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Don't know the character, but a very well done build-up! 🙂

This time I'm taking another figure from Pestilence Labs' Young Frankenstein series. It's Marty Feldman as Igor! The kit comes in 4 parts of very clean white resin, plus one plastic container. The first go round had me use white and brown primer mixed to make a fairly nice looking skin color. Then I put Silly Putty over the face to prime the cloak black. After the black primer had dried, I pulled off the Silly Putty, and for the first time ever (!) the Silly Putty completely took the primer off - right down to the resin. I guess my washing was a little lacking. So again I took some Simple Green (great stuff) and rewashed the face. This time the tan primer stayed on. As seen above, somewhere along the lines I also painted a simple stone wall base. From there it was just a matter of giving Igor a few skin highlights, painting the eyeballs, eyebrows, and teeth. Looking it up I found Marty had intense blue gray irises. So I initially painted them a dark blue to get a ring around the edge that he has, and then used V's Azure color to paint in the irises. I mixed a little light gray, and p[ut some small marks to give the iris some dimension. While that was drying I took the painted brain, dropped in in the jar and then filled it a bit with some light purple UV resin. This turned out to be a mistake as the brain fit the jar perfectly and some bubbles got stuck. Not being about to do a lot about removing them a just sighed, and continued to fill the jar with more UV resin. With that I was done. Thanks for looking.

"I'm Mary Poppins, yo!" Terrific work!

Very nice!

Very cool job!

Thanks!

Thanks! Agreed, Igor was the real star. My favorite lines: Dr: Igor, grab the bags. Igor: You take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban... LOL😂

A few months ago my local club (BPMS) was challenged to do a D-Day theme model in time for the anniversary date. Since my thing was aviation and figures, I figured there could be a lot of planes on the table so I thought about figures. Now doing a diorama of D-Day would involve a LOT of figures, with "action" all over the board. How about if I vignette a tiny piece of the scene. I found a kneeling man from Alpine, and decided to set him up in a little beach scene - maybe with one of those metal hedgehogs, and then I saw a number of poles set up on the beach. Some of them had land mines perched on top. Apologies, I'm not a big military modeler but figure they have some sort of name. 😞 A little UV resin made a little water's edge and I was ready to go. I titled it "Move off the Beach!" Then seeing a YouTube video showing a ghostly meet up with his war buddy, I decided I had one more vignette in me. I cut two sections of foam for the cemetery land and then with the extra foam I created a few crosses. Yes, I know there were a number of other denominations, but the the time I had and the extent of my foam carve prowess, this was all I could muster. Anyway none of them came out perfect, so I decided to use Tamiya putty to will the gouges and extra cut marks. Next day I looked and found out ... Tamiya Putty ... eats foam. Doh! 😩 What to do. I had balsa wood the right size. But whats the chance I could make 9 of them exactly the same - about zero chance. So I took a gamble and ran to the newly opened Hobby Lobby and was about to find a molding putty, and some resin that cured in 10 minutes!! So that balsa was used to create a master - a little too big tho... and over the next day and a 1/2 made the 9 monuments. By that time the Master Box kit of 3 civilians and two military men arrived and I found the one military guy that was just standing there to be perfect. BTW the original kit was these two GI was bumming a ride from this family. But it was just the figures, no car - tho the car was on the box art... The civilian was mostly ready to go. He just needed a little surgery and Aves to have him in a saluting position. Citadel has this green blue paint that really made minis look ghostly when mixed in various colors with white. I look at my citadel paint pot, and - CRAP -dried out. Back to Hobby Lobby and found the closest hobby paint to the color I needed. For the final bit I took a piece of paperclip made a bend and gave the old veteran a cane. I edged the diorama in thin basswood and found a saying that's on the monument at the Normandy American Monument. Thanks for looking and getting thru the long read.

Nice job!

The first offering in the Young Frankenstein series was The Monster. The Doctor and Igor was the next two. The latest one was Frau Blucher who seems to have a problem with the horses. And no Blucher is the German word for horse glue as has been mentioned. But reaching blindly in the pile I skipped over the other two and pulled out the Frau. The kit comes in 5 parts - the bust, base arm holding a cigar, a can of Ovaltine, and a little model of a horse (the last 3 weren't included in the image). The first thing I needed to find was a color pic, since I didn't want to paint her as we saw her in the film. I found one - sadly just one, so now I knew what her clothes looked like as well as the color of her hair. It also gives me a clue when I build up The Doctor. As usual, the first thing I did was the skin, using my normal techniques. What you see here is the base coat plus some spattering to hopefully bring the skin to life. Getting back to the Frau, I added the 2nd level of skin tones, and then thinking about the white shirt, I just didn't want a big blob of white, so trying something different I turned to V's Sage Green. Planned for later is a Green Gray and then a White at the very tops of the contours. I guess I didn't wait long enough for when removing the tape after protecting her face from the shirt green - I had the tape pull off 3 areas around her jaw line. Lots of cursing commenced. I guess I'm getting used to skin errors because I was able to fix it in 2 passes of color. I also put a highlight on her hair. Taking a good look at the neck showed a different pattern. well, same pattern but colored differently. This was certainly a test for my magnifying visors! Also I noticed the sculptor forgot - left off the little broach she was wearing. 😉 Once that was done, the final two pieces was a can of Ovaltine, and the joke horse. The producers were able to find the vintage label which I thought was a very nice touch. They also included it both in color and B&W for the people that wanted their model in Grayscale. The horse was simply painted brown, with a black mane and tail. Once glued on the base I was done (sad note somewhere along the lines the horse was knocked off the kit and was eaten by the carpet monster. If it returns I'll be sure to glue it back on).

I've been looking at Box Dioramas most of my life without really putting two and two together. All those visits to the AMNH in NYC to see the stuffed animals behind the glass as a kid and then taking my then young son... Every once in a while one would show up at a Nationals or a few images in a FSM magazine and to my uninitiated view it was just a novelty. I'd look in and then move on. But sheer luck coming across these website as really opened my eyes and changed my view. The first is simply called Box Dioramas. The name is simple, but what's inside is anything but. I would suggest a rainy weekend and then start going thru each page for within each page are dozens of other links to peoples work. You could easily spend hours there. -- http://www.boxdioramas.com/ A lot of those "boxes" seem involved to elaborate. But there's another that gives a simpler view. I've been following this mini painter, Massive Voodoo" for years. But semi recently he started doing framed (dare I say boxed) dioramas. His contain one, or 2 or 10 figures and a painted background. I've definitely been bitten by the boxed dio bug, and will start building soon!

Each vignette is better than the next... Excellent!

Thanks guys! I don't remember seeing it, but being released in '70, there's plenty of time for me to forget. I did got to Amazon Prime movies, and it was there - - to buy for $11.99 or to rent for $3.99. Being everyone says it's SO bad, I think I'll wait until it's free... 😉 LOL

Slowly but surely I feel I'm getting back into the building groove. My latest is a relatively new 1/8 scale kit from Escape Hatch Hobbies from a reportedly pretty bad movie - TROG. If the monster sorta looks familiar is that the story was that a few guys went dumpster diving at a Hollywood studio, and found 1/2 the monkeyman suit from 20001 Space Odyssey! Thanks for looking.

Excellent job!

Thank you! I'd like to see your blood sucker when you get done. So take pics! 😉 🙂

Thanks! What I like is after seeing this movie a few times, you can start to guess when each guy gets infected... 🙂

In 1972 London - a century after his final battle with Professor Van Helsing - One hundred years later, the colorful 1972, Johnny, the great-grandson of the servant joins up with a "group" containing Jessica, the grand-daughter of the present vampire hunter, Abraham van Helsing and with their unknowing help resurrect Dracula in the 20th Century who is determined to destroy the house of Van Helsing, but who can believe that The king of the Vampires really exists and is alive - in 20th Century London? The image below is what I think the sculptor got his idea from. The kit is in 2 parts, where one part, the Victim, Caroline Munro, sits inside the base which is also the Dracula (Christopher Lee) figure. The kit was once again very clean. As with most kits there is only a slight parting line across the hair. As is my new usual, the skin starts off with a coat of pinkle and red - After the pinkle was dry I applied the skin tones. I didn't want them both identical so Dracula got a light coat of Medium Flesh, and the victim for the Game Air Flesh. After that was some dotting from Reikland Fleshshade wash. Drac's hair is almost Black, while the Victim is done with the German Black Brown. They both are wearing black so I have Drac highlighted with a blue shine, and the Victims dress is just strictly gloss black. Her cheeks and chest were done with a very thin Transparent red, and her eye shadow is simply black pastel. Drac's 5 o'clock shadow was done with a dark blue pastel. Once dry it all was sealed in Vallejo Matte ending the project. The only downside IMHO to this kit is Dracula's expression. If he was about to bite, you think you would see the teeth bared, his brow furrowed and the eyes squinting preparing for the attack. Post bite, I would think his eye would again be squinting, and his mouth relaxing still with the teeth bared. This expression makes me think he's creeping on Caroline. Thanks for looking.

Thank you!

It's time to tackle another figure from The Thing series - this time it's Bennings. George Bennings was a meteorologist stationed at American Antarctic research station, U.S. Outpost 31. The character appears in the 1982 film The Thing and was portrayed by actor Peter Maloney. This is another excellent kit sculpted by Yagher and produced by Gillman Productions. The kit is in 1/4 scale and comes in 4 parts - the bust the two hands and the base. After a quick clean up, the parts were assembled and then, after priming, game the skin areas the "pinkle" (Groundeffected's word for the purple pink color) and red. After that, the flesh color was added, and then a sprinkle of dots of Reikland Fleshshade was added. Surprisingly (not) I didn't take many WIP pics. But looking at the film grabs, he's see with and orange vest, and then an olive green parka, with a darker green lining. The fur around the collar looks to be a gray color. The base shows him on the snowy rock outcropping with some gas cans and 55 gallon drums in thew scene. For whatever reason I assumed the cans were diesel, and looking up the color codes diesel is put in a yellow can. So that's what I did. But thinking back, with how fast the Bennings-Thing creature was set on fire, the fuel was probably just gasoline... Oh well. So before I knew it, I was done. Thanks for looking.

Nice job1

Excellent!

Hey Gang, Just ran across this and thought it pretty interesting. Have a look - https://artsandculture.google.com/story/aQXh00Xq8_VJJg

Excellent! Being a You Tube addict, a while ago I saw a modeler there build the Dune vehicles. They both turn out to be a very cool little model. Looking fwd to seeing when you get around to building yours. 🙂

Nice gets guys! I have to smile when I see someone who wins at the local club's meetings. My club has that too, and basically I should just hand the $10 and go home. I'm never a winner. My son, on the other hand, hardly ever comes home empty handed. Dang it! 😖😅