Alpha Omega Doomsday Missile

 This latest kit is an offering from Fantastic Plastic. It is the Alpha & Omega Doomsday Missile seen at the end of the 1970 film Beneath the Planet of the Apes. 

In the first "Planet of the Apes" sequel, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (1970), the stranded human astronauts find a community of mutant humans living in the ruined subway system of the former New York City. Their ancestors having survived the nuclear apocalypse that destroyed the surface world, they reverently worship one of the last remaining artifacts of that bygone time -- a "Doomsday Bomb" bearing the ominous "Alpha-Omega" symbol.

 

The kit is 12 parts in 1:24th scale. It looks much taller than it's 12" height. It is all 3D printed with all the attachment points cleaned off, but I gave it a light sanding anyway. 

 It's not often that you get a garage kit. Leave all the parts in the box, shake it and it builds itself. This IS one of those kits. 

According to FP, it's a simple mock-ICBM (albeit it scaled down for filming purposes) with added fuselage texture and a pair of fins, the missile also has a weird hook on its upper body, its only function that of an easy point where the invading ape army can latch their ropes and bring the doomsday weapon crashing to the ground.  Looking at the missile and the hook, there's no way it would last 10 minutes before I accidentally break it off, so into the parts box it went. 

 And in one day the model was done. Next I started looking at the painting. The instructions says it's a golden color. But looking at the screen grabs of the movie (image above), it looked more to me like a silver or chrome with some orange tarnish on it. Since it's my model that's the way I'm going. I got out my trusted Rustoleum Chrome paint and gave it a shot. Looks great. 

 I left it for a few days for the chrome to cure, and then hit with with a thinned sepia wash. That did little to nothing, So I decided to give in a little and added a mist coat of a gold from Vallejo. Adding a little more at the bottom I was happy with the result. while I was letting this last paint coat cure, I had to address the decals. FP uses an excellent printer, but being so thin, it needs a coat of Microscale's Decal Film. While the decal film is drying, I decided it's a good time to take break and think about the base.  The kit comes with a small 4in. diameter 3D printed base, but I was thinking more of something like the set in the film.  check back for that soon. 

 

 

 

The Mothman

 In a rather surprise move IMHO a manufacturer has come up with a cryptid scale model.  Earlier this year, Pegasus Models has released the Mothman.

It was the year 1966 when a strange creature surfaced in the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. This creature was described as being at least 7 feet tall, with a humanoid body and a wingspan at least 10 feet in length. Its distinguishing feature? Two red glowing eyes that terrified anyone who saw them. For the next year, this strange moth-like creature continued to terrorize the residents of Point Pleasant. Thus, the legend of the Mothman was born.

Though many people are divided on the nature of the Mothman, it has been noted that the creature has never harmed a human being during its encounters. This has caused many believers to think that the Mothman means no harm, but instead tries to warn people of impending danger with its presence. This was later evidenced further with the collapse of the Silver Bridge, as many witnesses claimed to see the Mothman on the bridge just before it fell.

The kit is in1/8th scale and comes in a number of gray plastic sprues. 

 

Hehe, typical of a short production (?). Attachment points on one side, nothing on the other...

 

Easy attaching the parts after removing the sprue remnants.

 

While the parts are drying I turned my attention to the base. Got carried away, and almost completed it... ended up doing a two tone for the lettering, and Spaz Stix super gloss for the water.

Had the idea for painting the wing elements as a sort of metallic color. added silver has the base. 

The eyewitness descriptions have the monster a dark (black) color and that was my intention. We'll see... 

The first layer is V's Gunmetal blue which is a metallic, and I couldn't located by lil collection of Scale 75 metallic colors, so I just added V's Transparent Red to the wing 'eyes.'

 

Sticking with my ideas of having the creature black U thought a blue for the highlights could convey an idea of you're seeing this guy at night. But that didn't work IMHO. 

 

 

There's too much of a difference between the blue creature and the basically brown base. I could have redone the base to make it look darker (bluer), but I wasn't about to restart the whole thing over. The easiest thing would be to paint over the body with black and then highlight in a brown to tie both parts together - which is what I did, and with that I was done. Thanks for looking.

 

Nightmare!

 This Dellamorteco kit is a representation of the 1781 painting by Fuseli of a woman having a nightmare with an Incubus and the mare in attendance. 

 The kit which is probably really a statue comes completed in black resin with a gray or white drybrush. I would be in 4 pieces - the woman on the bed, the devil and the horse. I'm guessing the parts were attached with a metal rod and hot glue. A little twist separated the horse and devil from their spots. 

This was one of those kits that I built in between my other builds. so it took a number of weeks and with that I would forget to take pics. I only have a few WIP of this build. The first one is after I added the flesh color, and the second is with the model base coat.

 

The original painting was essentially very Black or White.  I wanted some color but tried to de-saturate the colors to make things a little more creepy. I have second thoughts on whether I succeeded or not.  My devil are different reds and my horse is reverted the the black and white. Thanks for looking.

 

The angle change to see the devil eyes.