Heads Up

I am hesitant to say when you guys will finally start seeing shipping notices... I am a little gun shy in that department...but I will say this- The PJ has been activated! I have enlisted the handsome fella to help out with the final stages of the project. This was supposed to have happened about three weeks ago... Damn what a rough month. We did get a ton done over the last week or so. We are almost caught up!

16 WEEEKS?!?

No- but it seems like the Wraith launch was at least 16 weeks ago. I can still see the light at the end of the tunnel... it's just a little bit farther than I thought. It is taking way longer than the usual long time to get everything together over here. Please continue to bear with me. I have been rolling with a bunch of unexpected punches. (Mostly to the face, neck and ass.) Please distract yourself with new Glyos stuff as Matt will surely have all of his shipping taken care of before you guys start seeing shipping notices from me. I will not let anything out of here before it is time. Thanks for hanging in there! You guys truly are the best.

16 YEARS

   I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have the boys at the ready. I should be finishing things up next week. Thank you guys for being so patient.
   Tonight I am going out on the town with the chick that bank rolls this wild experiment that is Callgrim... my boss and wife of 16 years, Maeve. She is a trooper. I am amazed everyday at how much shit she is willing to put up with. She is a great crazy person wrangler.

Weathering the Storm

Callgrim's scarf nearly killed me last time, so it made perfect sense to do giant capes and shoulder pauldrons this time around. The capes are first screen printed then battle damaged by implementing a number of complex weathering processes. The capes are first grubbed up by rolling them in dirt. They are then stiffened up with acrylic medium. Next, the capes are torn, beat up, stabbed and burned. Finally, I touch them up with a few paint washes.

Thank You!

Thank you so much to everyone that participated in this crazy experiment! The success of this has already green lit the next project. I love that I can do what needs to be done without compromise...I can't thank you guys enough for that.
So, per usual, don't expect shipping notices any time soon. I still have a ton to do on these before I send them out. I will keep you guys posted here with pics and sketches and content along the way.
You guys are wicked awesome.

The Wraith

 

The Barracks have been refreshed! There are a few new things in the Shop, including new T-shirts, plus updates to the Codex (be sure to refresh each page). Special thanks to Matt, Marcus, Ciar, Lorcan, PJ and Paul for helping put this nasty beast together.

Umbra Wraith Death Squad

Wrags

Above is the limited edition tee available tonight exclusively with the Wraith (top pic). There will be a couple other shirts in the store as well. Don't worry, these ones are clean...

Dirty Details

This launch will include a few big ticket items. Some wallets will be beat to shit after this one. I just had to take the DRT thing a step further. The DRT WARP bikes and figures opened up the flood gates of creativity in me. I am loving that I have the freedom to present Callgrim to you guys the way that I want to - the way that I need to. I must say that this was a daunting task from the get go. I've always been an "Aw fuck it- let's do this" type of guy... this project is most definitely an "Aw fuck it- let's do this" type of project. Paul and the crew pulled it off again. Expect more projects like this in the future.

This Friday:

DRT Wraith
These bad boys are full production 16 piece vinyl with a 30 piece pvc arm gun cannon attachment on each arm. Each limited edition Wraith has multiple Deluxe Real Type paint applications. The Wraith also comes with a hand weathered 2 piece screen printed cloak. The figure will be packed in a special screen printed box. There will be an exclusive limited edition tee shirt packed in there and maybe some other bells and whistles too. ( Be sure to supply preferred tee shirt size at check out.)
$200

DRT Hexxer
Hexxer comes with 2 WARP packs configured as a WARP flight pack, rifle and 2 blasters. There are 2 Callgrim heads and 2 Order heads. Hexxer has 38 pvc pieces in all with multiple Deluxe Real Type paint applications. Hexxer features the most complex paint applications on a Glyos figure to date. The figure will be packed in a screen printed box.
$40

Incoming

Launch this Friday, April 27th at 9PM EDT. Details to follow in the AM.

Bullseye

Battle Damage

The Next Caper...

Going Postal

Thank ye Lads and Lasses!

Thanks so much to everyone that participated in making this another successful launch for ol' Skullface. You guys are the best! I must thank Marc, Paul and Matt again... but especially Matt- who was cooked and hallucinating with fever. He waded through wet sickness to get it done- Thanks man! You are a machine!

I went over to Matt's after the germ cloud cleared to work on the next secret DRT beef bomb... This one may end me!

PJ and Drew have been recruited to help package things up. I love those guys. Look for shipping notices toward the end of the week.

Callgrim Henshin Wave

Stealth mode sneak attack! Go!

The Barracks have been refreshed! There are a few new things in the Shop, plus updates in the Media section including a new Codex page (be sure to refresh each page). Special thanks to Matt, Marcus and Paul for helping put this quickie launch together.

Dark Redlaw

Callgrim finds a small shard of the rare Dark Redlaw Aurrem-Ore at the edge of The Alizoran Forest on Bross.

Clear Your Schedule...

Friday, February 24th - 9pm EST

Quick and lollipop sweet... easier on the wallet this time.

I Heart NY, OSM and the Four Hoursemen's Futuretro Show

   I cried salty tears into my beard after the Super Bowl and wanted nothing to do with NY for a few days... but I came around. I took my older boy Ciaran to NYC for the Four Horsemen's Futuretro show. Lorcan stayed home and held the fort...too young for these kinds of shenanigans. The show was a mind blowing sensory overload of great sculptures, crazy art and customs and OSM stuff to die for. The showroom was crowded with awesome people. Those Horsemen fellas are gifted mutants. Mel is a gifted mutant. He and I share a love of big hipped women.
   My kid kept up the pace like a trooper- gooble gobble- one of us, one of us... We conquered the city. Grilo was a great body guard. What a motley crew. We had an amazing adventure that took us from Matt's to Mel's, Mass to NYC, from the New Yorker to the Village, Times Square and beyond. It was Ciar's first time in the Big City. We rode in cars, cabs and subways. I almost committed two homicides. Grilo paid $100 for bacon and eggs on 5th Avenue. We saw a man shitting into a suitcase. We saw a ton of delis and peepshows. We went to half a dozen comic shops and toy stores...we saw a ferris wheel in a T-Riggity. Toy Tokyo was the best.
   The funnest part of the trip was hanging with all of the Glyos clowns in the Village during another food crawl. What a great bunch of dudes. I love breaking bread with friends and loved ones. It was great hanging with Mel while he held court over fried hot dogs wrapped in bacon at Crif Dogs... We chowed spiced meat logs at Tuck's, ate piles of 'zza at Matt's favorite pizza place on the planet. We gobbled gay frozen yogurt, ate 16 Scoops (1lb) and more pizza at Stromboli's. Why are there no kinish carts in Boston?
   Ciar had a blast- I had a blast and was extra happy to have shared this experience with my boy. The kid has to work on his beard though... Oh yeah- There is a Callgrim drop on Friday...

CALLGRIM 2012

  I have a battle plan for 2012. There will be a number of launches that will feature some new approaches to things. There will be more bigger boxed items put together pretty much the same way as the DRT WARP Bikes. There will be DRT ( deluxe real type) figures, DX (deluxe painted) figures , classic painted, clears and glows. There will be plenty of bikes over the next few months...and other big baddies to take on the likes of the big rig. Matt and I have a bunch of intertwining stories in the works. Expect a bunch of crossovers and CCC3. I am going to try  to hustle some Callgrim tees as well...Maybe do some squeegie yanking with Boris.
    Prices on things will be dictated by how much I put into each project. I am amazed at how successful I am at finding new and inventive ways of losing money. I try not to make it too painful on the wallet for you guys despite my costly creative self indulgences... or bells and whistles. I sleep easy at night knowing that you can get piles of stuff cheap over with the Beard Lord. Don't worry- I will still sprinkle a few classic style $10 releases in this year.
    2011 was a successful year for Callgrim. Successful in that it gimps along at a break even pace- enough for me to continue doing it without getting thrown out of the house... for now. The Holding Cell will be a major feature of the 2012 approach to bringing you new things. Some people will dig what I do here- others will hate it. I will use the Holding Cell to do mini launches, one of a kind customs and other weird shit. There will be little if any notice on what's going on there- so keep checking in. I have to be a mercenary here- Callgrim needs more pals to roll with and steel is not cheap.
2012 will be a doozie... Big launches, little launches- new stuff, old stuff- Holding Cell madness and more- Glow-Bones! Glow-Bones! Glow-Bones!