The Blue Meanie

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 Talking with my son (he's 20) I mentioned the Yellow Submarine. Him: whats that?  Me: You never saw Yellow Submarine? Him: Never heard of it.

So I got some of my polymer clay out (I'm not a great sculptor but no one told me to stop.... 😉  ) and started google searching. Coming across the Blue Meanie brought back memories of watching the movie + music, so away I went. Thanks for looking. 

For the base, I was looking for a Peter Max style design. I thought this one was pretty good.

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Iroquois Finale

 Go here to see part 1:  

 https://kevtk.blogspot.com/2025/04/iroquois-1755.html

Continuing on with the base, I used some of the grass tufts I had left, and then some of the birch seed "leaves" to busy up for forest floor. Those went on top of some regular soil and chinchilla dust (excellent for small scale realism), and gave it a coat of paint. 

Turning back to the Native, I followed most of the color choices from the box. One thing I needed to change was the war paint. So many examples online contained a lot of red.  But having the red coat, I made up my own design with less red. Next came all the beads and necklaces. And it seemed I got myself so involved in the painting that I never took pics. So here we have the final results. Thanks for looking..

 

 A larger size.

 

Iroquois, 1755

 This kit was given to me as a gift a month or so ago. The maker is Chronos Miniatures.  I'm thinking it depicts an Iroquois who "came across" the uniform of a British soldier. 1755 was a year into the French and Indian War, The Iroquois territory was mainly in upstate NY, so that's where I'm placing this figure.

The first quest that arises is looking at the  box art. This shows the uniform jacket a bright yellow with a red inside lining. Doing a search for British uniforms, all of them, as one would expect, since their called "Red Coats" was that the red on the outside and yellow was the inside.  Now some of their lapels were white, or blue, but since there's yellow on the example, a version of yellow is what I'm going with.

I thought could it be possible that it was a French uniform? But looking all of those were white, gray, or blue coats. I found this image and decided this is what I was going with.

So I started out with a black and white primer on most all the parts. The Indian was given a Cavalry Red primer. 

After that I added the first highlight - 

 While that was drying I started thinking about the base. The provided base was a piece of ground with the stump of a tree. With the piece of wood I found, I got a piece of rigid foam and started to carve. 

With that I was out of time. Check back for the next session.
 

Quatermass Martian

 Still messing around with my collection of clays, I was looking for something to sculpt and remembered seeing a long OOP kit of the Quatermass Martian. Quatermass and the Pit is a Hammer film made in 1967. Where "A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people."

In the film you never get a really good look at the creature except for one of them as a falling apart fossil. 

 

While doing some image searching I came across another model that gives me an idea of what I'm about to do. While sculpting the critter with Super Sculpey Medium, I didn't take an images. But here's the image from that kit taken at a Jersey Fest from a few years ago. . 

In the movie the discovery happens while a British subway station is being renovated. So I decided the base will have a subway look to it. It's all made from a few pieces of rigid foam and some sand and pebbles.

 The sign was made from an image of the subway station, and it was just a matter of placing the critter. The station looked a little too neat so I added more debris.  Now from the original image these martians were only 3 foot tall at best. So I too some artistic liberty and made it look taller in the station setting. Thanks for looking. 

Not Mickey

 Every time I finish the last project for December, and take a break for the Holidays, I always have trouble starting up again. My breakout is to always start out with something simple. I was able to do that with Not Mickey from Escape Hatch Hobbies.  For those that don't recognize it but think it's that other famous mouse, this guy appeared in Hal Roach's 1934 March of the Wooden Soldiers starring Laurel and Hardy.

The back story is that Hal Roach at the time was one the top dog directors in Hollywood. A newbie to the business, Walt Disney, was trying to get his name out when he and Roach spoke. Roach told of his "Soldiers" movie and then asked could he use his little mouse character. Walt said "Yes" but asked that he just not call him Mickey. A colorized version made him look a little more like that other mouse. In the mouse costume was actually a trained monkey, which accounts for all the "odd" movements.

The kit comes in 6 white resin parts - the head, two arms the body, tail and base. 

Assembling the kit not no problem, and painting like the colorized image I was finished in no time. I also added a little static grass to the base. Thanks for looking. 

Here he is on the table at my local model club meeting.

A Look Back at 2024

 I went back thru my blog for a look back at what I've done this year. so so many as in the past but pretty respectable.
Also not too many vehicles this year. Thanks for looking, and Merry Christmas to all that do that sort of thing. ;) 

 

 

Toyland"s Bogeyman Finale

 With the seam filling pretty successful, I gave the piece a coat of primer.  And then looking at the images - and surprisingly there's not that many good ones - and even with the B&W images you can tell the body color and the face are different shades and the loin cloth is yet another color.  For the colorized images the body is a green brown and the face is close to skin color. So that what I tried to replicate.

 

While that was drying I turned my attention to the base. It's from their cave lair which in my memory was a wet dark place - hence making a "good" place to banish people - Sorry Tom Tom... So after the black priming I added different grays, and then took V's Light Slime to get a green hue to the rocks.  To finish things off I added some UV resin in a few of the deepest depressions. 

The final step was to get the Bogeyman on his base. and as it would turn out, he didn't fit well. At first I thought it was the peg that was in the bottom of the foot, but that was only a partial answer. So I ended up super gluing what foot parts me the base, and after that had time to cure I added Aves underneath and near the foot. I made sure that he wasn't standing on two pedestals. And with that I was finished, and he can be added to the rest of my Christmas related models. Thanks for looking - and Merry Christmas!