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...

 

2023: The Year in Review

 It's that time of year again to look back at what I've done at the hobby bench this year. Still not back to my level before the hip surgery, But I'm happy with the result. 

I've decided to forgo the usual video...  Thanks for looking.

 

MvA: The Missing Link

 Always having an affinity for good animation, I just loved 2009's Monster v. Aliens. An homage to the Monster movies from the 50s and 60s, the story is a bride to be gets hit my a meteorite of Quantonium, grows incredibly large and is capture and sent to monster "jail" with other monster inmates.  An alien comes to Earth to destroy the Earth, and recover his Quantonium. A general and the President releases the monsters to fight the alien. 

A few years back on producer released a Dr. Cockroach (one of the monsters) kit.  After that nothing.  so I decided to get some of my Cosclay, and do the Missing Link from the movie. 

 This is the image I used for my pose - of course another image added the feet. Haha

Not many WIP pics were taken, but here's Link - before paint.  Thanks for looking. 

 

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. 

 

 

Ghost of Christmas Past (additional)

 It was weighing on my mind. After having another look at the image of the Ghost  from the movie, I couldn't get past that the Ghost was too colorful - lively looking.

To remedy this I too some watered down V. Ivory, and with everything masked off, including his eyes I gave the face a mist coat to make him a little paler and more ghost-like. Thanks for looking. 

 

Before

 

 

The Ghost of Christmas Past (1951)

 This bust was actually purchased last year, but I waiting too long to buy and couldn't get him done by last Christmas. So I wanted to make sure he was finished by this one. 

He is the Ghost of Christmas Past, played by Michael Dolan,  from the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol.  Sculptor John Dennett has a number of bust in his Christmas Carol series.  The kit is a two piece 1/5 scale bust in nearly flawless resin. There was a very fine seam line in his hair that was quickly dispatched.  

My "problem" with these type of characters is do I paint it as the character, a ghost? Or do I paint it as the actor playing a ghost? (Thinking too much?)  My idea was for the former, and so I primed it blue. Thinking about it, my last ghost in this series was painted as a ghost, so I changed my mind and this one would be the actor.

 

As with others in this series color is always a problem with the film being in B&W.  But not in the case. Even with the lack of color you can see white on white one white. Which presents it's own problems...

 

As with most busts I start with the face and this was no exception.

 

Hi hair and gown were apparently white, so I tried a triad of grays, figuring I'd end up with almost white. I guess I have a problems with "almost whites" as they never seem bright enough to me. So I ended up giving up and painted the gown just white, and then backed into the shadow colors. I was also having troubles with the skin color. I would end up with the skin too healthy looking or too pale - again the white on white on white problem.

I followed an idea a you Tuber had (Groundeffected)  where he just mushes three colors together and roughly mixes them up for the base.  I sort of liked it but I think it looks better with larger models and this 1/5 scale needed to be a little more dainty. So I kept mixing the wet colors to blend them a little more.

The flower wreath was started in purple and then highlighted with two shades of pink. Finally washed it in Citadels Carrosburg Crimson. The text in the base was painted with one of the reds from the Nocturna set - which coincidentally matched the flowers in the wreath.

In the end I left the face a little more lively, and then called it done.   Thanks for looking.

 

Jersey Devil Finale

 This post is a long time in coming. Not because I haven't been doing anything - just getting off the duff and taking pics.

To finish up the wings were epoxied on. Also I noticed that when I put the "pine needles" on I cut them from a disposable paint brush. The brush looked straw color until cut into pieces. Then they looked transparent. Being glued in already, I had to paint each pine needle individually... Ugh! 

 A few things to tidy up and I was done. One thing I did with the base was to paint it all black, and then with an Xacto knife, scrape the paint off the letters. Only took a few minutes. Then the white underneath looked too bare, I got V's yellow ink and colored in the letters. Again only took a few minutes. 

Thanks for looking.