Gillman Productions' ManThing

Another kit from Gillman Productions, this time it's ManThing.  He's based on a Marvel Comics character from the early 70's and then was made into a live action movie in in 2005 that went direct to DVD and the Sci-Fi Channel.

Our ManThing comes in 4 basic parts - the body, the "tentacles around the eyes, the arm holding the skull and the tree base.  There are almost no seam lines, and only 1 or 2 bubbles that was in inconspicuous areas.

His arm as he contemplates a skull.

The join was tight, but just a little Aves to smooth things over.

A little practice making skin impressions with Aves.

More Aves sculpting practice on the nape of the neck.

I connected the body the the tree base, but left off the arm and tentacles for now. He's looking at the skull in the sculpt, and it comes quite close to his face. I didn't want to impede my painting so it was left off for now.  Then I got out numerous bottle of my Vallejo green paints.

Tree trunks are usually gray so I base coated the trunk in black and then dry brush some gray onto the bark. A final wash of a brown joined the colors together. In the back the skull was already base coated in V's Iraqi Sand, and then washed in the same brown.

 A Howard the Duck skull makes a cameo in the back of the base...

His eyes are supposed to be red, so I hit it with some tan first.  After, the eyes were coated with 3 colors of red - Citadel's Khorne Red, Mephiston Red, and then Evil Sun Scarlet. I painted to be jewel like, and added two white highlight dots in each eye.
Individual leaves,  twigs worms, and a snake was added with additional colors. The muscles were highlighted with various other shades of green.  Since he lives in the swamp I coated it in a Satin clear coat to finish it up.  Thanks for looking.