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After WF

After WF
Originally uploaded by Baikin

SOLD OUT, thanks!!!

WONDER FESTIVAL KUMON

WONDER FESTIVAL KUMON
Originally uploaded by Baikin

1st version Kumon is about ready to go! Just need to finish making the headers and bagging them up sometime week.

WONDER FEST version will be black vinyl with dark gray silver and light gold sprays. Designed by Yatsuashi, Sculpted by Gargamel (Kiyoka Ikeda), Produced by Shirahama. Figure is about 5 inches tall and will retail for 4200 (tax in). Available at WONDER FESTIVAL on July 25th, HALL 5, Booth 5-27-05.

The GARGAMEL guys in all their awesomeness put some info up in japanese too if you want to see it, go here, http://blog.livedoor.jp/gargamel/archives/51132631.html . Thanks guys!!!!

These are not going to be available in the US, sorry to anyone that was hoping they would. I will work something out next time, probably have people just contact me through this blog to keep it simple.

A long time coming but almost here.

Wax Buns
Originally uploaded by Baikin

This has been a while in planning and getting done, with all involved being busy or on a tight budget it took a little time but it's sooooo worth the wait! Here is the wax after being taken from the mold of the original scuplt and cleaned up, which is just as laborious as the initial sculpt itself! Maybe more, if you mess this up you have to start over. :(
I like the green of the wax and maybe I'll do the figure itself in green later too. Anyway, another teaser shot to peruse.

Oh yeah, did I say I am stoked!

I started a new blog:

And its all M1GO and how I am obsessed by the beauty of monsters. Click on the link over to the right to see it, most of the posts are just ones I moved or edited from before but I will be adding more for sure.

And I started my cat crazy blog again too, so if you love the fuzz check it out.

Painting again, finally.

pestar custom 1
Originally uploaded by Baikin

Thankfully its been Golden Week, its not really a week so they should stop getting out hopes up, its actually five days this year. Anyway, I got so real relax time and did some painting. I have barely been painting for a long time now as its been very busy at work and I spend 14 hours a day going to, working and coming home and what do I do all day at work? Spray work for car repair shops here in Japan so the last thing I want to do is spray when I get home these days! I think I will do it everyday when I get back but I just end up playing with my cats and watching Reaper or Dexter.

But back to toys, here are a few I did for some events coming up and some gifts too.

Kaiju are Tooooo Scary!

At least that is what Marusan thought when they first started making sofubi kaiju. When first planning they imagined the monsters would be too frightening if realistic so they decided to make them more charming, and what better influence that a chubby little cherub faced doll, Kewpie! I hope that doesn't ruin the whole monster thing for you now, it actually makes me love kiaju toys even more. Maybe thats why when I started collecting it was the Bandai figures with thier attention to detail that got me started, I didnt see alot of the Marusan and Bullmark toys around in the early '80s and when I did they were already beyone my bugdet, so I ended up with a huge shelf full of Bandai figures. But that changed not long after I found a bunch of Bullmarks tucked away in a botton shelf at a certain store in Emeryville, now if you came to my house you would be hard pressed to find a Bandai figure unless its one of the re-issue Bullmarks they have been releasing for a while now, actually I found a clear Bandai Mechagodzilla in a box yesterday I totally forgot about.

So next time you see a Kewpie give it some love, its party responsible for the vinyl madness you enjoy today.