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MechaGodzilla - Hybrid Kumonga

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Another pencil sketch based on my 'real-life' rendition of Toho kaiju characters.

Mecha-Godzilla is obviously patterned after the stegosaurus-allosaurus fusion that I used for Godzilla, except I took a page from the Terminator universe and instead of making him a typical metal-plated mecha, I made him a sort of endoskeletal bionic. The fact that this Mecha-Godzilla design is supposed to resemble Godzilla's own skeleton is kind of a play on Mechagodzilla's first appearance in the original Godzilla film series, wherein he initially impersonated the Big G by wearing a lizard skin - it also quite unintentionally paid homage to Toho's more recent 'Millennium' version of Mechagodzilla; I haven't really kept track of the Godzilla movies after "Godzilla 2000" :( , so I was surprised to discover, in my research for the Kumonga design, that the newest Mechagodzilla was built using the 1954 Godzilla's own skeleton (even though the end of the original film clearly shows it vaporizing into nothing like the rest of him). The third row of fins (which I figure would probably double as an energy conduction array of some kind) is also visible on this design, whereas I was never able to get them onto my Godzilla redesign.

Kumonga (or Spiga, if you prefer) is derived from two distinct arachnid-type forms, the megarachne and the spider crab. Based on the research I did, neither was ever an actual spider, though for a time it was believed the 20-inch-wide megarachne was; in fact, it was a primitive type of sea scorpion hailing from the Carboniferous period in the Paleozoic era, predating the Mesozoic periods of Jurassic and Cretaceous from which I redesigned Godzilla and Anguirus previously (no surprise when you consider that many arthropods, including spiders, lived long before the dinosaurs came and went). I'm not sure when the spider crab evolved into existence, but I did use a Japanese spider crab as the basis for the legs and underside of the beastie
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Did u get my note