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snuurg
@snuurg.bsky.social
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Sculptor of gods, monsters, and mortals - in miniature, life-size, and larger; thingsnstuff ©J. Brumby unless noted otherwise; commissions available, in theory. Find me sneaking around at www.snuurg.com or https://linktr.ee/snuurg. he/him.
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anyway, gotta dash to get on with that very same work stuff; meanwhile, have a #halloween cat-n-mouse thing, rustled up in zbrush - was hoping to get this and a bunch of other bits up on me redbubble in time for the season but ofc barely got started, blah. Toodlepip for the time being!
a halloween scene made in zbrush; a tabby-cat is perched on a jack-o-lantern pumpkin, staring down intently at a little mouse sitting just to the left.
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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- well as expected, work's been even more hectic than usual after getting back from my week off; busy building two sets of window-display backdrops for christmas-shopping-stuff, I'll bung up s'more updates as and when; oh btw that's a *98*-inch telly in the middle of this setup, bloody 'ell...
the beginnings of a set-build for some christmas-shopping window-displays, at the moment only at the stage of being bare mdf 'walls' with some windows cut in, and with a 98-inch telly at the centre.
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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I've still got me commemorative mug 🙂 also, for anyone of a wont to wonder, there's a very brief making-of (the plinky-plonky soundtrack seems to have been discontinued since, I'll have to look into that at some point): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9sA...
a yellow mug being used as a toothbrush holder, decorated with an image of the Cadbury Caramel Bunny.
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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- nahh, already done one o' them :)
an anthropomorphised giant sloth miniature sculpted in greenstuff, facing off against an anthro mouse sculpture; the mouse is just over 20 millimetres tall, the sloth is considerably larger!
October 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Uh-oh, mighta started sump'n; first fanoodlins with wire and whatnot in over 2 years I think - anyway, of *course* it's something weird, we'll see what it turns into as it goes along - 2 poses here of whatever-the-heck-it-is, at first fixing of the armature and first form-figuring-out in greenstuff:
a copper-wire armature for a sculpture of an as yet indeterminate miniature monster of some sort; it is essentially humanoid in form but considerably larger than a human at scale, being approximately 45mm tall. the first application of greenstuff onto the humanoid armature, filling out the form somewhat; other armature-wires have been added into the form at this point, showing that the creature will have several additional appendages, six in all - four tentacle-wires sprouting from the face or mouth area, and two eye-stalks. another wire-frame armature, for another version of whatever this monster's going to be, but in a more hunched-forward pose. first layer of greenstuff on the second armature, again showing the additional armatures added into the face and mouth area for tentacles and eyestalks.
October 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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< for ease of posting etc. - the actual columns will be 2.5m at largest, 1.5 to 2m otherwise, and I think it was for about 15 in all to be made. Will probs turn up (if at all) while I'm off so's there'll be a ridiculous panic to get 'em done in time when I get back in, but heyho.
a simply-styled column turned up from blue foam, about 30 centimetres long, and maybe 12 centimetres diameter at its widest. two much smaller columns, slightly different in design, and turned up from a higher-density yellow foam; these ones are about 150 millimetres tall and maybe 15 millimetres at the widest. the smaller columns after a couple of coats of jesmonite and a second turning on the lathe; the column to the right has a slight grey tinge to it and a little marbling, an effect that was asked for as a possible/alternate finish.
October 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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also as well, making a mould and cast for a giant version of another perfume-bottle; a polished-up bit of modelboard turned into a 'glass' replica, ultimately a bit spoiled by the bubbles in the siliglas 'perfume' - surprising we didn't get far more overall what with no degassing equipment to hand.
a big chunk of blue modelboard, or chemiwood, made to the shape of a perfume-bottle, but approximately ten times larger. the same bit of modelboard/replica, now polished up ready for moulding and casting. the modelboard replica again, upended into the mould casing that will allow it to be reproduced as a 'glass' replica, though actually being cast in clear resin. the finished model, side-by-side with the original bottle and box for the perfume, showing the size difference between the two.
October 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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meanwhile as per always, also fitting in some spraying where the spray-guy has buggered off without warning; crimbo is round the corner so clients are starting to get their orders in for stuff sprayed up in certain colours...
the beginnings of re-spraying some lettering, spelling out 'GIFTS' that the previous chap made a bit of a fluff of; a bit of filling and sanding back on the go here before they're ready for paint again. The base colour still remaining is a decidedly christmas-y green. more display-plinths, but there ones are a weird wobbly whatnot sort of shape and made out of fibreglass; shown here on their second round of being sprayed a bright glossy red.
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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...in amongst and in addition to which, a bunch of display-plinths for some specialised-stink-stuff, of which iirc about 150 had to be hurried out on a weekend for a monday van-dash:
a stack of plinth-parts on a pair of pallets - it's not obvious from the photo as they're back-and-front interlocked with one another, but there are 80 individual units in the stack; a third pallet just to the left of the stack has the first two of the next round of eighty units due to be stacked. some of the component parts of the plinths - several rows of the top-panel of the display-unit waiting for their main units to be affixed to, with a demonstration-example of a finished unit in the foreground; it is a three-foot-tall oblong plinth, less than a foot square front-to-back, with a taller and wider back-panel adding a little more height to the overall display. It has a sort of black-metallic striped surface, variously lettered in gold (or in black on a gold panel at the front) with the wording "Tom Ford Black Orchid". another view of the complete unit, with a second unit to its right showing the detail of the rear of the back-panel - this being, over three framed sections on a white background, a portrait of Tilda Swinton, a central panel repeating the name of the perfume and maker, and then a picture of a black orchid at the bottom.
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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- anyway, been busy - not only another set of medical-model bodyparts-things undergone, but also two more sets of the air-purifier things (well, second of those sets currently underway, that is)...
a table stacked high with various vaccuum-formed plastic bodyparts for medical models, about half of which are solid colour, the rest transparent. several tables stacked with the finished medical models of human torsos, which are used in training for intubations and similar procedures. air-purifier units in mid-construction, looking at this point like a rather random collection of dark grey plastic parts with no apparent purpose. several near-completed air-purifier units, giving honestly not much more of a clue from their appearance as to what they do or how they function.
October 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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- yup, pretty sure I've got 'em all still, think I've still got the actual 'liths that I made to mould from, too. Haven't got the mould of the main site but I do have the last cast that I took from it, that's got all the indents to map out where everything goes...
a model and a faux-bronze cast of the model, of the site of Stonehenge, both set within circular bases. The model, and three other discs showing previous iterations of the site, were made for the Stonehenge Visitor Centre.
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Maidstone borough or whomever ultimately ponied up 40 grand a coupla years or so ago, for a miniature bronze one outside the train station, it's about 6 foot tall :/
September 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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ah, an anciente artifacte from my olde-dayes experiments in concrete-ornament-making! Here's a few slightly more involved suchlikes from the pictorial histories:
a birdbath, cast in concrete and painted in realistic colours, depicting a peregrine falcon hunting a pair of hiding mice around the trunk of a tree. a concrete-cast tree-styled birdbath with a family of little owls roosting around it. a fountain water-feature with a pair of otters (one hidden behind the central tree-trunk structure) standing on pebbles, with a captured fish, and with a wood-effect well beneath to hold the water for the pump to make use of. The whole thing is painted in realistic colours.
August 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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- though this does at least mean I get to play with the workshop's new paint-mixing machine and get a bit of an idea how it works:
a paint-mixing machine and paint-shaking cabinet, branded by 'Creative Resins'.
August 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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...back on building air-purifiers by maybe the end of this next week, a quick step back into filling in on spraying duties again though for the next coupla days or so, these are something to do with jewellery/gem-display, 400-and-some of the little sods to do the colouring-in on:
about sixty or so small cylinders monted on sticks in preparation for spraying; they're just over an inch or 25 millimetres in diameter, and I guess just shy of three inches tall. more of the cylinders, maybe at least a hundred, now fully sprayed up in a sort of terracotta colour.
August 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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- except for these three that got a bit boo-boo'd - there tends to be a bit of shifting as the glue goes off around the neck-stuff, and now and again the heads can end up crooked or a bit too far away from the body to allow the model to work as intended; 3/50 ain't bad though - rip out and re-do!
pic showing three of the head-and-torso models being slightly 'adjusted' by ripping out the neck-attachments, using a special ripping-bit as inserted into the drill to the right of the image; things sometimes go wrong, just like in real life.
August 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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...just gotta truss 'em all up like Kroenen von whatshischops from Hellboy, and then they're off where they're wanted:
a pic showing several of the torso-models wrapped in biodegradable plastic bags.
August 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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the semi-finished article; there'll actually be a few organs and suchlike under that cover, but my main involvement in this stage of things is about done for now...
showing the head-and-torso arrangement with the addition of a transparent chest-piece, through which the organs of the body will be visible. and this pic shows that same 'complete' model stacked with other torsos on the tabletops.
August 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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prepping a few necks for poseability...nice to have a big shed space to meself again, temporary-ish - it's a bit like the old days of the architectural modelmaking lark, left to me own devices and just getting on with whatever I know I'm up to:
the vacc-formed back panels of the torso models, with flexible pipes inserted to act as bendable 'necks' for the soon-to-be-attached heads. a pic showing several of the heads having been attached, with other torso-parts still awaiting theirs. several table-tops with head-and-torso arrangements arranged on them.
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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whaat's in the baaaaahx?
well that should be boxes plural, for a start - and there's several of them now chock full of medical head-models.
August 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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- anyway, stuffing boxes with heads, as you do, and knocking Se7en into a cocked hat, as 't were.
the beginnings of a whole collection of vaccuum-formed faces, lining the bottom of a box. the same box, brimming with disembodied noggins now.
August 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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- sorted meself a pair of clip-on anti-UV shades this time round, as I managed to (temporarily, thankfully!) give meself one-eye blindness on the last outing with these bloody things :/
another plastic human face, this one wearing a pair of anti-UV shades.
August 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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...well, 'twas indeed a fortnightsworth of medical model malarkey, trying to get enthusiastic for vacc-formed plastic, and having much ado with U-V glue:
several stacks of beige-coloured bits of vaccuum-formed plastic, made for assembly into human torso medical models. a transparent plastic vaccuum-formed human face, glowing under ultraviolet light. the same human face-form, with a sinus and throat system being glued into it under ultraviolet light.
August 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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with the rocks rendered, more @fenrisgames.com scenics bring things to a peak; a well, a few random rocks, and a slightly-adapted version of the 'Lost Shores Oracle' - from here, it won't be long 'til paint starts to fly...
the almost-finished build, now featuring several additional scenic castings from Fenris games - some drystone wall pieces to the left of the image, then just right of centre are a well, and the 'Lost Shores Oracle' set-piece a little higher up, a series of fractured and fallen columns around a circular pool and platform. another view showing the Fenris Games bits, with some scenic rock castings also now in shot. another alternate view of the scene.
August 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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right, must be time to start crafting up the Coronus and taking things to the literal next level...
forming a 'crown' of rock from foam as the apex of the scene-structure. a different view, showing the start of steps leading up to the coronus. with the foam foiled up, the new addition to the scene can start being fillered. adding filler to the coronus too, and also a well!
August 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM