Rolfosteus Part 2

 See part 1 - http://kevtk.blogspot.com/2019/10/rolfosteus-model.html

 In this session it was time to create the base for the model. I wanted it a little different than my other prehistoric fish, which were imagine in the sea. I couldn't find any info where they thought it lived but I gave it a river type base. starting out with an mdf base from Green Stuff World I added a mound of the Aves Free Form Foam epoxy for the groundwork. The stuff is very light weight and easy, albeit a little sticky to use. The only downside IMHO is that when it's mixed it smells like a wet dog to me until it dries.

Going to the fish section of a local Pet store I picked up an interesting little piece of wood, and some plants.  I cut the plant bases off and stuck them into epoxy and pushed the still soft epoxy around the plastic roots. The fish will be moving thru the tangle between the branch and plant.

Painting comes next. Thanks for looking.

Tho I create my dios to be seen from one POV, I felt the need to take a pic of the rear of the diorama.

AHS: Freakshow's Pepper

With the table cleared it was time to dive into the pile again for some new kits to work on. This time I pulled out two, both from Gillman Productions. The first is Pepper from the series American Horror Story, and the Freakshow story.


From the website:

Pepper is a microcephalic woman and former performer with Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities who has been committed to Briarcliff Manor. She is a character in American Horror Story portrayed by Naomi Grossman. She appears first in Asylum, and earlier in life in Freak Show.

 We find the kit is similar to Twisty from the same show with a sort of carnival base.  The kit comes in only 3 parts - the head, bust, and base.

Every so often you'll get a cool illustration from Mark Van Tine, the sculptor!

Base colors added. except for the ice cream (at the time I was still researching that). ;) 
(EDIT: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla) ;) 

First highlight added, and epoxied the bust to the base.  Thanks for looking and check back for the next session. 

Rhys, The Cantina Thug

A totally made o character for the Star Wars Universe. His claim to "fame" was that after hanging out at the Cantina, he left which opened up the Table where Han and Chewie sat down.  Done with SS clay and Vallejo paints. He started out with me playing with a little bit of clay and made his head.  I need to go a long way with posing. Thanks for looking.

The Monkey King

This time around I finally finished a mini that has been on and off the to do shelf for literally years. It's the Monkey King from CMON's Rising Sun game.  One thing to note that in the game it was given a name. But word got out that CMON simply looked thru names on Wikipedia. Problem was that the name they picked for this guy was hacked, and is actually the name of "some guy" in New Zealand. People complained that Kickstarters handed over +$4 million and CMON went no further than Wikipedia for research.

With that aside it's a pretty nice little mini. The detail is a little soft, but for the size, it's ok.
Being on and off the desk so long I don't have any pics of the model early on - just one WIP and then the final result, but I figure y'all get the idea. ;) Thanks for looking.

Cloone Cemetery Map

Thurs Throw down 10/17/19

This weeks throw down was about 2 famous monsters combined. Naturally one had to be the wolf man, so meet Wolfenstein.

Stanat's Call of the Wild

Dug Stanat is a west coast artist that caught my eye. Quite a bit of his work is mixed media and awesome!  I found his work so intriguing that I joined his Patreon page. When his Patreon store opened I was able to buy one of his sculpts plus a resin cast of his Call of the Wild sculpt.
 

Spraying gloss black primer ahead of the metallics colors I wanted to use. I also used Silly Putty in the eyes and mouth to keep them gloss black. 

Really not happy with the way the final pics turned out All the colors are muted except you get a hint of what I did in the last one. Thanks for looking.