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Roktman

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  1. 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. ๐Ÿ˜‰ 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.
  2. Hi, Welcome to the wonderful world of resin figures! ๐Ÿ˜ 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.
  3. 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... ๐Ÿ˜‰
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Thanks. I have quite the stash pile to draw from. Haha ๐Ÿ˜‰
  7. 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.
  8. 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...
  9. Thanks guys! Agreed, Duke. He really was Scrooge.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Roktman

    Hatsune Miku

    Sorry for the delay. Looks great!
  13. This kit has been in my stash for a long time. After first seeing it, I had to have it, but once a copy was mine I didn't think I could do it justice, and put it in my pile. The mark on the kit says 2013. While I consider myself a pretty good novice, I thought I would give it a try. And the timing was right as my model club (the BPMS), was asking for a kit I would build as part of my pledge. This is where you pledge a model to build in January and by October, you have it finished. Back to the kit. This is another from John Dennett's Crypto Legends series. As mentioned the sculpt is outstanding. I don't think anyone has measured the JD, so I have no idea of the scale of the kit. It comes in 10 pieces and a base, made from very clear cream color resin. Here and there you see a hint of a seam line, but a minute or two of scraping and it was gone. Not having an idea about the devil color yet - most images on the net have it back or a dark color - and I'm kinda tired of too many of my horror models dark - I decided to work on the base first. Being the Devil is always pictured in red I thought I would use reds and browns. Tho for the wings I tried to mimic a little translucent skin - Being that the Devil is supposed to be prowling the NJ Pin Barrens, Dennett put a few pine cones on the ground. But taking it up another notch I thought it cool to cut the bristles of a disposable paint brush - they were tan after all - and use them as pine needles. I sprayed a heavy layer of hair spray on the base (protecting the water area) and started cutting. I didn't notice right away, but the bristle turn out to be transparent when seeing just a piece of one. Arrrggghhh! I figured it would be a bigger headache trying to collect up all the pieces that were now covered in a still drying hairspray, that I decided to just paint each "needle" one at a time. Ugh... Something I saw on YouTube of a guy building an airplane was to get all the instrument details in a cockpit, he painted the whole thing a dark color and then when the paint dried, he lightly scrapped the instruments revealing the lighter color plastic, then he could paint that button whatever color he wanted. I thought "Why couldn't I do that with all the text?" Turns out you can. The white resin looked too stark, so I added some Vallejo Yellow Ink, and now it really pops . With a few other tidbits to neaten things up, I was finished. Thanks for looking.
  14. This past weekend was Jersey Fest here in ... NJ ๐Ÿคจ For those that don't know is basically a Nationals but nearly all the models are monsters, superheroes, robots and other movie characters space vehicles from the Horror and Sci- Fi , and other movies. Being the sculptors/producers announce any and all new kits in their respective groups, there wasn't may *new* kits to buy in the Vendor Room. The contest room was an amazing place of all top notch models. And yes someone even snuck in armor. ๐Ÿ˜‰ ANYWAY, my haul was was a 1/9th bust of Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday from Tombstone. They also had a 1/4 (?) scale bust, but I'm rapidly running out of room and passed on that size. Anyway, here he is. I left off the arms, holster and guns, I could only juggle so much. Also for preview was Michael Biehn as Ringo. Another excellent likeness - and will also be in the two sizes. The producer - The Suite Life - says he'll do all the characters if things go well.
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