Capt. Spaulding

 Another 1:4 scale bust from Gillman Prod.  This represents Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's 2003 movie House of 1000 Corpses, and it's two sequels.  Sadly Sid passed away in 2019 at age 80.

 The kit came in 3 pieces - the bust, a hat, and the chicken bucket base.  This one came together so quickly that I forgot to take a lot of WIP pics. 

Firstly since he's wearing makeup, I started out with the typical skin color, then blotted on V's Foundation White.  The colors were simple so I just raced along following the colors in the reference pic. 

 

I was thinking about using paint for the colored part of the make up. But that went on too opaque. So I chose pastels and a small make up brush. After getting the pink cheeks on, and sealed they looked too big. They will have to change; so I repainted the Foundation White over it.

While that was drying I turned to the chicken bucket. I originally had primed the whole thing Stynylrez's tan color. It was a good starting point for coloring up the chicken. Loooking at various pics, I was able to use a few colors from V's Rust set, finally adding some of Citadels Agrax Earthshade to the deepest "holes in the bucket. I finished the bucket by putting a few strips of V's Cavalry Brown on. Kinda goofed the spacing, but - oh well.

 

With his cheeks dry I too a second shot at it with a smaller pink marks. I glossed his eyes and mouth, and then put some Pearlizing paint on his shirt to make it match the reference pic a bit closer, and I was done. Thanks for looking. 

 

My Favorite Martian

 This time I closed my eyes, and stuck my hand into the pile, bring out the Moebius' My Favorite Martian kit.  It's a pretty nice kit including Martin's space ship and Martin himself in about 75mm. One annoying part is that shortly after  I first got this kit, I picked of the aftermarket PE set that went with it. Now, it's no where to be found. :(

 Images are a little out of order. Here is Martin. I added the skin color and then gave it all a wash of Reikland Fleshshade. Doing a little investigating I found that he had a green metallic suit (as per the directions) in the first season. For whatever reason in the second and 3 seasons his suit was silver. Being that the craft is supposed to be silver, I went with the green suit. After a few mistakes I settled on a white primer to start then I painted it all V's Aluminum, then Transparent Green. Getting a good shade of green made the Aluminum disappear, so when the Green dried, I gave the suite a mist coat of Aluminum. This was a good medium.

Planing for the hatch to be open, I had to get rid of the pin ejector marks.

Check back for more. Thanks for looking.

Earthworm Jim

  After seeing it online, I saw and was intrigued by it . Firstly I never heard of Earthworm Jim, so didn't know of his story. But dang, he looked cool. 

The kit is from Prey Collection Studio.  I'm guess it was 3D designed and printed, and then molded and cast. There are no grow lines to be seen, and the casts are very clean. I'm also guessing that I picked it up in 2018, but it seems the files are still available to print your own.

As part of my goof up, there are no WIP pics. So here's the completed Earthworm Jim. Thanks for looking. 

The reason for this terrible angle is I lost the holster, and sculpted a new one from Aves.

Geometric Nosferatu

 I once again turned to one of the mini kits from Geometric that I bought from a JerseyFest a number of years ago.

The sculpting and casting were very well done. There was a slight seam line across the top of his head. But some wet sanding quickly made that disappear.

The image provided looked pretty cool, so I decided to use that paint scheme. 

 

Turning to the door, I decided on a big, ancient door filled with grime, slime, and rust. 

With that I was done. All in all it took three days working a few hours a day. Thanks for looking.