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Thanks. I never saw the technique before until this YouTube guy was trying something to make his commissions go by quicker. If you go to his page you can watch and see him do it rather than just individual images - https://www.youtube.com/@Groundeffected/videos When you try, make sure to take. pics. I'd like to see how it turns out.

Anyone that followed my models know I'm mostly figures and space/sci-fi. But I saw this kit and as a regular viewer of Night Shift, I had to try - - Meng Models World War Toons Sherman tank. It's one of those "deformed" type models, like the egg planes. There was no scale listed. The biggest bonus to me was that they had the "rubber band" type treads. I couldn't imagine myself sitting there assembling the treads one section at a time. I assembled the major sub-assemblies and then painted it the US Olive Drab green. After that I added the decals which went on very nicely. I then added a little weathering ala Night Shift. The base was done with a piece of cut up foam, and the hedgerow is a plastic aquarium filter material covered in Ground foam. With that I was finished. Thanks for looking.

EXCELLENT! Now this is where the beauty of a constant scale pays off. Amazing collection sir. Can't wait until you hit 1000! 🙂

Excellent. The mobile pigeon coop right up my alley for the "strange and unusual" type of kit. 🙂

Catching up with my posts we have Marilyn Monroe from the Suite Life Productions. The card that came with the kit indicates she's part of a potential series Girls on Film Part 1. Always good to see *not the same ol' thing* kits. She looks like she's about 1/5 scale and was a very nice 2 part casting with only minor cleanup of the seam-line that runs around the kit. If you read my entry on the Pebbles bust, you already know about whats happening here. If not, very briefly I saw the You Tube channel creator that has been looking for an effective yet simple was to create a realistic look for skin tone coat in a purple pink color on top and then from the bottom add a red. Then when you add the skin color in light passes while leaving some of the red and purple you end up with a lifelike skin IMHO. Continuing on with Marilyn, the example shows here wearing a black dress. There's a lot of black with no real breakups in color. What I chose to do was take some Blue Gunmetal, which is a dark blue color with metal flakes in it. To make it a little bit darker I did add a little black. Then For the hair originally I chose V's Wood, but that looked too yellow. Marilyn's hair changed - A LOT - over time and I guess depending on what movie she was acting in. So I over-painted it with Cork, and then two highlights ending with Ivory. For the stole I just used a light gray, and under some of the larger tufts a darker gray. The dry brushed with an Off White, finally ending with a light coat of Pearlizing Medium.

NICE!

This is another terrific kit that apparently has been in my stash for quite some time. Coming from the talented hands of John Dennett, it's a 1/3 scale bust of Frankenstein's monster as described by Mary Shelley in her book. Investigating that I found him to have yellow watery eyes, a yellowish sking almost transparent enough to reveal the veins and arteries beneath, and long dark stringy hair. The natural starting point for me was a base of the yellow skin. Next was the tried and true method of making "something" under the skin and that was the squiggly lines of different colors. While that was drying I also staed work on the icy base with various blues. Next came my new favorite of adding detail, and that's to add Reikland FleshShade with the airbrush. At was enough for one day. Continuing on, was some dark Black Brown for the hair, and then roughly dry-brushed some cork brown on the dark blue gray jacket to simulate grave dirt. 😉 I went back and added some Woodland Senics snow to the iceberg and glued that in place With the skin dried, I added color to all the little cuts and gouges he had including the scalpel cuts. Going back to the hair I went with the next lighter color brown for a few highlights. He was supposed to have really dark hair so I did my best to show the strands while keeping it dark. The eyeballs were already black, so I added the same yellow ochre for the iris, and then added beige to the sclera. Once dried both colors were lightened and then a black pupil was added with a cut toothpick. The sutures were colored with V's Duraluminum and with that I was finished. It was a very cool kit and a fun one to paint. Plus as someone else said not the same ol' Frankenstein. Thanks for looking.

Hi, Welcome to the wonderful world of resin figures! 😁 Those blocks are called pour plugs from when the mold gets filled with the liquid resin. Most times you can simply use a model saw to cut it off. Some even use a dremel with a flat cutting blade. However you choose to cut it, I would recommend to go at it from a few different directions to make sure your final result is flat. This will save you a lot of time filling and sanding. I would be remiss is I didn't mention to protect yourself from the dust. It's been reported to be nasty stuff especially if it turns out you're allergic. Wear a mask or have some sort of shop vac nozzle set up to suck up the dust. If you have neither, keep the model part to be cut wet. That will help keep the dust from flying around. HTH And let's see you figure when you get finished.

Nice job!

Thanks! Took me a while to learn that paint on a model only leaves an incredibly thin layer. So unless I changed my mind 100s of times already, another coat won't hurt any of the details... 😉

Thank you!

Continuing on, the first thing I noticed was that I got the colors of his clothes reversed. I thought the fur jacket was light but darker than his shirt. Wrong. So that had to be fixed. Then the kit had an obvious 5 o"clock shadow (or maybe longer) on his face. My usual way of tackling that is to get out the dark blue pastels. When done, I wasn't exactly happy with it. I thought that maybe some brown would tone the blue down, but that just made things look worse. So after a face washing, it was back to more blue. I'm going to keep this open in case I come up with a better idea. Finally I added some dark red clear UV resin to his stump hand and I was calling this one done. Thanks for looking.

T.C. Quist is a fictional werewolf and a secondary antagonist featured in The Howling film series. Played by actor Don McLeod, he appeared in the 1981 film The Howling. T.C. was one of the Quist siblings who lived at the Colony. Like many of the other members of the community (as well as his family), T.C. was a werewolf.T.C. later had his arm chopped off with a hatchet by Terry Fisher and was then killed when he was shot by silver bullets. TC is a 3 piece resin kit by Gillman Studios. The kit is very clean with no bubbles or pinholes and two minor seam line remnants. Clean up too less than a half hour - yes I always take my time when the seam remnant is in the hair. Not having seen the movie in a while, I did a search to get another look at the character. This was a good pic as I also get his eye color as well. Eyes are always problematic. Now it's on to the primer and base coat. Watching a few videos by Groundeffected, I saw he makes the topside of the skin a purple pink, and the underside a red. So I tried it. After that the Flesh went on but didn't look right. While thinking about it, I dove into the base. The front appeared to be planking with some silhouettes, and the back was some boulders. Thinking about the skin again, I think the first mix was too dark, next time I'll lighten it up. So another coat of Flesh went on, with a little Ivory mixed in. Now to fill in a little more of the details - eyes teeth, shirt and the base coat for the fur collar. I was planning on making a light colored collar - which is all wrong. I'll be switching up the shirt and collar colors, but that for next time. Thanks for looking.

Thanks guys!

Thanks. I have quite the stash pile to draw from. Haha 😉

It's that time of year again to look back at what I've done at the hobby bench this year. Still not back to my level before the hip surgery, But I'm happy with the result. Thanks for looking.

Very late to the thread - apologies I don't often hit the General Modeling folder. I'm a member of the BPMS, and one of the newer members came to the Board with the idea. They told him go for it, to see if he could get it going. But at the next in-person meeting, the member came back with all the details completed. With a lot of younger members it started out as a Gundam build meet up. But of course any kit was welcome, and you had a wide range of ages, from gray haired veterans, to brand new beginners with their snap tite kits. There were two of these meetings, with a few dozen participants at each meeting. He's planning more in 2024...

Thank you!

Thanks guys! Agreed, Duke. He really was Scrooge.

You can never have to many Wolf-men. This one is from sculptor Troy McDevitt, and it is an awesome rendition of the Lon Chaney Jr. character. The model comes in 4 parts - the head, base, arm and name plate. Right out of the box and a test fit is perfect. Base coat, shadows, 2 highlights and this was a quick one... Thanks for looking.

Bravo! Those are terrific!

I bought John Dennett's latest Christmas Carol bust too late to get it finished for last year. So I wanted to make sure I didn't miss out this year. It's Michael Dolan as the 1951 Ghost of Christmas Past. My dilemma with this one was all the white on white on white. So the skin was done only slightly lighter and gave the hair and robe a "ghostly" blue tint. Thanks for looking.

Sorry for the delay. Looks great!

Terrific!