- A #MountainTownToys addendum: I've started making wholly original action figures using a digitally modeled files and 3D printers to prototype. This has the added bonus of being SLOW but super flexible and cheap, so that's where most of my focus is right now.

- #MountainTownToys now lives at @MountainTownToys I've got about 1/4th of the original action figures we had planned finished. We have a retail location inside an antique mall that is doing curbside pickup and an online store. All of this is going well, we're making a small amount of money. We'll have an actual retail store in August, which will serve as showroom for our online inventory and a tiny factory.

I sometimes talk about the old toys I find, or the old toys I'm repairing, or the old comics I'm reprinting or the new toys I'm making.

This is not the stuff that I used to talk about, and may not appeal to most of my followers.

I'm considering setting up a ... Brand Account™️ for #MountainTownToys so that I can make all my toy posts opt in.

I have a few of these for sale through #mountaintowntoys and I'm working on getting them in to some local comic shops.

It's not a perfect collection. Some of the issues were pretty damaged, and digital restoration can only go so far. It's also entirely black and white, when this comic really benefits from color, but it is the most complete collection of Basil Wolverton's Spacehawk and Space Patrol available, and the cheapest.

Alright, I wanna talk about my current projects for a second, so that I can keep a record of what I'm working on, and update anyone who's been following along.

Threaded for my ease of referencing. I'll try to keep it short.

Current projects:
#MountainTownToys
#JupitersGhost
#ZineStation (and accompanying omnibook work)
#ExpeditionSasquatch`
#fakedTV
Everything else

Made a mego scale GI Joe as a way to practice eye painting. Getting better at that.

This one has some other flaws, as a result of some less successful experiments, but on the whole I'm calling it a win.

#mountaintowntoys

Since I have my little rinky dink photo studio set up for doing product shots for #MountainTownToys, I have taken it as an excuse to play with toys from my personal collection. Gives me a chance to practice my editing skills, too.

I got this Mike Hazard for my birthday. He's supposed to be a spy, but I always thought he looked more like a private eye.

So I made him a blade runner.

I've been having fun doing glamour shots of these toys for #MountainTownToys

This one specifically I think is pretty neat. It's my rendition of Stardust and Fantomah, both characters originally written and drawn by Fletcher Hanks.

Hanks was a weird bird, and his comics were super strange, with a focus punishing criminals (in bizarre and supernatural ways) rather than preventing crime.

I might do another big spread of the two of them for our catalog.

Here is a small smattering of the product shots I was able to pull off today using my makeshift photography studio.

I'm really please with the results for each of these, and I'm enjoying this process again (the last time I did this many product shots at a time was over ten years ago.)

I'm still bummed the show had to be cancelled, but we're going to do some really cool stuff with #mountaintowntoys either way.

I'm working on product shots for #MountainTownToys and I think this one of Buzz Corry on Mars is especially wonderful.

Another toy in progress for #mountaintowntoys.

It was my desire to see toys of this line that led me to start doing #mountaintowntoys in the first place.

This one has some flaws. There are still lots of things I want to improve, but it feels good to make it.

Oh #mountaintowntoys

Today I started printing costumes for 8" action figures. This is on paper. Tomorrow it will be on an inkjet printable fabric.

I'll print and stitch tomorrow, assuming the ink sets fast enough, and hopefully I'll have a few finished figures to show before the end of the day.

#mountaintowntoys

#beingsicksucks

(Between unplanned travel and illness I'm almost a full month behind, and I have many more costumes to design, and heads to cast, so ... Everything else is on hold until this is done.)

I'm not flu-y anymore, mostly.

I have lost two weeks, three really, of the year so far to travel and illness and recovery, and now I have a lot of ground to make up if I want to meet my ambitious 2020 goals, and I'm not sure if I can catch up adequately enough on project 1) ( #MountainTownToys ) to meet my deadlines (which dramatically shifts the rest of the projects.)

I'm trying.

January - Travel to CA, come back, Clean and re-organize my office, make toys, inventory my existing computers, computer projects, and non-computer projects. Start posting the films I've already preserved.

February - Finish making toys for the toy show (3 each of 25 figures). Go to NY, come back, launch the #MountainTownToys website, and start making the Legion of Valor Comics. Continue film preservation.

These are my current favorite in the #mountainTownToys lineup.

I'm working on a post about #MountainTownToys too, but that's gonna take a while yet.

#MountainTownToys progress has slowed but not stopped as I teach myself how to use my new drag knife cutter and sewing machine.

#OfManyTrades should be back online tomorrow or Friday.

#BiteSizedBits boxes should be done for everyone I'm making them for by the second week of December. I'm cutting it close on time, but the hard work is already finished.

#ExpeditionSasquatch should have a new episode up before next Monday, and another shortly behind it.

7.

At the moment, the only other stuff I've remembered is stuff related to #MountainTownToys like the fact that I have been talking to some artists in Ashvile about doing custom head sculpts, and I've been kit-bashing some of the medium sized marx figures in to new characters so that I can have some original marx style playsets.

I'm struggling to figure out a way to do buildings and furniture for the Marx stuff in a way that looks good and is consistently repeatable.