Hi World, Gunjap Interviews today with Fabio Carturello !!!
Hi World, Gunjap Interviews today with Fabio Carturello. Let’s Start!
[G: Gunjap]
[F: Fabio Carturello]
G – Who is Fabio Carturello in the Modelers World? And where do you come from?
F – Hi Gunjap! First of all, thank You for the honor of being interviewed by a so well known blog!
To answer your question, I am a modeller atypical for this web site, in fact Gundam is not the center of my modeling attention. My education took place in Art Institutes and this for theoretical basis was (and still is now) very important.
Into the modelling field, I began with Warhammer more than 20 years ago, but then suspended after not long time. I restarted 8 years ago in the same field of the figures (medieval this time), but in 2008 I discovered almost by accident the online shop e2046 and therefore the world of resin and vinyl linked to the Japanase Anime characters that I most loved. Since then it has been a succession of models, simple and shy painting at the beginning, but afterwards by reason of the base model I was increasingly dissatisfied and I began to customize.
G – When did you start building and modding Figures?
And when did you made your first Custom?
F – The first customized model was the resin kit Getter 2 (version taken from an illustration by Ken Hishikawa made for the laser disc), of which I didn’t like the posture but I considered wonderful some details of the robot, so I began to saw and remodel the limbs position with common Milliput and then I endeavored to build the blaze that comes from the drill trying to give a flame effect as realistic as possible . Even today this is one of the models to which I’m more attached, precisely because it was an important advance .
The next step was to transform the plastic kit of the Mazinger Z Hover Pilder ( very poor and made to be a “toy” too unpolished) in a more attractive and realistic model. Clearly as usual, I got carried away and finished customized parts with plasticard on pilder, I began to sculpt Koji Kabuto. Well, since then I discovered that I enjoy more to sculpt than to paint!
After these two models it’s come Harlock, my best work so far in my humble opinion. Here I wanted to use a vinyl kit, material very snubbed by modelers because highly perishable and difficult to work with. I choose this item simply because his face was right for what I wanted to do. As usual, if a character has a detail that makes me fall in love, the rest doesn’t scare me. I analyzed and discarded the parts that I did not like of the old kit Elfin and I kept very little, I repositioned the model and rebuilt with Milliput, Green Stuff, then several pieces in scratch building ( “Tori-san” the bird, cloak, sword, hat and bottle are only those most obvious made starting from anything ) . This model has given me great satisfaction and seeing him again I still feel proud.
G – Please some advices for modelers that wanna start sculpting a Figure or Mecha for the very First Time!
F – As say an old Italian movie “Provare, provare, provare, provare …. E ancora provare!” that means “Try, try, try, try …. And still try! “.
Hobby modeling is not cheap or hasty, like all things it takes a lot of passion and a good deal of devoted time.
Do not use only products for the modeling, remember that this passion is closely linked to artistic production, so without necessarily to arrange of the usual brands of colors or putty, try everything that find on hand! One of the best fillers for models that I have used for example is a surface filler for auto repair, one kilogram of this costs the same as few grams of the most famous brands that sell them in little tube!
Look for forums where you really see some good work and where to find people who are capable and available, the comparison with those who are able is the fastest way to improve. I’m very appreciative to some friends met in “Mad’s Models” forum, while before in other frequented web environments I found especially people who are ready to compete for unknown imaginary awards preferring to spit poison rather to make modeling. It is quite easy to recognize them, they are those people who do not give you an advice or a tip even under torture. You identify them even because they are people who almost never have own ideas, living by copying (at 99 % badly ) what more skilled modelers have already created.
Be wary of who offends himself at the first criticism, “no one is born already abled and learned” says a my modeler friend. It’s normal that the first works will be subject to criticism also if You don’t see right away, take the positive part and make treasure of that, but also be wary of those people who are ready to criticize you at all times without ever give you useful advice. However, always be the most bad critical of yourself!
To begin, you don’t fall into the easy trap of mind “Well it’s my first model, so I do an ugly and simple kit”, the simple models without particular are by far the most difficult to do, instead better to take something fairly detailed, but above all it is a subject that you really like it, will be the greatest incentive to do the best we can.
Beware of those who sell home-made resin kits as private (it sprouting like mushrooms), I myself have fallen in error last year but the model was disastrous and unusable because made with materials and techniques low end together to unprofessional behaviour… I suggest to ask always around before, look in a forum community and ask questions before you spend your money, whenever possible rely on renowned international websites or official production houses of undoubted seriousness.
Above all take inspiration from everything, a special silicone that uses the plumber could be the ideal solution for you. To understand how to blend for shading the colors look great painters of the past or the most beautiful photographs of your subject. Every object, even scrap is fine to make a base of something, the only limit is your imagination! Probably in your town may be a modeling club, let’s go and take part in the meeting with people involved in other areas (the club of my city is visited by 99% of aircraft modelers) can only bring you to learn new techniques that will be useful!
G – Have you a Website/Blog to show your Works?
F – Yeah, I don’t update it frequently because I prefer to use it only to publish my works (and I’m notoriously slow due to fussiness) and little else.
Here below:
http://carturellomodels.blogspot.it/
G – Future Projects?
F – I really have a shelf full of models to do …
I think, however, that I will follow 3 main lines:
a diorama that I’m finishing to achieve which I can not say more because it will be to participate in a contest,
2 subjects spacecraft with pilots (Tetsuya Tsurugi that I already sculpted with Brian Condor and the Vanship from Last Exile)
then I’m harboring a subject related to the Comics, but too early to talk about it!
F – Many thanks for the awesome chance!
G – Many Thanks to Fabio Carturello for this Interview 
See You soon for the next!
