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Eyezon is probably the most recognizable of the Max Toy Company creations. The back story is that Eyezon is a giant mutated potato, now bent on destruction (obviously). This was the unpainted Glow in the Dark (GID) release, painted by me to look like Eyezon right after mutating. The colors are more ‘natural’ earthy potato colors for the body, along with yellows and greens for the arms and legs to look like potato sprouts, with the magenta tips to the growth characteristic of potatoes. I had alot of fun painting this big guy up, and he still glows awesomely thanks to some subtlety and transparency to the colors!
Glow shots have arrived!
Pics of my shelves seem to have become pretty popular, so here’s an update including much better pics of my vinyl shelves, and the bottom shelf totally redone with my TF big-guns in anticipation of some new stuff coming! Right now I’m loving the Max Toy Co and glow display on my nightstand.
OK, photos came out better in a little less light so we’re good!
This is the insect-kaiju Gumos, sculpted by Dream Rockets, released in unpainted green vinyl as part of the Battle Pack with Max Toy Co’s unpainted flesh Captain Maxx, used for my Maxx-vell custom. This is the first kaiju I airbrushed, and it was very different from doing Maxx-vell. The colors were applied much more roughly, and free-handed, rather than the handpainting and masking and shading of Captain Maxx. I used a dark green to shade the sculpt, a light green to highlight it, and used the awesome green of the vinyl for the midtones. Browns and reds for the spines/spikes, and yellow greens for the claws. The eyes were a bit of an experiment, and I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. I painted the eyes a very dark silver, and then applied dots of much lighter (GW Mithril) silver in a semi-organized pattern. I then applied Tamiya Clear Red in a few thin coats, topped off with some Future for shininess, in an attempt to represent iridescent segmented compound insect eyes.
Here’s a teaser shot for the Gumos kaiju I finished the other day, the second member of the Max Toy Co and Dream Rockets collaborative Battle Pack I purchased, which came with the unpainted flesh Captain Maxx, and an unpainted green Gumos. I’ve gotta take some better photos of Gumos before I upload anything, as my fluorescent lighting washed out all the shading and made most of the figure look unpainted.
Finished photos of Captain Maxx-vel, besides from painting the inner head. Airbrush compressor showed up the other day and worked like a charm! The blue guy in the fight scene is the Max Toy Co Alien Xam GID, painted by Deadpreisdents to look like Alien Baltan, and the pink guy is the Pachi Summit MTC Drazoran.
Captain Maxx is the original creation of Mark Nagata, founder of Max Toy Co, as a combination of his love of Ultraman and his son Max. Since his initial release a few years ago, Captain Maxx has developed a small menagerie of fantastically original enemy Kaiju. An unpainted flesh Captain Maxx was released in a Battle Pack with an unpainted Gumos insect kaiju, and the set was one of my first major vinyl purchases. I couldn’t decide which of the available Captain Maxx figures I liked best, so I decided to get the unpainted figure and make my own! When I saw the Captain Maxx design, the Ultraman influence was apparent, but my first thought was ‘Captain Mar-vell’. The figure reminds me of Captain Mar-vell (from Marvel Comics, not DC’s Shazam!) original Kree battle suit, which he wore in his early comic career. Mar-vell Maxx here is also the first figure I have used my new airbrush on… I did the initial base coat with the brush, and then the highlighting of the base suit color (I went for a mintier base color than the pale in the comics). I had a good time doing the fine highlighting on the light color, but could not replicate the results on the darker green yet… I am using Cel-Vinyl paint from the company Cartoon Color, and it sprays well, but works best at low pressure for the fine point way I use the airbrush. Right now all I have is canned air, which has poor pressure regulation… the only reason I was able to get the results I got the first time was because the can was freezing over and running out of air, so I am working on picking out a compressor so I can start using the airbrush more. The figure is shiny right now because it has multiple coats of Future on it as I finish sections, so that I can do any hand painting work without risking messing up anything airbrushed. I’m going to add highlighting to the dark green sections, as well as some other details and hand paint the Kree planet logo on his chest in another green so it stands out.
Got some packages in the mail today… the Lemon Kirby Mad Baron, molded by Zollmen, painted by King Bee, limited to 30 pieces, and my package from Max Toy Co of Captain Maxx figures… flesh blank Captain Maxx (to be painted like Captain Mar-vell’s original Kree soilder costume), Glittery Drazoran Max Toy Club exclusive, and the Dream Rockets Gumos green blank (to be painted and detailed all bug-like) which came packaged with Cap. Maxx as an exclusive Battle Set. As you can see I wasted no time playing with them!
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