Petticoat 5

My friend Lindsey just started a new blog today called Petticoat 5. She's doing her part to celebrate Black History Month, and so should you! Go read her blog, or I'll gut you like a fish.

Here's a picture to help you enjoy this post even more:

Little Blue Bot

I've been looking back over the older posts in the Glyos blog and noticed something I had forgotten about: This crazy Exellis in Standard Pheyden's color scheme.



According to collector extraordinaire John Kent, this dude is super-rare, so, seeing as I'd probably never see a real one, I decided to make my own.

I like the Hybrid Sarvos chest design a lot, and I happened to have an extra one. Sooooo... now I have a fake Blue Exellis (not sure what his name should be... the standard Exellis scheme is totally different than Pheyden's, so that name doesn't apply) I painted an extra Eidrellim Exellis head I got in a Junk Pile set to match the standard scheme. I worked my butt off to match the exact color, but matching the standard blue is a tough nut to crack. In these pics the difference shows up like crazy, but in person it looks dead-on. I'm satisfied, so I guess it's ok.

Extra bonus: because he's based on the Sarvos chest, he can sport a spiffy little backpack! Weeee!

Enjoy:

New old stuff

Got this guy in the mail today. I never really cared for the American version of the Power Rangers, but I always dug the villains-- Goldar in particular. I missed out on getting a figure of him back in the day, because Power Rangers stuff was rare, rare, rare in these parts. I snagged this goon on eBay for 4 bucks, which is honestly a great deal-- most times the big vinyls go for a good chunk more than that.



He's an 8-inch-tall, rotocast vinyl figure, and he's made from some pretty dense vinyl. The quality on these Bandai vinyl figures is always top notch. He's pretty darn well-sculpted with a considerable amount of detail work for what was essentially a toy from a kid's show. He has cut joints at the shoulders, waist, and hips, so he's pretty nicely poseable.



The paint has held up pretty well considering that the toy was a kid's toy and that it's over 17 years old. I'm going to need to touch it up a bit, but that's part of the fun.




I had no idea just how huge this guy is until I had him next to some of my other figures-- he's an impressive addition to my kaiju collection!



Not too shabby for 4 bucks, huh?



Now... in addition to that I'm posting pics of this big sucker: the 13 inch tall rotocast vinyl Hulk figure from the first movie (you know... the one that sucked). Bad movie/great toy! I picked this dude up in 2003 when I was still in college (ZOUNDS!). They had just put them out on the shelves at Walmart, and these bad boys only cost 10 bucks. 13 inches of nicely articulated vinyl Hulk. WITH PANTS!!! Not too shabby!



There were two different versions: one with a slightly annoyed expression and one that looked like he was about to rape an elephant. I snapped up this one because I liked the face sculpt better. There's something powerful about the facial sculpt that says "calm before the storm." It's like potential energy as opposed to the other one that looks like an enraged wrestler who just realized someone peed in his beer.



When I say that this sucker is huge, I mean HUGE. He stands 13 inches tall and he's just about as wide as he is tall! He has 3 ball joints-- something that more rotovinyl toy makers need to explore-- which give him an impressive range of motion. His shoulders and ribcage areball-jointed, and he has cut joints in the neck, biceps, wrists, waist, hips, knees, and ankles. He looks great standing in his standard pose, but he can take on a nice amount of dynamic poses due to the clever articulation.



It's a really nice figure with some delightfully intricate sculptural details. If you ever see one at a good price, I'd say "snag it!" It looks really good on a shelf, and it's a lot of fun to goof around with.

Some older things...

I'm feeling kinda yucky today, so I figured I'd share some old drawings and such.

First up: some old sketches from the sketchbook:








A drawing for an online calender:



Several pieces that were in art shows:




And a few I did just because I felt like doing them!

Alloy

I really like silver toys. I have no idea why, I just do. Way back when I first saw that Onell Design was coming out with the rotocast vinyl Armodoc, I knew I wanted a silver one. For some reason or another, there isn't going to be an all silver one, so I did what I usually do. I made one. I got the Standard and Reverse Ayosire Armodocs and swapped out the colors to make an all black one, and I used the all purple one to make this figure that I now call the Alloy Armodoc. I thought about making it solid, clean silver, but thought it would look cooler all gritty and worn. There are mud stains, rust, old paint, and alien blood (not real!) smeared all over this guy. The way I see it, he's been at the game a long time, and I wanted that to show through.







I think he looks pretty spiffy with my other silver Glyos figures. Yay for silver toys!

A Little Update

I have received some questions about the modifications I did on my 3.75" Terminator figure. I've updated that post with some diagrams that might help folks with customs and such.

Check it out here.