When the mainstream toy market won’t produce what a collector wants, they make it themselves — or they find the artists who do. ViciousFun’s Resin, Custom, Models & Keshi category is the deepest corner of the catalog: 5,000+ pieces that exist precisely because they were never meant for mass production.
Resin casting entered collector culture through the garage kit scene of the 1980s and 1990s, where Japanese hobbyist studios (known as “doujin soft” or “garage kit” makers) produced small-run polyurethane resin figures of characters that no major toy company was touching — deep-cut anime characters, hyper-detailed mecha, and kaiju variants too obscure or too adult for the retail market. These kits were sold at Wonder Festival and Comiket, assembled and painted by the buyer, and prized precisely because of the skill and intention required to finish them. A perfectly painted garage kit is as much a piece of craftsmanship as it is a collectible.
Plastic and resin model kits complete the picture — box-fresh unopened kits alongside partially or fully built and painted pieces documented with condition notes. Whether you are a builder searching for a new project or a collector looking for a completed trophy piece, the inventory spans both ends of the spectrum.
