Chauskoskis
He is from Mexico
walterjacott.blogspot.com
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185 83 831
13 years ago
http://rotocasted.com/toy/15816 is also listed as greasbat Prototype? (not that i mind, they are quite clearly different!) i dig this bright blank
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
15816 was a one-off painted prototype. This red one was the original factory prototype; Jeff and Walter have the only two. I would be interested to know what color 15816 was before it was painted. Which officially makes me a Greasebat nerd.
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185 83 831
13 years ago
:) cool, thats what i was curious about, and yup, that does make you a nerd ;) now someone answer shanks question!!
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13 years ago
Generally 2 test pulls/prototypes are made.... so I would say the painted one is either a white or another red from the test pulls?
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8 15 12
13 years ago
@Shankweather
Hey! Original prototype or master was made with supersculpey firm and soft ( the pink and the grey one) so the color was a mix of that... saying that i dont recommend sculpey to make the master sculpt for production toys... ( i did same mistake again with Gary Ham next toy)
here some pics on the original color before the scales
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walterjacott/4155534421/in/set-72157622552195701 -
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185 83 831
13 years ago
@Chauskoskis thanks for the info, i love that it's possible to get so much background info on here :)
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8 15 12
13 years ago
@MisterQuiche
yeah indeed is nice to see this kind of threads
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13 years ago
Chauskoskis is correct, this is the first test pull/ vinyl prototype. It's sort of a washed out red color in real life. Only two made.
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angel
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1881 1896 2109
13 years ago
Is this the OG?
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
I think this is a custom or something. Definitely not production.
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angel
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1881 1896 2109
13 years ago
Oh yeah?
http://www.vinyl-creep.net/Greasebat -
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
Prototype. Vinyl Creep is always wrong.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jefflamm/4553196674/ -
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angel
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1881 1896 2109
13 years ago
You're right! ;p
Still, the rub effect looks very cool for this er.. prototype. -
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
It is nice. I think Chauskoskis did the paint on this one, he probably still owns it.
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angel
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1881 1896 2109
13 years ago
Did you get a GID one yesterday, Shanky? If not, I posted a link for an ebay auction! ;p
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
I've had a GID reserved for me for a couple months. I have a guy on the inside. ;)
And that eBay auction is nuts, will someone really pay that? -
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8 15 12
13 years ago
@Shank
Nop i dont own it... we send this one directly to Japan so was broken during the mold making process, i guess somebody kept the remainings of this guy :(
by the way, i start a custom Greasebat that would be pretty much like this guy... but with some sculpt changes ;)
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239 158 124
13 years ago
Walter, that custom looks awesome! Why have I never seen that picture before!?! Can't wait to see the final piece :)
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
Thanks for the dish, Chauskoskis. I guess Jan was right all along; this is truly the OG. RIP!
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angel
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432 4 822
14 years ago
Sculptor of Greasebat = Chauskoskis
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14 years ago
@FuriousPurpose: if you are fast enough, you could get this version:
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432 4 822
13 years ago
I mean, I live in Kentucky. The release party was at my local toy store. How can I not have one of these? It just doesn't seem right. If somebody hooks me up with this, I'll make you a free jigsaw puzzle once a year for the rest of your life.
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
Starting, of course, with a Greasebat puzzle.
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239 158 124
13 years ago
That's a pretty awesome offer...somebody hook him up!
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
Serious offer! I really do make jigsaw puzzles. http://www.flickr.com/photos/...
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239 158 124
13 years ago
I didnt realize you were the one who made that Zag puzzle! I remember seeing it and the Ultraman puzzles on SB a while back. Awesome work!!! I'm in awe of the Star Wars puzzles/pieces.
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
Thanks.
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8 15 12
13 years ago
i trade the kentucky grass i buy for a Clear one! pretty cool deal.
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8 15 12
13 years ago
i mean. i did trade it already.
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angel
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1881 1896 2109
13 years ago
During the mid-eighties neo-rockabilly craze lots of young men were putting pomade in their hair and getting fresh tattoos. All this petroleum waste from hair pomade, mixed with peeling skin from tattoos, combined to line sewer pipes deep under the streets. A jolt of radiation from a black market Russian nuclear device in 1995 gave life to a bubbling mass of hair, pomade and skin cells.
The result, born in 2005...Greasebat. It is unknown if Greasebat is good or evil, he seems to be attracted to industrial areas, usually chemical plants. He clumsily destroys everything with his short legs and poor vision from separately rotating eyes. He has been observed eating barrels of heavyweight motor oil and old stock vinyl for pressing records.
He can fly short distances and is a ferocious fighter who will use anything within reach to defeat his opponent. His oddly shaped body is covered in thick armored scales, and his head with bulbous jelly like pustules. -
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114 20 104
13 years ago
If anyone is selling one of these hmu on kidrobot, I'm ullar77 there.
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
Ha! Yeah, me too.
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239 158 124
13 years ago
hahaha Me too!!! (well actually I don't own one but if I could trade a painted red RFGB for a SDCC Black I'd be buying one as we speak)
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8 15 12
13 years ago
hahaha no one is going to trade the black one any other you will need to make a big offer to get the black one... and still will be hard.
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114 20 104
13 years ago
I finally scored this guy!
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8 15 12
14 years ago
agree
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angel
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381 1089 1433
14 years ago
yeah, I wondered about the nostril thing too!
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280 124 209
14 years ago
Amanda does it again! Agghhh! He looks so cool in his little suit!
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930 38 82
14 years ago
The nostrils are indeed sculpted!
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angel
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179 307 49
14 years ago
i love this one! definitely my favorite one in the series, too. very cool!
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170 89 13
14 years ago
i have 1 of these guys for trade or sale.
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14 years ago
This was one of the worst QC series ever. I bought 4 cases and about 30% of my dunnys had major issues (missing cards, wrong ratio, smudges, etc). What happened KR???
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angel
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381 1089 1433
14 years ago
myKRstuff - it's too bad about the QC... I've only gotten two dunny off this series thus far and haven't had any majopr issues, but definbitely not perfection.
Someone here said KR changed factories and are still figuring out the kinks. hopefully by the next series production quality will be back to standards. -
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388 689 743
14 years ago
Has anyone else noticed the Sket One ketchup typo yet? :P
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388 689 743
14 years ago
I thought I read someone talking about QC issues... My Conjoined Indian/Cowboy dunny has a big smudge coming from the cowboy's hairline...
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angel
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381 1089 1433
14 years ago
elissa - my cowboy has the same thing...
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388 689 743
14 years ago
Massive Kidrobot fail. Considering painting over it, on reflection I don't even like the design so much after all...
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14 years ago
How do I put this in the custom section?
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angel
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804 2515 1650
14 years ago
Type should be "Custom". Is it really a custom?
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14 years ago
Well its a limited run of 1 offs hand made by the sucklord. So I'd say yes. Shall we see what the general consensus is?
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2010/07/custom-bootleg-release-spray-2-v2-by.html -
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129 102 1
14 years ago
custom? that's a tough one. i have 1. i consider it a one off but there are a couple similar. im stumped
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14 years ago
I wouldn't say it's a custom. It's an original figure by Sucklord, not something he customized.
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angel
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804 2515 1650
14 years ago
I don't think it's a custom, really.
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411 3 5
14 years ago
Not a custom.
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14 years ago
A custom would be anything that used another figure as a platform imo and not officially released through the original creator as part of an official series or exclusive release.
Are the legs/body re-casted from R2-D2? If so, then this would be a custom.
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14 years ago
BTW how does he get away with his "bootleg" ways, its his charm but its an interesting standpoint.
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14 years ago
If so, than a half of KAWS figures would be "customs", because he uses well-known characters and adds to them his trademark bones and Xs.
In my opinion, custom is a figure which is altered in some way – painted upon, form modified, but which has an original base of another figure.
If the base sculpt is casted by artist, than it's not a custom anymore, even if the sculpt uses parts of another figure. -
14 years ago
This is where we are getting close to intellectual property law and to what extent is considered a violation of it.
KAWS creates original sculpts with the form language of famous characters he reworks, not recasting pre-made figures and adding/subtracting parts.
Sucklord does alter his figures, he recasts them; he buys a figure, recasts it, adds a few parts and sells it as his own.
Silicone legs, resin body with a spray cap he bought from a store. This is a "mashup" custom or is it "ART"?! -
14 years ago
In my view, KAWS' original sculpts are no more "original" than Sucklord's figures.
Seriously, how "original" are Kaws Chum (Michelin man), JPP (Japanese police Pipo), or his latest Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket? The only alterations on these figures are his trademark X eyes/hands and skull.
So why KAWS' figures are called originals, while Sucklord's are "mashups"? -
14 years ago
KAWS may use the characters as inspiration but he is producing his own re-interpreted of that character. He draws it from scratch using the form language. If you look closely, the forms of each KAWS character changes from the original beyond the X eyes/hands and skull. Especially the sculpts.
I am not a fan of KAWS but they are re-interpretations of the original characters.
If Sucklord was drawing his creations, creating his OWN sculpts, then it would be original "re-imaginations" works. But Sucklord takes a figure, sticks it in a box and makes a mould then reproduces it.
I also love Sucklords work.
In your opinion "If the base sculpt is casted by artist, than it's not a custom anymore"
So I can take any figure, recast it and sell them under my own label I would be producing original figures? -
14 years ago
Before things get a bit too blurred, I consider anything a custom if it uses another figure as a platform, even if its recasting parts from it.
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14 years ago
Sorry, but I'm still not convinced. Take a look at these two – http://bit.ly/kawschum, http://bit.ly/hasheem.
And the list goes on and on...
So, you're basically saying – that the only difference between KAWS and Sucklord is, that KAWS draws his characters first, while Sucklord casts his figures directly?
I'm not here to bash KAWS and defend Sucklord. Also I'm not saying that recasting an original sculpt from another artist makes it your own original creation.
But that's not the case here with "Spray 2-V2". R2-D2 is a culture icon, exactly like Pinocchio, or Tweety (the latest KAWS figures). So I don't see any problem with originality of "Spray 2-V2", as well as with Sucklord's Gay Empire figures. -
14 years ago
Intellectual property law is VERY tricky in regards to "art"
Everything does change when its considered to have iconic cultural significance but Sucklord bootlegs, plain and simple, its what he does. He directly takes the parts and re-produces it, he can be charged with bootlegging.
Sucklord is fun and cheeky, I love it!
Main point:
KAWS creates original sculpts, he doesn't use another sculpt/toy as a platform. Therefore, not customising a toy.
Sucklord uses other sculpts, he doesn't create an original sculpt. Therefore, customising a toy.
In the end I think the custom section on Rotocasted should be used for individuals to showcase their own custom versions that they have made for themselves (or others). This would also go really well with the multiple copies/collection picture section if added. (I gather it is sill in the works?)
If an individual has produced "customs" to sell as "art" then it shouldn't be in the custom section and considered "self produced". -
14 years ago
Ooops looks like I started a debate and then slept through it.
I just thought it was a custom as it was a vintage r2d2 body with a spray cap stuck to it's head.
Is it weird that someone else has this in their collection, I was under the impression that every one the suck lord made was a different colour way. -
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8 15 12
14 years ago
@CoMus Kaws original sculpts? i disagree a bit, in a big part of Kaws work he take the body of already existing characters, (is not a custom agree,) but original works? not too sure.. he re-sculpt them, yes, but i mean, if Sucklord instead of re-produce and make molds of existing pieces, he re- sculpt em to make it looks exactly the same as the original and add a bone in the head then you may think different ?...
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14 years ago
I was only trying to define the distinction of what a "custom" is, not the originality of the character design. Original sculpts only refers to competently creating a new sculpt.
Yet his designs are still different from the original character designs. You can see this on the two comparative pictures vadimt linked above. He picks up on all the important features and it looks the same but his drawings/sculpts are not 100% of the original character. Very very close! They are copies but are not traced/cloned.
I am not saying Kaws designs are original either. Its pop art and its not my thing at all. -
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angel
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381 1089 1433
14 years ago
I don't think this is a custom and I don't think Kaws' work is a custom.
Like CoMus says- it's pop art. Did Andy Warhol "customise" the Marilyn Monroe photo?
I think the sucklord's use of "bootleg" is in part directly to bypass and subvert these definitions.
maybe we should accept that not all works of art fall neatly into our categories :) -
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14 years ago
LOL gotta love that last Line :P Collectors OCD wont stand for this!
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11 years ago
Should be resin not vinyl, so many tags in this library have been changed! I'll change back.
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lordsketch
381 1089 1433
12 years ago
gorgeous!
supercurio
145 213 9
12 years ago
In my wishlist. Great piece.
lordsketch
381 1089 1433
12 years ago
I felt that way too, but the colorway really grew on me
Chauskoskis
8 15 12
12 years ago
I remember back in 2010 when black greasebat was presented there, the one who doubt. Now still crying by night... Just sayin.. LOL I heard there will be a unpainted version...
Chauskoskis
8 15 12
12 years ago
By the way I think the description should be changed I know it's pretty much the same but in the strict sense it is not an art toy, it is a Sofubi or kaiju toy ;)
lordsketch
381 1089 1433
12 years ago
Done :)
SillyK
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12 years ago
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY CUTE!
another lovely axolotl inspired toy in the roto library :D
i love this so much! so where will this be available????
sergeySafonov
804 2515 1650
12 years ago
Cannot wait! Thank you Gary, thank you Jeremy!
Lowbrownie
241 379 84
12 years ago
It's available at his bigcartel store, added the link. Just bought this and the pink one :)
supercurio
145 213 9
12 years ago
Thanks @conseptic Just grab one for myself.
pandapuffs
36 20 1
12 years ago
I just received this and he is awesome!! Even more fantastic in person than in the photos. I'm in love.