It’s that time of year again!  Royalt1us has put out the call for your original Masters of the Universe character designs for his 5th Annual Fan-Based Character Contest. As in years past, the winning design will be immortalized in a resin mini statue.

From Royalt1us:

It’s time for Royalt1us’ 5th Annual Fan-Based Character Contest

For 5 years now I have held a custom character contest here on He-Man.org as a way to motivate and challenge myself to try new and more difficult things in my quest to learn how to sculpt. As well as do something fun for the members here.

The past 5 contests have been:
2005- Custom Fan-Based Character Bust won by GLADE.
2006- Custom Fan-Based Character Staction co-championed by OOZOR and COPPERHEAD.
2007- Custom Fan-Based Character Staction won by PO-LAR
2007- Custom Kids Fan-Based Character staction won by LAVA-SHARK.
2008, due to time constraints, Custom Fan-Based Character Staction 2nd Chance won by SPY-FLY.

So this year I want to do something special, but I haven’t got all the details worked out yet so I’m not going to post how things are going to go down just yet. However, I do want to kick things off with a
Call for Characters!

For the next 2 weeks sumbit the characters you want to enter in this years contest. And just like any other year, the rules are pretty straight forward.
Charcters must be submitte by midnight on November 15th.
All characters must be Original Fan-Bases Characters.
Characters can be submited with pictures or writen bios or both.
Characters should be given some sort of name and affiliation.
While I’d love to see all new charcters, no previous characters are excluded from this years contest.
And this year Character designs and ideas should be designated as either 80s, 200x, or MOTUC.
(What I mean by that is designate what style of figure you would want it to be: MOTUC, 200x, or 80’s. You can designate 1 or 2 of the 3, but not all 3.)

That’s it for now. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. This thread will be updated with the Contest Format in two weeks, so Bring on the characters. And post them in this thread. As many as you want.

Pics of a few more current submissions after the jump. (more…)

How awesome is it to see a painted version of Royalt1us’s Spy-Fly?  I say quite awesome.  Quite, indeed.  The paint job by He-Man.org member, The Doctor, stays true to this piece of original concept art by Buffalo Bill Man and really emphasized the cool details of the sculpt.

Here’s another image of Spy-Fly with his pals Po-Lar and Lava-Shark (also sculpted by Rolalt1us and painted by The Doctor):

You can still get your own Spy-Fly here.

Royalt1us has recently befun sculpting his highly anticipated follow up to the Lava-Shark resin mini-statue, Spy-Fly.  He has just unveiled images of the head sculpt this week.  Not only do these images serve as a preview of how awesome that Spy-Fly is going to be, but also as a reminder that I need to get painting on my Lava-Sharks!

For all the latest on the progress of Spy-Fly, check out this thread at the He-Man.org forums.

This image of an amazingly painted Lava-Shark is courtesy of He-Man.org user Flitzi.  The hammerhead style is the original sculpt by Royalt1us.  Hovever, he also created a second, great white style variant as well.  The sculpt, well as this paint job (also courtesy of Flitzi) is heavily inspired by the original creation of MOTU artist Eliliano Santalucia, Might Bite.

For more info on Lava-Shark, click here.

For more info on Might-Bite, click here.

To get your very own Lava-Shark or Might-Bite mini-statues by Royalt1us, click here.

He’s finally arrived!  The Great White-style variant of Lava-Shark is here!  And I’ve actually really got to say that I think I prefer this version.  The suclpt is inspired by the unreleased character Might Bite, created by Masters of the Universe artist/guru Emiliano Santalucia.  For more info on Might Bite, click here.

V. 1 vs. V. 2:

To get your own Lava-Shark V. 2, click here.

Here’s a qiuck work in progress of the alternate Great White haed version of Lava-Shark by Royalt!us. It’s still unknown if there will be anything else about this statue that will differ from the first version. Although, Royalt1us has indicated that there might be some changes.

After working on him on and off for months, I finally have Royalt1us’s Po-Lar in a state in wich I am happy enough with him to start showing him off. I’m sure that I’ll continue to nitpick him and re-paint little details for months to come, but I felt that it was time to show where I was at with him.
It’s been quite a few years since I have wielded Citadel paints and size 000 brushes, so this has certainly been a learning experience for me. Techniques such as drybrushing, blending, and ink washing, although familiar, totally needed to be relearned.
What I’ve decided to do is move on to my Lava-Shark statue and continue to hone my skills and from there come back to Po-Lar and touch up little details. Now, on to Lava-Shark…

It’s official!  The votes are in and the winner of Royalt1us’s 4th Annual Fan-Based Character Contest is Spy-Fly.  What does this mean?  It means that out of all of the fan-created characteds submitted to this contest by He-Man.org members, Spy-Fly got the most votes.  Therefore, he’s going to get the same sclupting treatment as Po-Lar and Lava-Shark before him.

The two other finalist characters were Ink-Shot, the squid guy, and Wraptor, the mummy snakeman. My vote went for Ink-shot in the final poll, but I’m still super excited to see what Royalt1us does with Spy-Fly. I’ll be sure to keep updating on the progress of the sculpt.
And yes, I’m almost finished painting my Po-Lar and will have pics up of him soon.

This amazing sclpt by He-Man.org user Royalt1us is finally up for sale here. In the next couple of weeks, he plans to release a more traditionally sharky, great white-style, variant.

Can you tell that I’m excited about this sculpt?

According to Royalt1us, he’s on to the arms next, and then on to the alternate (standard shark) head. Keep an eye on the progress along with me here.

This sculpt is looking so freaking rad! Rumor has it that the finished statue will also come with an alternate standard (non hammerhead) shark head.
It’s also worthy of note that I’m making a lot of progress on the painting of Royalt1us’s Po-Lar statue, which I will post pics of when I’m finished.
Follow the further progress of Lava-Shark on the He-Man.org message boards here.

Here are the first few WIP images from Royalt1us of his WIP Lava-Shark sculpt.  This is going to be so badass!  Follow his progress here.

The sculptor Royalt1us from the He-Man.org message boards has begun work on his follow up to Po-Lar, the evil Lava-Shark. Lava-Shark will be available in both a standard shark head style and a variant hammerhead style.

Although sculpting has yet to begin on this piece, you can follow the development/ brainstorming here.
Also, if you’re interested, Po-Lar is still available here.