As per ussual, I totally slipped up & forgot to take a photo for May. Sooo we're just gonna skip May (seeing as we're almost half-way into June already) and just start with June. This time, I made up banners for the next 2 months in advance, so all I'll need to do is swap out June for July when the time comes.
Little bit of back-story about the June banner: there's this plant that grows in my parents garden that for some reason always reminds me of bamboo, so I've been wondering when I could take advantage of that for a photo shoot. As I hadn't put a new banner up since April, and was wondering what motiff I could go with that seems "summer-like", I finally had my chance. The pictures are progressive, so each month up until August they change a bit, just something fun to show on the blog until I get to be more festive once October rolls around.
Next episode of Alien Mercenaries is being scripted as I'm writing this, so sometime before the end of this month/the begining of next month it should go up. I had fun shooting this episode, so I hope you guys enjoy it as well.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Alien Mercenaries Season 2: Episode 28 starts right now!
Okay I'm making progress guys, episode #27 went up less then a month ago! So, I'm starting to get these episodes out faster & faster. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get back to a pseudo regular schedule were we see 1 new episode a week. Sit back & enjoy episode #28 gang, I hope you all like it.
I'm gearing up for an extra special 30th episode which will hopefully air in time for Alien Mercenaries 1-year anniversary on May 22nd. I also have something else in the works, but I won't announce what until I start shooting photos for it. Stay tuned for Episode #29, hopefully to air sometime before the end of existence.
I'm gearing up for an extra special 30th episode which will hopefully air in time for Alien Mercenaries 1-year anniversary on May 22nd. I also have something else in the works, but I won't announce what until I start shooting photos for it. Stay tuned for Episode #29, hopefully to air sometime before the end of existence.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
New banner AND pics of the swag I got at I-Con!
This is something I've been meaning to do for a few months now, and that is take different photographs for use as banners on the blog. Each one will be for each month with some holiday theme associated with each of them, as April is the month for Easter, here we have a Bunn'e scout stalking the rogue Eas'tarr Region warrior 'Quakster'. Next month, I'll have another Spring-like scene, and again for June. July will be summer based and things will get cooler once we head back towards Halloween and the other holidays. Should prove fun as well as challenging!
Here's a pic of the swag I scored while at the I-Con convention last weekend:
From the top right & going clockwise:
- Spider-Man Friends & Foes Minimates boxed set: Been waiting for this set to come out & wasn't aware it was out this month until one of the dealer's had it in their boothe. Grabbed it on the last day of the con for 20% off the $16.00 price tag (so like $14 bucks or so). REALLY glad I grabbed this as it includes all new versions of Black Cat and (a MUCH improved) Doctor Octopus. Also, a first in mini-mate form is The Vulture. With this set, I now have a complete mini-mates Sinister Six which is, in my opinion, really really awesome. Oh & it also included a Battle RAVAGED Spidey minimate. It's your typical Battle-Damaged figure, with a visiable web-spinner on his left wrist, a strand of webbing and another accessory I've not seen in a while: a webbing hand. It plugs in place of Spidey's wrist and hasa long strand of webbing coming out of it that grasps another mini-mate to ensnare it. Pretty cool.
- Masters of the Universe Classics Moss-Man (Un-Flocked Ears): I've never missed a MotUC figure yet, but this past March 15th I did. The dealer I scored this from is REALLY awesome & I got a Beast Man from him last year. When I saw him this year, he remembered me & hooked me up, only charging $30.00 for him. As that's about $3 more then I'd have paid if I got him online, it was a great deal. Beth actually threw her wallet at me when I said I needed an extra $10.00 to buy him- momments like that show me how awesome a girl she is.
- Iron Man 2 Armor Drone Mini-mate single packs: Got these from the same dealer who had the Friends & Foes 4-pack (Fourth World Comics in Smithtown on Long Island, really awesome store so be sure to stop in there if you're on the island). I meant to buy the Sea Attack Drone, but grabbed the Tactical Assault Drone instead. It was funny as the friend I was with said "Wouldn't it be funny if you got the wrong one?" & I was like "Heh, well that wouldn't happen cause these aren't blind bo-...well son of butt monkey.". As I'd ripped the package opening it, I knew I couldn't just swap it for the one I wanted, so I went back later to grab the one I meant to buy. Funny thing, I like the one I grabbed by mistake more. Oh the irony. They are nice solid little minimates & I'm curious to see how cool they are in the new movie.
- Space Invader Blind Boxed Magnets: THESE ARE AWESOME. For $3.00 each OR three for $8.00, each box contains a random Space Invaders alien, UFO or gun-turret-shooty-thing. They come in 4 colors, White, Red, Black & Glow-in-the-Dark. I grabbed a bunch and got what you see in the picture as well as a GitD shooty-thing, a white shooty-thing and a black shooty-thing. The dealer that had them is called Mugen Toys and their website has them on sale here: (). If you like nostalgia and/or pixelated magnets, go grab some. I currently have some on my fridge attacking some other, less cool magnets.
- Marvel Mini-mates 2-Packs: I grabbed these as last year I passed on them and my local comic shop had completely sold out of it's Wave 25 stock (yet two 2-packs from Wave 20 still linger..) so I'd missed the boat on these. When I saw a dealer with mini-mates for $8.00 a 2-pack, I grabbed what I could. Red Hulk I've been meaning to add to my collection in some form or another, and Ska'ar I could care less about as I have little interest in the character....but his mini-mate is neat so in my box 'O mates he goes. The Iron Man/A.I.M. Soldier 2-pack was a must as A) Army builders are awesome and B) I love this version of Tony's Iron Man armor. It's the version I grew up with and when I think of Iron Man, it's this one that I'm picturing. Only thing I don't like is how you can see his eyes through the helmet. The armor always obscured his eyes, which makes him more imposing but seeing his eyes kinda humanizes him too much. It's still a nice figure though & much better then the one I had from back when the line first started.
- 3 DVD's for $20.00: As I'm always trying to grow my DVD collection, Beth and I stumbled across a dealer who was really a collector unloading a TON of his stuff. This guy was too cool and we saw him on the weekend both days, making a new friend of him and his wife in the process. We grabbed some other DVD's while there (including the "Book of the Dead" Evil Dead DVD set brand new for $20.00..which I'm still afraid to read outloud LoL), but these are 3 I bought for myself. Love Soylent Green and have been meaning to buy a copy of it on DVD. Almost bought it used for $8.00 from a Hollywood Video that's going out of business, but passed to get it at a later time. Glad I did as going to I-Con let me do just that. Spaced Invaders (NO relation to the video game or the video game magnets...at least that I'm aware of) is a movie me, my mom and my sister used to watch years ago. Disney or some other movie channel usually played it alot, or sometimes around Halloween. It's a pretty goofy/doofy movie, but enjoyable enough that I can still watch it togeth and not cringe at the jokes too much. Plus they have a toy cameo in it: a TOMY Zoids robot (one of the Godzilla like T-Rex models). Finally, the Rocketeer. This was a movie I saw with my dad in the theatre when it 1st came out and we both really enjoyed it. I remember talking with my dad and saying how cool it'd be if they made a sequel, but sadly they never did. Always made me want for my own jet-pack heh-heh (I gotta get around to finding the SNES Rocketeer video game too as the NES one wasn't really that good and I've heard better things about it's SNES counter-part).
Okay, so that was my I-Con swag report. The con itself was cool, met some new people, saw some famous people, saw some friends I'd not seen in a while and generally had a great weekend. Here's hoping next year is as good.
Here's a pic of the swag I scored while at the I-Con convention last weekend:
From the top right & going clockwise:
- Spider-Man Friends & Foes Minimates boxed set: Been waiting for this set to come out & wasn't aware it was out this month until one of the dealer's had it in their boothe. Grabbed it on the last day of the con for 20% off the $16.00 price tag (so like $14 bucks or so). REALLY glad I grabbed this as it includes all new versions of Black Cat and (a MUCH improved) Doctor Octopus. Also, a first in mini-mate form is The Vulture. With this set, I now have a complete mini-mates Sinister Six which is, in my opinion, really really awesome. Oh & it also included a Battle RAVAGED Spidey minimate. It's your typical Battle-Damaged figure, with a visiable web-spinner on his left wrist, a strand of webbing and another accessory I've not seen in a while: a webbing hand. It plugs in place of Spidey's wrist and hasa long strand of webbing coming out of it that grasps another mini-mate to ensnare it. Pretty cool.
- Masters of the Universe Classics Moss-Man (Un-Flocked Ears): I've never missed a MotUC figure yet, but this past March 15th I did. The dealer I scored this from is REALLY awesome & I got a Beast Man from him last year. When I saw him this year, he remembered me & hooked me up, only charging $30.00 for him. As that's about $3 more then I'd have paid if I got him online, it was a great deal. Beth actually threw her wallet at me when I said I needed an extra $10.00 to buy him- momments like that show me how awesome a girl she is.
- Iron Man 2 Armor Drone Mini-mate single packs: Got these from the same dealer who had the Friends & Foes 4-pack (Fourth World Comics in Smithtown on Long Island, really awesome store so be sure to stop in there if you're on the island). I meant to buy the Sea Attack Drone, but grabbed the Tactical Assault Drone instead. It was funny as the friend I was with said "Wouldn't it be funny if you got the wrong one?" & I was like "Heh, well that wouldn't happen cause these aren't blind bo-...well son of butt monkey.". As I'd ripped the package opening it, I knew I couldn't just swap it for the one I wanted, so I went back later to grab the one I meant to buy. Funny thing, I like the one I grabbed by mistake more. Oh the irony. They are nice solid little minimates & I'm curious to see how cool they are in the new movie.
- Space Invader Blind Boxed Magnets: THESE ARE AWESOME. For $3.00 each OR three for $8.00, each box contains a random Space Invaders alien, UFO or gun-turret-shooty-thing. They come in 4 colors, White, Red, Black & Glow-in-the-Dark. I grabbed a bunch and got what you see in the picture as well as a GitD shooty-thing, a white shooty-thing and a black shooty-thing. The dealer that had them is called Mugen Toys and their website has them on sale here: (). If you like nostalgia and/or pixelated magnets, go grab some. I currently have some on my fridge attacking some other, less cool magnets.
- Marvel Mini-mates 2-Packs: I grabbed these as last year I passed on them and my local comic shop had completely sold out of it's Wave 25 stock (yet two 2-packs from Wave 20 still linger..) so I'd missed the boat on these. When I saw a dealer with mini-mates for $8.00 a 2-pack, I grabbed what I could. Red Hulk I've been meaning to add to my collection in some form or another, and Ska'ar I could care less about as I have little interest in the character....but his mini-mate is neat so in my box 'O mates he goes. The Iron Man/A.I.M. Soldier 2-pack was a must as A) Army builders are awesome and B) I love this version of Tony's Iron Man armor. It's the version I grew up with and when I think of Iron Man, it's this one that I'm picturing. Only thing I don't like is how you can see his eyes through the helmet. The armor always obscured his eyes, which makes him more imposing but seeing his eyes kinda humanizes him too much. It's still a nice figure though & much better then the one I had from back when the line first started.
- 3 DVD's for $20.00: As I'm always trying to grow my DVD collection, Beth and I stumbled across a dealer who was really a collector unloading a TON of his stuff. This guy was too cool and we saw him on the weekend both days, making a new friend of him and his wife in the process. We grabbed some other DVD's while there (including the "Book of the Dead" Evil Dead DVD set brand new for $20.00..which I'm still afraid to read outloud LoL), but these are 3 I bought for myself. Love Soylent Green and have been meaning to buy a copy of it on DVD. Almost bought it used for $8.00 from a Hollywood Video that's going out of business, but passed to get it at a later time. Glad I did as going to I-Con let me do just that. Spaced Invaders (NO relation to the video game or the video game magnets...at least that I'm aware of) is a movie me, my mom and my sister used to watch years ago. Disney or some other movie channel usually played it alot, or sometimes around Halloween. It's a pretty goofy/doofy movie, but enjoyable enough that I can still watch it togeth and not cringe at the jokes too much. Plus they have a toy cameo in it: a TOMY Zoids robot (one of the Godzilla like T-Rex models). Finally, the Rocketeer. This was a movie I saw with my dad in the theatre when it 1st came out and we both really enjoyed it. I remember talking with my dad and saying how cool it'd be if they made a sequel, but sadly they never did. Always made me want for my own jet-pack heh-heh (I gotta get around to finding the SNES Rocketeer video game too as the NES one wasn't really that good and I've heard better things about it's SNES counter-part).
Okay, so that was my I-Con swag report. The con itself was cool, met some new people, saw some famous people, saw some friends I'd not seen in a while and generally had a great weekend. Here's hoping next year is as good.
Friday, March 26, 2010
I-Con 29 Bound!
As its nearing the end of March, it's once again the time of year for I-CON. What IS I-Con you ask? It's a type of Science Fiction Convention held on the Stonybrook College campus on (in?) Long Island NY. Its been in existence for about 30 years now (this year being the 29th I-Con for example) but I've only attended 5 or 6 of them. Its an odd hodge-podge of topics, with anime, a big dealer's room and misc. guests (Charisma Carpenter of Buffy fame is one of them). I'm psyched for the dealer's room and hope to score some cool finds there. Anyone who will also be at the con this weekend, post a comment and maybe we'll cross paths. Official website is here:
www.iconsf.org
www.iconsf.org
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Alien Mercenaries Season 2: Episode 27 starts right NOW
Okay..*counts*... 1, 2..3 months since I posted episode 26 of Alien Mercenaries season 2. Yeesh. WELL, now that the blizzards of '09/'10 have stopped finally, I got some episodes shot (about 3-4 episodes worth of photos) so I'm gonna start getting back on track.
This episode has been a long time coming as you'll all get to hear how Tri'bahl survived the fight with Zov'rass. It's not an incredibly long episode, but should be a good read. Episode #28 should be up sometime this week, depending on how much free time I get to script it. Anyway... here we go!
This episode has been a long time coming as you'll all get to hear how Tri'bahl survived the fight with Zov'rass. It's not an incredibly long episode, but should be a good read. Episode #28 should be up sometime this week, depending on how much free time I get to script it. Anyway... here we go!
Alright, *whew*, making progress. This season should have just as many episodes as Season 1 did, so I got a LOT of story to tell still. Next episode is gonna be cool and the one after it will reveal a secret about one of the characters to the rest of the group. What could it be? Gotta stay locked onto this blog to find out dudes! :-D
-Bah'glenn
Monday, March 8, 2010
'Cold Hunt' part 2 is now up on the forums!
Hey guys, be sure to head over to the Octobertoys.com message boards to read Part 2 of the 'Cold Hunt' mini-comic!
Cold Hunt Part 1
Cold Hunt Part 2
Cold Hunt Part 1
Cold Hunt Part 2
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Update on stuff: March 2010
Okay, quick re-cap on what's going on with the Bah'glenn:
-My fiancee and I moved into our new place 2 days after my last post and things are going well. Still un-packing, but making progress slowly and surely. I think our 6 month old kitten Whedon is more settled into the apartment then we are as he's sleeping in the bathroom sink (like he always did at our old place) again like he's been doing that here for years.
-Got some work as a toy prototype maker and received a nice paycheck for my work. Hey, I'm not making my own toyline yet, but getting paid for doing something toy related (i.e. in my dream field) is pure awesomesauce. Plus it enabled me to place a decent order over at Callgrim.com at the end of last month which was awesome. Here's hoping I still have the extra $ when Matt drops his next big wave of product so I can order a decent amount of stuff there also (i.e. an Armodoc or two provided he's releasing more this wave).
-The snow around here FINALLY appears to be melting away and making way for warmer weather, which means I can now resume shooting Season 2 of Alien Mercenaries. As the weather is supposed to be nice tomorrow, I'm going to spend 3 or so hours outside after I get out of work and do some serious shooting. Time willing, I'll be able to knock out 2 episodes or so which will be awesome. I have an idea for a Alien Mercenaries One-Shot that's more of a comedic piece then in continuity with the series. Think of it in the same way as Marvel Comic's Christmas Specials; the stories inside are tongue-in-cheek and really don't get mentioned in the monthly titles as it's more of just an overall "fun" issue to read around the holiday season. My AM One-Shot will be a sort of expansion on the 1-panel I showed a few posts back with Greh'eck talking to his agent. Should prove very funny when I get the time to work on it.
-As you, the fans, expressed interest in me continuing the One-Shot "Cold Hunt" photo comic, I have finally scripted the photos I took and turned it into a 3-Episode Mini-Series. Part 2 should go up over on the Octobertoys forum this Monday (March 8th), with Part 3 to follow on Wednesday or Friday. Now I have both of these 100% ready to go; all I need to do is cut & paste them into a new topic thread over on the forums, click *post* and Bob's your uncle, so don't worry about these next 2 parts getting shown a month or more apart. It felt great to get this done as I've been sitting on the pictures since Jan 15th (almost 2 months ago! O_O) and I really hate leaving projects unfinished.
Now, for a bit of fun, here are some scans of drawings I made of the 4 Alien Mercenaries, Hurneff, Bore'okk, Snee'grak & Greh'eck. These drawings represent how I imagined them looking were they made without Glyos parts, i.e. with all new sculpts. Check 'em out!
Greh'eck
Greh'eck was a little tricky to re-design as I've always seen his body as being made up of Pheyden parts. Plus, when I sculpted his head I didn't know what the rest of him would look like LoL. Hey, maybe one day in the future he'll get an outfit like this..you never know. ;-)
Hurneff
Bore'okk
Hurneff & Bore'okk were hard for me as I really didn't know what to make them look like. So I just went with a 3-digit hand (2 fingers and a thumb) and gave them the same body type with different outfits.
Snee'grak
As Snee'grak is a Reptorrid, i.e. a reptile, I wanted to give him a tail to complete the look. I also figure, if he was a glyos figure, his tail could be made up of 3 pieces and upon buying multiples of him, could be used to make snakes, tentacles & other misc things. The color for the armor was inspired by a coloration Dr. Kent suggested to me (you can see this similar color-scheme over on his blog where he has his own Snee'grak shown). Now, you may be wondering why Snee'grak doesn't have a tail in the photo-comic. The reason I always used to explain it, was that his tail was lost a while ago and his armor stunts it's ability to re-grow, so it's never seen. Maybe one day I'll sculpt him a tail...
-My fiancee and I moved into our new place 2 days after my last post and things are going well. Still un-packing, but making progress slowly and surely. I think our 6 month old kitten Whedon is more settled into the apartment then we are as he's sleeping in the bathroom sink (like he always did at our old place) again like he's been doing that here for years.
-Got some work as a toy prototype maker and received a nice paycheck for my work. Hey, I'm not making my own toyline yet, but getting paid for doing something toy related (i.e. in my dream field) is pure awesomesauce. Plus it enabled me to place a decent order over at Callgrim.com at the end of last month which was awesome. Here's hoping I still have the extra $ when Matt drops his next big wave of product so I can order a decent amount of stuff there also (i.e. an Armodoc or two provided he's releasing more this wave).
-The snow around here FINALLY appears to be melting away and making way for warmer weather, which means I can now resume shooting Season 2 of Alien Mercenaries. As the weather is supposed to be nice tomorrow, I'm going to spend 3 or so hours outside after I get out of work and do some serious shooting. Time willing, I'll be able to knock out 2 episodes or so which will be awesome. I have an idea for a Alien Mercenaries One-Shot that's more of a comedic piece then in continuity with the series. Think of it in the same way as Marvel Comic's Christmas Specials; the stories inside are tongue-in-cheek and really don't get mentioned in the monthly titles as it's more of just an overall "fun" issue to read around the holiday season. My AM One-Shot will be a sort of expansion on the 1-panel I showed a few posts back with Greh'eck talking to his agent. Should prove very funny when I get the time to work on it.
-As you, the fans, expressed interest in me continuing the One-Shot "Cold Hunt" photo comic, I have finally scripted the photos I took and turned it into a 3-Episode Mini-Series. Part 2 should go up over on the Octobertoys forum this Monday (March 8th), with Part 3 to follow on Wednesday or Friday. Now I have both of these 100% ready to go; all I need to do is cut & paste them into a new topic thread over on the forums, click *post* and Bob's your uncle, so don't worry about these next 2 parts getting shown a month or more apart. It felt great to get this done as I've been sitting on the pictures since Jan 15th (almost 2 months ago! O_O) and I really hate leaving projects unfinished.
Now, for a bit of fun, here are some scans of drawings I made of the 4 Alien Mercenaries, Hurneff, Bore'okk, Snee'grak & Greh'eck. These drawings represent how I imagined them looking were they made without Glyos parts, i.e. with all new sculpts. Check 'em out!
Greh'eck
Greh'eck was a little tricky to re-design as I've always seen his body as being made up of Pheyden parts. Plus, when I sculpted his head I didn't know what the rest of him would look like LoL. Hey, maybe one day in the future he'll get an outfit like this..you never know. ;-)
Hurneff
Bore'okk
Hurneff & Bore'okk were hard for me as I really didn't know what to make them look like. So I just went with a 3-digit hand (2 fingers and a thumb) and gave them the same body type with different outfits.
Snee'grak
As Snee'grak is a Reptorrid, i.e. a reptile, I wanted to give him a tail to complete the look. I also figure, if he was a glyos figure, his tail could be made up of 3 pieces and upon buying multiples of him, could be used to make snakes, tentacles & other misc things. The color for the armor was inspired by a coloration Dr. Kent suggested to me (you can see this similar color-scheme over on his blog where he has his own Snee'grak shown). Now, you may be wondering why Snee'grak doesn't have a tail in the photo-comic. The reason I always used to explain it, was that his tail was lost a while ago and his armor stunts it's ability to re-grow, so it's never seen. Maybe one day I'll sculpt him a tail...
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