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Thanks Tony! 🙂

Thanks. Agreed. Saul has some outstanding stuff. I picked up his Daenrys (or however she spells her name)at last years JF. But I'm on a mission to finish one of FPs Avatar helicopters that I was told is a real dog and stopped another modeler in his tracks. (The model does remind me of one I would have gotten in the early 90s). 😯

Thanks Mark! Phil, your pics aren't coming thru for me, but from the descriptions, you did make quite a score! 👍

Back and settled from the Nats, I had time to go thru my stuff. Because my interests are so narrow, and not really a huge part of IPMS draw, I never really come home with a lot - unlike my son (builds armor - where did I go wrong 😉 ) who had so much we had to UPS some of it home for him... But I did get a few things. Rare Plane Detective announced on FB that he was coming with a bunch of Anigrand and Fantastic Plastic kits. That was my first stop in the Vendor Room. And then I goofed. I found a few kits of interest and said to myself I'll be back. Yeah famnous last words. When I got back those kits were gone. Duh!! But I did get a Viper from SciFi's BSG prequel series Caprica - Then I had this "What if" Soviet vehicle, that I needed figures for to make a vignette. So my son found me figures - Then lo and behold there was a table just for me with horror and sci-fi kits. I found a kit of one of Japan's folklore creatures - The Kappa. Finally when I got home there was a box waiting for me from Kabuki Miniature Models and was a kickstarter based on GoT Mother of Dragons. This is a 1/8 scale mini...

Yet another kit that has been sitting, waiting for paint for a while now. It's Lon Chaney Sr., as the Phantom of the Opera. This is a four part kit - the bust and 3 pieces for the base. Silent Screen Icons also included sheets of miniature music to add to the base. Diving right in, things start with some research and I found that Lon Chaney Sr. had both brown hair and eyes. Being that the film was in B&W, I'm free to paint the figure whatever I wanted, so I used the typical dark suit, ivory shirt, and the reddish tie. Base was painted like a dark dank sewer walls. The sheet music was provided and all I did was give it a wash with Citadel sepia. Thanks for looking.

Hehe, I'm right there with ya. 😉

That is a *very* cool idea. I like that the "stage" is simple and crowded with stuff just for the sake of adding it in. 2 thumbs up from me. 🙂

Welcome. We can never have too many Star Wars fans on the forums. 😉

Wow! Looks terrific! I’ve grown quite fond of these original designs. This one is very cool. As GKs go the sad part is the grab it or miss it way it works. I sadly missed this one.

Wow - terrific!

Wow quite the undertaking. The lighting/operating would have stopped me in my tracks. Outstanding work so far. It’s good you’re including a boat as to give people a visual for its size rather than just listing dimensions. I’ll be following this one. 😄

EBay seems to be the place. In the future, Draw Decal is also a good one to keep in mind. Had nothing but good experiences with them.

A quick only shows just a page with nothing on it yet on FB.

😉 Always like to keep people on their toes. Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks guys. Ed: I "spoke" to the designer on FB last week. He was charged with coming up with a new ship design for the X-Wing Alliance video game (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Experimental_M1 . ) He said he came up with about 12 designs (all of them pretty cool). He called this craft the "Bizarro Ship." Apparently "Trilliance" either saw the design on paper or saw it in the game and decided to make a practical model. How it usually works in the garage kit world, someone else saw the model, liked it, and asked it to make more. And as usual garage kits usually have 1 or 2 go rounds before the mold wears out and/or the sales stop coming in. A little unusual for the "Co." to just disappear tho

Hi Ed, Thanks for the kind words. There are actually not that many colors. 😉 The skin is red, with a scarlet highlight and then a tiny bit of and orange glaze as a 2nd highlight. IIRC the hair, armbands, non decorative part of the necklace, and the part of the skirt that looks like it has coins on it, the decapitated head hair, rope belt. rope holding heads. and the hands are all the same color of gray. Some of those got a black wash, some got a lighter gray highlight. Yellow for the pants with that same orange glaze in the creases. Tan and a lighter coat of tan for the skin on heads and tusks. The gold parts got a gloss black primer, before two types of gold (one for a highlight) - oh yeah there was a sepia wash in some of the details. Finally two types of green - one for the circles on his pants and the pack part of the skirt. Thats abut it. 😉

Finished off the Oni of Blood from CMON's Rising Sun game. In short an ONI in Japanese folklore is an orgre, troll etc... He's about 75mm of a game of 28mm figs, so he's one of the giants. 😉 Thanks for looking.

Thanks guys!

This was another model from a newly rediscovered part of my stash. It's the TIE Experimental from Trilliance Models. Seems Trilliance is long gone and lucked out and the original artist who drew it up commented that it was one of the craft invented for the video game Xwing Alliance. It was made up as a droid fighter, as the pod with the window is loaded with technology (no room for a pilot), and the other side just has a big cannon. Anyway as the first "Empire" ship done in a long time I just took it easy. It's painted with light gray with a black wash to show the details and a lighter drybrush for the highlights. Thanks for looking.

LOL yep. As a "space geek" I always laughed at that. I was trying to figure a way to add that in, but then I'd have to find a way to make the sparks, and ... I just wasn't into that much work at the very end. LOL

Another bust from the talented hands of John Dennet is Micael Rennie as Klaatu from The Day The earth Stood still. A simple 2 part kit - the bust and base. While the movie was B&W, I looked up at Michaels hair color was dark brown and the eye color was actually unknown, so too a shot and gave it brown eyes as well. JUst by the look of the outfit I just guessed at a silver uniform. 😉 As usual, Vallejo paints and especially love their new Metallics line. Beautiful stuff.

Thanks. A nice little figure to build and paint. As usual just wish it was a little taller... 😉

Thanks. There was a lot of online footage and anyone could have gone crazy with extra details. But most of it invisible (except if a cutaway was made) I left it as is. I don't know how fast the ship could go with just those sparklers and the audio of a Tesla coil, but I guess they did alright. 😉 Looking at Fantastic Plastic Future kits page there is a Ming's Bomber in 1:72 planned. Who knows when we'll see it tho, the "Future" page gets rearranged all the time. But if they will put it out, I plan on getting. it

Yep, just show up at the correct time at the room. Agree with Ron, some talks are more popular, so being a little early, if possible, is a good thing. 😉

For an upcoming local IPMS contest called "rivets" I dug this one out of the stash and built it up. It's pfrom Fantastic Plastic and goes together like a dream. The large window is perfect for showing off the main console. It also has another panel of dials and buttons in the back, that, once close up will never be seen again, but I painted nonetheless. Thru the window - Yeah there was a few scratches in the raw resin, that I didn't see. By the time I did I was so far along that I told myself "Next time..." I had an oops and lost one of the fins for the ship. How do I lose something that big!! (shrug) So I made a new one. Painted gloss black primer, I then hit it with Vallejo's Silver, from their new metallics line . Thanks for looking.