Well for someone to straight up say "It's official. This is my best custom yet. Better than PAW! Better than Mecha Sad Bear. I may have to keep this and refund the buyer!! O___o" if you saw
Cris Rose's customs of these mentioned above you would say how could anything be better than those tow...well above is living proof, a custom Kobito, and an amazing one at that. I think something even as impressive as the custom is the back story, have a read!
The Backstory:
"Even though Whaling had been internationally outlawed in 2058, by 2118 their population was on a knife edge due to illegal whalers that had been operating for 60 years. Frustrated by the situation and quietly amused by Project P's rampage against the poachers the year before, Runcible's creator took Project K to the seas of Japan for it's first real-world testing...
Project K was an experimental prototype for amphibious robots. Able to walk the shores with it's humanoid limbs, yet devastatingly fast in the water thanks to it's huge fish tail. Improvements in robotics meant that sea water was no longer halmful, and in fact lubricated Project K's hardware, the only the iron-polymer skin was vulnerable to the moisture. But that would be worked out in later models.
Runcible's creator had invented many things in his time, all focused on bettering the world - one such invention was the Harmonic Resonator Tube, a system that converted the power from the Earth's magnetic field into an oscillating beam of EM Radiation that was self-tuning to any material. This beam would destabilize materials at the molecular level, freeing the atoms entirely and reducing the object to a fine dust. Once vaporised the atoms could be sucked up, sorted, and recombined in huge matter compilers, enabling almost 100% global recycling within 4 years.
A portable version of this system was available for use in developing nations and often deployed in natural disasters, so shortly before launch, 2 were attached to Project K's back... to test his weight-carrying capacity of course... Project K's test was reported as a failure, contact was lost and it was presumed sunk under the extra bulk.
Within months, the whalers had all but disappeared. Reports were that their boats all suddenly sprung huge leaks and sunk, their ship yards turning to dust over night, no one could explain it. "
Title: "Project K" custom 7" Koibito
Materials: Vinyl, Acrylic, Spray Paint, Plastic, Metal, Resin, Found Objects
Availability: 1/1 - SOLD
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New Haven, Connecticut painter, illustrator and designer
Sket-One was one of the first artists to customize the Dunny. He became hooked on the medium of designer vinyl toys and has since gone on to create iconic characters of his own including the Eggster and Ripple.
Sket's part Michelin Man/Pillsbury Doughboy/Stay Puft Marshmallow man and all ice cream, Ripple is currently appearing on the gallery walls at Kidrobot's new Miami shop. Everybody's favorite animated ice cream cone is now also available to spruce up your
laptop, iPhone or iPod, with prices starting
from $14.99.
Congratulations as well to
Lisa Evans and her
Flying with Star Belly Open Submissions design. The whole team loved your subtle textures and magical characters and unanimously voted you as our favorite submission of the month.
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In order to thank everyone for supporting Kuso in the past year, we have a coupon code "15%KUSOTOYS" for 15% off entire store. Please enter the code during the checkout process to redeem the discount. Offer ends 5/3/2009.
And to note, on top of the sale, Kuso is having a huge discount 30% to 50% off on Japanese Kaiju figures. . Check out our "Kaiju sale" or "Special" section to see what's on sale.
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Brian Colin keeps creating some amazing customs and his latest "Shaman of the Vulturites" is no exception, this is a truly impressive piece of art, and the time that went into the creation of this is truly amazing. This is for the upcoming "Into the Darkness" show that DrilOne is curating at 1am San Francisco.
Brian had this to say about his process:
"The vulture character is a spin off of my last canvas that was Spy vs. Spy themed for a Mad Magazine tribute show. I had created a very similar mask for a giant slug that the black Spy was riding and thought it would be interesting on other creatures. For me it raises the question "what sort of nasty thing is under such a creepy looking mask?" If you're hiding yourself behind something that scary then you're either really, really petrifying or you want people to be intimidated and leave you alone. I enjoyed working on the vulture so much I have just started on a canvas with him as it's subject.
For the bear, I really wanted the vulture to seem like it was sitting on top of its head for a reason. The tree on the chest originally was inspired by the tv show Carnivale, but I didn't want it to be a stark black ink tattoo. I thought it should blend in, so that if you're up close looking at it you might almost forget there is a bear and it is just a tree sitting on a swirly sky."
If you would like to see many more WIP pics through the creation of this piece you can check out Brian's
Flickr, and you can also visit his
website to follow what Brain is up to, what he is working on, and get sneak peeks at his latest projects!
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This is Rsin's first custom 10″ MadL, which was created for the upcoming Multiple Personalities show at LiFt in Detroit on May the 9th. He says that he spent a good 20+ hours on it maybe even more, and was the first time working with the platform and ended up running into some trouble in the creation of this custom. He also mentions that there was a glass mask that broke while trying to attach it to the figure, but overall he is happy with the outcome. He used mostly metallic acrylic paint, a little spray paint, sculpey, wood, and some other objects. Like most artist posted up on this site, he is available for commission work and you can check out more photos on his
Flickr, also follow him on
Twitter with giveaways soon to follow.
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