Inga Finale

 For this session I started with the  base. It's the same base as the other YF bases, and I treated the same way as Kemp's base - Just leopard spot it until the colors blend. 

Now for the OSL. To me, it's like that Mel Brooks script line "I got it, I got it, I don't got it..."  I'm just not completely happy with it. But decided I'm taking it as a learning experience. Any here she is - all finished. 

And that completes the Young Frankenstein collection. Thanks for looking.  

 

Young Frankenstein's Inga

 With this build I will have completed two projects. One, it's the last model (so far) in the Young Frankenstein series, and it also completes my "Pledge" build for my LOCAL CLUB.

Now lets look at the kit. Once again the casting is nearly flawless, just slight seam marks in the usual spots. The kit comes in 4 off white colored resin parts - the bust, base, arm and candle. I *think* the model is based on two images. The first is the general pose, and the second is the portrait. Well, this is what I'm using. ;) 

 

The first step is, as usual, the skin tones, starting with the darkest value first. Then a highlight is added.  In the second image, you'll notice the pink spots on the face and neck. In a completely rookie move and knowing the paint wasn't cures I masked it for the hair. After all I was using SILLY PUTTY and not tape. The Silly Putty took things back to the primer. Lesson learned. Thankfully the repair went well and wasn't noticeable. 

with the pose the way it is, it just begs for the candle flame to create some OSL.  To check it out and with no flashlight nearby, I used candlelight. 

 While letting the skin and hair cure, I turned my attention to the night gown. With the film being B&W, you can just tell that the clothing is a light color. I chose a light pink, with off white embroidery. 

 Doing a quick search, I found out that the actress, Teri Garr, has blue eyes. So the eye base coat was added over V's Deck Tan sclera. With the eyes done, it's actually looking pretty good. Now I'm second guessing myself on the OSL...  Find out what happens in the next Inga post. 

 

The angle what will show the OSL.

Kemp Finale

 

To see part 1, go here: https://kevtk.blogspot.com/2026/08/young-frankenstein-kemp.html 

Moving on I started adding color to all his ornaments and such. First step was to mask off the sleeve to to put the silver bands on. Nice and easy until I took the masking off - then tragedy! The problem here is that I had to mix that dark blue color. Let's see how much paint I have to waste to get that color back. Yes, a wet palette should have been used. :/

 Taking a break from the good I turned my attention to the base. I suddenly remembered the old way model railroaders used to do their mountains just  putting wash blobs of color all over until things blend. Right down my alley, and it didn't come out bad. 

 After that I start with the darts. On that colorized version I'm guessing they had or saw what antique darts looked like. so I mimicked that. 

 I also painted the dartboard, but since it's a pretty large accessory, I'm deciding to leave it out of the display.  Doing a double check I was happy enough to call it done. Thanks for looking. 

 

 

Young Frankenstein Kemp

I'm getting close to completing the Young Frankenstein series with Inspector Kemp. He represents the Lionel Atwill character of Inspector Keoh. For YF, the Inspector is played by Kenneth Mars. 

For the kit the likeness is excellent as with the rest of the models. The bust comes in 3 parts - the bust, base and arm. It also comes with some darts and a dart board to replicate the humorous scene.  

 The first step is actually- what colors am I using? I was able to find a colorized version of the movie that shows him in a black hat and a very dark blue uniform. The ornaments on the hat are gold, but silver on the jacket.

 

My first go round with paint (before I found the images) had him in blue with blue. But you'll at some point the hat changes to black. 

I also jumped back into an old Citadel shad for a base flesh color, and a first highlight. That's where I'll leave him for today. Check back. Thanks for looking. 

 

Buffalo Gal

 I figured it was time to get started on my "pledge model" for my local modeling club. Earlier in the year, I had chosen Buffalo Gal. This is a scene from It's a Wonderful Life, starring Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart. I enjoy it, and watch it a few times each Christmas season.  Since it's been around since 1946, I'm sure everyone has seen it at some time.

The model is a well made 3D printed kit by Nostalgic Resin, and depicts the walk home after George and Mary fell into the school's swimming pool (BTW the pool's real and still exists at Beverly Hills High School). This is the first real scene where they start their romance.  

 

 The first problem I had was whether to do it in color or B&W. Due to the size I thought it was too large for it to be all in B&W, and soon after found a nice colorized image of what I needed - the clothes. 

 

The only problem I had with it was the sidewalk was warped, and no amount of heating kept it flat. So I quickly tossed it aside and got out a piece of sheet styrene. I also had a decent sized wooden base and tested fitted all the basing materials. Besides the sidewalk, it come with a section of hedge, a picket fence, and a pillar.

Getting started, the pillar was painted gray, the fence white, and the hedge a green. It looked a little too plain so the hedge got flocked, I painted the picket fence and added some miniature rose bushes to fill the void, and the  pillar was fine so it just got a coat of paint with a little dark wash. seems I never took a WIP of the base so we'll see it at the end. 

Now I know what's to be done with the figures it was just a matter of filling in the colors. 

 

Getting to the faces, Stewart's likeness was good, Donna's barely came close, but not being able to sculpt a likeness, I'll just add paint to this as well.

 My next decision was Mary's robe. I know it's white, but that's an awful lot of white and I didn't want to make her look like a ghost with a sheet. So being George's clothes were warm earthy colors, I tried making the shadows in the robe a similar earthy colors. No good... That just made her look like she rolled around in some dirt. So the robe was repainted and this time I took the palest blue to fill in the shadows. This looked better. and I was done. Thanks for looking. 

Sadly my roses were mostly hidden

 

Marilyn Finale

 Continuing on with Marilyn, the example shows here wearing a black dress. There's a lot of black with no real breakups in color. What I chose to do was take some Blue Gunmetal, which is a dark blue color with metal flakes in it. To make it a little bit darker I did add a little black.

Then For the hair originally I chose V's Wood, but that looked too yellow. Marilyn's hair changed - A LOT - over time and I guess depending on what movie she was acting in. So I over-painted it with Cork, and then two highlights ending with Ivory. 

For the stole I just used a light gray, and under some of the larger tufts a darker gray. The dry brushed with an Off White, finally ending with  a light coat of Pearlizing Medium.

 

Marilyn

 Catching up with my posts we have Marilyn Monroe from the Suite Life Productions. The card that came with the kit indicates she's part of a potential series Girls on Film Part 1. 

She looks like she's about 1/5 scale and was a very nice 2 part casting with only minor cleanup of the seam-line that runs around the kit. 

If you read my entry on the Pebbles bust, you already know about whats happening here. If not, very briefly I saw the You Tube channel creator that has been looking for an effective yet simple was to create a realistic look for skin tone coat in a purple pink color on top and then from the bottom add a red.
    

Then when you add the skin color in light passes while leaving some of the red and purple you end up with a lifelike skin IMHO.

Check back for more. Thanks for looking.