Archive for the ‘Kaiju’ Tag
BlobPus is a designer vinyl company that I do not know much about, but they have some really neat designs with lots of tentacles and a ‘softer’ sculpting style than most figures. They are quite well established, to the point of hosting a painting contest. Normally an event like this would end up in Japan only, but contest blanks were sold through the retailed lulubelltoys, so naturally I had to grab one and give it a whirl.
I based my blob’s paint scheme on the color scheme I use for my HORDES Legion of Everblight dragonspawn figures, a scheme I have not painted in a while and was itching to try with the airbrush and new paints. I used multiple shades of purple for the undertones, and highlighted the highest points with everything up to pure white. Anything tentacle sucker-ey was colored pink and given some red ink details. The base blank figure was clear, so I wanted to try and use some of that in my paint job. The eyes are sewn shut, but I painted the inside of the eyes with clear yellow and green, and allowed some of to show through like a glow of power leaking through. I also decided the skull on the one tentacle would be a magic blast of some sort, rather than just a gross tentacle holding a skull.
The one part I had a tough time on was the mouth area… I wanted it to be bloody at first, but figured it would get lost among the red tentacle details, so I tried to give it a green glowing effect after the fact. Really I should have done like the eyes and painted the colors from the inside and just gone light on the white and purple, but it is too late now.
Edit: I just (9/25) received word that my figure was one of five chosen for the show! I think that 5 is just chosen from the non-Japan people who contributed, and it is an honor and thrill to be chosen!
Had some unbelievably overgrown yams that were just begging to meet their role models. Too bad I’m still waiting on the new Eyezon minis, as they would have fit in perfectly!
Wombat Toys’ Junker V figures in a loving embrace… the blue is the standard release Garuban tribute, and the white is the San Diego Comic Con exclusive Paul Kaiju-painted Medik release. One of my favorite sculpts!
Mutant Chaos is a shapeshifter, who can sample different organisms with his probe arm and take their form. I ended up with a Chaosman (Chaos head and Mutant body) blank after making a Bigaos (Chaos body, Bigaro head shroud), and event though the Bigaos was what I was after first, I ended up having an idea for what to do with the Chaosman blank first. This is Chaos after taking a zombie form… the question being, is he still Chaos inside, or has the zombie plague corrupted even Chaos and turned him into a mindless shambler???
The figure was airbrushed with Cel-Vinyl colors, and then I went in and hand painted the wrist bracelets to be rusted over, as well as adding the ichor to the head and the blood drips and splats.
This is a prototype for an accessory I’m working on. I’ve got an awesome Armored Chaos Real x Head figure, and I thought he would look awesome with a ray gun to wield. Mutant Chaos is supposed to be a shape shifter, who uses his distinctive arm probe to sample other organisms to mimic, but I like to think that the probe can also double as a ray weapon of sorts. The Armored Chaos figure is a tribute to an old Japanese show hero, and looks like a form Mutant Chaos would take when things are getting heavy and the Mutants need some support. I figured he could shapeshift the probe into a ray-gun so he could still use it, but in the heat of battle, he might lose focus, and the ray-gun probe extremity would be the first thing to waver in form. The current piece is sculpted out of Aves Apoxie-Sculpt over a plastic tubing armature, with some styrene-strip details and some miscellaneous tank bits. The details still are not a hundred percent, as I want to refine the tendril-like texture of the gun, as well as add maybe a trigger or a bit more detail to the rear ray-gun bit. I’m thinking that if there’s interest, I could recast these to sell, with or without painting depending on what people want.
While I was taking the glow shots of Eyezon, I figured I’d take a glow collection shot as well! Here’s everything I’ve got so far, with more glowing stuff on the way! There’s the Eyezon, my DeadPresident’s Alien Xam ‘Baltan’, RxH Kozik Pickel Bigaro and Chaos, RxH GID Gachigon (and baby!), and the head on my Onell Phanost!
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!
My first Real X Head custom! RxH is one of the premier Japanese designer vinyl companies, made from the ground up by Mori, the owner and creative genius behind the designs. I like the sculpts of the RxH figures alot, but there are so many colorways to chose from at this point that I’ve only picked up a few production pieces. To get most of the sculpts, I instead opted to snag an entire peach flesh set to do with as I pleased, including a couple extra of the Bigaro sculpt, seen here, to practice on.
This figure is designed as a tribute to Tetsujin-28, known in the US as Gigantor, one of the original animated giant robots from way back in the late 1960’s. I love the classic muted blue of Gigantor, with its small splashes of color for trim. The yellow 28s on the arms are a nod to the later redesigned T-28, which had big yellow stenciled 28s on its forearms. I had originally airbrushed the eye, but my aim is not true enough yet, and my yellow paint was not the best mix, so I colored back over all of that and hand painted the eye area. Big thanks to my friend Sanjeev for his tip on how to ‘fake’ metallic colors with a thin silver coat over all the non-metallic colors! I had drawn up the ideas for this guy, and managed to paint the entire figure from start to finish in an evening. It still amazes me how much I can get done now with the airbrush! The ‘cape’ is painted to look like T-28’s distinctive jet-pack flame. When I was taking the photos, something dawned on me as well: the gold-mist Bigaro makes a perfect Black Ox stand-in! Watch as Bigantor copies some moves he saw in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen!
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.
Prometheus Rising Studios 