Built-up, unpainted VOLKS Garamon

This resin model kit, one of the many interesting versions of Garamon from VOLKS, is up now on YJA.

A fixer-upper to be sure, but at 2000 yen, it could be worth the investment, if you have the scraping/puttying/gluing/painting gumption.

Round-up: interesting Gara-auction pics

hustle55goodjob is at it again- this time with a cool little SD Pygmon:

Someone's unloading a nicely-built pair of Atelier-G1 Garamon kits (the fancy inner-armature ones); dig the  tasty B&W version:

Man alive, this finished 40cm Volks kit is lookin' superb:

This sculpt has a wonderfully sharp interpretive style, and this paint-up (esp. on the face) really does it justice.

(Did I mention my birthday's comin' up?
My birthday's comin' up.)

Another great custom paint-up, this time of a Bandai Pygmon mini (MAJOR improvement on the factory paint ops):

Finally, we end- as it seems we always must- with a pair of Kaiyodo build-ups:

Great Volks gk build-up

From the kaiju gallery on Hellpainter's site:

Volks mini bustin' through

Well, kids, how do you like this- no posts in three weeks, and suddenly I'm on a roll!

I think that's the way it's gonna be here for a while- fits and spurts.
The compleximentificationary situationalismics of life demand it, at present.

But you, the Gara-public, you demand your news- and so keep the Gara-beat I shall!

Check out this build-up of a super-awesome 15cm Volks mini kit!
Damn cool!

Spotlight: Volks 30cm Garamon

As near as I can tell, Volks produced three different Garamon resin kits: a towering (and fairly sculpturally faithful) 40cm, as seen in an earlier post; a 30cm version; and a version produced under the banner of their Orient Heroes Junior line (not sure of the size...anyone?)

The 30cm is a pretty interesting take on the monster...

This one has taken some time to grow on me, since I first spotted pics of it. I dig it now; kinda looks like an elder Garamon (do these creatures, being biomechanical entities, age in a way that's physically noticeable? Paging Semi-Ningen...). The face on it is especially gaunt and hard-edged, and the eyes are smaller, proportionally, than is typical. It's also very densely packed with scales (I would guess 15%-20% more than usual). The fullness and arrangement of the scales around the jaw lend him a quasi-bearded appearance, and there are even little scale nubs creeping out onto the arms.
The time commitment that would be involved in building one frightens me, and keeps me from pursuing an unbuilt kit...

Round-up: interesting Gara-auction pics

Interesting build-up of the Kaiyodo Garamon, in a scratch-built garadama that looks like it was constructed of painted styrofoam. Hhhmm. I hope they handbrushed the paint onto the styro; once, while working on a sculpture project in college, I learned the hard way that styrofoam and solvent-based spray paints are not a healthy combo! Yikes!

Whoa! Look at the ambience goin’ on here...




Rock on with your bad fog machine self, seller!

Oh, this one…it’s killing me...beautiful build-up of the full-size (40cm) Volks resin kit…super-nice!



If anyone's in a gift-giving mood, my b-day's coming up........in October.....