DARTH VADER WINE STOPPER

“I find your lack of wine disturbing…”

Wine stoppers available through

my shop HERE

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Keep your Sith lord as happy as he can be with these Darth Vader wine stoppers! They make great gifts for wine lovers!

Darth Vader Metallic Edition wine stoppers are cold cast in BRONZE. wine accesessories are cast, buffed and sealed upon order. Perfect for your geeky wine lover!

The flat bottom wine stopper allows you to display your dark side with ease! Now you don’t have to throw it in a junk draw resulting in your functional work of art getting scratched and worn.
If your not a wine lover thats ok too. These bottle stoppers fit most bottles including bath oils!

* Fits wine, oil, vinegar and bath oil bottles
* Solid FDA kitchen grade stainless steel
* FDA nitrile o-rings fit majority of bottles
*Stopper piece designed and patented by Ruth Niles

All Pieces of this product are made in the USA!

Dimensions: 3.5" x 2.5"

Original Darth Vader wine bottle stopper top is sculpted by Mike. He starts in clay and through a series of refinemet and mold making they are eventually cast in wax. Once in wax there are detailed and smoothed. From that piece MW Gaiss makes a master that all other molds are mode from. Stay tuned to mikes blog for tutorials on this process in the future.

Share this with a wine enthusiast you know!

storm trooper Wine Stopper

"Inform Lord Vader we have a robust Cabernet!”

Wine stopper available through

my shop HERE

Stormtrooper Metallic Edition wine stopper is cold cast in Bronze. wine accesesories are cast, buffed and sealed upon order. Let your geeky wine lover know who enforces the rules in your Galactic Empire! They make great gifts for wine lovers!

The flat bottom wine stopper allows you to display your dark side with ease! Now you don’t have to throw it in a junk draw resulting in your functional work of art getting scratched and worn.
If your not a wine lover that,s ok too. These bottle stoppers fit most bottles including bath oils!

* Fits wine, oil, vinegar and bath oil bottles
* Solid FDA kitchen grade stainless steel
* FDA nitrile o-rings fit majority of bottles
*Stopper piece designed and patented by Ruth Niles

All Pieces of this product are made in the USA!

Dimensions: 3.5" x 2.5"

Original stormtrooper wine bottle stopper top is sculpted by Mike. He starts in clay and through a series of refinemet and mold making they are eventually cast in wax. Once in wax there are detailed and smoothed. From that piece MW Gaiss makes a master that all other molds are mode from. Stay tuned to mikes blog for tutorials on this process in the future.

Share this with a wine enthusiast you know!

STAR WARS WATERPROOF STICKERS

Can be purchased HERE

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All custom stickers are Printed on high quality matte white vinyl for
optimum print details and covered in a clear laminate - your sticker will be well
Protected from UV and water for years. The quality adhesive paper are waterproof, But to make them truly stand up to the elements I add the extra laminate on top by hand. This makes them the ultimate waterproof sticker.

3.5" Round Hand Cut
White Matte Vinyl Sticker f
3mil Cold laminate

Indoors or Outdoors, Bumper sticker etc..

Show your love for your favorite Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter or other Star Wars characters.Slap one on your car!

Still rocking a trapper keeper? Then these custom stickers are for you. Images drawn my MW Gaiss.

STAR WARS CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

Can be purchased HERE

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4" round
Christmas Ornaments printed on 70 lb Matte photo paper
5mil hot lamination front and back
Hole punched and hook included.
Signed by Artist on Back

STAR WARS, STORM TROOPER, WATERPROOF STICKER, DIE REBEL SCUM!

Can be purchased HERE

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for more info and more pictures of the stickers.

I love this sticker, Also Available as a FRIDGE MAGNET as are most of the stickers. Combines my love of scrubbing bubbles and star wars, as well as my dislike for scum.

Stick them inside or outside, on your laptop, car, guitar on your locker!! The possibilities are endless...


Vinyl Matte Waterproof sticker
Bumper sticker quality
size aprox : 3.75 x 3.75"
Printed with pigmented inks on White Vinyl Adhesive
Hand Cut
2 mil

Cold lamination on top.

POPEYE

AKA Popeye the Sailor man -Sculpted for the official 85th Anniversary Popeye show by King Features and Hero Complex Gallery. Popeye was one of my favorite sculpture to work on. I really wanted to take him out of the cartoon and brimg him a ittle closer to reality. Tattoos, a grown over hole for an eye, some knives and ropes. I couldn’t find out if there was a story about Popeye, well his eye! I never thought he was just squinting one eye. When i was a kid i assumed it got ripped out by Brutus! I worked on a lobster boat for some time when i was younger, so i was familiar with the salty water life. So i tapped into that and thought about what Popeye would actually be like if he real. Probably a bit bitter, had a few scars and a few tattoos.

Popeye the sailor man was sculpted from a non sulfur polymer clay. I cut him into 3 pieces and pulled silicone molds. Cast into urethane reassembled and painted.

Popeye’s ship was sculpted from foam skim coated with magic sculpt and sanded. Wood and wood laminate was used for planks and the deck. The captains wheel was carved and machined in pieces then assembled into the sculpture last although sculpted first. I needed a prototype of the wheel so i could sculpt Popeye man’s stance and position his arms and hands correctly.

There is also a variant of just Popeye standing with his fists set in the air ready to blow Brutus’s chin off and save his dame Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea.

The whole sculpture stands about 11 inches. Popeye himself is about 7 inches.

Inquire about purchasing both variation

mwgaiss@zeitgaiss.com

FRANK ZAPPA

Frank Zappa sculpture for Hero Complex Gallery "One liners and Lyrics" Show. Opens February 27th 2015. 

14" x 17"

Mixed media

Zappa was sculpted from Chavant. A non-sulfur polymer clay. A mold was made from silicone. After the mold was cleaned I Hand Roto Cast the sculpture in fast curing high impact urethane.

I used 4 used Stratocaster Guitar necks and head stocks for the frame. The backing plate and head stocks were torched before assembly for that nice amber color. The Stratocaster necks required a bit of work. I had to break and remove the Truss rod in the neck by making an incision down the back of each neck essentially to remove the rod. Why do this? Well i had to chop each neck down to the proper length. The truss rod is steel and ripping through that with a chop saw is not recommended. I also had to replace some hardware on the head stock to make them all match.

Frank Zappa was painted separately before assembly using acrylics in a combination of hand and airbrushing. I used a completely new technique on the eyes to give them some real nice depth. Decsription of this technique can be found in my blog.

I still have one of these sculptures remaining and could part with it. If interested please email me mwgaiss@zeitgaiss.com

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GREMLINS

Everyone's favorite Gremlin "Stripe", for  " it came from 1984" at the Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn NY.

This sculpture took a while. Gremlins are awesome, i think we all can agree on that. So instead of going small I went roughly full size. I waned to capture the menacing playfulness of Stripe. I never think of gremlins standing there, or Stripe for that matter. There always on the move causing havoc and debauchery. I had to make him hanging off a lamp post in that iconic spiderman like pose. Granted its a tough sell. It takes up some real estate in your house. I have actually changed the mounting. He no longer needs the pole. There are now clips in his hand. I can latch him onto most structures and i do. Hes up hanging from my porch. It looks awesome and my kids love it. Halloween is really Stripes time to shine though. Ill add some of those pictures shortly. I even keep an extra fastener on the telephone pole and hang him under the street lights until i get asked to take him down.

Sculpted from roma plastelina, I had to seal the whole sculpture before pulling molds from silicone. The sulfur in roma, while making it lovely to sculpt, will kill your silicone. It will never set and you’ll ruin everything. In addition i had to cut off his arms, hands, head and ears to make 6/7 molds. Some molds were 1 part some were 4.A lengthy and difficult task. Once cast in urethane I drilled out connecting pieces, inserted deep steel rods in the bore holes. Fastened with epoxy and “magic sculpt” on the inside. I then sutured all the seams and re-sculpted and detailed any remaining areas. Then painted him up!

Gremlins has always been one of my favorite movies since it came out when i was a child. I’m pretty happy to have Stripe from my own instead of selling him.

These are the original dimensions. With the new fastener system he no longer takes up a 4 foot vertical space.

Total Dimensions 4' by 27"

Character Dimensions  18" if Standing

Edition  of 10

Available for purchase if you can convince me. Or you can commission me for a unique Gremlin of your own in any size you desire!

mwgaiss@zeitgaiss.com

This Super Mario was done for a Nintendo themed show at Bottle Neck Gallery in Brooklyn NY. Sculpted in NSP Chavant, molded in silicone, and cast into urethane. Painted and shipped out. It was fun to bring Super Mario into a different mind set. I thought if i was doing all that jumping, running, and lifting that instead of being short and pudgy, I would more likely be rather fit. So that’s the angle i took with this Nitendo favorite. There is also a Variant of Super Mario wielding a fireball instead of a turtle. Heres Fireball Mario.

Magic Hat Brewery in Vermont comissioned M W Gaiss to sculpt their Design for there Wilhelm Scream seasonal ale. The tap handle was duplicated for over 1000 breweries across the United States