Zuppo's Rebel

 Next up is another kit from Miguel Zuppo. It's James Dean as seen in the 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause. The it is 1/4 scale and in white resin. It is numbered as 8 of 20. There seems to have been a bubble or two but Miguel made them disappear with what looks like gray Aves or the like. 

As usual I started working before I realized I never took a "before" pic.  All thats there is Stynylrez brown primer. 

 

White T shirt is white primer

Thanks for the autograph :)

I had forgotten whether this movie was B&W or color so I did a quick search - and there are a lot of both. But enough color pics to send me in that direction. I guess seeing so many B&W images, I thought he was in his usual black leather jacket. The red jacket surprised me, but let's go. Starting out with a black/purple red I laid down the base coat for the jacket. The white T shirt is protected with Silly Putty. 

 That's where we'll leave it for now. Thanks for looking.

CGS Wyatt Earp

 Wow, it's been a while. I've been building but just couldn't get around to filing a post here.  Aah well. What I have is a 200 mm Wyatt Earp from CGS Models.

The one thing I'm not really crazy about is their bases. To me, they seem just too small. So I have these decayed "wood" (resin actually) from Green Stuff World.

I couldn't resist base painting the face.

 In the movie Tombstone Kurt Russell is always in dark pants and jacket, with a dark hat. so I just continued that here.

Trying something new I decided I would paint the shadow of the hat onto Wyatt's face and not just rely on the actual shadow to do the work.

Starting work on the hands and rifle. Here I noticed that the rifle barrels were warped. The old hot water trick worked like a charm.

 

The arms were added to the hands and shoulders. I was like a juggling match to get everything lined up.

Putting the head on, I noticed that the sculptor, in sculpting the head separately mad Wyatt look straight ahead as in earlier pics. However leaving it like that looked a little silly. I went back and despite the pupils being sculpted, I ignored that, and put the pupils as if he was looking from the side. Now it looks like he's looking down the barrel as in the screen grab. With that I was done, and he can take his place next to the earlier Doc Holiday.