Isn't it just inspired by the kaiju anatomy drawings? I've seen Yamobazookas and Eyezons similarly cut

I get that, especially with the big reveal sections like on the Zag, but the Miborah looks like it has these tiny cutouts. Maybe I'm misinterpreting the photos.

Anyways, interesting new direction. Still not sold on the new winged sculpt though.

The kiyoka x chanman zag is not cut out. They are actually masked painted to reveal part if the guts.
The miboras on the other hand are precisely cut at areas he designed.
Was talking a bit to kiyoka about these cut out miboras. He first experimented on the red eye mibora with center eye cut out a little like battle scars. He likes the direction and effect and decided to make the other one with blue eyes though it took quite some time and effort. These looks great in person as the scaly surface works well with the cut up. I particularly like the little details like the cut horn on the red eye piece.

I was expecting quite a few more figures from kiyoka but there wasn't that many. Nice show overall and was great catching up with friends! How i miss thrashout.

I would kill for the tiger deathra and the center guy in this photo. holy nuts.

the gargamel crew is really stepping up their game this year!!!

If anyone thought the prices were high just get a load of what M-World is trying to fxxking pull: 68,000 for a Miborah and they are offering a Kiyoka and a Naoya at those prices. What a bunch of COCKS! Just saying!

^ highway robbery.

So lame

. . . and yet still people support them by regularly buying!

Just another self-destructive cycle that circulates this 'scene'.

Hopefully a lot of this new style/stuff get done for SDCC.

I'd love to see a Hedo set done in tiger stripes. What's next leopard print?

Liger... Bred for it's skills

I think we say this every year, and they always come up with something new and different.

While I am not even thinking about getting a 1-off at this time in my life, I will say these are all flat out gorgeous. I would love to see some of them in person at some point

I'm actually not a fan of the animal prints. I never really got the Kiyoka Panda hedo either. Cool technique but it wouldn't necessarily fit on my shelf.


That being said...the gardudans,miborahs and zags look incredible.

If I could have gotten someone to score a piece, I definitely would have dropped funds. Some of those customs are my favorite customs hand down.

Me either. The camo is/was cool - if overrated - but the tiger stripes....ehhhhh.
But then I don't really care for the clear bodies with guts either. Nothing really stands out as the texture on the clear body obfuscates the colors and detail on the guts, and the body itself is less defined than solid sprays on a solid body.

^ I agree, solid sprays on a solid body are probably my fave. Although I like clear, camo, and stripes as well. I think the Zag/Miborah body is often made more interesting with clear vinyl, camo, etc. etc. But for the Deathra body in particular, solid rules. All the gnarly creases and folds are best appreciated that way.

The tiger stripes are nicely done by naoya this time. Really good looking in real. I think the real tiger colour in orange and black fits superbly. Perhaps monotone scheme to look like albino tigers would work well too but i think this paint style will lose its meaning if other non tiger colours are applied.
Same for camo, i totally like those paints that are associated with military colours. The rest of the candy or non military ones are a little irrelevant to the camo theme although some do look good in real.
I like the variety of solids vs clear with guts too. I think it is great that the different style appeals differently otherwise we will all be going after the same stuff.
Personally i would like to collect different styles and in different time to see how the ikeda brothers painting evolve over the years.

^ I agree that all the different paint applications and patterns are awesome, but disagree about the tiger pattern needing to be orange. I think the association with tiger is nice but the stripe pattern could be really wild, think about all the crazy patterns on tropical fish or butterflies. Really any color combination, it doesn't have to be a tiger.

i like clear sprays on clear and translucence and metallic.
the tiger stripes , colors & patterns rock it.

i like them, tiger paintscheme could be a little bid more abstract, less realistic imho, but pretty cool .
would fit my hp tiger fighter by pk perfect!
dont know whether its an homage, but there has been a fantastic looking tiger hedorah
by atelier g-1 (artist series) couple years ago.

me not a fan of the broken parts figures. funny concepts, but doesnt work to me.

anyway fxxking amazing show!!! while bxh still strong, gargamel pushing the limits
again and again.

I'm really liking the painted versions of Garudan.. missed out in this years Lucky Bags, hopefully there's a retail release soon. Here's a little graphic that I drew up over the weekend to celebrate the new character and the Thrash Out show featuring the winged monster!

Looks like some incredible stuff at the show - and some great info and commentary in this thread.

While I'm not completely sold on the animal print style (I preferred the series Blobpus did a few years ago - seemed to work better on a dokugan) - the paint mask innard reveals, and the vinyl cut-outs (following the line of sculpt) look fantastic.

Nothing much beats the excitement of a Gargamel show reveal - and anyone who attended this one likely became suitably moist Nice job Garga-pals!

Two back shots of two incredible Deathras! I LOVE what he's doing here. Just going through all my pictures now.

thanks for posting these!