What's up with 2018, Social Media and Engel's Universe?

Happy New Year my friends and followers! Long Time no Post, fact is all the good stuff is now going on on Facebook and Instagram. Posting there is faster, more convenient and more "real time". Some exciting projects are in the works for 2018 and a load of Convention appearances to boot! To keep up with  Engel's Universe follow me over there:

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Thanks again for looking! See you in the funny pages!

Here some random stuff from the past year....more added soon!  Enjoy!

Fighting the Flu....

Some mean influenza virus got hold of me and knocked me out of the saddle. Yikes!

Stuff from the hard drive part 4 of 4: Miscellaneous...

Here is the last installment of the stuff that inhabited my hard drive. They're were all painted by me. Enjoy!

Resin Chef Godzilla 1973

Resin Chef Megalon, second version.

Billiken Predator

Billiken Cyclops, two horned version.

Dimensional Designs Kraken from »Clash of the Titans«

Glenn Strange bust by William Paquet/Gothic House Designs

Resin from the Grave Igor together with Billiken Frankenstein Monster

The above with some Photoshop added.

Mike Hill's Horror Mount Rushmore

Aurora Plastic's Phantom of the Opera

Billiken Dracula

Billiken Phantom of the Opera

Resin from the Grave Werewolf of London

Juniper Model's Diana Rigg of »The Avengers«

Needful Things Yoda

The Serpent Terror from the Deep - Manda!

Inbetween illustrations, here is a another Garage Kit! Just finished: Manda (マンダ) the sea monster from the Toho movie »Atragon«. A challenging vinyl kit by the Japanese company »Paradise«. Its a whopping 60cm / 24" high, painted with acrylics and some airbrush Efx. The kit was missing the whiskers, they will be replaced soo. Some Photoshopped headshots thrown in for good measure.

The last Monster of 2011: King Caesar (or Seesar, Shisa or else...)

 King Caesar (or Seesar, Shisa etc.) from the Kaiju-Masterwork »Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla« (1974), directed by Jun Fukuda. This resin kit was produced by Resin Chef/ Team Ukeke and sculpted by Bill Gudmundson. Still one of my favorite characters from the Godzilla showa series, the figure seems to be in scale with the Billiken ゴジラ kits.

He is also one Monster blessed with an own wake up song:

The kit was easy to assemble, but clean up and resculpting the fur to hide the seams was painful and time consuming. The decals for the eyes didn't stick at all- so I ditched them. Painted with Acrylic paints and a scratchbuild base made of styrofoam.

More Giant Monsters from the far east: Gomess of Ultra-Q

Billiken is one of the pioneer GK Companies, since the late 80ties they producing topnotch vinyl models of American and Japanese Movie/TV characters. I this case here it's Gomess of the vintage Nippon TV series "Ultra-Q". He starred in the first episode. Looks familiar, don't he? He was made from an old Godzilla costume, SFX wizard Eji Tsuburaya wanted to save some serious Yen and just redecorated an old suit he had lying around. 

Billiken's model kit is spot on, detailed and even the rubber suit feeling is still there. Painted with acrylics and Airbrush.

Destroy all Monsters!

One more finished commission: Godzilla's oldest friend/foe Angilas/Anguirus in his brandnew 1968 costume from the Toho flick "Destroy all Monsters" (1968) by the Japanese Company IMAGE.

This resin kit is more on the small side, but due to spikes quite hard to handle. Painted with acrylics, airbrush and Games Workshop washes.