Barking Mad

One of the other kits that I had on the work table was "Barking Mad" by the seemingly defunct Mad Dog Resin. I looked and there is no longer a web site for them. If anyone knows of a new site please let me know and I'll update this post. 
Anyway, I've had this kit for quite a while when I was doing more buying than building.  Barking Mad seems to be a cross between The Hulk, and a werewolf. 
The kit comes in 4 parts - the head/body, 2 arms and the base. There were no bubbles and the seam lines were easy to eliminate. There was a bit of a gape between the arms and body, but a thin snake of Aves Apoxie Sculpt took care of the gap.  After the Aves dried, I began my priming.

Most of my werewolves are a brown color, so this time I decided to stick mostly to backs and grays, with a little of Vallejo's Cork Brown for contrast. I started the inside of his mouth (and eyes) with Citadel's Bugman Glow.

While all this was drying I turned my attention to the base, and painted the skulls an off white, the ground a tan color and the actual base part, black. Once dry the base needed a little more. So I spread some PVA glue and added sand. 

Whoo boy those skulls are bright. So I toned them down with a bit of Citadel's Agrax Earthshade.

I added a little red wash to the werewolves eyes, and mouth as if he just had some lunch. ;) I was considering adding some blood to the base, but decided to keep it simple. I super glued the figure to the base and called this one done. Thanks for looking.

Flash Gordon Part 2

Diving right in to the kit I put all the major subassemblies together. The first thing I noticed was this huge piece of flash -

Taking that off, it left a big hole in the shoulder of the model -

Evidently, from looking at the other side, that big flipped up piece was part of the epaulet. So the next thing to do is break out the Aves and replace it -

I'll smooth it down more when I get rid of the seam lines in the next step. While I had the Aves out, I added blobs of it to his feet as I plan on creating a new base for Flash. These blobs will let me anchor the figure to the base -

Here he is so far. Thanks for looking.

The Frost Giant (part 3)

This time around I was tackling the base. But first I had to cut off the base the Giant already had. Easier said than done. I took a fine saw and it just wasn't making a dent. So finally I got my sprue cutters and went at it - 

 Once he was off the plastic disk. I chose one of the numerous water "bowls" that I have hanging around from my spider enclosures. I filled it with Celluclay, and once dry Put a layer of Aves over the top. From there I  took some loosely wadded up tin foil and  made some suggestion of ground work.  Then I pushed the Giant and some Z scale spruce trees into the Aves. 

More of the X-19 and a Snag

I made it up to the attic and quickly became aggravated. I have been using those rectangular plastic Chinese take out containers to hold all the parts of kits I'm building. We'll, one container per model. So I go in to the container because I wanted to get the landing gear doors on before I painted. The doors were right out in the open, but ... one wheel, one landing gear and ...  the other is gone. Both the wheel and gear is gone. Then I look for the front one and that wheel is gone too. I go to the box where I still have the clear parts and the decals, and that's all that's in there. CRAP!! 

I tear apart my desk, cursing all the way that I never went out to buy more shelves to get the stuff off my desk -- no parts. I crawl underneath the desk - and no parts. 

The only thing left for me to do is to show the plane with the landing doors closed. I really don't like that look, b/c to me "The door is closed because the modeler f##ked something up."  But now here I am with the doors closed. The first door went on with a little difficulty. It was slightly warped, but once I got it glued in place I was quickly able to even things off with a sanding stick.  The other door was put in place and Holy Moley it is TOO warped. I could have taken the part down and did the hot water dip, but in my state of mind I tossed it in the garbage and got out the Aves. I mixed up a ball of it and pushed it into the opening. I went in fine and with a wet finger and toothpick it looked fine. When dry I'll go at it with some wet superfine sandpaper and it will look good.
 

The resin door is on the right, the Aves door to the left.

 Same for the front gear. A little press to the edges with the Xact-o knife to insinuate the panel edge and I'm done. Sorry for th blurry pic. Here we have the front door Aves'd closed. 

Now I have to let it dry. Which is good b/c it's time for me to get some lunch. Now what to have? 
Thanks for looking.
 

Some New Aquisitions

Been away for a while but I'm back and with me a few new kits.
First one is a Vincent Price kit in chariacture form. Looks pretty good, sorta felt like a hollow casting. 

Moondevil Studio's Yeti

Just a quick update. Been working on Yeti's face a bit. I did the inside of the mouth and glossed it all. I also got carried away and did the rest of the face. I then glossed the eyes (not sure it I like em) and  epoxied the face to the body.  Here he is so far - - 

Next, I'll be using the Aves and getting rid of the seam between the face and back of the head. 
More later. Thanks for looking. 

Executioner / Yeti Update

Well, a little one. The Executioner's face, cowl, hood and gauntlets have been base coated and washed. His face received the extra highlight.
The cowl/hood was based in Vallejo Model Color's (VMC) Flat Earth, and the gauntlets were based in VMC Chocolate Brown. There was two little "pouches" in the front and I painted them VMC Cavalry Brown, which is a reddish color for a little color variation.  Then the hood/cowl was washed in GW's Agrax Earthshade, and the gauntlets was washed in Nuln Oil. Originally the face was based in VMC Buff. I was looking for a tan color but as I was putting on the Buff it had a green tinge. So I just quickly put on VMC Ivory while the Buff was still wet, then washed in Nuln Oil. When that was dry it was just a dark mess. I dry brushed it again with the Ivory and to my eyes it looked better.

For the Yeti, all I got to do was work on the seams where his arms met the body. For this I used my indispensable Aves Apoxy Sculpt.  I really enjoy filling seams of organic creatures much more than say planes etc... ;)

Came out like this - -

Next I'll need to prime and paint the Yeti's mouth b/c the lower part of the mouth is attached to the body and the face is a separate piece. That will need to be painted before I attach the face to the body. If I attached the face to the body first, there's no way I'll be able to paint all the detail in the mouth. Then I'll need to blend the seams between the face and neck.

Oh well, that's for another day. 

RESINTOPIA and some goodies

Resintopia was just a few weekends ago and what a show it was. It was quite a bit smaller than JerseyFest, and IMHO it wasn't really worth the $25/pp entry fee. I know they had "big" names in attendance, but...  
Anyway, I forgot to look at the talk/demo page of the website to see what was going on, so I missed out on that. The model contest was also lacking in entries. So, in the end it just ending up being a "kit buying" day for me. :-)

What I normally like to do is make a lap or two around the room to see what's what. With the room being pretty small, that didn't take long. Two kits caught my eye from Monz Designs. The first was an alien bust called Hammerhead. He was quite a unique design in probably 1/3 - 1/4 scale. The other was the Frog Warrior. 

The Hammered head was nicely done in one piece of white resin w/o and hints of flash or bubbles. The finished painted Frog image isn't mine, but garnered from the web. It as a kit were a bit different than Hammerhead. There was thin flash nearly everywhere, and the was a bubble on two of his toes - 

One cool aspect was that the base has been cast in a semi-clear glow in the dark resin. Having it under a light for a few minutes it glows VERY strongly. Cool! But then I noticed something wrong about the imprints of where the frog's feet go. Despite the frog having 4 toes on each foot, one imprint has 4 toes while the other has 3! I lined the frog's legs on the base and found out that one toe hangs off the edge. Why would you make a base where the is a little extra room in the front and back and then hang part of the foot off the edge? So I'm probably going to skip the glow in the dark base and create another that fits the figure correctly. 

Then I saw his mouth. There's a little part missing. Don't know what happened there. But having been in the hobby since the mid 90's, I remember many of the old kits back then needing a little TLC so I got pretty good at repairs. 

Upper image shows the missing part and then below with a little help of Aves Apoxie Sculpt, is repaired. A few slits with an xacto blade and I pressed some very coarse sandpaper into the drying epoxy putty and that mimicked the texture pretty well.

The rest of the tour and purchases later...

(Also I'll be back to work on the X-19 soon. )