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! 

 

Filmy's Pebbles Finale

 To see part 1 go here: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1288699427458027210/965870427847097516

To see part 2, go here:  https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1288699427458027210/7413589169068839914

Wow! where has this kit been? Turns out I put it in a box to take to the model clubs "WIP Night" where everyone shows what they're working on. I guess when I got home I put it on my side table in the hobby area, without taking it out of the box. eventually the box got put on the stack, and there it sat in a box marked "Compressor"...

Putting it back on the worktable, I realized I was just a session or two from being finished.  As an important sidebar, I found this miniature painter, Sergio Calvo with a sort of unorthodox way of painting filling the base coat with lines and dots of paint - his work turns out fantastic. So I think I'll give that a try. Check him out at  the above link.

So anyway, I decided to "Calvo-ize" the hair and added numerous strands of different colors, and then glazed a red on top to bring her hair back to the more red of the cartoon. Looks OK, but I think I made the various strands to close together, and IMHO they all blended too well. Anyway IO was done, and thanks for looking .

 

Toyland's Bogeyman

 I just discovered this one buried in the stack, and since it looks fairly simple (famous last words) I decided to see if I could knock it out before Christmas. 

"March of the Wooden Soldiers" is an alternative title for the 1934 film "Babes in Toyland," featuring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The film is a musical Christmas story about their adventures in Toyland, where they help save Little Bo-Peep from the villain Silas Barnaby and his Bogeymen.

 The kit, is a caricature style kit sculpted by Tony Cipriano from his name etched into the back of the base, and was available by (IIRC) Monsters in the Woods. The figure is 6 parts and another 2 for the base.

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This was an old school kit meaning there are some seams showing, a little flash and some filling needed for the parts. The below pic is after some filling with Aves.

Ready to get started, I primed the whole thing in black Stynylrez primer. There are enough colorized versions of the film that painting Mr. Bogeyman should be no problem. But that's for next time. Check back.

Flash Gordon's SkyFlash

 The SkyFlash is the next craft up on Fantastic Plastic's Classic Rocketship series. From Fantastic Plastic's website:

 The "Skyflash" was the hero ship featured in the "Flash Gordon" TV series that aired for one season (39 episodes!) on the short-lived DuMont Network between 1954 and 1955. Like many rocketships of its era, the Skyflash was a single-stage, chemical rocket-powered tail-sitter inspired largely by the German V-2 ballistic missiles of World War II.

Operated by the Galactic Bureau of Investigation in the year 3203, the Skyflash traveled throughout the galaxy, carrying Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov on amazing adventures on the lowest of budgets.

The 1:288 scale model is well done resin cast, and comes in 7 parts. IMHO this has to be one of the quickest and enjoyable builds I done recently.  

The parts went together effortlessly, and the only tricky part was getting the nose cone to sit straight. While waiting for the glue to dry, it was time to think up a simple base for it. I had these 100mm plastic bases from Citadel. I took some 1/2 - 1mm tape to create divisions in the groundwork and then stippled to concrete color on. After pulling off the tape I added a shot of Smoke from the airbrush, and I had the launch area. 

Turning back to the ship I painted it in V's Duraluminum, and then gave it a zenithal shot from the airbrush of V's White Aluminum. And with that I was done.

Ghost of Christmas Present Finale

 Picking up where I left off, I started making the base look a little more busy my painting varied lines on each stone. hen that was in place I painted a blaz of blue to help tone that down, and to create the idea of cold.

I then added more color details to the beard. Haven been given a digital copy of the story, I read this ghost's description. All was ok, except it said his hair was a dark brown. Having done all that work, I couldn't just change it all, so I darkened it just a little. 

Finally, back to the base I added a little snow to complete the picture, and I was done. Thanks for looking. 

 

Salome

 Having wanted to try my hand at some freehand drawing on a model, I found this Salome kit from El Greco Miniatures and Kuton. Those that know the Bible know her as the daughter of the King who seductively danced for him in exchange for the head of John the Baptist. The kit is approx 120mm, and comes in 6 parts - the top half of Salome, the bottom half, the front of her hair, two feet, and a rocky step base. The image is her top half in a brown + white primer, and the bottom in gray. 

 The only image I can find of this subject/pose is the one that Kuton used for the box art. 

 so the first I start off with is my "pinkle" base for the skin - 

Then I had the bright idea that since to my knowledge, there was no description of her, so I figure that being Middle Eastern there was a chance of her being a slightly darker skin and a European person. So I over sprayed the pinkle with one of the darker base colors from the Tanned Skin set of paints. 

But now I'm torn between the new color and the original brown/white primer coat. So having to think about things, this is where I'll stop for today. Check back to see which direction I went. Thanks.

 

Sam Elliott

 I saw this bust that with SM being my wife's favorite, I just had to pick it up for her. My bad book keeping comes in to play again, as I do not remember where he came from. 

Sam is about 1/5th scale, and the kit comes in 2 parts - the bust and the had. While looking for info on the pose, I came across what I think is the inspiration for the sculpt.  

 

Around the time I got this kit, I also got some of the new formula Vallejo paints. I bought the Pale skin and the Tanned skin sets to try out. They are supposed to be absolutely flat, and not surprisingly they were.

Continuing on, I just followed the colors in the original image. The shirt was an off white, and a de saturated purple/pink for the scarf. The coat will be a charcoal color. I don't know why, but I was surprised at how red his face was, so with some watered down citadel wash I colored in his face. 

 and that's where we'll leave it for this session. check back.