hpl
Junior Robot
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Post by hpl on Dec 10, 2007 15:21:47 GMT -5
Hello everybody. I'm Pietro and I live in Italy. I'm 37. I've joined this fine forum out of a nostalgia trip: I was looking for images of the toys I wept over when I was a kid (mostly Popy models)... You see, when I was a kid I was quite poor, so my parents could not afford to buy those beautiful Popy models... so I made them myself. Every anime-robot that came on TV from 1978 to 1981, I made it. In cardboard. That was in no shortage. ;D To this day, very little has remained. But what I have, I would like to share it with you fine people. So, tonight I'd like to start with the oldest robot in my "museum". It's a replica of Gotriniton (that's the name it is known in Italy). It was made in 1980. Remeber in those times I had no photos, no camera, no VCR. Just a TV and memory. So here it goes... Jaw-dropping even for Jack Tank!!! These things were made to be played. That's why many didn't survive. Gotriniton was a lucky guy. It had movements in the shoulders and in the elbows, thanks to toothpicks inserted as axis. Well, I think this is enough for tonight. if you want to see more, I'll be more than happy to accomodate!
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Post by Neocaledonian on Dec 10, 2007 17:45:38 GMT -5
Pretty cool. Shows a lot of patience and skill for a kid to design and build his own 3-D toys. It will be nice to see the other pieces that survived your childhood. Having grown up in South America myself during a dictatorship that did not allow imports (including toy robots) for a time encouraged me to develop much of my drawing skills as I tried to emulate and drew inspiration from Japanese cartoons and action shows: Voltron, Mazinger, "Vengador" (Jeeg), Ultraman, Ultra Seven, Sankuokai, "Goldar" (Ambassador Magma), etc. To this day the style that I prefer to use to render robot face-plates comes from that period. Used to make 2-D cut-outs and pasted them on a cardboard base to create dioramas, but never took it as far as trying to actually build the models. Do keep posting pictures of the rest of your collection. Regards, NC Ongoing sketching thread and art supplies review: robotninjamonsters.blogspot.com/
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Post by KingboyD on Dec 10, 2007 19:51:39 GMT -5
Nice job! I think Gotrinitron is Goshogun. Welcome to the board.
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Post by OJA on Dec 10, 2007 20:55:50 GMT -5
Good job man. Your efforts are truly appreciated here. Welcome to the board!
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hpl
Junior Robot
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Post by hpl on Dec 11, 2007 14:53:13 GMT -5
Thanks a lot, guys! OK, for tonight story we have... something weird. It's an original, even if it is heavily inspired by two of the most famous and beautiful anime of the 80s... "mixed" by me in a sort of strange jigsaw with a twist... Without further ado... Let's take a look! Looks like the G-Armer from Gundam0079? Hope so, because that's what I was after. Here's another look... But if we "open" it... We get Daitarn III!!! ;D well... kinda! I think this was made in phases, between 1981 and 1983. It wasn't my first attempt at something like this: I'm pretty sure I had built another Daitarn before 1980, as well as a Danguard Ace who could perform the transformation... as well as several attempts at Gundam too... anyway, back to our guest, whom I don't think ever got a NAME... who could change into tank mode, of course... sadly the crawlers are missing... the foot-guns are the same as the G-Armor. And we finally get to see his face! I know: the head is too big. I was never too good at proportions... The design is heavily inspired by a monster from Great Mazinger. This was one of my "creations" (very derivative), I used to make "comics" about them, and so on. Like every child does. Close up!!! Last picture. Of course the laser swords are from Gundam as well. To get that "shiny" effect they are wrapped in food wrapping Domopak.... Well, that's all for tonight! I'd like to thank everyone once again for your warm welcome and, if I may be so bold, let me tell you... the best has yet to come!
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Post by DaveZav on Dec 11, 2007 22:25:38 GMT -5
the best has yet to come! AWESOME! These are VERY cool robots! I am reminded of firework construction in use in some areas of the G-Armer ship. Whats the size of that one in robot mode? Any plans for repros? haha Thanks for the great post!
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Post by admin1 aka Ed on Dec 12, 2007 22:19:27 GMT -5
This is really inspiring stuff. Thanks SO much for sharing!
It reminds me of art in a kind of African primative sense of sculpture. You have something more valuable than most other assets.......
Ed
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Post by drakepasha72 on Dec 13, 2007 8:23:58 GMT -5
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hpl
Junior Robot
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Post by hpl on Dec 21, 2007 11:33:32 GMT -5
Guys,
thank you SO much to everyone for your comments. I swear they inspired me and brought me to see my "toys" in a different light after so many years...
Unfortunately Christmas time is upon me and I couldn't shoot new photos, but tune in after New Year's Eve and you will find something new!!! I promise!!
And while we're on the subject, merry christmas to everyone!
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Post by Kidchuckle on Dec 29, 2007 20:18:55 GMT -5
those are truely goregeous. It reminds me of some photos I saw from Alex ross. Who also did cardboard figures of super heroes. I hope you'll take pictures of more!
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Post by Steve Armstrong on Jan 3, 2008 18:38:11 GMT -5
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Post by tissuekins on Jan 15, 2008 18:55:18 GMT -5
Man, i like these, consider going into sculpting your own robots man, you've got talent. Impressive, for such a young age. You should really pick it up again, I wanna see what you can do at 37.
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Wingus
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Post by Wingus on Jan 15, 2008 23:15:57 GMT -5
Hot dog, those are awesome. Very impressive for when they were made, and for surviving this long!
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hpl
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Post by hpl on Jan 17, 2008 16:36:07 GMT -5
Dear friends, here we go again! Sorry for taking so long, I promise I will update this post more often!! Tonight I'm going to let you in on the "Big project of '83". Was it really big? Well, the idea was to build the Four Horsemen of the Revelations as mecha-robots. The first idea was to build the Horsemen AND the Horses, but this idea was almost immediately shelved. I COULD build horses (after all I had built a beautiful Beralias years before, that sadly was thrown away), but more fun was in the robots. Unfortunately the project was never completed: I built 1 and 2 and started 3 when I lost interest (plus, summer was over...). So I will introduce you to 1 and 2 only.. sorry! So, here we go with Horseman number 1... which, according to the Holy Book, is supposed to be red. As you can see, this time I put a lot of effort in the details... The shoulders were very complex. I designed a mechanism that could afford the arm to move in every direction, front back and fold out. Unfortunately it didn't work very well and was very fragile, so after a while I had to seal the articulation just to keep the arm attached to the body. Remember I used to PLAY with these things so they got broken very often... but I could always repair them!! Another view... Surviving weapons are a sword and an axe. There used to be also a spear and a knife, which got broken. You may think that this is more armour design than mecha, and you are probably right! But in my mind this was mecha 100%. But of course I took a lot of elements out of real medioeval armours. Ooooooh, that stare!!! The headpiece is cotton (well, it WAS cotton in 1983...), the cape is a simple piece of cloth. Since somebody asked for sizes, here it is! Not too big, is it? Well, that's all for number 1. Stay tuned for number 2!!!
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Post by henshin75 on Jan 29, 2008 10:01:12 GMT -5
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