DelToro's Wolfman

 Continuing with the Wolfman theme happens to be my favorite wolf-man to date. It's 2010's The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt. It's the same story as the others - upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man (Del Toro) is bitten and subsequently cursed by a werewolf.

 The kit comes in 3 parts of nicely casted white resin. There was an ever so slight trace of a seam in the hairline, which cleaned up in about 20 minutes.  An added bonus was I got a drawing and autograph of the sculptor Mark Van Tine.

I decided to leave the arm off for the time being, but epoxied the bust to the mausoleum base. 

 

Base Coloring started - well maybe a few additional layers on the fur. The face was a little difficult to figure out. Some scenes have him fairly light around the facial features, while other scenes has the entire head dark.  I started out leaving it dark, but it was too dark for a static model. At this point I epoxied the arm on too.

 Visit again for the finale of the Wolfman.  Thanks for looking.

Typhon's Wolfman

 One can never have too many Wolfmen...Adding to my Wolfman collection is this little beaut from Typhon Studios, and it's of course Lon Chaney's version of the character. Sculpted by Kent Kidwell the kit is in 3 parts - bust, tree, and sign.

 Seems I dove into this kit to the point where I don't have any WIP of it. It's just typical, IMHO  Wolfman colors ;)  .   It struck me that this sculpt should have some OSL. I'm not very good at it, so the more I can practice the better.  Thanks for looking.  

 

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 '41 Wolfman

 You can never have to many Wolf-men. 

This one is prom sculptor Troy McDevitt, and it is an awesome rendition of the Lon Chaney Jr. character. The model comes in 4 parts - the head, base, arm and name plate. The resin is perfect. 

 Right out of the box, and test fitting. Looks terrific

Starting to add some base colors -

 

 

More base colors and starting the highlights.

 Decided on a blue shirt color so I based it with a dark purple to show the shadows, and then epoxied all the parts together. 

 

 

Groovy Goolies Wolfie

 It took me about 2 seconds to look up the colors for Wolfie, and with that I had a thought. This cartoon series was supposedly started in 1970. I would have been 10 years old, and tho I don't remember the cartoon, I would have been building models for a year or two. So I decided except for putting the extra thick gloss on the base, I would paint it like a 10 year old.  I couldn't leave it with drips and drabs but left all the other tasks out. I didn't use any washes around the minor details. There's also no highlighting and shadows either. 

As I started painting I did realize that I made a huge mistake in assembling the entire model  first. I definitely should have left the the/neck separate to get into all those tiny areas.  But the 10 year old would have built it all up, so I tried my best to get in all the little nooks and crannies.  And after an hour of painting I was done. Thanks for looking. 

 

Teenage Werewolf Finale.

 This time I basically finished up the base, with a new paint I found works well for concrete - It's Chalk paint called Cocoon. I then added some tufts of grass and painted the sign with a wood grain. One the back it's sculpted like a tree with some leaves, so those were painted in.

On the figure, I finished off the shirt, painted in the stripes and fixed up some of the shadows around the face. I had to cut down the sign to fit within the frame, and used some Mod Podge to glue that down. With that I was done. Thanks for looking. 

 

Groovy Goolies - Wolfie

 Here's a blast from the past to help add to my werewolf collection - if Wolfie from the 1970's cartoon Groovy Goolies. I got this 3D print from Scott Johansen, who has an arrangement with a 3D artist producing a lot of the characters from our childhoods. 

 For some reason I was the age to watch the cartoon, but I just don't remember it. No matter, he's still a werewolf and a welcome addition. 

He's probably 200mm in height and comes in 7 parts of gray resin.

 

The first thing I had to get used to seeing and fixing was the "chicken skin" that's left after the supports are removed from the part. The second thing is filling the holes formed so that when the part is built hollow, the extra resin can dry out. I started simply with Aves, but found that most of the time it just fell inside of the part. What I came up with next was to sharpen the end of a styrene rod add superglue and then jam it into the hole. Once the CA cured I cut the rest of the rod off and moved on to the next one. 

Two of the rods to fill the drain holes.

It took a while to sand the rods down to where they disappeared into the part. The figure glued up fairly quickly and I hot it with some primer, which revealed more chicken skin. I'll get on that so check back for a possible finale next time.

 

I Was A Teenage Werewolf

 From Saul Alvarez comes Michael Landon in one of his first movie roles (1957) as Tony Rivers, the Teenage werewolf. The first thing noticed was that the film was in B&W, and should I paint up the bust that way or go for color. I chose color and the next problem was what color the jacket was. Most of the movie stills are in B&W, and the posters had him in both a blue and red jacket... I, and a few others decided to go with the red. Looks more like one of those HS jackets. 

The sculpt is very well done in 1:4 scale. It comes in 4 parts - the bust, arm, base, and the sign for the school, plus it came with a card with the high school name.  Looking at the jacket sculpt and then at some of the stills, it looks like the jacket was  wool vs. the smoothness of the sculpt. So taking some Tamiya Putty I roughed up the jacket more or less. 

 Turns out I didn't taken any early WIP images. Here we are about 1/2 through - 

 Check back for the finale. Thanks for looking.