T.C. Quist Finale

 Continuing on, the first thing I noticed was that I got the colors of his clothes reversed. I thought the fur jacket was light but darker than his shirt. Wrong. So that had to be fixed.

Then the kit had an obvious 5 o"clock shadow (or maybe longer) on his face.  My usual way of tackling that is to get out the dark blue pastels. When done, I wasn't exactly happy with it. I thought that maybe some brown would tone the blue down, but that just made things look worse. So after a face washing, it was back to more blue. I'm going to keep this open in case I come up with a better idea.

Finally I added some dark red clear UV resin to his stump hand and I was calling this one done. Thanks for looking.  

 

Gillman's T.C. Quist

 T.C. Quist is a fictional werewolf and a secondary antagonist featured in The Howling film series. Played by actor Don McLeod, he appeared in the 1981 film The Howling.  T.C. was one of the Quist siblings who lived at the Colony. Like many of the other members of the community (as well as his family), T.C. was a werewolf.T.C. later had his arm chopped off with a hatchet by Terry Fisher and was then killed when he was shot by silver bullets. 

TC is a 3 piece resin kit by Gillman Studios. The kit is very clean with no bubbles or pinholes and two minor seam line remnants. Clean up too less than a half hour - yes I always take my time when the seam remnant is in the hair. Not having seen the movie in a while, I did a search to get another look at the character. This was a good pic as I also get his eye color as well. Eyes are always problematic.

Now it's on to the primer and base coat. Watching a few videos by Groundeffected, I saw he makes the topside of the skin a purple pink, and the underside a red. So I tried it. 

After that the Flesh went on but didn't look right. While thinking about it, I dove into the base. The front appeared to be planking with some silhouettes, and the back was some boulders. 

 Thinking about the skin again, I think the first mix was too dark, next time I'll lighten it up. So another coat of Flesh went on, with a little Ivory mixed in. Now to fill in a little more of the details - eyes teeth, shirt and the base coat for the fur collar. I was planning on making a light colored collar - which is all wrong. I'll be switching up the shirt and collar colors, but that for next time. Thanks for looking. 

The little details...

 

The Patterson Bigfoot (1967)

 This next bust comes, once again, from Gillman Productions.  The bust is approx. 1/4 scale and comes in 2 parts - the bust and the base. As usual the kit is spotlessly clean and work can begin almost right away. 

 

This bust is to represent the 1967 Bigfoot that was filmed by Roger Patterson, and Bob Gimlin along a logging road in northern California. It was said that the film was taken on October 20, 1967, but some critics believe it was shot earlier. Gimlin mostly avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early 1970s until about 2005 (except for three appearances), when he began giving interviews and appearing at Bigfoot conferences.

 

The film Shows him a very dark creature. But I thought a little artistic license would work as I would create a sort of  OSL (Object-source lighting). Tru OSL is when the lighted object is part of the sculpture, but in this case I decided to use a setting sun of the the side of the beast. 

It was just a case of basic layer painting, some highlights and then adding detail around the deeply sunken eyes. The flat back of the bust and base gave me an idea for something different (for me).

 Using various shadows of browns from almost black thru a reddish cork color I added the highlights and shadows according to how I added the primer.  Also looking up gorilla eyes, I got an idea of what I wanted this guy's eyes to look like. 

 

For the base I decided to call out my inner Bob Ross. As a teenager my parents had gotten me one of his paint sets, and I used it quite a bit, but that was 40 years ago! But I gave it a shot and came up with this woodland scene. The Bigfoot, rocks and downed trees were done in bas relief on the base.  I don't think it's all that terrible. Thanks for looking. 

Gina Brides of Dracula Finale

 This was probably the easiest session I did. All that was left was to paint in her eyes, add highlights to the gown, and glue her to the base. I also glued in a few grass tufts to make model a little different that everyone elses.  Thanks for looking. 

Brides of Dracula Gina

 This time around, I have Gina, from The Hammer Film's Brides of Dracula. As per the usual it's a 1/4 scale 2 part kit - the bust and the base. Sculptor Jeff Yagher once again nailed the likeness of  Andree Melly, who by the way just passed away in early 2020 at 87. 

Here the base coat is going on - dark hair, a light skin tone, and an almost white gown. Looking through lots of images, I saw she had light brown eye, bordering on green. I think the V paint English Uniform fits that bill, and will be what I'm using. Until then the eyes got their usual coat of black. 

With this kit, I tried a new technique of trying to get a more realistic skin tone. On other model builds on You TUbe, I saw other's when they want to weather, to apply a layer of thinner to an area, and then when they come back with some paint, it runs, spreads and dilutes, creating this uniform but uneven look. Why couldn't this be done with skin?  Vallejo paints won't respond well to thinner, so I took a brushful of V's Flow Improver. A heavy application of the improver resulted in the same look as the thinner - the paint spread and ran. Where the Improver was a little less, the paint spread a bit, but it could easily be manipulated with a ruined brush and some stippling.  Perfect? Nope. But I like the result and it was my first try.  I'll be using that technique more as I go thru my figure stash.

I sprayed a clear coat on the skin, and while that's drying I turned my attention to the base. It looks like the usual castle blacks of stone, but there are cutouts where someone was storing skulls. ;)

Going back to the bust I finished applying V's German Black Brown to her hair, and then gave the deepest areas a wash of Nuln Oil. All the pics have her with really dark hair, so I'll limit my applications of highlighting.

 That's it for now. Check back for the finish. Thanks for looking.

Fr. Merrin

This is another beauty kit from Gillman Productions. Any horror fan will recognize Fr. Merrin as Max Von Sidow, one of the two exorcists who came to help the possessed Regan.

This is a 3 part, 1:4 kit, in flawless resin. There is a minor seam-line you can detect through the hair, that is done away with in no time at all. 

As usual I started out with black primer, and a highlight of light gray. When dry I added Beige Red for the first skin tone. Since the Holy Water bottle isn't quite correct (the one on the movie was made of glass) I decided to make this one gold. So to get that done, I added gloss black to the vial.

My usual MO is to go from dark to light. With that I painted Merrin's hair a medium brown knowing it would be going to gray. Remembering back to, I think, part 2, the younger Merrin first encountered the demon in the desert dig site. So I turned the gray rocks brown with a number of lighter dry brushes. Merrin's clothes started out with V's Black Gray, with highlight's going to German Gray, and the shadows with Nuln Oil. It's here when the eyes were painted black.

This session began with Merrin's hair getting it's first highlight. It was now time to paint the demon. I had to look it up. I haven't seen this movie in years and in doing a little reading I was surprised that the face was only seen momentarily. I also found out the the demon was played by a woman, Eileen Dietz. Also read that she was a little annoyed the four other actresses that also "played" Regan weren't credited. The producers wanted to viewers to believe it was all Linda Blair. Anyway, back to painting...

To finish the model off Merrin got two more highlights in the hair - a gray and then an ivory color.  The priest's stole was painted purple. It's received one highlight and one shadow color. The Holy Water vial needed a little something so I painted the cap and the cross white His eyes were painted, and then everything that needed to be glossed was done.  With that I was done. Thanks for looking.

 

AHS: Pepper Finale

See part 1 - http://kevtk.blogspot.com/2019/11/ahs-freakshows-pepper.html

Starting with the face this session, I gave the usual black eyes to start and also some Beige Red for a base to the skin.  Some Reikland Fleshshade was added as the shadows and then some more speckled around the face. Then some Beige Red was speckled on top. A mix of that paint with some of Vs Basic Skin tone followed, and then a final of just the Basic Skin tone. Having a look the actress' blue eyes were left and I used Azure for the base color of the irises.

 With that I was done. Thanks for looking.

Evil Dead II Hand

Another kit from Gillman, the Evil Dead II hand is a mini vignette from a scene in the movie where Ash's possessed hand "runs" around the cabin. In the kit you get the choice of and hand "walking" or one that gives you the finger, along with a section of the wall, and piece of the wooden floor. I chose the walking hand.  You also had the option of getting the Necromicon book.

First thing I did was to lengthen the floor with some foam. My idea was to dremel open the hole in the wall - as is the opening is just recessed, and I needed extra space that would be behind the wall.  With the opening now I needed something to create a back stop. That was easily solved with a piece of sheet styrene painted black.

For the hand, I did the usual squiggle pattern to create a little something under the skin.

With it all painted up, including the book, which was done with a dark brown, and then a highlight of V's Iraqi sand. The edges of the pages were done in V's Old Gold.   with no name on the vignette, I found a printed out a small poster of the movie, crinkled it up, and then glued it where it looks like it's thrown against the wall.  The images are making the hand look a lot redder than it really is. Oh well. Thanks for looking.

AHS: Freakshow's Pepper

With the table cleared it was time to dive into the pile again for some new kits to work on. This time I pulled out two, both from Gillman Productions. The first is Pepper from the series American Horror Story, and the Freakshow story.


From the website:

Pepper is a microcephalic woman and former performer with Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities who has been committed to Briarcliff Manor. She is a character in American Horror Story portrayed by Naomi Grossman. She appears first in Asylum, and earlier in life in Freak Show.

 We find the kit is similar to Twisty from the same show with a sort of carnival base.  The kit comes in only 3 parts - the head, bust, and base.

Every so often you'll get a cool illustration from Mark Van Tine, the sculptor!

Base colors added. except for the ice cream (at the time I was still researching that). ;) 
(EDIT: chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla) ;) 

First highlight added, and epoxied the bust to the base.  Thanks for looking and check back for the next session. 

Caesar, rise of the Planet of the Apes

This kit is based on the new trilogy of the Planet of the Apes, and  it is an excellent story for how it all began.
This is a simple kit of two parts the bust and the base. It is expertly sculpted by Mark Van Tine and casted by Paul Gill.

It all starts with a black primer.

The base looks like it's brickwork covered in stucco, so that the way I went.

Thanks for looking.