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Coming soon…Sanjeev, Dave, Regan and I take you to the hideout of the ever hard working Matt Walker and his Dead Presidents studio.

Part II of Ganira Brog: Ganira’s hidden face

BBS

久しぶり, エリックさん

Bad boy bot Ganira.
Nothing special, but a great piece of painted zinc.

Ganira likes to kick Pegas ass.
Any Ganira fans out there? BBS…

…and the Robo-Bike-Week continous.
Today Aoshin’s Spin Action Diapolon Trike.

Licensed by Bullmark, this huge plastic trike comes in a very nice box.
Great artwork all around.

This toy is battery operated.
Put two batteries int the compartment at the back of the trike,
switch on the “switch” and Diapolon starts to ride like hell.
The “spin action” feature let the trike drive forward and a little
wheel (under the trike) lifts up the front of the vehicle.
YEAHH… Diapolon makes wheelies  ;-)

As the Lone Ranger would say: YIHAAAAA…HI HO SILVER

A few weeks ago I found this Bullmark UFO Diapolon motorcycle on Yahoo.
I couldn’t resist and bought it directly. The combination of Diapolon
and a Honda 750 four is pure 70ties funk…could only be topped by
a Blazer & Honda ;-)

Diapolon comes in a nice box with the “usual” friction-drive & sparkling-engine
motorbike. No more gadegts. A missile firing feature would have been cool, like the
Blazer & Zaboga version of this bike. But nobody is perfect.

The handlebar and the other metal parts of the bike had
been tarnished. I polished them, but didn’t get the full “bling” back.
But the bike still looks cool…no wonder – its a Honda (wow, cool rhyme)

Diapolon has a date with his biker-buddy Blazer…

Here’s a little overview-shot of Diapolon’s on motorbikes/trikes.
The big trike is from Aoshin, the rest is Bullmark.

I really like bots on bikes, even when it makes no sense.

More fotos in the BBS.

Nearly 11 inches vintage vinyl !

Zabogaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Gobots gab? Goodness gracious.

I’m a big junkie for Mach Baron like some of my friends here. Come on, who doesn’t love a giant red robot that’s so beautifully designed he turns heads? I think the figures from Bullmark are just wonderful sculpts of art. With that said, I do have a pet peeve about them. So many were poorly painted. Mach looks like he has a bad spray on tan. Come on…where’s the respect?

I looked at my 10.5″ Bullmark sofubi one afternoon and thought, “I wonder if I could repaint him to show off his TRUE colors?” After researching and looking at many photos of Mach Baron, I narrowed down some colors and came up with a game plan. I started by using a thinner to remove as much of the excess blue silver color on his shins as possible and other colors incorrectly sprayed onto him. After that, it was time to mask off his belt, hands, and eyes. Then I applied two coats of bright red spray paint. When it dried, off came the masking tape and then the fine work of painting the white, silver and gold yellow. After about 3 hours invested in this makeover, I surprised myself with the results. He looks 100x better!!

Since it worked so well on the sofubi, I decided to give my MFV Mach Baron a facelift too.

And finally, here is the family portrait.

The Skull Star from the Tiger Mask Series