The Reptile Finale

This session was to put the finishing touches on Anna. The biggest decision was what to do with her clothes. They seem to have that wavy two toned striped pattern - 

My solution was to paint the top black, gloss it, and then use semi-gloss German Gray for the stripes. Turned out OK IMHO. 
The other things were to color in the eyes and to whiten the teeth a little.  Was a little tough painting the black rings around the base of each eye...
This one is done and will be placed in the Hammer Film Wing of my little museum. ;) Thanks for looking. 

 

The Reptile

This is another beauty of a kit from John Dennett - from his Hammer Films collection it's The Reptile from the 1966 movie of the same name. In this village people are being murdered and discovered with what looks like a snake bite. It is discovered that the Doctors daughter has been tuned into The Reptile after being abducted by a snake cult. 

The kit comes in 2 resin parts - the bust and the base. The kit is practically flawless with no bubbles or easily seen seam lines. This is another case where I got right into it and didn't take any before pics. Here's she is with the base coat started.

 Looking closely at the image, she has a rather complicated mask. Looking ahead even the costume she wears looks rather complicated. I'll have to think about what to do for the costume.

Check back for more, and thanks for looking.

The Man from the Sky

Took this kit out of the pile as it's something different. I don't have any Mad Max on my shelves...until now. This is a 1/4 scale Gyro Captain from Sean Kyle Studios. It came signed and with a numbered certificate of authenticity. Mine is #6.  

It comes in about 5 parts. There are a bubble or two. But all in all a nicely done kit. One thing tho - there looks like a little blob of flash in the bag of parts. DON'T throw it out! It's actually his cigar!! LOL. 
If I have to find one thing to critique it would be the auto-gyro's propeller. It looks to be cut out of thin sheet styrene. The cutting was a little uneven, but the main problem was I couldn't straighten it out. It had a little bend it it that was there to stay. It was no problem at all to cut a new one out of slightly thicker styrene, making both blades the same.
The sculpt is a very good likeness of the actor Bruce Spence.  I started out by priming, and then started laying in the base coat. There were a few images online that I thought made him have a pasty appearance. So the paint when on a little light. Later on I saw other images that showed him with more "color."  I'll address that later.

 While that was drying, I turned my attention to the propeller. As was said it was shaped a little wonky, but the big problem was the curve in the styrene.  I was no problem to draw and cut out another.

Turning back to the bust I added a little more depth to the colors, tanned him up and gave the engine base a metallic shine. 

Then I decided that the craft would have minimal care, and after seeing a how to about busted up metal I tried that on the engine. The other thing I was going to do was paint a nice wood grain opn the propeller. But I found one image that showed it well, and no wood grain. It was colored black and a dark red. So thats the way I went. A little gloss to the goggles, and eyes and I was done. Thanks for looking. 

Wicked Witch's Flying Monkey

This little project turned to be a very quick finish. I guess I had what I wanted to do already on my head. The kit came from a "Co." on Etsy called Dellamorte. They offer a rotating number of statues, that are sometimes painted up in various finishes that are meant to just be taken out of the box and put on display.  This Monkey which is perched on a turret roof, came primed in black with a white dry brushing which reveals a TON of details he sculpted in. I wanted to give him a real paint job.

Looking at the Wizard of OZ monkeys, they had gray fur with a blue jacket with red trim. Since I also just looked at the newer POTA movies, I remember them as a dark brown with a lighter face. I think I'll do a combo.

Being he was already primed, I started in with V. Black Brown, and then added a first highlight of Leather brown. 

The jacket and helmet got a dark blue and I lined where the red would go with white to help the red stand out later.  I also gave the fur a dry brushing of medium gray.

 While I waited for all that to dry I gave the roof a coat of one of the copper colors I had, and then gave it a patina of Citadel's Nihilakh Oxide. I ended up going back and forth with this a few times until I got the ratio of tarnish I liked.

The wings were next. They were already mostly black so I gave them a mist coat of the same black brown, and then a dry brush of the medium gray. The feathers also had a TON of detail.

 I painted up the monkey's face with a beige brown and did the eyes with V's English Uniform (which as a bit of green in it), and then added a tiny bit of Ivory to the eye color to make the sclera. 
I also added a few mist layers of a lighter gray to the wings and then a bit of the pearlizing paint to give it an odd shine.   Added a gloss coat to the eyes and he was done. 
Not a lot of effort was made to have the sculpted monkey fit perfectly onto the roof top. So instead of doing surgery, I fitted it for the best look and left well enough alone.  Thanks for looking. 

 

Earth Dragon

When I pulled out CMON's Demon of Souls, I also grabbed their Earth Dragon. I don't know if there's anything in the mythology about it, or did someone in the office just make it up. But there was a pic of it in the art book I bought with the game and he appears as a yellow dragon with green "gems' in the skin, as well as a black and gold head. I thought I took a pic of the illustration but I guess not. Anyway here it is in primer - 

This came in multiple parts which were assembled in the factory. No effort was made to fix the seam lines. The other thing was that parts of the dragon are incredibly detailed, while other parts are *very* soft. 

I started off with a base coat of an orange color and the black head, planning on going lighter as I went.

Once I started lightening it, I added gloss black for the gems, as I planned to use the GreenStuff World's metallics line. But unlike other metallics who benefit from the gloss black, these paints don't. So I redid all the gems in white. Then once I added the color they really popped.
I thought I had more WIP shots, but no. So here's the finale done. Thanks for looking.

 

Demon (Oni) of Souls!

This is another mini model from CMON's game Rising Sun. I'm guessing this demon is something just made up by the game makers. But in General Oni are: 

... born when truly wicked humans die and end up in one of the many Buddhist Hells, transformed into Oni. They become the ogreish and brutal servants of Great Lord Enma, ruler of Hell, wielding iron clubs with which they crush and destroy humans solely for enjoyment. An oni’s job is to mete out horrible punishments such as peeling off skin, crushing bones, and other torments too horrible to describe to those who were wicked (but not quite wicked enough to be reborn as demons themselves). Hell is full of oni, and they make up the armies of the great generals of the underworld.

This model is on one piece soft plastic, sort of like the old green, toy soldiers you played with as a kid. I'd rate it a five as some parts of it are intricately detailed, while other details are very soft. 
Having heard about CMON's funny business with their Kickstarters, I'm less enthused to paint them. I have two on the table and most likely these will be the last ones I do.  
But anyway: 

I started out with a green that looked too blue, so once finding the color that more closely matched the pic in the book, I carried on.

A few sessions later I was done. Just a regular paint job, of base coating, washing in shadows, reestablishing the base color and then a few highlights. Thanks for looking.