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November 20th

Batman Black & White Statue in COLOR!!
This was done just for fun. We've had so many N.A. fans tell us they'd love to see a color statue of his Batman. Not easy to do, but our friend Dan Jorgensen managed to take apart a statue, get the black and white paint off and repaint the statue in full color.We love it! Thanks Dan!
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Earrings!!!
When we did the past bunch of conventions this year, a small idea we had turned out to be very popular. My girlfriend , Bridget, was making earrings for herself, and having a good time at it and we decided to bring some along to the cons and sell them. They were an instant hit. The ones I love the best are the LILZ, which use my brother, Joel's, art. Fans of any kind will find something they just have to buy. Check in our store to see what's available.
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Kitbuilder's Monsterous Weekend
We just got back from the Kitbuilder's Monsterous Weekend Convention. We had a great time at the show and met lots of great people. It was the first time Spyda Creations had a table at a kit show and we can't wait to be at the next one. The show is leading to a lot of great possibilities in the near future. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE PICTURES

New Kit for sale in our store.

I thought it would be fun to continue doing zombies at the same scale, now and then, for those who'd like to collect or build cool dioramas. Of course, each alone is cool too, but a shelf full of these would be a lot of fun. The first was "You've been Spotted." Now we have "Spoil'd Rotten." My first female zombie kit. Get yours in our store.

Red Hot
Battle in the Lava Pit

I just finished this one. It's in the molding process now. It started as a sketch among many in my sketch book and I have been meaning to get to it for some time. I decided to do it now because I wanted to try a technique in smoothing the clay I work with. I also wanted to do a piece involving real muscle anatomy on a female without it becoming so defined that it becomes masculine. The temptation in doing female figures is to make a it a bit cartoony like most pin up artists might, but in this case, I wanted it to look like a famale body builder who hasn't taken body building over the top, but instead looks athletic anough to fight a eadly creature like this one. The sculpting process of this one will be featured as a 2 part article in Kitbuilders Magazine.

YOU"VE BEEN SPOTTED
Available now on this site. The new Zombie Resin Kit, "They've Spotted You" by Spyda. This kit is done in 1/10 scale and comes in 6 parts. The concept behind the piece was to capture the moment you'd feel if you were to be walking through a graveyard at night and you turn and see something moving. Just then the Zombies you're looking at spot you.Just before you run for your life or freeze in fear, this is what you see. Get it in our Store.

Sinbad

I just got the photos of the Sinbad statue I sculpted for Reel Art Studios. I was knocked out by Dan Jorgensen's paint job. I have to say, working with Michael from Reel Arts is turning out to be a real pleasure. My favorite client to date. Michael has been willing to allow me to lend my own touch to the designs and composition. For Sinbad, he gave me a general idea of what he's like to see in the design and let me run from there. This, as some may know, is very different from the way we sculptors usually work. For the most part we are given a drawing and expected to follow that. I feel fortunate that a client has found trust in my sense of design and composition as well as my sculpting.

Pictures from Wonderfest
Wonderfest 2006 was awesome. If you missed it, you missed a lot of great stuff, but I took pictures for you. Click Here.

The biggest news this year is the NEW Going Ape BRONZE statue. Never before has there been a Neal Adams bronze statue before. Not even a prepainted statue. And there has never been a bronze statue available by Jason Spyda Adams. We got the first one back right before Christmas and we were all blown away. It's been the center of attraction every day at Neal Adams' art studio in NYC. It's a limited edition of 200 at most. Fewer may be made depending on how the molds hold up.

The Going Ape Bronze Statues are available now in our store here on Spydacreations.com and on nealadams.com.

Molding and Casting
As some of you know, I don't do my own molds and casts due to allergic reactions to the chemicals. I was working with a great guy, Dan Lane, who did fantastic work. Unfortunately, Dan wont be doing molds and casts anymore so I needed to find a new guy. After endless looking and phone calls, I met Ed Holt of Monkey Works. Ed is an awesome guy who loves the hobby and takes into account that people in the resin kit business need low prices in order to ever see a profit. He took the time to learn what our needs are in this business and soon we struck a deal and he molded and cast Going Ape for me. He's done a fantastic job. I've had as many compliments on the castings as I have on the sculpting. I am giving him props here on the site in order to spread the wealth to other sculptors who wish to have resin kits made of their work or if you need castings for the toy business. Take into account that this guy gets paid bigger money when he works for bigger companies but is still willing to work with us. I hope to bring him a quantity of work that'll make up for the discounted prices that he gives us. Contact holthill@aol.com