ABAKAN 2288: kallamity's world of mecha design part one Paperback – December 26, 2011

The media could not be loaded.  This is an amazing book featuring the mecha art and models of Luca Zampriolo, aka Kallamity. Great for anyone interested in assembling, building or designing mechas.The concept is set in the future in a world that has run out of resources. The idea is not particular unique but more to provide background. As usual, there will be one powerful entity, in this case the Weingart family, who has the power and technology to build all sorts of stuff of which some are mechas.The book starts of with concept art for the dystopia future world. It looks like there are mining plants built everywhere, even in cities with skyscrapers there are factories spilling out smoke just beside.The rest of the book are concept art for mechas and a selected few are being made into actual models. There are only a few featured because each one has an crazy amount of detail. One model took 11 months to finish. They are mainly the walker-type heavy mechas, a spaceship carrier and a crew all suited up. You can see some design influence from Kow Yokoyama which was mentioned in the book.There are photos of all the created parts either by casting or sculpting. The models are made from Milliput (bicomponent stucco) and plasticard. For one of the human models, Super Sculpey was used.Every piece created is intricately designed and worked on. For example, you can see all the tiny holes for ventilation grills. All surfaces have details even though some were eventually covered up by other parts. There are also many photos from different angles, and photos at different stages of completion.Lengthy commentary is provided on how each mecha was designed and built. It's not tutorial style so it's not a beginners book. Some of what's mentioned might make more sense to actual model builders. Towards the end, there are also some guest designers featured, like Michael Fichtenmayer, Ryu Seoung Ho, Matt Tomczek and Jason Stalnaker.Highly recommended for mecha lovers. Even if you don't build or assemble them, there are plenty of designs to see.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

Nice story that goes with even nicer drawings. I didn't know anything about this author but I really like mecha design, this book fulfills both the imaging and a good story as well. I would recommend if you like mechas and sci-fi stories. I won't spoil or anything but the story happens in the future when only a handful of families control de world supplies of fuel.EDIT:So I finished reading this book and I wanted to give an update. This book has a small story about the mecha world, but also has some detailed photographs and tips on how the artist creates, models and paints some of its models. It has some techniques to use table salt to weather your model kits and, though it is not a manual on how to paint model kits, gives some good tips to amateurs like me.Overall I would recommend this book if you are interested both in mecha design and model kit building.

I love mechs and this book has some great different styles of some big chunky fat mechs! Great art and great to see some process. I can't wait to make my own mechs like these one day! Great book to look back on incase I am struggling for inspiration or just to see other techniques. Definieytly useful for illustrators and creative minds! Wish they mad it in a hardback form however!

There's not a whole lot to say other than some of the work in this book is just mind-blowing. I think it's amazing how he kit-bashed together all these awesome mech designs. Plus, if I remember correctly, he's spent 11 years working on this whole storyline he's created. You can tell he's passionate about his craft. I wish I was as dedicated. I'll admit, I haven't read through all the text just yet. I was more interested in the artistic side. His drawings/paintings aren't great, but I bought this for the sculpting/kit-making parts of the book. If you're looking for a book with lots of different variations of mecha, this is probably not the best place to look. A lot of the designs are similar, as they are supposed to be chronological upgrades of older mechs in this world he's created. Interesting stuff.

I'm a bit of a mech fan. I'm not an over-the-top mech fan. But now that I own a 3D printer, I am planning on designing and printing some mech models, and I was searching for inspiration. A fellow artist at work showed me his copy of this book, and after flipping through maybe three pages, I was online and ordering!It is a work of true inspiration and I'm happy to own it.

Absolutely beautiful illustrations and model work. Different variations to explore within a very broad story board. A good read with lots of technical information and building guides.

Just a very Cool book of making Models and Robots I have so many books that sometimes you forget how good a book is until someone else looks in it and say's dude this is the best Book on Building Model Robots and Mec's And it is the Best

Absolutely amazing. The opportunity to peer into the mind of a genius... creativity and logic in harmony.

This was a book recommended to me by a fellow artist who specialised in Sci-fi illustration at a time when I was doing experimental drawings in concept design myself (not something my fine-art background trained me for); it`s a very beautifully illustrated large paperback with lots of colour images of digitally rendered work, studies and actual models built from the designs.I must admit it is rather more specialised than I anticipated, but for those with a specific interest in Mechas and actually building them as models this is a fascinating and inspirational volume; some of the models and dioramas are really cool – well-photographed, skilfully made and creatively designed.I was unaware of how expensive this book has become since I purchased it in 2012 – I will now put it in a safety deposit box with my bank.Shame there is no “Look inside” option.

Awsome work the arts, the pictures and the lore are very interesting also a very good book to keep for scratchbuilder.

Anche se il libro è scritto in inglese fa comunque piacere sapere che sia nato in Italia. Luca Zampriolo è un grande nel creare illustrazioni e ambientazioni fantascientifiche solo lievemente meno cupe rispetto a Blame, i robot hanno un livello di complessità e di dettagli incredibile. Inoltre è bello vedere la genesi e il processo di costruzione di alcuni dei suoi modelli, come Briegel e Schnabelgun. Un must have per gli amanti della fantascienza e per chi apprezza un design che ricorda quello di Kazuisha Kondo e Makoto Kobayashi.

Si eres fanático de los mechas y los robots, y del trabajo de modelado de los mismos, este libro te va a encantar, es muy bueno, muy inspirador, además se agradece que sea de pasta dura.

立体のモデリングは意外にアナログな手法ですが熱意と根性でクオリティーを高めセンスと感性でグイグイ迫るクリエイターさんです。まだ有名になる前の士郎正宗さん的な印象を受けました