Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Lost Boys David- Part 1

This kit has been in my stash so long, I no longer know who I got it from or anything about it. All that I remember was got got it with a Wolfman kit from someone selling in the Members Swap and Sell on The Clubhouse. 
Subsequently I did find out that it was produced in 1996, edit: and sculpted by Shawn Nagle, which answers why it was rather rough. 
The kit came in 4 parts - the body, 2 hands, and the base. The resin was a brown/orange color. I don't know whether that was the color of the resin, or just that the resin aged. I've seen some older kits turn that color.



The face sort of looks like Keifer Sutherland - not great, but not terrible. But looking at screen grabs from the movie, I found a number of discrepancies. Firstly as you may be able to make out in the above pic, he's wearing boots. All the screen grabs I've seen, he is wearing boots, but they are under the pants.


So the top edge of the boot will be cut off and shaved down. My rookie sculpting skills will come into play to make the pants extend down to the top of his boots. 
 
Then I got a nice pic of a prop replica of his coat. The model has 4 buttons on each side of the overcoat. Umm, no. 
On the prop, the right side had only the 2 bottom buttons, the third one up is missing, and top one is replaced with some sort of metal badge.  The left side had the same 2 bottom buttons, then the third button was replaced with a watch that was attached to the coat backward. In place of the top button was a medal. The medal was there, tho not exactly accurate. Close enough. The errant buttons need to be cut off and the other pieces need to be sculpted on.
There is a leather jacket under the topcoat. The model has it with a zipper. I couldn't find any clear pics to indicate whether it had one or not. The prop replica says no, but I couldn't find any other clear images.  I'm not a sculptor and figured I already had too much to do, so I left the zipper. 

Finally, David wore two different earrings at different points in the movie. The one he wore the most looked like a few folds of wire with a short length of fabric or leather in the bottom fold  (the other was an earring with a tiny knife on the end). 
The model, had what looked like a short length of jewelry with a feather on the end. I thought, could that be a knife? No, it was a feather. So it was cut off. 

We'll see this work in part 2. Thanks for looking.

1 comment:

Ben Garnham said...

What leather jacket did you use please? Do you have pictures of it and possibly a link to buy it? I also need the other buttons? Is the real medal a WW1-WW2 FRENCH LEGION OF HONOUR LEGION D. HONNEUR MEDAL?

Thanks,Ben.