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Looks to me like a frog on steroids, complete with the agressive attitude... What about that turtle shell though?

Thanks for sharing and have a nice day!

Paweł

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     So that is what Michealangelo looks out of Super turtle garb?

Very interesting. I like how you did it. Also loke the definition of what it is. Kinda cool tho. I live on a lake so I better keep peace with them. lol

Gam...

I had one of these pass me on the freeway. He was croaking at me as he sped by. Hope he wasn't hexing me. 

Nice work painting it, Gam. 

Does anyone else think if you put a stovepipe hat on the guy and gave him a guitar, he'd look like Slash from Guns N Roses?  

Pawel

Looks to me like a frog on steroids, complete with the agressive attitude... What about that turtle shell though?

In Shinto, one of the native religions of Japan. It's animistic in nature, with a number of kami, the embodiment of religious or divine (or near-divine) forces.

There are several hundred nominated Kami (in Japan, they are traditionally emnumerated as "8 million" a number meant to emulate "infinty").

Kappa (water child) or Kawatoro (water boy) combines several aquatic features, none explicitly inimical nor specifically benign.  It's held that the favorite food of Kappa is cucumbers, and these are features in the festivals meant to honor the water spirits.

Having a bald pate reflects the Japanese habit where monks shaved their heads to indicate their religious status.

There are all sorts of kami.

Cap'n, interesting info, as usual!

A possible date for Goleum?  Stranger things have happened, you never know.

From what my parents told me when I was small, the Kappa's bald head was concave to hold water.  If the Kappa spilled its water, it would be weak and vulnerable.  The kit box mentioned they coveted those little balls, which they would extact from people they dragged underwater.  

Thanks Captain!!! 

A lot of what you related wasn't in the reference material I looked up. Thanks for filling in the details!

BTW: There's a rather silly comic relief kappa in 'Spook Warfare' (1968). 

And a bit more menacing one (though still one of the good guys) in 'The Great Yokai War' (2005). 

Both are fun movies and chock full of whacky crazy Japanese monsters. 

My favorite was the umbrella ghost or Kasa-obake! I need to build one, doesn't look all that hard. 

Pawel: Thanks!!! 

T.B. It is rumored that the Ninja Turtles were inspired by the kappa! 

Lurch: As the Captain said leave out some cucumbers. They're one of it's favorite foods. Dunno about pickles though! 

Bakster: Lol, I was worried it might bother your trawler. But it's a fresh water monster- as long as you stay in the ocean you should be safe! 

Real G: Lol that might be it's new nickname! I was called it Unreal G while building it! And yeah I'd always heard about the head bowl. I wasn't sure what the ball things were- I hoped they weren't someone's eyeballs or gonads so I painted them as pearls. It's a fresh water monster so I'm not sure why it would have pearls but what the heck- it looks good painted that way to me.  

Ikar: Yeah, if your Gollum you can't be too picky! 

Thanks a bundle guys!!! I wanted a monster to paint for Halloween and dug this one out. I'd recommend the figure if they still made it! Hopefully it will be reissued. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 

I've been working on a creature that I hoped I coiuld finish by tonight, but no luck, still a few things to do yet, then it's on to the figure group build.

Mine is the alien from the original Outer Limits series episode called The Mice.

ikar01

I've been working on a creature that I hoped I coiuld finish by tonight, but no luck, still a few things to do yet, then it's on to the figure group build.

Mine it the alien from teh original Outer Limits series episode called The Mice.

 

Oh cool! The weird blobby alien? May I ask what brand and scale it is? 

Gamera I donthave to leave them out. My wife had a garden and they were disappearing all the time. Possibly the  kappa got them.She thinks the rabbita and dear. Now I know better. LOLOLOLOL I will let her know next year when they disappear again.

Gamera

Bakster: Lol, I was worried it might bother your trawler. But it's a fresh water monster- as long as you stay in the ocean you should be safe!

There are several salt-water Kami as well.  One being the Arashikami, the storm wind that can raise the kamikaze which angry. 

There's also at least on kami of Hiki nami, the under-tow of the surf.  (Or the "undertoad" for Garp fans )

A bunch of the "alters" in anime are just emulations of various Kami, if exaggerated to fit the narative.

Bakster would also want to watch out as there is at least on monkey-based Kami, too . . .
And another that hordes over precious metals, who might foil old Nemo and his gold wagon . . .

And don't forget the Umibozu.

Umibōzu - Wikipedia

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! 

Thanks for warning Bakster- hopefully Nemo can deal with these yokai! 

CapnMac82

akster would also want to watch out as there is at least on monkey-based Kami, too . . . And another that hordes over precious metals, who might foil old Nemo and his gold wagon . . . Add

Holy Kami! GAM...what have you started? Capn says hordes. Good thing I have the railgun built. Maybe I should mount that on the trawler. 

Bakster

 

 

CapnMac82

akster would also want to watch out as there is at least on monkey-based Kami, too . . . And another that hordes over precious metals, who might foil old Nemo and his gold wagon . . . Add

 

 

Holy Kami! GAM...what have you started? Capn says hordes. Good thing I have the railgun built. Maybe I should mount that on the trawler. 

 

I'm sure if Nemo can take out a krakon/giant squid he can handle some yokai. 

Maybe assign Ned Land and his harpoon to the trawler? 

There was a Japanese ghost story with a cursed lake or something, where long, ghostly arms would emerge from the misty water, bearing ladles - yes ladles - and would pour water into your boat until it sank, taking you with it.

Now that sounds like a hoot to most 'Muricans, but if the samurai TV shows are to be believed, most Japanese people back in the day didn't know how to swim.  And imagine the arms looking like the pilobus fungus, and it becomes darned scary.  

Hey wait, it's November!  We should be talking about turkey, stuffing, and gravy!

The kit is from Dimensional Designs and stands aboiut 10 inches on its base.It's made of some form of resin, either cast or printed, I don't know which.  It comes in four main pieces plus its tendrals.  I disregarded most of these because of their condition and used a couple types of wire or even weed wacker line and for the finer few ones sticking out  of its head I used some fine copper wire or thin solder.

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It still needs a little work, including the base.

Real G

There was a Japanese ghost story with a cursed lake or something, where long, ghostly arms would emerge from the misty water, bearing ladles - yes ladles - and would pour water into your boat until it sank, taking you with it.

Now that sounds like a hoot to most 'Muricans, but if the samurai TV shows are to be believed, most Japanese people back in the day didn't know how to swim.  And imagine the arms looking like the pilobus fungus, and it becomes darned scary.  

Hey wait, it's November!  We should be talking about turkey, stuffing, and gravy!

 

Yeah, there's stuff in Japanese mythology that would give Godzilla nightmares...

BTW: Have you seen the new Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex short film?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObDeGGRH-PY&t=3s

ikar01

The kit is from Dimensional Designs and stands aboiut 10 inches on its base.It's made of some form of resin, either cast or printed, I don't know which.  It comes in four main pieces plus its tendrals.  I disregarded most of these because of their condition and used a couple types of wire or even weed wacker line and for the finer few ones sticking out  of its head I used some fine copper wire or thin solder.

 

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It still needs a little work, including the base.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh wow that's cool!!! 

Good idea on replacing the tendrils- seems like in resin they wouldn't be very strong. 

I like how you painted it, you kinda have to use your imagination when the series is black & white. 

Thanks.  The ones in the kit were very stiff and mostly too thick.  It was like they were molded and then sat in some extra fluid.  I tried cutting them apart carefully but I still had problems with the extra thickness on most of them, leaving  me no choice but to look around for other solutions.  At this way they looked like individual lines and they could drape over certain areas and appear to be moving in some cases.

I found this one by accident but it didn't have a box, only a plastic bag with the instruction sheet   They have all sorts of figures from almost every episode and I will be ordering another one soon.

Gamera and Ikar01 those figures look great!

Also had fun learning about Yokai!

Thanks Phoenix, it was a lot of fun to paint! 

Ikar: Do you remember the brand? I love The Outer Limits and there's some cool aliens and monsters I'd love to have as figures! 

Cliff,

This figured turned out very well. I like how you painted the transition from the light underbelly to the upper green. And the behind shots of the shell really do show big influnce on the modern TMNT characters. Again, very well done, however, I expect nothing less from you!