The Outer Limits Galaxy Being

 This is John Dennett's newest offering. IIRC it's from The Outer Limits' very first show. The story is about a radio station operator that seemingly contacts his counterpart from the Andromeda Galaxy (ignore the science). Wanting to impress his girlfriend about the stations range, he boosts the signal all the way up, and  accidentally sucks the alien, who's made of electricity, into this world! 

The kit is John's usual 2 part bust - the figure and the base. It's done in flawless blue gray resin.

For a lot of my character busts I give my self the dilemma of do I paint it as if it were real? Or do I do it as an actor in costume?  Since I discovered how the effect was done. I decided to paint the actor, who was William Douglas. 

For those that don't know the effect, they dressed Douglas in a brown wet suit because of the B&W film. Then they smeared the suit with oil, and when developing, made a negative of the being.

 

So this turns to be the easiest paint job I ever did- just brown.  All I had to remember that was in trying the trick, light had to be dark and vice versa. Painting the other parts I didn't know what different hues would do so I kept all the colors in the brown family. After the below pic was taken I coated the whole thing in Spaz Stix Super Gloss.

Then with the image viewer I have - Irfanview -  I first made the image B&W, and then made it a negative. I also tweaked the Brightness, Contrast, Gamma Correct, and Saturation. It gave me a result I was happy with, looking like the alien on the show.  Thanks for looking.