This is pretty much an update.
I was a kid in Japan in the 80s and I was a big fan of the Kinnikuman manga.
The toys were everywhere at the time, and they even made their way to the USA under the name of M.U.S.C.L.E. (Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere).
These little rubber minifigures captured the imagination of young boys.
To the left we have Sunshine, Ashuraman, and Sunigator (The Claw)
To the right we have my versions, The Rend, Dice Kingu, and The Gleam.
I made Gleam first, he is my tribute to Sunshine.
Sunshine was such a cool character, he was clearly inspired by the superrobo Gold Laitan and the real life skyscraper in Japan called Sunshine 60.
Sunshine was a bad guy, a massive behemoth who also had shape shifting abilities.
I chose the Arch de Triumph shape of Sunshine because it's my favorite!
I worked and worked to do the Claw, it just wasn't turning out the way I wanted so I put it to rest and worked on other projects.
Hey sometimes you just gotta step away and get some fresh air and do something else.
So I worked on Ashuraman, it was all about the rotating head.
Ashuraman is the prince of the underworld.
He looks like a god from Buddhism or Hinduism, sporting 6 arms and 3 faces.
In the manga he could rotate his head and change his face much like Man-E-Faces except the other faces are exposed to the side, the one in the middle is activated.
I made Dice Kingu which has 4 faces.
This was quite challenging to make, but I'm quite happy with the end result.
The original Ashuraman faces:
1) Warai no kamen (mask of laughter, this is his normal face)
2) Reiketsu no kamen (mask of cold/heartless)
3) Ikari no kamen (mask of anger)
Dice Kingu faces:
1) Skull
2) Jack O' Lantern
3) Alien
4) Cyclops
He doesn't have 6 arms but his head rotates!
There was actually an Ashuraman minifigure back in the day that had a turning head!
The last project here was back to The Rend.
I just had to make The Claw.
Originally I though that each finger could be made using Lego pieces, but I had to scrap that because it simply wasn't working.
I am happy with the end result, geez I can't even tell you which one was harder to make, this or the lightsaber!
I was a kid in Japan in the 80s and I was a big fan of the Kinnikuman manga.
The toys were everywhere at the time, and they even made their way to the USA under the name of M.U.S.C.L.E. (Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere).
These little rubber minifigures captured the imagination of young boys.
To the left we have Sunshine, Ashuraman, and Sunigator (The Claw)
To the right we have my versions, The Rend, Dice Kingu, and The Gleam.
I made Gleam first, he is my tribute to Sunshine.
Sunshine was such a cool character, he was clearly inspired by the superrobo Gold Laitan and the real life skyscraper in Japan called Sunshine 60.
Sunshine was a bad guy, a massive behemoth who also had shape shifting abilities.
I chose the Arch de Triumph shape of Sunshine because it's my favorite!
I worked and worked to do the Claw, it just wasn't turning out the way I wanted so I put it to rest and worked on other projects.
Hey sometimes you just gotta step away and get some fresh air and do something else.
So I worked on Ashuraman, it was all about the rotating head.
Ashuraman is the prince of the underworld.
He looks like a god from Buddhism or Hinduism, sporting 6 arms and 3 faces.
In the manga he could rotate his head and change his face much like Man-E-Faces except the other faces are exposed to the side, the one in the middle is activated.
I made Dice Kingu which has 4 faces.
This was quite challenging to make, but I'm quite happy with the end result.
The original Ashuraman faces:
1) Warai no kamen (mask of laughter, this is his normal face)
2) Reiketsu no kamen (mask of cold/heartless)
3) Ikari no kamen (mask of anger)
Dice Kingu faces:
1) Skull
2) Jack O' Lantern
3) Alien
4) Cyclops
He doesn't have 6 arms but his head rotates!
There was actually an Ashuraman minifigure back in the day that had a turning head!
The last project here was back to The Rend.
I just had to make The Claw.
Originally I though that each finger could be made using Lego pieces, but I had to scrap that because it simply wasn't working.
I am happy with the end result, geez I can't even tell you which one was harder to make, this or the lightsaber!
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