On the contrary, what I like from Nari-San is that he has both his personal sculpting & painting style. Sure, it's bad when you don't like a special colorway and it rebukes you from getting a toy. But what's fun is that you can collect all the monsters from his series to get a very homogeneous fresco. JCat made some nice pics enlightening this. But from all his patterns, I am personally not too fond of his simpliest colorways for his GID pieces. Though they sometimes work well, depending on the sculpt. I've not liked any GID Tonneran or Puppet Seijin so far. I was wondering who painted his production pieces ? Does he do that all by himself ?
Good question! i was wondering the same thing. Congrats by the way Plastic, even bad pictures make it look beautifull. To me Nari's pieces stand out like a signature move. Judging from my smoggs and Hitogomora's all have individuality and paint application is flawless. I can understand some colour type are similar to previous ones, but dropping 2 or 3 colours at a time gives everybody the chance to spread out colour wise.
This by far is the coolest GID Tonneran. It's like a rainbow took a piss all over some snow covered road. Whoever won this beauty, I'm going to hunt you down!
^^^^^ The special coloring version is sold between the 11th in the end this week and the 12th. Sounds to me like this "special coloring" Hitogomira along with the new Mr. X and Oil Crisis will be up this week end. I'm guessing it's another lottery?
The one-off Mr. X that supposedly goes up soon is probably the best painted anything Nari has done - I love it! But like I said, I think he's a great sculptor but generally not a very good painter...or at least needs to study color theory and become more creative with colors. His coloring works in his drawings, but not so much on his figures. And I'm not sure, but I think it might even go beyond color choices and also include color placement. Whatever it is, he needs to get more creative (not necessarily more "wild") with how he paints his figures. Too often they look kinda "blah". And I agree with Joe about that Tonneran - wish I could trade mine in for that! Tonneran is my favorite sculpt of his, but so far there's been no reason to own more than one because of my feelings on his color choices. And I HOPE it's a lottery for those one-offs - if so it'll be the first lottery for anything that I'll have entered. I need a shot at that Mr. X. But from the terrible translation I got the feeling that they'll just be put up for sale at some point and whoever gets to them first wins. Who knows though...
The Hitogomira is a custom 1-off lottery sales. You can submit your entry to try to win that Hitogomira when the lottery opens from July 11-12 Japan time. BBS (Bullentin Board System) is a seperate lottery premium for a custom 1-off painted by Nari-san. Submissions can only be placed if you have a prior purchase directly from Elegab which Nari-san will confirm. You need to write a short little essay about one of the Elegab kaiju in order to be eligable for the premium. Shop is just random Elegab figures that may be 1-off or extra stock that Nari-san has for sale for first come first serve. He doesn't use shop to often. Last time he used it was back in November 2010.
plasticXO, that shot is gorgeous...I never thought to composite a glow and a non-glow shot like that! Sorry--back to the toys, themselves!
I don't think it's a composite! I have a few things that glow-in-the-LIGHT like that - just a touch of sun and they'll visibly glow when taken out of direct sunlight.
Sorry to continue the derail...but I think you might be right: how else would that green glare appear on the ground? Unless it was Photoshopped in, of course! So it's either super-charged or maybe a blacklight is on in the background..?
Thank you for your nice comment on this pic. I'm glad you like it. There is no digital trick on this one. It's posted, just taken out of the camera. Here is the trick : I first exposed KS to direct sunlight so that it charges in light (it indeed glows a lot). Then I set it in a semi dark room. I used a tripod with an exposure of almost 1 min.
Thanks Chimps! I knew what a BBS was but how it was being used for sales as well as the lottery site was TOTALLY confusing me.
copy and pasted from Elegab site, "Special coloring version/thank you in June. Hello it is [eregabu]. Thank you the special coloring version ..a lot of application sincerity... Now, the how to buy in eight elected people. The transmission finished the information mail. Every time, the special coloring version is thanks to you popular. The result and the competitive rate are very high lot. Please understand the result of lot by any means. Monster [sofubi] of [eregabu] in the future I will ask well. " So who were the other lucky 7?
