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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.

This past weekend was Jersey Fest here in ... NJ 🤨 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. 😉 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.

Thanks. Yes it was. Totally unexpected, and I liked its all practical effects.

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As is my usual, I have 2 or 3 kits going at the same time. So they all usually finish within a few days of each other. This time I have the character MacReady as played by Kurt Russell. The kit is in 4 parts - the bust, each hand, and the base. The likeness is once again excellent, and the casting job is terrific. Only the slightest work is needed to get rid of a hint of seam line on one side of his head. Starting to put the primer on... As with Norris I went overboard with the under colors. Plus there's a little more color on the icy cliff. From there is was just a matter of looking at a still to find out he had on a gray t-shirt, blue hoodie and a brown leather jacket. His hair is brown and the Net tells me he has blue eyes. Looking at another still, the wire he uses on the blood test was a red on a white spool. I thought the white would be too stark in his hands so I used V's Sky Gray - a very light gray. The wire was a small paper clip cut to size and stripped of a little bit of the plastic coating. The paper clip was also painted red, and the bare metal was painted with V's Copper. The Petri Dishes in the film were clear, but I wasn't about to cut it all away and try to recreate it with clear plastic. I painted it up the best I could to make it look transparent. For the ice, I saw this YT video where they mixed the Woodland Scenics Snow with some clear UV resin. To me it look a little too clear so I added a drop of white. One drop was way too much and IMHO made it too start. I used Precision Ice and Snow's winter wash on the spaceship - yep the spaceship is sticking out of the mountain on one sire - That just wasn't enuff color so I mixed up more WS Snow and UV resin, leaving out the white paint and added it on. It really looks like chunky ice. That about does it. Thanks for looking.

Another garage kit from Gillman Prod., Norris is one of an ongoing (so far) series from John Carpenter's 1982 horror movie. He was played by Charles Hallahan (1943-1997). There's still a debate as to when Norris gets assimilated. But it comes to a head when he has a "heart attack" and during defibrillation his chest opens up and bites Dr. Copper's arms off at the elbow and the monster emerges. The kit is very well done with 2 parts - the bust and the little monster head. I wanted to make it true to the movie, but tried to tone it down on the guts and gore. I hope I pulled it off. Thanks for looking.

Nice! Looks very good to me!

Looks terrific. I love those "you don't see that everyday" aircraft.

Outstanding job! Very cool!

Thanks. I saw a minute or two clip on You Tube, and it gives me the Scooby Doo vibe. I remember all sorts of dumb stuff, but I really don't remember it. 😞

Probably my last mode for July is a 2 part Bigfoot from Gillman Productions featuring the Bigfoot made famous from the Patterson film clip from 1967. For this one I decided to change the light direction from overhead to bright and low on the side. The back of the model was a wide open spot, and decided to channel my inner Bob Ross. I hadn't painted anything like that in decades, but figured I'd give it a try. Composition stinks, but there it is... Thanks for looking.

I never miss my chance to expand my werewolf model collection! After Listening (watching) a recent Model Club TV's podcast, one of the hosts mention this artist who is going back into our childhood and reproducing all our favorite cartoon characters from 50s, 60s, 70s... I didn't remember the Groovy Goolies even tho the show started in 1970. It was at that point think about 1970, I would have been building models for a year or two by then, and I decided to paint this one up like a 10 year old. The only thing I could allow was the drips and runs, but there's no shadows, highlighting or washing the details. Here's a nice simple build.

Here's a 1/4 scale bust of Michael Landon 😉 in one of his first movie roles, as the Teenage werewolf. Thanks for looking.

Excellent!

I took this one deep out of the stash for a club group build. I guess I've been doing garage and short run kits for so long that this kit was a snap to build. Thanks for looking.

Excellent job! Love the "meta" work!

Nice haul this time, Duke (well all your hauls are terrific). As a big fan of the "out of the ordinary" I really like like the pigeon bus! 😁 Being quiet for quite a while, it seems all my new kits show up at the same time. Well, except for the Norris Spider Head. Gillman Prod. had a good idea for their The Thing series. If you bought a bust of the guys (so far) you got a piece of the Spider. With the Kurt Russell character bust you got 3 legs, then when you got the character Bennings, you got the other 3. Then with Norris (the guy that becomes the Spider Head), you got the eye stalks. Then with Palmer, the guy who shows himself as the Thing when everyone is tied to the couch, you got the ability to buy the actual Norris head at a reduced price. The two remaining guys (again so far) is Blair (Wilford Brimley) when he melds with the character Gerry, and the newest offering - radioman Windows, who gets eaten by Palmer. Sales have been good for Gillman so I'm guessing we'll see all the guys before long. Here's the Spider head parts. I Silly Putty'd the stalks to the head - Next is from Mindworks Studios in Italy. Their new plan seems to be hooking up with artists and turning their 2D art work into mini sculpts. First one is from the famous Frazetta, and it's the Moon Princess. The second is from Patrick Jones and it's called Cleopatra's Last Dance. The pic is kinda dark but it's Cleo with the asp. I used the box art as the pieces are small and there are quite a few of them - Finally back to a US celebrity and comes from Suite Life Prod., Marilyn Monroe in 1/4 scale - The rest of my summer will be busy! 😉

Thank you. Ghastly is what I was going for hehe 😉

Had this little casting of a chupacabra waiting for so long. Looking thru art to get ideas, that most of these real beasts looked like coyotes with mange. So I thought I'd do something I hadn't seen before and create mange. Out came the static grass applicator and some 2 MM grass and went to town with some hit or miss spots. Didn't know what color I wanted , so since he was green I threw on a different green with some blue and a few other colors. Thanks for looking.