{"id":13861,"date":"2012-03-14T06:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2012-03-14T06:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:50:28","slug":"sillofs-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13861","title":{"rendered":"Sillof&#8217;s Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gas-wonder-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gaslight Wonder Woman\" title=\"Gaslight Wonder Woman\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Hm; I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t mentioned Sillof before now, but my archive turns up nothin&#8217;.  Time to remedy that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/\">Sillof<\/a> is a self-taught sculptor (his day job is a high-school history teacher) who specializes in wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kitbashing\">kitbashed<\/a> action figures.  His figure collections include a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Steampunk-SW2.htm\">steampunk version of Star Wars<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Gaslight.htm\">Gaslight Justice League<\/a> (including villains), and a set of &#8220;Victorian Avengers&#8221; (which for some reason have vanished from his site, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100202225617\/http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Vict-Marvels.htm\">Wayback Machine<\/a> has descriptions and photos are available <a href=\"http:\/\/s114.photobucket.com\/albums\/n255\/sillof\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to simply being splendidly detailed, the figures all seem somehow plausible: Of <em>course<\/em> a steampunk Hawkgirl would have clockwork wings, and Black Manta would wear a vintage diving suit.  The figures are great inspiration, not only for making models of your own, but also for cosplay ideas.  I definitely want to sew a gaslight vampire hunter costume based on Sillof&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/s114.photobucket.com\/albums\/n255\/sillof\/?action=view&#038;current=blade2.jpg\">Blade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm; I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t mentioned Sillof before now, but my archive turns up nothin&#8217;. Time to remedy that. Sillof is a self-taught sculptor (his day job is a high-school history teacher) who specializes in wonderful kitbashed action figures. His figure collections include a steampunk version of Star Wars, a Gaslight Justice League (including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14140,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/14140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}