GARAFINK!!!

What you're hearing is the sound of my head exploding, 'cause this is
TOO!
FREAKING!
COOL!



I have next to no details on this, other than that it's a garage kit that was released at Wonderfestival Summer '09 this past weekend.

Super-fugly Kaiyodo on a rampage

Dude, what happened to you?



From here.

Remember to tip your Garabarista

From here.

Lego my Gary

From here, where you'll find a host of other great Ultra-kaiju Lego creations, too.

PK shoots AoD

The work of the great PaulKaiju has been featured on Garamania many times before (here, here and here, for example). I'm a huge fan of the guy's work- I have commissioned several pieces from him over the last few years, and they're always amazing. I think highly of him not just as an innovative painter/customizer, but as a synthesist of the old and new toy culture. He really gets it, and you can tell he has a great appreciation of his role in all of it.

When I finished the Ash of Death custom, it hit me like a bolt outta the blue: "I gotta send this to Paul!" Seemed so right- I know he has a love of the character, and I was also psyched to send him a custom piece of my own which I felt so satisfied with.

I was delighted to check in on Paul's Flickr last week to find these super-sweet snaps of AoD!




Cheers, Paul!

Busted

"Look, officer..."

"Sir, again, I am not willing to discuss it with you any further at this time. This is NOT a nude beach. End of story. Now, please keep moving."

From Flickr's Ultra fan group.

Great Semi-Ningen and Garamon build-ups

This person did a smashing job on the Kaiyodo Gary, even plugging in acrylic eyes:


... and equally great work on this Semi-Ningen build-up (not sure of the manufacturer of this kit):

This modeler's full gallery of Ultra-Q beastie build-ups can be accessed here- check it out!

Camping with Pygmon!

Great stuff in a very sweet photoset, found here.

Pygmonic forlornitude

Probably because someone else ate the last Lorna Doon...

Discardamon

From here.

Garaflickrvisions

Two great images, from the photostreams of plover1:

... and geozilla:

Round-up: Gara-graphic Greatness, Vol. III

Funny little graphic from this blog:

Garamonic portrait, found here:

Super-cool drawing... have I posted this one before?

My memory is absolutely horrible, of late... oh well, this drawing's so nice it should be posted twice. Found here.

Papercraft Gary-head on other klassic kaiju bodies:

HA!
From here.