-skimming-into-action.html

Underfire Wargaming - Infantry prototypes

Another one from a while ago, these dog-legged infantry units were built for Underfire Wargaming for use as 15mm scale figures.

Armies Armies - Neo-Sov VTOL APC

A few months back I completed a prototype for Armies Armies, something similar to a Soviet BTR, with a twist - a flying framework or harness to enable deployment from some airborne carrier or from orbit.

I designed it around a loose version of the 1970's era BTR, which looks more distinctive, its actually very close dimensionally to the real thing and I spent a lot of time on that to give it an authentic feel, but with more sci-fi styling.

Here are a few renders of the 3D prototype:

And a wee piccy or two of the printed hull of the APC, courtesy of Armies Armies:

These are in 15mm scale but I'm sure it would look great @ 28mm too, as many of my clients like to upscale and get 2 or more scales from one model.  Lets hope this happens in the future!

Welcome to Coolhand Customs!

This is the *NEW* wargame miniatures development blog of Steve "Coolhand" Tyler, one of the premiere freelance digital sculptors in the industry. Lots more to come, hundreds of miniatures to detail! Stay tuned.