Human Stories sculpt

 Since no one told me I stink at sculpting, this was a fairly quick sculpt I did based on a cartoon I recently saw.  Here's the cartoon - 

 After seeing quite a few live streams by Cnotbusch, I started taking a second look at Cosclay. Some of it needs work, but the fact that it's flexible after baking makes it priceless IMHO. 

While sculpting, I really get in a groove and forget to take WIP pics. So I have no pics of the chair alone or the book by itself.

 One mistake I did was to sit the ghost into the chair, when I baked it. My plan was to keep them separate in the crazy chance that I would mold and cast it. But when it came out of the oven, it would NOT separate. Oh well...

Looking back the book is a little big but I was thinking of the front cover illustrations. I used a printout added to the clay book with some matte medium. The inside "words" was just a 0.05 pen.  I think it turned out, not perfect, but ok. Thanks for looking. 

 

Flash Gordon

 Flash is one of the newer kits I've received. Sculpted by Jeff Yagher, and produced by Pestilence Labs, it is, once again, 1:4 scale, white resin kit. It is also typically very well casted with only the smallest bit of seam lines in between the hair lines. 

 Knowing the sculpt was from the B&W film Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars I searched for a color render of his costume. I found  examples of him either having a powder blue shirt or a red one. I went for the red. I started with a Hull Red type of primer from Kaleido. I picked this as it will help with both the skin tone and the shirt. 

 

He's blonde, the collar is dark and I found out in a search that his eyes are blue. So those were next.  I also used some Aves to attach the forearm to the rest of the arm. 

 The next thing was to figure out how his wacky gun worked. Searching there was a consensus that it started out as a commercial salt shaker. The kit's ray gun looked like this - 

 And I found a guy on YouTube that made a replica that looked just like the kit part. But oddly also in his library he did another video for another version of the ray gun. Turns out he did another more accurate weapon based on a closer look at the movie prop. It looks nothing like the first one.  I cobbled together a few screen grabs of the gun from the movie and the one he remade. 

 I didn't have a styrene rod or tube to match the diameter of the main body. So I took the current gun and chopped the front, most of the top and most of the back off. Gathering some of the styrene pieces I came up with a close proximity. The thing wire thing on top I simply used a straightened staple. 

 I used some of the awesome Rustoleum Chrome to color the gun, and then when super-gluing it to the handle, I used activator for the quick stick - and the activator ruined the chrome. Arrgh! Being the chrome was a rattle can there was no way I could neatly color it while it was one the arm, so it got changed to simply V's chrome. 

Next I turned to the base was this temple looking structure. I painted it white, and then took some metal reducer which is basically the paint carrier with some glitter in it, and lightly sprayed the building. The dome plus the little spheres on top of the towers were painted chrome as well.  Finally I didn't know if I was given one and misplaced it or what, but there was a place for a sign. So back to the PC and found a Flash logo which I sized and then applied with some matte medium. and with that I was done. Thanks for looking. 

 

 

 

 

Inga Finale

 For this session I started with the  base. It's the same base as the other YF bases, and I treated the same way as Kemp's base - Just leopard spot it until the colors blend. 

Now for the OSL. To me, it's like that Mel Brooks script line "I got it, I got it, I don't got it..."  I'm just not completely happy with it. But decided I'm taking it as a learning experience. Any here she is - all finished. 

And that completes the Young Frankenstein collection. Thanks for looking.  

 

Young Frankenstein's Inga

 With this build I will have completed two projects. One, it's the last model (so far) in the Young Frankenstein series, and it also completes my "Pledge" build for my LOCAL CLUB.

Now lets look at the kit. Once again the casting is nearly flawless, just slight seam marks in the usual spots. The kit comes in 4 off white colored resin parts - the bust, base, arm and candle. I *think* the model is based on two images. The first is the general pose, and the second is the portrait. Well, this is what I'm using. ;) 

 

The first step is, as usual, the skin tones, starting with the darkest value first. Then a highlight is added.  In the second image, you'll notice the pink spots on the face and neck. In a completely rookie move and knowing the paint wasn't cures I masked it for the hair. After all I was using SILLY PUTTY and not tape. The Silly Putty took things back to the primer. Lesson learned. Thankfully the repair went well and wasn't noticeable. 

with the pose the way it is, it just begs for the candle flame to create some OSL.  To check it out and with no flashlight nearby, I used candlelight. 

 While letting the skin and hair cure, I turned my attention to the night gown. With the film being B&W, you can just tell that the clothing is a light color. I chose a light pink, with off white embroidery. 

 Doing a quick search, I found out that the actress, Teri Garr, has blue eyes. So the eye base coat was added over V's Deck Tan sclera. With the eyes done, it's actually looking pretty good. Now I'm second guessing myself on the OSL...  Find out what happens in the next Inga post. 

 

The angle what will show the OSL.

Kemp Finale

 

To see part 1, go here: https://kevtk.blogspot.com/2026/08/young-frankenstein-kemp.html 

Moving on I started adding color to all his ornaments and such. First step was to mask off the sleeve to to put the silver bands on. Nice and easy until I took the masking off - then tragedy! The problem here is that I had to mix that dark blue color. Let's see how much paint I have to waste to get that color back. Yes, a wet palette should have been used. :/

 Taking a break from the good I turned my attention to the base. I suddenly remembered the old way model railroaders used to do their mountains just  putting wash blobs of color all over until things blend. Right down my alley, and it didn't come out bad. 

 After that I start with the darts. On that colorized version I'm guessing they had or saw what antique darts looked like. so I mimicked that. 

 I also painted the dartboard, but since it's a pretty large accessory, I'm deciding to leave it out of the display.  Doing a double check I was happy enough to call it done. Thanks for looking. 

 

 

Young Frankenstein Kemp

I'm getting close to completing the Young Frankenstein series with Inspector Kemp. He represents the Lionel Atwill character of Inspector Keoh. For YF, the Inspector is played by Kenneth Mars. 

For the kit the likeness is excellent as with the rest of the models. The bust comes in 3 parts - the bust, base and arm. It also comes with some darts and a dart board to replicate the humorous scene.  

 The first step is actually- what colors am I using? I was able to find a colorized version of the movie that shows him in a black hat and a very dark blue uniform. The ornaments on the hat are gold, but silver on the jacket.

 

My first go round with paint (before I found the images) had him in blue with blue. But you'll at some point the hat changes to black. 

I also jumped back into an old Citadel shad for a base flesh color, and a first highlight. That's where I'll leave him for today. Check back. Thanks for looking. 

 

Salome Finale

If you read a previous post and thought I left star to the side for a while. This one has been on the table since Nov. of 2024!  To read part 1, click HERE. 

I left off without being able to choose a flesh color.  The first try went on a little too pink for someone from the Middle East, so I got my hands on V's Tanned Skin PAINT SET. I was a bit happier with that look. 

 I added dark hair and then some gold jewelry, and other highlights and she was quickly completed. 

 as seen in the image above the model is shown with her standing on a stone. IMO that was very "princess-y" So I got out some AVES and sculpted some pillows for her to stand on. I didn't seem to take a pic of them WIP, so we'll have to wait for the final shots.

The next task was to put her in a vignette like Star was in, but the pillows were made too large and she wouldn't find. So I found another base for her to occupy. I had some previous luck with creating a marbled look, and thought I'd try it again.  This time I found some Marble spray can. Giving it a try, it comes out of the can like Silly string but was doable. Until I tried it for real; what a mess. This stuff was not made for small scale paint jobs.  The I saw a YouTube VIDEO showing how it's done, and the guy was putting it on a full sized countertop!  So I had to be very selective with my spray. I painted a deep green as a base and then added thick streaks of a lighter green. The spray would give it it's white veins. I masked in where gold seams would be.

Looked good, except all the streaks weren't going in the same direction, again because of how brief the spray need to be. So I got out some white paint and with an filled in what I thought was lacking. Next I looked into ETSY and found a dollhouse vase with a plant that would fill in an empty spot. Yes, I didn't paint the plant. IMO taking a plant out of a package and gluing it directly on a base screams PLASTIC AQUARIUM PLANT!   I put a partial column I had under the vase to add some height.  

The final job was to epoxy the column, vase, pillows and Salome, and I was done. Thanks for looking.