Miscellaneous Talk

Well, my camera is under maintenance, so I can't take pictures of today's mailbox, made of two other SMH issues (7 and 10), issue 2 of Character Design Bible and Lemni 3003 first issue.
I'm still missing 6 issues of SMH but I should get issue 18 in a couple of weeks.
What's leaving me speechless in any SMH issue I get is the work of Kenji Ando, the composition of his figures and the other elements are in some way "graphic", perfectly balanced and wonderfully made...
I really didn't know he was this good...
He'll surely be a great inspiration as soon as I start modelling again; right now I'm into university exams and other things, so I may start doing something around mid october, in the meantime, I'm waiting to get some models, old plastic kits to kitbash and some resin models I pre ordered.

Sazabi's painting is stopped, so, just to upload some images, here are some past pictures of it...

Today's Mailbox

Today I got four new books, Ma.k in B.D. was the only modern Ma.k book I was missing, I like Yokoyama's painting technique for illustrations, sometimes he reminds me of the latest Ashley Wood, and obviously SF3d setting make it really tasty...
Undead Green Blood is Yasushi Nirasawa's latest book, made of character design for a Kamen Rider series of villains, I think that Nira shifted to a poppier style in the last years, I got this book only for my illustration job and not as a modelling resource.
Then, SIC Hero Saga, Takayuki Takeya and Kenji Ando dioramas for the SIC series, some of them are really incredible, and finally, Red Mausoleum by Keita Amemiya, his comics were great, filled with weird characters and strange settings.
And now, I'm angry because I lost an auction for Amemiya's Kiba artbook, but maybe it's time to get some new models and stop buying books for a while...

Today's Mailbox

I am waiting for a bunch of books, today I got some of them, two issues of SMH, an issue of DDD and Nira Works.
Issue 2 of SMH has a little article about Eisaku Kito and I really like his works, and the DDD is the first one I ever see and it was a great magazine too...
Nira Works is undescribable, it's big, filled with wonderful pictures of Nirasawa models, I'm really glad to have it on my bookshelf now...