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 AFM
#41: Now Shipping!
Hey modelers-
you want em', you need em' and we've got em'! It's Ladies Nite at Club
AFM and that means plenty of hot girl kit action all issue long!! For
starters, Ron Sherwood lassos up Resin Dog's killer new Sin City kit while
Thad Rhodes whips up the sinfully decadent "Sophie" from Pegaso
Models. Newcomer Bernd Slominski unfolds Lunatic Fringes' "Centerfold"
and Jason Walker cuts a swath of destruction with Kaibutsuya's razor sharp
"Azami" release. Jeff Camp takes wing with one of Atlier's finest
girl figures, and the AFM profile puts Sam Greenwell's highly acclaimed,
original girl kit series on the red carpet. David Fisher takes a trip
to Mars with Dejah Thoris from Critical Mass, and Steve Riojas creates
an amazing diorama for Fewture Models Liz Spanking. Steve Parke enlists
with Forbidden Zone's Sky Captain Franky to fly to the "world of
tomorrow" while Jerry Buchanan visits the world of yesteryear with
One Million B.C.'s Luana from ResinCrypt. Finally, watch for AFM's special
Editor's choice of the top 25 sexiest girl kits ever produced. Get set
Romeo, for the third edition of AFM’s Swimsuit Special, things are
gonna heat
up fast as our writers serve up a stunning array of resin beauties and
plastic cuties!
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NIGHTMARES
IN PLASTIC ISSUE #1!
You’re not dreaming, it’s really here! AFM staff members Mike
Falcigno and Rainer Engel proudly present the first “official”
volume of Nightmares in Plastic Magazine. The full color publication;
dedicated to the art of models, figure sculpture, toys, and all things
creepy is currently slated to be released 3 times a year. Thanks to the
overwhelming success of the Issue #0 Test Shot, Nightmares in Plastic
#1 will feature 20 extra pages (for a total of 60) and more tantalizing
peeks into the wonderful world of Garage Kits! Issue #1 is jam packed
with exclusive features, including:
• A Positively Gargantuan Profile on Sculpting Legend William Paquet!
• Painter Profile on Chicago Brush Master Jason Walker!
• Full Pictorial History of Mike Allen’s landmark GK Company
-
Forbidden Zone!
• A Spine-Chilling Feature on the work of sculptor Moses M. Jaen,
and much more!
Please be patient. We are currently awaiting a shipment
of NIP #1 from the publisher in Germany. As soon as we have them in hand,
we will begin to take orders. Please check back for updates!
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NIGHTMARES
IN PLASTIC MAGAZINE!
German artist
and AFM contributor Rainer Engel, one of the
original creators of the beloved GK book “Nightmares in Plastic”
has teamed up with American artist and AFM staff writer Mike Falcigno
to unleash Nightmares in Plastic- in magazine format! AFM is now offering
this exciting new magazine to our readers.
This is not a “how-to” publication! Nightmare in Plastic aims
to provide hardcore figure fans with an image intensive reference
volume; presenting a pictorial history of 3-D figure sculpture and
painting as an art form.
Issue #0 is jam packed with the following spine tingling features:
Painter Profile and interview with AFM’s Steve Riojas, Sculptor
Profile :Takayuki Takeya with appreciations by Andy Bergholtz, Tony Cipriano,
Brandon Shifflet, K.H. Broszat and Staffan Linder, Full Company Profile:
Fewture Models, and Model Museum History: Addar's Planet of the Apes kits.
Nightmares in Plastic will be published 3 times per year; future issues
will run approx. 80 pages in full color.
Available now for your viewing pleasure is the premier issue #0
edition, printed Full Color in 8” x 8” format, Nightmares in
Plastic is 40 pages of Garage Kit bliss for a mere $6.00 cover price (plus
$2.00 US S/H or $8 S/H Overseas).
Issue #1 is due out the 1st quarter of 2008. Quantities are limited!
SOLD
OUT
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ARE
YOU SPASTIC FOR PLASTIC?
Feed your craving and pick up the Thomas Graham Library of Aurora, Revell
and Monogram Model Books Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Each book
presents a fascinating history and amazing insight into the companies
and the people who drove their success. These publications feature hundreds
of full color photos that give a vivid and detailed recounting of the
kits created along with interviews with the corporations' executives,
sculptors and artists who brought these timeless treasures to life. Each
book also includes a bibliography and model kit indexes listing models
produced, their variations and values in the secondary market. Classic
plastic fans, don't miss out on these
amazing publications, order all three today!
Aurora Model
Kits
$29.95 & $5.05 U.S. Priority Mail postage
$35.00 Total*
Remembering
Revell Model Kits
$29.95 & $5.05 U.S. Priority Mail postage
$35.00 Total*
Monogram
Models
$29.95 & $5.05 U.S. Priority Mail postage
$35.00 Total*
*International
Orders must add additional $6.00 postage
Click here
to ORDER NOW!
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ALL
NEW MODELMANIA™ DVD COLLECTION!
NOW AVAILABLE!
Explore
the exciting world of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy
figure kit modeling with The ModelMania™ Collection. Figure kit building
is one of the most exciting and creative hobbies today, and the ModelMania™
instructional DVD series provides invaluable information for the beginner
as well as the advanced modeler.
With the first disc, ModelMania™ Volume One, Two and Three, Orbit
Graphics has combined the first three ModelMania™ videos into one
deluxe DVD disc! In Volume One, respected artist and top figure modeling
expert David Fisher provides an introduction to building and painting
by explaining the basic techniques for building both vinyl and resin figures,
along with what types of tools are required. Easy to follow demonstrations
include color mixing, drybrushing, washes, basic airbrushing, masking
and detailing. Volume Two continues to build upon the information covered
in Volume One by covering how to pick an airbrush and air source, demonstrating
advanced airbrush techniques, advanced face painting, working with metallics,
body patterns and transparent wing effects, glazing, foam filling vinyl
and more!
Volume Three of ModelMania™ takes your modeling skills to the next
level by exploring the techniques and materials required to customize
and add LED lighting to figures and set them into dramatic scenes for
added impact. Learn how to repose a figure, work with Balsa Foam and Balsa
Wood, create stone walls, transparent water effects, outdoor settings,
spaceship interior dioramas and much more! Whether you’re a beginner
or an experienced modeler, this disc will arm you with the knowledge you
need to turn your model kits into one-of-a-kind works of art!
This DVD runs approximately 2 1/2 hours total and features easy to navigate
chapter stops for each segment, so no more fast forwarding! As an added
DVD bonus, the original beauty shot galleries have been expanded with
over thirty additional kits never before seen in this series!
$34.95 plus $4.00 shipping U.S./Canada/Mexico
$34.95 plus $8.50 shipping for overseas orders.
Click here to ORDER NOW!
With the
second disc in the series, The ModelMania™ Collection,
Volumes Four and Five: Model Detailing, you’ll explore advanced model
detailing techniques. With Volume Four, David responds to viewers most
asked questions and requests regarding skin effects such as suntanned
skin, realistic mottled skin, veining, bruising, wounds, and tattoos.
Volume Four expands upon earlier flesh tone instruction in this series,
and explores the techniques and materials required obtaining them. You’ll
learn how to create translucent veiny skin, realistic drips and drool,
rotted teeth, blind eyes and more! David also guides you through one of
the hottest and most useful techniques he uses extensively, shading and
detailing with chalk pastels. With Volume Five, you’ll explore detailing
techniques for clothing such as creating satin effects for fabrics, using
magic markers for patterns, rendering realistic wood grains, repairing
a damaged kit, painting and texturing stone surfaces, and painting 1:1
scale eyes. David also walks you through easy to follow hair techniques,
from painting and shading blonde to red, black to gray, and rendering
fine body hair. If that weren’t enough, he also takes you through
two demonstrations for adding real hair to model kits! Again, as an added
bonus, you can access the beauty shot gallery to study many examples of
David’s Amazing Figure Modeling! This DVD runs approximately 2 1/2
hours total and features easy to navigate chapter stops for each segment,
so no more fast forwarding! Both Volume Four and the all-new Volume Five
are combined into one specially priced DVD!
$34.95 plus
$4.00 shipping U.S./Canada/Mexico
$34.95 plus $8.50 shipping for overseas orders.
Click here
to ORDER NOW!
*Overseas
Customers Please Note before ordering:
These DVDs are mastered as NTSC Region 1 (USA and Canada) Discs. Please
be sure that your machine is Region 1 compatible or a Code Free DVD player
before ordering as opened discs are not returnable for refund but for
exchange only.
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WONDERFEST
2006 DVD NOW AVAILABLE!
This all
new DVD Production showcases the ultimate in Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror
modeling at the Wonderfest Convention held annually in Louisville, KY.
Now you too can experience first hand the wonders of this world renowned
modeling convention with this exclusive DVD release officially sanctioned
by the Wonderfest Show Committee. At over 3 hours long, this DVD puts
you in the
middle of the action with features on the ‘Amazing Model Contest’
with over 400 entries! There’s over a dozen interviews that include
notable film luminaries Bob Burns and Academy Award Winner Chris Walas
along with GK producers and sculptors from Forbidden Zone, Cretaceous
Creations, CultTVman and Monster Dork. There’s even profiles on illustrators
like Joe Devito and Andrew Bawidamann. Plus go behind the scenes of the
model contest, view special displays and take a walk through the aisle
crammed dealer’s room. Modelers don’t delay! It’s time
to enjoy the best and brightest of what Wonderfest has to offer on this
professionally shot and edited DVD from Led Belly Productions.
If you order
both 2005 and 2006 DVDs together we'll combine the shipping when we process
your order!
$20.00
+ $5.00 shipping U.S.
$20.00 + $9.00 shipping Overseas
Click here
to ORDER NOW!
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Amazing
Vehicular Modeler- Modeling Special #2
Hey all you
Gassers and Gear Heads- the all-new Amazing Vehicular Modeler Issue Two
is now at newsstands near you and available for order online! This is
the second volume in a series of modeling specials produced by the AFM
team, and what a beauty it is; crammed and jammed with so much high octane
modeling excitement you'll blow a gasket! To order now...click HERE
Here's what
you can expect from AVM2:
Rust never sleeps when Scott Owen intercepts Mad Max’s V-8 from Aoshima,
and Dave Prosser races to Gotham City with Polar Lights re-release of
the Batcycle. Next up is the AFM "Dynamic Duo," Rick Cantu and
Mike Allen, with their radioactive take on Tom Daniel’s classic Beer
Wagon. Then it’s off to the Carpathian Dragstrip, as David Fisher
kitbashes a hot rod for Nosferatu. Steve Riojas beams in with an outta-this-world
take on Big Daddy’s Mysterion, and Mike Wowczuk hits the pavement
with a real squealer of a hot rod, Shoulder Roll's Rodentster. Jim Apitz
rocks out with Dean Jeffries’ Monkeemobile, and Gary "Guf"
Frayer combines the best of Ed Roth, Fu Manchu and George Barris into
one amazing custom car build- The Fu Fink! Giving new meaning to the term
"Monster Truck," modeler Dave Prosser unwraps his custom Im-Ho-Truck,
and Ron Sherwood dives deep down to Davey Jones’ locker to customize
the classic Jolly Rodger. Donald Stewart ignites not one, but two Ertl
Fireball roadsters, and Batman fanatic Chopper McGee turbo-charges the
original classic 1960s dream car, the Batmobile. Finally, Mike Falcigno
takes us to the future world of The Fifth Element for a ride in a flying
taxi!
All right all you Rod Ravers, warm the engines and check the plugs 'cause
this winter, AVM will be crossing the finish line and entering the winners
circle!
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 Next
Issue: #42
Enter the
realm of AFM's "Cult of Originality" and prepare to be
amazed as we unlock the vaults of inventiveness and creativity! That's
right slappy, Original Designs are front and center and we'll be highlighting
some of the best, such as Visceral Vision's all new Femme Bots, "The
Platinum Dolls." Next, watch out for some double jeopardy with Casey
Love Designs "Jekyll and Hyde," and expect a devilish good time
from Whitworth Sculpture Studios' latest, "The Devil." Spiderzero,
the hobby's best-kept secret, roars forth with a "lion" of a
kit plus we'll piece together the twisted tale of Monarch Models' "The
Ghost of Castel-Mare." Finally, our Original Design issue just wouldn't
be complete without an expose on the amazing Shiflett Bros. and their
dynamic sculpts- so dynamic, David Fisher is going to be painting their
“Noynub Deal With The Devil!” Next issue, it's time to get the
creative juices flowing and join in as we erect the house of
AFM on a solid foundation of originality, sure to inspire modelers one
and all to new modeling heights!
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