Fr. Merrin

This is another beauty kit from Gillman Productions. Any horror fan will recognize Fr. Merrin as Max Von Sidow, one of the two exorcists who came to help the possessed Regan.

This is a 3 part, 1:4 kit, in flawless resin. There is a minor seam-line you can detect through the hair, that is done away with in no time at all. 

As usual I started out with black primer, and a highlight of light gray. When dry I added Beige Red for the first skin tone. Since the Holy Water bottle isn't quite correct (the one on the movie was made of glass) I decided to make this one gold. So to get that done, I added gloss black to the vial.

My usual MO is to go from dark to light. With that I painted Merrin's hair a medium brown knowing it would be going to gray. Remembering back to, I think, part 2, the younger Merrin first encountered the demon in the desert dig site. So I turned the gray rocks brown with a number of lighter dry brushes. Merrin's clothes started out with V's Black Gray, with highlight's going to German Gray, and the shadows with Nuln Oil. It's here when the eyes were painted black.

This session began with Merrin's hair getting it's first highlight. It was now time to paint the demon. I had to look it up. I haven't seen this movie in years and in doing a little reading I was surprised that the face was only seen momentarily. I also found out the the demon was played by a woman, Eileen Dietz. Also read that she was a little annoyed the four other actresses that also "played" Regan weren't credited. The producers wanted to viewers to believe it was all Linda Blair. Anyway, back to painting...

To finish the model off Merrin got two more highlights in the hair - a gray and then an ivory color.  The priest's stole was painted purple. It's received one highlight and one shadow color. The Holy Water vial needed a little something so I painted the cap and the cross white His eyes were painted, and then everything that needed to be glossed was done.  With that I was done. Thanks for looking.

 

MAiM Hammerschlag

This is another kit from deep in the stash. I'm guessing I saw it on FB somewhere, had to have it, and then buried it in The Pile. LOL ;)  It's a 1:24th scale kit from Modern Armies in Scale (MAiM). It's listed on their website under the category "What If '46." 

It's 3D printed and then I'm guessing cleaned, molded and cast as I don't see any grow lines. I'm guess whats supposed to be a fuel tank has a lot of edges rather than circular, but it's so obvious, it had to be on purpose. There's ~20 parts to this kit. 

The main body comes in 2 parts and gives you enough room to paint the highly detailed interior.  Being that it was a What If '46, I went with olive green color interior, with a leather seat. 

  
I started out painting the jumpsuit of the figure a red metallic as it is sort of a futuristic design. But no matter what I did the Scale Color metallic paint just wouldn't go on smoothly.  So the paint was stripped off and here it is in a red primer.

While that was drying I went about trying a method for making smooth plastic exterior look like cast metal. I used some Mr. Dissolved Putty and tapped it on the body with an old brush - small areas at a time.
When it dried, I sanded it down a bit with a Fine sanding sponge. 

Forgetting to take pics I have the finished machine and driver. The mechanical parts are just a dark gray with a Metallic steel dry-brush. The colors are RLM 70 and Vallejo's tan primer.   Tamiya panel liner was used to outline all the panels. I used a technique shown in You Tuber "Nighshift's" videos for weathering the paint. Looked good while I was doing it. But stepping back and looking at it in it's entirety, I think I went a little overboard on such a small  model... Aah well, next time...

The arm and leg joints were balls and sockets, so it wasn't the easiest to line everything up so that the legs and base of gun rest squarely on the desk. Same with aligning the drivers arm (she actually has the cover handle in her hand) to the cover while lining up the cover where it belongs (the two small hinges broke off long ago...) while making her stand squarely on her feet. Take your time and everything lines up. 

Oh, I gave up on the metallics uniform. I went with a dark gray body suit, red leather straps, helmet and boots  and the ray gun was chrome.

Next is a Base. Check back for that and thanks for looking.


 

Christmas Elf

Around the Holidays, a number of GK producers come up with ornaments for the tree.  This year was no different. I was only able to get one, and this one was John Dennett's X-mas Elf.  Taking a good look, she bears a similarity to a certain actress. ;) 

I was planning on doing the figure up in the typical Christmas colors of red, and green, making green the primary color. But John did one himself using the green. So I just swapped it and used the red. The shirt/dress was also done with the new (to me) Scale 75 Metallic Colors. It worked out well. Highlighting the little bumps on the dress with V's Chrome for an extra little pop.

Everything else was painted according to plan. The red hair started off with Hull red, and then a 1st highlight of Mahogany. The final highlight was an orange brown. The 3 berries or jewels were painted in the typical fashion that mini painters do those. 

While she wasn't finished in time for Christmas, it made it on the tree before it got taken down. ;) Thanks for looking. 

 

Knights of NI

After finishing off my Beast of Arrrggghh. I just had to do the Knights of NI.
Sculpted in a mix of Super Sculpey and SS Medium. I went to work in approx. 1/10 scale .

Having had a hard drive failure, I don't have any pics of them in just clay anymore. But after the New Year, I did get some paint of them. Yep, they did get their fence and shrubbery.  Thanks for looking.  

 

A look back at 2019

Happy New Year to All!
I decided to do a little looking back video of my work from 2019. Thanks for looking.

https://youtu.be/ILYIXhRPfzU