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ABOUT SILLOF
I have gotten some requests for a little background info on myself.
So, as awkward as this feels here you go.
First off, it "Si" (like Psi or Sci-fi ) and "llof"
(like cough or pilaf).
People ask if this is my job or where I went to school. This is
no where near what I do for a living. Also, I have no formal art
training. This is just my hobby that I do to relax. If
something turns out good, it is just from years of practice, or luck.
People have asked about how I got started doing this.
I started building custom figures and dioramas when I was a kid.
My first customs would have been simple things when I was a kid.
Things like putting a regular Luke head on the X-Wing Pilot Luke body or
cutting off Bespin Luke's hand and drilling it out, and putting a nail in it
to make it re-attachable. Here are
some of my older custom figures.
My first dioramas would be a Cloud City my mother and I built when I was 7
out of cardboard, construction paper, and paper towel tubes and when
was 9 a wooden Autobot base, complete with working elevators, my father and
I built. Here is a very early
diorama.
My first props would have been a lightsaber I made out of different sized
dowel rods, a He-Man sword cut out of wood, and a Star Trek Phaser
made out of a 2 x 4, broomstick and a pencil.
Here is a very early prop.
I got back into such hobbies in college. I opened my website in 1998.
It was then called "The Wook's Workshop" It grew from a
geocities site, to sites hosted via my internet providers, to the current
site you are looking at.
People have asked were else they have seen my work.
My work has been featured online on blogs, websites, and online news
services. In newspapers at the local, national and international
levels. In books and magazines nationally and world wide.
On television in local news, national news, cable, and overseas.
In independent films as props, costumes, and set designs. Publicly
displayed at contests, fairs, & conventions including 3 of the 4 Star Wars
Celebrations. Most recently my work has been seen in Toyfare and
Star Wars Insider Magazines.
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CUSTOM FIGURES
