Some New Aquisitions

Been away for a while but I'm back and with me a few new kits.
First one is a Vincent Price kit in chariacture form. Looks pretty good, sorta felt like a hollow casting. 

The Art of Creature and Character Design

A few weeks ago I pledged for The Art... Book by Sandy Collora on Kickstarter. Luckily the project was funded and I received my autographed book today. The card that came with it was numbered 334/794. 

Sandy Collora grew up in Staten Island, NY, and headed to Los Angeles for college and where he started in the business working for Stan Winston. 

The book contains Steve's work, and the works of Jordu Schell, Steve Wang, and Dominic Qwek to name a few.  

It's an excellent book for those interested in all the special effects monsters in Hollwood.  

Kreature Kid's Ghost Bust Finished

This guy has been sitting around for a few days. It was a very nice kit with just a few bubbles that needed to be filled.  It came in 4 parts - the bust itself, two arms and the headstone base.  
I added an artificial eye to the model. I don't know if it was supposed to come with a molded in eye that was ruined by a bubble or what. But I figured it would be easier for me to just buy a set of eyes. I measured the opening and chose a set of 4 mm brown eyes. Here he is --

Thanks for looking. 

Bigfoot: A Weekend Bust

I had gotten behind on things, and the most recent post of the busts really happened a the end of last week. 
So over the weekend I started working on the Bigfoot Bust by John Dennett. It got it's soapy wash and then a looks see about any mould lines. There was one very well hidden along the back of his head and a little on his shoulders. But I figure since I saw it others might (if I take it to a show).  So I got out my sanding pads, my xacto knife, and MicroMark's Scriber.  This little tool is fantastic for digging out the little mold lines that I can see between the tufts of hair. 

A Few New Busts

Lurking around I came across a few smaller sized busts - perfect for a weekend paint up.
The first was from Cadwallon Miniatures. She's named Little Miss Smily (sic). The bust is a little under 3 inches tall as there is no plinth, so you have to get your own. She comes in 5 pieces - the bust itself and then 4 parts that make up her hair. 

Here she is, obviously without any hair just yet. The hair in spots sits a little proud of the skin. So I wanted to get the skin painted and then add on the hair. 

Back to the F5-D

Okay, enough is enough.  I have to get this model off my desk already.  ;)

It was just a fair kit and I need to get it finished.  

The first step was to mask off all the white parts in prep for the "red" paint. I have read" because in all photographs of the jet in front of the Armstrong air and space Museum it is distinctly orange. Going to NASA's own website and looking up the plane, they mention a couple of times, and have images of the plane and it is distinctly red. So I decided to split the difference. Vallejo paint- Scarlet color looks like a happy medium of red and orange (a little to the red side).

MFTW Dracula Finished

Moving right along, I'm calling my Monster from the Woods Dracula finished. It was a fairly easy kit to do. I'm still getting used to doing faces, and facial features. I didn't do any kind of mottling - just a base coat, and two highlights. I also added in wash and pastel shadows. Eyes are always the most difficult for me. But I did learn at this small scale not to try to do the streaks in the iris', just do dots. Unless you're nose to nose it looks the same (to me anyway). 

The stone base was easy, just a base coat and then a few highlights. I also added in a green wash and touched the wash with a little gloss varnish to make it look wet. Like that moldy wet look I sprayed the entire stairs with a light satin varnish.