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.  

 

Terminator 2: HK vehicle

 This happens to be my first ever commission. I met the guy at the local IPMS meeting. After looking over the kit and what had to be done, I gave a price which was accepted. He gave me a lot of leeway to follow the boxart and what others had done.  Here are the pics I passed on to the owner. 

 

Getting the fuselage together

Building the legs

Adding to the fuselage

Making sure the tail lights stay in place

Strip styrene added to replace panels sanded away

Black gloss add for the metallics

Rustoleum gloss for the base. Worked great!

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.