Roktman

Terrific collection! I hope you guys find a new home for your events one day soon.

Aaah, memories. I was prolly 6 pr 7 when my Mom took my down to a local Mom and Pop dept store. It's name was DaVita's, but since everyone knew everyone else it was called Pete's. when you walked in the first aisle to the right was the toy aisle and where they had models. Funny how I remember after 50+ years... Since it was a little dinky place one time Mom would get me an Aurora monster, the next it was a tank, then a boat. I built whatever they had back then. My first one tho, was the Hawk (?) Vanguard satellite. I thought it was extra cool because most of the satellite had clear dome halves. I'm sure if I saw it now it would have had glue streaks all over it. LOL Eventually I was drawn to the Monsters and Dinosaurs, which after a big break lead me into the garage kits I love today. Thanks for bringing me back down memory lane.

Getting a little away from the thread, but they've had some questionably practices in the past. I don't wanna dissuade anyone really. Things may go swimmingly for some, but I don't want to have to shake my head when someone in a forum complains "8 months and no order..." But to get back on Track, the one and only John Dennett came up with another bust that I just scored. KLAATU!!

Nice and concise. I like it! 👍

Nice. I'll be watching for this version. Parts of the Tom Cruise movie was filmed not terribly far from where I am. As a matter of fact the local paper called for people to come down to be extras. The local hiway was jammed and they didn't realize that the jam was just what was looked for. LOL Cruise and kids just drove up and down the same little stretch of hiway, and the bridge destroyed was the bridge from Staten Island, NY to Bayonne, NJ. But as you said would like to see a period piece.

A wild design and an excellent build and paint up! 👍👍

This time around I tackle a neat 54mm figure from Nocturna Models; Uther Pendragon. Anyone who has seen the film Excalibur knows Uther. Uther Pendragon, also known as King Uther, is a legendary king of sub-Roman Britain and the father of King Arthur. The kit comes in 6 parts of gray resin. Very little seam lines and I found only 1 bubble. The 'worst part of the model was the sword itself. It was perfectly sculpted and cast, but it was *way* too thin, and no matter what I did I couldn't get it straight. You can even see in the above pic, how the sword wants to curl. The other parts are the tail piece of the sword, the sheath, Uther himself, a cape and the famous rock. The scene is a depiction of Uther just about to drive Excalibur into the rock. The first thing I did was cut off the sword from the hilt/hands and measured out the same size in a slightly thicker sheet of styrene. It gets painted gloss black primer as I plan to use V's Chrome on it - The paint job on the box shows him in all brown, so after priming him and then giving the skin a base coat of Beige Red, I gave him a coat of Agrax Earthshade to see what that did. From there it was just a matter of adding a base coat to all the colors. The chain mail started out gloss black with plans to use V's Gunmetal. But that ended up being too dark and settled on V's Duraluminum. The crown and the bracelets were painted in Bronze and the little gems were painted a red from the new Red Set - Since it comes with the rock, I planned on a little vignette. I made 2 other stones out of foam, and then got different sizes of static grass. Since I sure the place wasn't mowed, after adding 2mm grass, I doubled it up and chose the longer grass (12mm). Next was to add some height in the form of a tree. I got out my twigs and glue pieces together to make the tree - Next thing was to add the "leaves" which are actually "expired" herbs from the kitchen cabinet (you know you should toss the after 6 months...). I glued a few layers on and then painted the trunk black and a gray dry brush, and the leaves a dark green - After that I used a lighter green to highlight the upper parts of the leaf pads. Some PVA glue into the hole I drilled in the base, stuck the tree in and I was done. Thanks for looking.

Thanks. Gets a little easier when I remember not to make too big a jump between highlight colors. Seems the larger the figure the smaller the jump needs to be.

Thanks!

Yes, Ed, I would keep the main part of the Discover open as there are aftermarket parts on the way, as Phil indicates. But I would be very wary of MIM. They have an often used SOP of gladly taking your $$ for items they don't have yet. In one case I was hearing from a sculptor who still had spaceship "XYZ" master while he was negotiating with MIM, and all the while MIM had it on their site taking customers money. My personal practice, and the only way I'd deal with them is that if I can't walk into MIM's store and pick something off the shelf, I'll go elsewhere. Keep an eye on CultTVMan or SSM stores. Just my 2¢. Edit: speaking of pods - http://www.culttvmanshop.com/Space-Pod--1144-Scale-from-Red-Planet_p_4094.html

FYI and FWIW, Lou Dalmasso, the guy behind Aztek Dummy vinyl masks, recently built the kit. He describes some hints and tips on his You Tube channel that may be of interest. https://youtu.be/iqURrFH7Ntc

Thanks. Yep the dentures were upper and lowers. 😉

Thanks!

Re: the Batmobile - keep an eye on CultTVMan web store. He gets them in semi regularly - http://www.culttvmanshop.com/ He even has a sign up for his newsletter of new and restocks. He doesn't send it out a lot, so it's not like a bother. Mark: cool truck. Looking fwd to its build.

Thanks for the compliment and the opinion. My original thought is along the same lines you mentioned, but I felt the nature of the sculpt had me going a different direction. I may take another look at the bust a short ways down the road.

The second bust I picked up with Vlad was Hannibal. He comes from Black Heart Models and is very well done - no bubbles and only the faintest of a seamline. While I would have thought that Hannibal was on Middle Eastern decent (I don't know why) the sculpt is made to looks distinctly African. So that's the way we're going to go. WIP can be see at my page. Here's where I decided to leave well enuff alone. Thanks for looking and CC are always welcome.

Nice score Mark. While I dig the Batmobile (eh, the resin figures should be no problem) 😉 I dig the ambulance. I'm drawn to the "not the usual" kits. For me Whats Old is New Again! Yesterday was a hot one in the ol' hobby den despite the AC going. It was so hot in fact that the parchment paper I use on the wet palette was drying up before my eyes. I gave up painting for the day. To still get something done up there, it hit me that I had a box of garage kits in a crawl space up here, and I'm sure the heat is no good for them. I decided to pull them out. Well, it turns out that I did not have 1 box, but 3 !! A few of the kits I only had the vaguest memory of, and most I didn't remember at all. 😮 In the end my stash grew my 1/3! I'm going to have to build faster.

Thanks Tony

After Vincent Price, I stayed with the horror genre, and this time it's Christopher Lee as Dracula. It's another bust from MoonDevil. Likeness is pretty good. The casting is nice - no bubbles, and only the faintest of seam lines. As usual I used Vallejo paints and this time I tried out some Mig pigments for the shadows on the face. Thanks for looking.

This guy was sitting undone on my shelf for so long, I had forgotten who did it, and had to look up who produced it. Anyway, it's a Rebel Resin kit; one piece and I'm guessing in the 1:3 scale size(?) There were two little problems on his back. There was a skin of resin, but hollow beneath that was a pretty good size. But as usual, Aves came to the rescue - The base coat for the skin was Vallejo's (V) Beige Red , and then just went back and forth to get the color I liked, The shadows was a combo of Citadel's Reikland Fleshshade and *I think* Mig African soil pigments. It's true pigment powder is the poor man airbrush. I fixed the powder with Mig's Fixer. Then it was V Gray Black for the jacket, and V Pale Blue with a V Gray White shirt, and Citadels Khorne Red, Mephiston Red, and Evil Sun Scarlet (I love their color names) for the tie/scarf. The shine on the tie may be too much... Thanks for looking.

I like sitting in on those meetings when I can. I find that part of the club interesting.

Thanks guys. Rusty: Agreed. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the added a base just to complete the drawing. Because there wasn't even a spot in the foam holders for a base - unless they re manufactured the foam too. It would have been good to know, but then again I have been voicing my opinions elsewhere that I thing GKs should have simple/ no bases to make them less expensive as I can always build my own. So I guess I got my wish. 😉 Bill: hehe 🤣

Thanks. I wasn't finding the page you imaged there. Finally I did, added the info and the info and clicked Add To Cart... and nothing happened. Even the little counter at the stop showed nothing. I hit the Add button a few times - maybe it wasn't going thru. On a lark I clicked the empty () and the page advanced and there was my registration - all 5 of them. I fixed and recalculated and all went thru. So you may have a little hiccup there. I did register.

This model has been sitting on my desk for a while now about 99% done. Lets have a look. The first thing that's noticed is the base that's on the website is quite a bit different than what you get. I don't know (and didn't think to ask) if it was a mistake on Aradia's part or what. Anyway Posideon just sits on this little ledge of coral. No matter I can model a base. The parts are shown below. On the website you had a choice of either a human type face or a sort of fish mask (arrow). I liked the mask, but in person IMO I felt it made him look like he had a tiny head. This is the problem for me when a model sits. You think you've taken pics that you didn't. But basically the skin was done in a Flesh, and washed with Citadels Reikland Fleshshade. Then the fish part was done in a blue, highlighted with a turquoise with some pearlizing craft paint for the wet look sparkle. The base is simply Sculpt -a-Mould over some foam "boulders. Spray with a tan and then the same turquoise with the pearl. Finally I wanted some sort of backdrop for him. I went looking for some pieces of fan coral at the pet stores. But no good. I guess real coral decorations are taboo now. I found some artificial stuff that looked good in the pics and real life from a distance. But it's kind of cheesy look close up. I sprayed that with white primer and then some blue mixed with the pearl. Done. Thanks for looking.

Feelin' sorry for myself that I missed yet another Wonder Fest, I reached into my stash pile and pulled out ... a cookie. Ok I'm not a comedian (obviously) so I just dove in and went thru this kit fairly quickly. This kits is from Monster Dork Studios, and was only 7 parts. Except for a mold slip here and there on the body that needed to be dremeled smooth was an enjoyable build. Following the muppet, I started painting it blue, and then wanted to add some detail, so I figured I'd make the chest, stomach and butt a flesh color and add my squiggles to indicate something under the skin. I would soon find this was a mistake. Feathering in more blue, the flesh color turn the blue to green. UGH! Adding more blue it was obvious that to lose the green, I was going to lose the skin details. Oh well. Then with white for the eyes, and Army Painter Red wash for the bloodshot in the eyes, beige red for the inside of the mouth and then Iraqi sand and Ivory with some Citadel Sepia wash for the teeth, I was done. Oh also as a reminder, I painted the cookie jar the same flesh color that almost ruined it. 😉 Thanks for looking.