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Dr Bao and Spive have come together to summon forth the warrior Takashi!!! An immaculate custom of a 3″ Dunny. They have also founded the NVC crew, who are taking part in Gee Whizz, and this is their first public introduction piece.
VA has written about Bao’s work before and touched on his history as a graff artist. So how customs? Bao explains, “I was watching the toy industry world and it’s cool what people are doing but it’s always solo work. In graffiti a solo piece of work is cool but a whole wall produced by a crew is much more impressive and complete. So why not take that concept and come out with a crew for customizing toys. We can work all together, working on a concept and then creating it.”
We also mentioned Bao’s teeth pulling skills (he’s a dentist). “I knew that I can paint, but now I want to make use of my sculpting experience, that I learned during my studies to become a dentist when I was sculpting teeth in wax!!! That’s why we sculpt a lot in our customs.”
Sculpt a lot they do indeed, some amazing fine detail in this piece – just an introduction of more to come from a fresh new custom crew.
…and what does NVC stand for? “Natural Vinyl Crackheadz, Neurotic Vinyl Crackheadz…”
