I'm Back!!!

Okay, at least I hope I can show you something more detailed soon...
I have been very busy with other things, so I almost had no time to follow garage kits, communities and such, just got a huge spark of "I wanna do some garage kit" some time ago and so I started to do something again.

I'll attach two pictures in this post, one of the "final" version of my Sazabi, it still has to be primed but he's done; the other one is the view of two hands I'm building for two different models.
I set some fixed points about the models I'm making, here are some:

-Absolutely NO WEAPONS, because I want to depict different scenes instead of usual warfare ones, quoting my patron saint Eisaku Kito and his series "An Antique Machine In Peaceful Times" that appeared on SMH.
Old war machines must find new roles is this world. I want to make anti-war models.

-Mechas are not piloted, but are often accompanied by some characters, they may be friends, co-workers, repairers.
I think that all mechas in this world are more like androids, with intelligences of their own.

-Almost all of the mechas have a bigger arm, you see it in Sazabi, you'll see it on other models.
That's why those two hands are for different models.

-I want to mix races, animals, creatures, to create a sort of space-fantasy world, it will blend many of my favorite artists' styles, I'm trying to get most of the influences from Moebius, Eisaku Kito, Makoto Kobayashi, Ryuichiro Kutsuzawa, Keita Amemiya, Philippe Druillet, Star Wars' worlds, Katsuya Terada, Takuhito Kusanagi.

-All the models are mode to fit a 1/35th scale, no exceptions.

So, in the future you may see:

-Albabalbi, the massively modified Sazabi and his friend Henson Chihuato.

-A kitbash, it started from a Neo Shaian and got heavily inspired by my Sazabi, with a little more influence by Takayuki Takeya's Cambria. Anyway, it may be put in a scene with a creepy buddy.

-Gebuler, a.k.a. Gebler, the running robot with two HUGE wheels instead of the feet, racing against Stabreko the lizard man on his motorbike.

-A space engineered Breda.

-Zari Girbo, the fat worker mecha.

-A big kitbash, it will be quite a giant when compared to figures, it's almost a scratchbuild inspired by Last Order's karate robots and Makoto Kobayashi's ZZ Gundam.

-Some armored suits walking away from the harvest along with an old tank.

So, I'm trying to make haste so you can see something soon...

Parts' Box For Zari Girbo

These are all the parts I took from other models to build the Zari Girbo.



The drawing beside the box is an initial concept, as always it's quite fuzzy.
Inspiration sources are my usual ones, Ma.K, Makoto Kobayashi's original designs and Eisaku Kito, especially his wonderful Shoki, I really love that kit, and I'm envious of all those lucky enough to own one.

I think I should write some lines about the background of my models, maybe next time...

A little recap

Well, long time I don't post here uh?

I got no photos of new progress, and to be honest no real progress at all.
The open projects raised in quantity but didn't move much further, Sazabi is still waiting to be primed, Gebler is still, new projects are Goglop, a slightly bigger mecha, made with parts of Breda, Junk Tank Rock's Taco and other things and a bigger mecha, still unnamed made with a Ma.K Kangaroo, parts from a Sierra model and of Wares' Niki Vashmarl.
In all of these models I'm making I feel a big influence from Eisaku Kito's model.

I think that sometime soon I'll get some pictures of the models, meanwhile, I'm waiting for a real bunch of books.

See you soon...

Sazabi Mass. Mod. (updates)

Will I ever finish it?

Stabreko The Lizard Man

This will be a figure appearing with Gebler

Gebler goes on, and becomes a runner

I'll talk more about it soon... =)

Today's Mailbox

Back with the mailbox fuzz! I finally got my camera back and in the meanwhile I got some great books, above all is of course Keita Amemiya's Kiba.
Today I got six books: Okamax is Okama's first book, I got the scans and fell in love with his style, where erotic and naive themes blend, he's one of the few "big big eyes" Japanese artists I like.
Virtua Fighter Ten Stories is Katsuya Terada's comic book on VF, I got it just to complete my Terada bookshelf and I usually adore the composition of the tables in his comics, Saiyukiden is another planet anyway, hope to see vol.2 soon...
Phantom Core, the only Nirasawa book I missed except the very old Fantastic Creature World. This is Phancure's story, I like Nirasawa's sculptures more than his drawings but this little books rocks!
D.D.D. vol.1, Eisaku Kito page features a wonderful model of a mecha, and there are around ten pages of illustrations by Ryuichiro Kutsuzawa, alias my new obsession with Japanese artists.
C.D.B. is Character Design Bible and features articles and making of various artists, this issue has a lot of design of monsters by Takayuki Takeya so it's cool.
The last one is Kazuhisa Kondo's Go Ahead. Kondo designs look like those of a kid if compared to the old designs by Kobayashi, anyway he made some great mechas such as the Breda and the Latch Bum so I was curious to see more of his original works.

I also got some resin figures last week, and some modelling tools and putty, I'm going to start doing some models and attempt some sculpting next week, just in time with the winter holidays... Hear ya soon!