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.

The Chupacabra

 This was a little one piece kit that I picked up from Dellamorte on Etsy some time ago. How he does it is I assume sculpts and casts the figures, gives it a primer and then drybrushes one color onto the details. This guy was painted green for the longest. I thought it was time for a change. 

 His base was a little small so I glued it to a larger wooden oval base and added additional "dirt" and other bits over some watered down PVA. 

 I then added a triad of primers to highlight what I wanted - 

 From there I had no idea what I wanted to do with him. Looking online at some art so hopefully get some ideas from other artists, I found that most of them had their beasts look like black dogs with red eyes. I needed something else.

From there I thought that animals they were finding in real life looked like coyotes with mange. So that was my first go. I would make him hairy in spots and bare skin in others.  I got out my static grass applicator and after putting down some PVA in a hit or miss pattern, I went to town with some 2mm static grass. 

 Now for color. I had his original green color stuck in my head so Looking at the color wheel I decided on blue and green. Other colors would add tiny dots of color. 

I painted up the ground work as usual, and then painted the remnants of it's goat dinner and I was done. Thanks for looking. 

 

NASA Blue

 There was a question asked about the color that NASA uses for all it's vehicles - 

Doing a little search, the majority of the modelers that responded to the question says that Mig Colors 229 is the best match.