Since a few days ago I finished working on my collaboration with Eric Nocella Diaz of Argonaut Resins and Lord Mesa on their Kalua Moola. My custom turns the “Recession Agression” version into a Netzwerk pest called “Mohawk Kid”. These gang members can be often seen in the seedier areas of the Netzwerk and are distinguishable by their use of glowing hair and eyes and the scars from many fights and their constant drug abuse. Cheap color shifting skin is also quite popular among these.

This one off piece was made of a resin toy about 4″ high and modified with an internal battery powered LED circuitry and optic fibers. The light switch is hidden under the coin in the back. Pushing the coin up towards the mohawk activates the LEDs. The battery is replaceable.

Available at the Argonaut Resins Online Store for mere $158. Includes a header card signed by Lord Mesa and Eric Nocella Diaz, a small vinyl Netzwerk logo sticker and a hand drawn original header card by me.

This is the other custom that I finished on the same day as the Eyezon custom. This vinyl toy has a clear outer casing and a visible guts inside. These were just as transparent as the outer vinyl when I got the toy but I decided to darken them by burning the plastic with a lighter and paint thinner. I then installed a motion activated LED each inside the brain and the belly. The eyes are gooey strands of silicone that were attached to the outside of the puffer balls I got the LEDs from. The whole has been finished off with some color shift paint, glitter and lots of high gloss coating.

One of the customs I have been working on recently. In a way this is very traditional since it just features paint as a form of modification. Of course its is the automotive effect paint I have fallen in love with as of late.

I’ve been taking things a little slower in the last three weeks since the graduation. I’ve sent out a few of my Netzwerk toys and then painted this custom General Kyoufu by Cannibal Kaiju. The production for the next edition of Netzwerk toys will start soon.

I’ve been very bad at updating this blog in the last few months. I have been working steadily on my graduation project which will consist of my own line of resin cast art toys. Here is a first sneak peak.