I have had the busts of the two priests from The Exorcist on my shelf now for some time- Fr. Karras, and Fr. Merrin . To finish off the trilogy Regan was also offered, but the sculpt was too good and it was just too creepy for me. Move time fwd and Artist/producer Saul Alvarez of Silver Screen Icons has come up with another Regan. This time a little less creepy (IMHO). :D
The kit comes in 5 3D printed parts - the head, the body, the base, and then a head and base of the idol Pazuzu. There is also a copy of the movie poster that fits into the base frame. Excellent idea for future movie models.
The kit looked pretty benign, so I epoxied the 3 main parts together, in what turned out to an early mistake. Turns out there are spots the way the hair is done that reveals openings to the dress/nightgown that can be seen and it was rather difficult to get primer in there. But with a little effort the job got done.
Next, as usual for me was to add color to the face. This too was a little tricky as looking at screen grabs there are seemingly always color filters over the lights. Do I paint it normally or do I give it that creep blue color? I decided to do it normally. Normal is a loaded word with her under possession, she was painted with pale sickly colors. Thankfully I bought a few triads of flesh color schemes. ;)
Her hair was brown and the nightgown was a pale blue so that was completed easily. Thinking back to the movie, when Fr. Merrin was excavating the dig site, and finding the little Pazuzu head it was a sort of dirty brown. So I decided to make the base a simple dulled down brown color. The base also has some imagery of Pazuzu, so I highlighted them. To make the portrait a little more gross, I mixed some florescent green with UV resin and added a few drops to her mouth and gown.
The movie poster needed a little trim, and then easily glued into the frame and I was done.
One thing I would have done differently is since the base was 3D printed hollow, it's very light. I'm so used to the bases being big chunks of solid resin. So I think I would add some weight to the base. Thanks for looking.
