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Thanks for the kind words! LOL agreed there's a lot of funny stuff in that movie "Can I give you a hand, sir?" "Already got one." 😂

"It's Fronkenstein" "You're puttin' me on?" "No..." "Well then why isn't it Froderick Fronkenstein?" "It isn't, it's Fredrick Fronkenstein." This time around we have another bust from Pestilence Labs from 1974's Young Frankenstein series - the Doctor. The kit is a pretty simple kit consisting of the 1:4 scale bust, castle base, the "How I Did It" book, and the 2 parts of the collar that flies open during the Act Normal! scene. I would have to look hard to find any problems but one thing I would have to guess is whys does the Doctor appear to be looking down? I have a theory that I'll keep to myself, as it's an excellent likeness. (@Pestilence image) To change things up a little I decided to do the base first. It's a simple pile of stones and decided to leave them blend into the overall look - so simple grays and blacks with light gray mortar were used. Moving on to the face I added my regular pink/purple mix. While I was waiting for it to dry, I painted the book with some of V's Cavalry Red. Adding some various flesh colors I got the color I was happy with.Looking closely at his hair it seemed that he had very dark roots with some bright highlights. It's also quite obvious that they had Wilder in a lot of mascara. Finally I had to look it up to find out he had blue eyes. While that was drying I turned back to the book to add the gold lettering. Finally, it shows him in a dark (black?) tuxedo jacket with a white shirt and collar. Not wanting to use just black and white, I used V's Black Gray, and their Off-white. Just recently I noticed the buttons on his shirt were dark. I'll have to make that change. Thanks for looking. ~~~

Having a few collections to complete I decided that Childs from the 1982 movie The Thing was desk on the table. He is part of the Childs/McReady controversy in that who was the Thing at the end... The kit came in 7 parts - the bust, base, gloved hand, whiskey bottle, and 3 appendages. The likeness is spot on and the casting as usual with Gillman is nearly flawless. With this piece, the Yagher, the sculptor, gives away two of his ideas of how things ended. Number one the base is created to look like a generator, which answers McReady's question :How's the generator," and Garry answers "It's gone, MacReady!" As a sidebar Garry was his last name. On the character list he was M.T. Garry. The Yagher also gives his opinion of whether Childs or McReady, neither or both were infected. From the front Child's portrait is spot on. But from the back you see his head is split open and all sort's of gooey things are emerging. As usual I start with the portrait. I don't get to do dark skin all that much so I was glad I picked up a number of Army Painter skin double triads (6 colors that all blend) . I started withe the darkest one, and then I really didn't like many of the companion colors as they seemed too desaturated. I had seen another painter use oranges to highlight the skin, so I turned to my set of rust paints. A few different layers and I was liking what I had so far. Turning to the back of the head I added various reds and oranges to make the wound. My thoughts on wounds and blood is that a little goes a long way. I went too far, so I got some Agrax Earthshade to darken down the crevices and ended my session there. Coming back to it the next day to see disaster struck. I had angled the bust face down at an angle so the wash would dry in all the recesses. What it did was to rundown the head and then gravity would take it around to the bottom which from that angle was the face. I now had this dark stripe running across the face and down to the chin where it dried. I tried lightly getting it off. It didn't really work that well. So I got out the paints and had Take 2 of doing the portrait. After getting it fixed, I sprayed it with a matte clear to protect the new paint (which I didn't do the first time). Tragedy struck again as the matte clear coat instantly frosted. I had heard that if you quickly spray it with a gloss, the frost goes away. The frost did go away - mostly. Disgusted, I chose to walk away rather than whip it off the wall. With everything that happened I was so disgusted that I forgot to take WIP pics, so all I have left is the finale shots. Thanks for looking.

Nice work!

Looks terrific!

I have had the busts of the two priests from The Exorcist on my shelf now for some time- Fr. Karras, and Fr. Merrin . To finish off the trilogy Regan was also offered, but the sculpt was too good and it was just too creepy for me. Move time fwd and Artist/producer Saul Alvarez of Silver Screen Icons has come up with another Regan. This time a little less creepy (IMHO). 😄 The kit comes in 5 3D printed parts - the head, the body, the base, and then a head and base of the idol Pazuzu. There is also a copy of the movie poster that fits into the base frame. Excellent idea for future movie models. The kit looked pretty benign, so I epoxied the 3 main parts together, in what turned out to an early mistake. Turns out there are spots the way the hair is done that reveals openings to the dress/nightgown that can be seen and it was rather difficult to get primer in there. But with a little effort the job got done. Next, as usual for me was to add color to the face. This too was a little tricky as looking at screen grabs there are seemingly always color filters over the lights. Do I paint it normally or do I give it that creep blue color? I decided to do it normally. Normal is a loaded word with her under possession, she was painted with pale sickly colors. Thankfully I bought a few triads of flesh color schemes. 😉 Her hair was brown and the nightgown was a pale blue so that was completed easily. Thinking back to the movie, when Fr. Merrin was excavating the dig site, and finding the little Pazuzu head it was a sort of dirty brown. So I decided to make the base a simple dulled down brown color. The base also has some imagery of Pazuzu, so I highlighted them. To make the portrait a little more gross, I mixed some florescent green with UV resin and added a few drops to her mouth and gown. The movie poster needed a little trim, and then easily glued into the frame and I was done. One thing I would have done differently is since the base was 3D printed hollow, it's very light. I'm so used to the bases being big chunks of solid resin. So I think I would add some weight to the base. Thanks for looking.

Shock of shocks! 😉 I'm building a kit that hasn't sat in my stash for years. 😉 This kit was picked up at at my local scale MODEL CLUB meeting a few months ago. Thanks Mike I. Alice was sculpted by ELLA ARTS. And I've seen STL's over at Cults. Alice is approx 1/10the scale and was printed in a way that there was next to no grow lines nor dimples or "pimples". Just jumping right in after cleaning and priming I tackled all the skin tones, and then turn to the blue dress - While that was drying I turned my attention to the base. It also gave me the chance to try out the new Army Painter Speed Paints 2.0. I picked out a few colors and went to town. They went on very nicely, and even went thru the airbrush very well. The first pic is a little dark, but the second shows how the scene will look. At one point I put the kit base onto a wooden base - just so the painted surface wouldn't constantly be handled. While I was at it, I painted up the Cheshire Cat. I just used the same colors as the example. I Also added the details to Alice's portrait. Next was to start to put the parts together and while doing that I painted the white articles of clothing - The other little thing I did was to add some of my new florescent paint set to the mushrooms and cat's eyes. The UV light really makes them shine! I decided to leave the little head adornment off. seemed very fragile. It was simple to complete all the parts and I was done! Thanks for looking.

Boy, seems I'm constantly playing catch-up lately. Earliest images of the Star kit I took come from February... 😛 In case you don't know, Star is is Michael's love interest and a member of David's gang, though she is only half-vampire, having resisted her thirst for human blood. She helps Michael, Sam and the Frog Brothers to battle the gang, seeing it as a way out of her and Laddie's nightmarish existence. After the head vampire Max is killed, Star becomes fully human again and apparently enters a relationship with Michael. s love interest and a member of David's gang, though she is only half-vampire, having resisted her thirst for human blood. She helps Michael, Sam and the Frog brothers to battle the gang, seeing it as a way out of her and Laddie's nightmarish existence. After the head vampire Max is killed, Star becomes fully human again and apparently enters a relationship with Michael. She is played by actress Jami Gertz. I kind of forget the scale I had the 3D file printed, but I think it's 1/10 or 1/12th. The printing was done by a friend over at Gillusions, from a file by Diklich Arts. The kit came in 6 parts including two heads, body, two arms, two feet and a base- Getting it together was no problem, tho - my fault - I did line up one of the arms crooked that had to be fixed. The next was getting the info for the painting, and while looking at the example paint job, she was wearing a white shirt, and a simple pink/magenta long skirt. However looking at a screen grab of the skirt I was in for an interesting time. The busy design was "interesting", not to mention the multi-color shawl she was wearing and that's also featured in the kit. There's a lot of designs there, not to mention that waist belt she has. Plus looking at the screen grab, she has about 20 bracelets on, and I see a lot of different colors. I'm going to have to get my number 0 brush out along with my opti-visors... I started with a simple flesh tone, brunette hair, and a belt with a lot of purple in it. And the skirt base coat - Now to start the designs on the skirt - And that's where I'm leaving it for now. I was seeing those square plinths with the high backs. So I was thinking of using one of those for Star. I found a screen grab of the abandoned hotel lair the vampires use, and that may be my background. But that's next time. Thanks for looking.

VERY cool job! Love the "box" diorama too!

New to me... I'm going to have to give it a try. I'm getting the same "symptoms" with the Vallejo matte. sometimes it is, many times it's not...

Looks terrific!

Thanks!

Yep. as a Medusa collector a friend got me this lil one. I'm guess it's it's based on a 75mm size. Nothing special about the build. I "had to" change the base, and it's the first time I tried a free hand marble look. Thanks for looking. All done>

Thanks! Appreciate the kind words!

Since this is a hypothetical aircraft, I guess it can go here vs. The Aircraft threads... I pulled this vehicle out of my stash as I was in the mood for something unusual. On site mentions it as the future that should have been. Another created a backstory for it: In early 1929, Thomas T. Brown published an article in prestigious Science and Invention magazine. Article’s title was simple: How I Control Gravitation. However, the topic was anything but simple. Brown proved that using electrogravitics he could control gravity. After few years the sector spun-off and become Gravity control propulsion research center. Soon large-scale tests proved that indeed gravity could be controlled. One of the experiment showed that a solid block of graphite with a mass of 500 kg doesn’t weigh the normal 4903 N but only 3236 N. Only 66% of original weight. Next phase was of course moving this new technology out of the laboratory in and into the field. Sparing no time a special vehicle, Victory 357 (Победа 357), was developed. It was basically an ekranoplan using three small jet engines for horizontal propulsion and an enormous 15,500 HP Kuznetsov NK-12 generator for powering electrogravitics elements. Generator provided enough electricity to reduce the weight of the vehicle from 160,000 N (16,315 kg) to 85.000 N (8.667 kg) making it a reasonably nimble ekranoplan with limited flying capabilities. The kit was made by AMP Models and is in 1:72 scale of detailed gray plastic. Having a quick look at the instructions gave me the first minus score to the kit - there's was just a few exploded views of where the parts basically go. I don't like that. This kit has a complete interior. There's the floor, the front and rear firewalls, a center control. There's two seats made made me smile in that they reminded me of chairs from a 1960's kitchen 😛 There is also a very nice instrumentation panel. The details of the panel were a PE piece and I must admit it is the best looking panel I've ever seen. But when closing up the fuselage I discovered that the "inside just didn't fit in the outside." I don't know what I did or if it's the kit. But the problem stopped me dead until I yanked out the interior. Ahh well, the windows were so small you couldn't see in anyway... At least that what I'm telling myself. The rest of the build went simply, and before I knew it, it was ready for the paint. The color options were a blue or bare metal. I didn't trust my seam elimination skills for the baremetal, so blue it is. I added the decals - went on nicely - and then some weathering. The box art shows it flying thru the skies but until I get to Hobby Lobby for a box base, I just sat it on a block for the pics. I'll update the thread when the base is done. Thanks for looking.