steampunk dunny

maybe i've been under a rock but i only heard of the term "steampunk" about a week ago (via this cool friend). i'm using it loosely today to describe this little fella because he is a modern vinyl toy i painted to look like antique Delft Blue.

i purchased this Dunny when i was in New Orleans two years ago. i only bought it because the merchants were still doing very poorly then and i found myself in a neat store having a neat chat with the owner. i wanted to buy something as a show of support but i didn't want anything too large. the Dunnies were the right size but they were sold as "surprises" - so you didn't know which one you would get.

i never liked the one i got (lunch-bag-let-down!!!) but since it was my souvenir, i never threw it away.

so, realizing that Kidrobot wasn't beating down my door to design one of these toys*, i took it upon myself.

(* ...and they never will now because desecrating one of these is likely some kind of vinyl-toy-sacrilege!)

here's his bum...

and the side-view showing where arms once attached. i took them off to paint but couldn't get them back on - so now he's an amputee.

and lastly, "in situ" with a bunch of other precious junk.