Amun-ny Ra

It's been over a year now since I got this commission. It's just amazing how time flies by. I really wish I could work faster than this but life as a stay at home dad takes a lot of my time. So to the very patient client who commissioned this piece, thank you.

This Custom Mini Munny was a private commission. The client simply asked me to create something similar to my Golden God PAW commission that I revealed over a year ago. I said I wouldn't do the same thing, but, you know, I've wanted to do something Egyptian. He agreed and the terms of the deal was that I'd be able to make a limited series of resin casts(10) off his original. He gets to keep the first cast but that means I have 9 others to sell. Well, make that eight because my nephew gets one of everything I do. And it's his birthday coming up so I might as well say to him, Happy Birthday Zinn :-)

Amun-ny-Ra. It's almost like the name Amun-Ra was made to be converted into a Munny. Each resin munny has been individually hand painted and weathered with care. Each is accompanied by it's own resin base inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs. The 4 obelisks read "1 Munny KidRobot, Kevin Gosselin, 2012" and the client's name. The base is inscribed with the words, "Tell me why I had to be a power slave?" These, to those in the know, are the words to an Iron Maiden song that I was inspired by when creating the piece. Amun-ny Ra is the king of Gods and holds the ankh, the key of life .

Each cast has been signed and numbered.

The remaining 8 Amun-ny-Ra's will be for sale on Saturday, April 14th at 10am PST for $225 They can be purchased at my online site, here

A funny little story about the making of this piece.

This limited series was suppose to be simply weathered, but in the course of events, a happy accident happened. I went to make the mold of the original vinyl munny custom and put it in the pressure pot, completely forgetting that the air inside the munny would also pressurize, when I took the piece out I discovered the original had been crushed. After many curses I began to see the silver lining. What was remaining looked beautiful. I couldn't have sculpted better cracks. So I decided to incorporate them into the piece. But it required more work. The vinyl was warped so I had to transfer the pieces to a new munny, of which I didn't have one lying around and really wanted to finish it asap, so I took my munny that was autographed by Frank Kozik and used that. Sorry Frank.