Hello! I'M Timo.
How it all started
As a kid I was obsessed with art, model making, sculpting and painting everything from airplanes to beetles, dinosaurs and all kind of stuff. A always loved visiting museums and expositions. I’m from a very artistic family. My uncle Jonny Reinert once had the Guiness Wold Record in building the biggest ship in a bottle. I studied industrial design and did a lot of technical work. It was years later, when I visited a natural history museum with my kids that we saw these great models and real fossils and I thought about the fun I had as a kid with sculpting, art and painting. In university I learned the art of sculpting with polymer clay and all the other classic materials, such as plaster, marble, clay and mold-making and casting techniques as well. Later I learned steel welding, 3D CAD, metal casting and a lot more. Most of these Skills aren’t required anymore in industrial design (except 3D stuff on the computer, it’s mostly that, today). My interests in science, movie props, history, art and sometimes nostalgia guides me in my projects.
You can buy my sculptures on Etsy.
A LITTLE INSIDE INTO MY WORK
1. It all begins with an idea. From a movie, a picture or whatever. With my Dodo sculpture for example, I started with resource material, like pictures and scientific papers and I bought books about it. With my steel sculptures, I usually just make a little sketch, first. Between the first idea and a finished sculpture there can lay many years or just hours.
2. After that I make some sketches, a 3D-Model in SolidWorks, Zbrush, Cinema 4D or I just start building a wire armature.
3. After that I start sculpting or building. After the work is finished, I 3d scan it then with a Skulpture I mostly set it up for mold-making. Depending on the geometry of the sculpture and my approach. Sometimes I just make a one off Skulpture, without mold making.
4. When casting in polyurethane-resin, I use a pressure pot to ensure air-bubble free castings.
5. After casting the parts. I glue everything together and make some corrections and changes with epoxy clay. That’s why most of my models aren’t the same in detail.
6. Then I paint and weather my sculptures with a lot of different techniques, from airbrush to dry brush.
7. I love to work with wood in original techniques. Sometimes I give the baseboard more time and love then the hole rest of the sculpture. That why I use only the best woods and materials for my bases like shellac and real brass.
Thank you very much for your interest!
The most important part in my works is to ensure the best possible quality for my works and my clients!
If you have any questions, just feel free to contact me here on Etsy in German or English.
Have fun!