Monster Scenes Saber Tooth Rabbit

This time around I dug out The Saber Tooth Rabbit from Monster Scenes. Monster Scenes was a series of kits from Aurora in the 70's. Originals are highly sought after, and a few of them have been reissued over the years. A few new-ish kits have also been released.

The Saber Tooth Rabbit comes with a dungeon floor, a chain and collar, and finally a huge block of rock which ties the Rabbit down. 
The instructions stars me out putting the Rabbit head together and then the body. I wasn't going to be too concerned about seam lines etc... as this was going to be a strictly fun build.  I got the head together and there was a gap around one eye that was just a little too big for me to ignore. Once again I got carried away and forgot to take pics along the way.  Here we have the whole kit built and fitted together to see how it looked -

I wasn't too crazy about the little dungeon floor base. Things were just a little too crowded for my liking. So I tried one of the generic wooden bases I had laying around - 

Still no good. So I started hacking up the dungeon floor and tried playing with the pieces - 

Meh... I'll have to think about it. While thinking I started painting. I wanted the Rabbit to look like a normal bunny except for his killer fangs. So I tried to paint him cute - 

I had to make him psycho, so you may notice the red eyes! Yikes!
Turning to the anchor. I painted it gray, then a black wash. I also gave the metal parts a dusting of rust - 

Back to the dungeon. In the end the only thing I kept was the floor drain. The floor was made out of cork glued to the wood base, painted gray, and then washed with Citadel Black and brown washes. I also put some PVA glue down and sprinkled some sand down to break up the floor. I also dripped some Citadel yellow wash to simulate some pee, and a little diluted red paint for some blood spatter. Water Effects runs down the drain to complete the gross effect. 
Gluing the Rabbit and Block to the floor and I was done. Thanks for looking .

New On the Bench

Next up I just got two kits in the mail recently. One is Anigrand's Douglas XF5D-1. I was inspired to do this kit because my friend Rob S. visited the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio (about 1 hr. north of Dayton). I've never been, but Rob generously sent me a number of images of the F5D that Armstrong flew which is also on display out in front of the museum - 
http://vva649.org/gallery/2013/neilarmstrong/A/IMG_0028.JPG .  

and here's the kit - 

I have to note that sadly this kit is no longer part of Anigrand's catalog. Anyone looking for it will probably have to go to eBay or someone like Rare Plane Dectective .  

Next up is a sort of throw back to my kiddy days when Aurora was releasing all those Monster kits. After all the kits were released and then version 2 with parts of the kit in glow-in-the-dark plastic, they released Monster Scenes. These kits would help you create your own "movie sets."  Long story short one of the smaller kits was the Saber Tooth Rabbit!  Thinking about Monty Python's Holy Grail and the killer bunny, I had to have it! 

I may do them concurrently or consecutively. I don't know yet. I'm doing both OOB, so things should go smoothly. 

And don't forget,  I still have MoonDevil studio's Abominable Snowman about 90% done and just waiting for my fake snow to show up. That may be back on the bench too. We'll see. Thanks for looking in.