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  • Creature From The Black Lagoon Edition

    Coming soon, this one was a prototype for packaging designs I’ve been working on. Will probably sell these on eBay to test out what the interest in buying them is. The last image is the card art, yep, making card art now. Stay tuned.

  • Speeding Up Creativity with Digital Generative Tools

    The images I use for my designs come from a lot of sources. Fortunately I can draw reasonably well, so many of the images are my own design. Often I use Ai, or imagery from my library of game textures to start the image, then stack, pull, twist and generally smash parts of many images…

  • Peechee Obsessed

    So there is something about those old PeeChee folders. If you are around me age and went to high school in the 70s or 80s, you probably had at least one PeeChee folder. There were only two design, both featured a dirty yellow background with high school sports featured by iconic images. You probably also…

  • Cthulhu Chevy

    One of many Cthulhu designs.

  • Not All Work Out Well…

    All these design have issues, at least they aren’t some of my favorites. The CRX is a clumsy casting to work with, wasn’t the best choice for decal work. I like the paint job, which is a gold translucent paint over polished metal, but I then covered the paint mostly with decals I’m not thrilled…

  • Anyone Remember Peechee Folders?

    This is non-standard! we’ll see this one on DieCast soon…

  • OSU Cow-Troopers

    I’ll post more from this series later down the road, but this design has been popular. At some point in time, the combination of Cowboys and Storm troopers became a thing for me, seemed like the perfect combination of pop culture imagery.

  • Blue Flame Torino

    Quite a few of the prices I have from the early days are like this one. Painted flames, using vinyl airbrush masks, with livery, usually racing logos and a few made up racing team names. Somewhere at about the time this Torino was made, I started using matte paint in combination with glossy paint. The…

  • The Story Behind Wolfee Donuts and Ariana Grande

    This one sits in Wolfee Donuts, Lake Elsinore California to this day. Andrew and I got free donuts for a month for this one! and “no” those aren’t Cheerios on top. They are carefully hand-crafted replica donuts In an odd coincidence, Wolfee Donuts became internationally known for a second in time with Ariana Grande “licked”…

  • Unique Decals Collection Recap

    A lot of collections ended up overlapping at the end of the year. I collage of some of the ones I haven’t yet covered here in the blog. The Nightwish Van in the top right is one of the more complicated decals I’ve made. It is hard to see in the pics, but the base…