[Marasai] Tetra TF Design

Tetra is an ongoing project, even if it appears to be dirtier than my previous works, I'm in the shaping process and then I aim to make it a lot cleaner and smoother than ever.
The design is based on the original Marasai and the rough kitbash made by Kito of its original Shoki and his 1/100 resin Marasai. I had concepts of a more dinosaur-like body structure, instead of the usual humanoid shapes and I had in my mind a massive use of spheres as a shape to appear broadly in Tetra's build.
The whole body is designed to be sort of leaning towards, and the shapes will be sharper in the front section and going smoothly rounder in the back section.
The scratch of the torso is a bandai Evangelion plamodel, with added resin parts and a Ma.K 1/35 Melusine lid.
The sphere joined to the torso is then attached to a movable joint forming the crotch.
The legs will be oversized, recalling hyper muscled legs, with a characteristic Zeon set of feet made with various parts.
Arms were imagined as light, almost bone-like, they will have springs and tubes but they'll mantain the thin look in contrast with the big shoulder pads.
It will be completed with a set of shields, an antenna and other details.

Terada Katsuya

As you may easily guess, I'm a huge fan of Terada Katsuya; I also graduated with an essay about his art and his philosophy, I think he's my all-time favorite illustrator, along with Moebius.
He's always been an inspiration to me, both in drawing and sculpture, thus I chose this nickname.
So, today, since I got volume two of Saiyukiden and a small booklet titled Terada Gabon, I took pictures of some of the lot of things by Terada I got in my room.

This are Saiyukiden 2 and Terada Gabon, with a picture of one of the sick monsters appearing in the book; very Go Nagai-ish.

Here's my bookshelf of Terada's personal artbooks and comics, I have many other books with his works, scattered around my bookshelves, he appeared on many collective artbooks like Lemni3003, Flat and S.M.H. He also had a lot of illustrations on Nirasawa's artbook Creature Core. I'm missing a couple of his latest artbooks like Viva Il Ciclissimo and his design book for animated movie Yona.
And yes, I have two copies of Rakugaking, one is for reference and scanning, the other one is almost immaculate.

And finally, Terada's own sculpture and related ones, Keita Amemiya's sculpture and the wall plaque were made by Terada himself, the Milk Girl was sculpted by Gill Gill's guys and sold at a WonderFestival. I'm desperately looking for Terada's Nina by Begul, it's wonderful and I wish I can get it sometime.

I'm thinking about making some more artists only posts; maybe about lesser known artists; in the meantime, I'll keep posting snippets of my modelling works.

Ciao!

Kito Eisaku's Shoki + Heavy Friend first stages

I got a Shoki! After years and years of unstoppable desire for the most wonderful kit by Kito Eisaku, I finally got it thanks to Maxx of RMGaragekits! I immediately started working on it! Quite slowly, but hey, I want to enjoy every step of the building process.
I also worked a lot on a top secret project, I'll let you know once it is possible.
Then, an old project got an unexpected twist lately, so the once called Zari Girbo, that became Magnifico Visbal, is now known as Heavy Friend. The picture posted is the first stage of a certain part of it. I like the shapes it has and I wish it will grow up to be like I'm picturing it right now.
Ah, it's huge.





See more at my new flickr: flickr.com/terada_family

Ciao!