Custom M1Go Dada by LASH "Virusy!"

Here's another Dada (ダダ) I had sent to LASH to be painted up.

Unlike the previous radioactive Dada, this Dada has the standard face and was made from flesh colored vinyl instead of glow-in-the-dark.

This one doesn't have a name as far as I know, but it is quite a drastic change once again from the stark black and white lines of a normal Dada. There are all sorts of colors here... from the warm tones of his skin to the metallic looking purples on top of his head, shoulders, eyes, feet and the "virus" spots. The black serves to really make certain areas pop.

Custom M1Go Dada by LASH "Toxic Glow!"

I sent LASH an unpainted glow-in-the-dark Dada (ダダ) by the company M1Go...

I got back a Toxic Glow Dada!

I've had this for awhile (a few months! gah!), but I have obviously been very lazy about posting anything at all on my little blog here.

Dada is an Ultraman character... actually I believe an entire race of aliens that appeared in several Ultraman shows over the years. They look different at times, but always have white faces and black-and-white striped bodies. Dadas have the ability to teleport and can become invisible for short amounts of time. They can also fly and I have seen them with large laser gun looking weapons.

I have to admit, Dada was initially one of my favorite kaiju because he is so strange and different from the standard dinosaur themed monster of Japanese TV and films, but I have never actually seen an episode of Ultraman with Dada in it.

While my adoration of Dada has faded somewhat lately, I still really like the M1Go takes on this figure which seem to be all unpainted and ripe for customizing. I have a few that I will try my best to ruin too!

LASH took this one in a different direction than the stark black and white, obviously, with subtle green spray all over the body as well as some beady, red rat-looking eyes. We can pretend that this Dada has been infected with a strange, outer space radiation, enhancing his strength and giving him the ability to fire beams from his tiny red eyes. There is a black light photo at the bottom.

Check it out:

Dirty Hippie Zag

Or maybe it should be called Arts and Crafts Time Zag. All it is missing is potpourri and popsicle sticks.

My second entry for the Super7 Contest.

It is a rainbowed clear v-color hodge podge... red around the clear center belly, radiating out... blue and purple on his back

A little white on teeth and eye to make them stand out a bit.

Silk flowers stuffed inside! And of course the strategically placed daisies in the belly and face behind the eye.

The first shot is of the figure before I painted it but had the flowers in already.

Bizarro Zag

This is my first entry for the Super7 Zag Contest.

The DC character Bizarro was the inspiration, although all along the plan wasn't to have it look just like Bizarro. It's more like the negative image of a black and white Zag I guess.

I used a white paint pen to outline all the cracks on the figure... that step took quite awhile. It gave sort of a cool, 3D helix look to the figure with the clear vinyl. I was going to use clear smoke paint, but my bottle was all dried up from Kaiju-Taro :( so instead I used light coats of black inside the figure along the back, hips, shoulders, and head... so the outside stays nice and shiny and the black behind the white really makes the white cracks pop. I left the belly clear also

At first I had left the teeth unpainted, but on good advice, I painted them white.Unfortunately my brush skills suck. Oh well.

Gargamel x Super7 x You Zag Contest!

I will be entering this contest. I have 2 clear, blank Zags on the way!





Gargamel x Super7 x You Zag Contest!

The Zags are here and shipping today. They should start arriving at your homes next week. We need to get these out today so we do not have time to make special arrangements to ship these items.

Here is what you need to know:
• All Entries will need to be received at Super7 by Wednesday June 4th.
• Include your contact info with you custom Zag so we know where to return it.
• All entries will be displayed at the Super7 store from Sat 7th until the 28th.
• Enter as many times as you wish.
• There is a $10 entry fee per figure. This entry fee will be applied to return shipping cost.

There winning entry will be made into a real production run by Super7 and Gargamel!!!

Clear Coating the Dako

On the recommendation of LASH, applied a rather heavy coat of clear coat to gloss up the Dako. I think it came out looking a lot better... more finished.

Flash Dako

I took my Hogan Dako and painted like crazy! The inspiration was the Dako from the flash movies on AnrakuAnsaku's site.

I used the flourescent paint that glows in black light.

This is still a work in progress, as I am touching up and adding a glossy clear coat. I wasn't in love with this end result, the clear coat was recommended by LASH on skullbrain.org, and I think a glossy surface will really help my opinion of it.

Kentucky Fried Goga

I painted my clear orange Gogamejiras last night.

I had fun painting this one - the highly textured surface is really forgiving with any imperfections in my paint application... and I'm sure there are tons of those! :)

I used a red/black/gold mix for the darker areas... the back of his head, his chest, hips, forearms

Metallic gold alone for highlights, nose, eyeballs, fingers, toes

then black to accent some of the darker areas... a small bit on his chest, the back of his head, the very edge of the forearms.

I used a tiny brush for the silver teeth and a paint pen for the black pupils.

Someone on skullbrain said it looked like fried chicken, hence the name of it.

My first custom paint job

I'm moving this article from late November until now to better match up with my Hedoro Kun blog

I tried out the new Iwata airbrush on a vinyl toy for the first time on this toy. It's nothing special by any means... I took a my purple Hedoro Kun by Bounty Hunter and made it gloss black.

I like how it turned out - I decided not to try anything else since the solid color looks like a Bounty Hunter style color scheme anyway.

This was mainly a chance for me to see how the airbrush works on a 3-dimensional surface and to see how v-color paint lays down and dries and stuff like that.

Angel Sanda round 2 - I shook up the gold!

Before then after shots.

thanks to LASH for the assist

A thorough shaking to the gold made it a completely different paint. The gold looks so much better now.

I went back and added to the original yellow layer and gave a light misting to the brick looking areas of his skin for a very pale yellow and the hint of glitter