Harry and the Hendersons Finale

This session, the most obvious change is all the gray hair Harry has. It was actually a surprise how much there was in the mustache area. 
Next I added a little more dimension to the exposed skin. IIRC I remember added two more levels of highlight. 
Then final step was attaching it to the base. Rather than go out and look for a brass/plastic rod, I filled the hole in the bottom of Harry with Aves, and then when dry drilled out both Harry and the base. The rod I had was superglued, and held in place until dry. 
Finally he was finished. Thanks for looking. 

 

Harry and the Hendersons

I have to say that this movie is in my top ten of favs.   The roll of Harry was played by Kevin Peter Hall, a 6'9" actor whose other character of note was The Predator.
Our kit comes in 2 pieces- the bust and the base. 

Molded and casted by Gillman Productions, there is only the smallest of evidence of a seamline across the back of Harry's head. There were no obvious bubbles anywhere on the kit. On the bottom of the base, sculptor Mark Van Tine was kind enough to give me an autograph, along with a little  illustration. :) 
The only negative on the kit was the build in rod to hold the bust to the base somehow got curved backward. So it couldn't just sit without falling over backward.  No big deal a brass tube/rod or wooden dowel easily solves the problem. 

I primed the bust in the tan Stynylrez primer, and then set out to paint the figure. While Harry shows a lot of gray hair, I started off, as usual, with a dark brown. In the pic you can also see I started the lighter first highlight. The teeth was painted with Army Painters Skeleton Bone. This is close to both V's Dark Sand, and Iraqi Sand - it falls in between actually so if one is too dark and the other too light I have my remedy.

While that was drying I turned my attention to the base. I knew I wanted to paint the name with the multi color look and I found an example where they used just red and yellow. But first I painted the rock V Gray Black. Sculpted in the flat part there are some leaves, a fern and some twigs. Here you see the leaves and the fern painted.

Turning back to Harry, I finished off the first highlight, and then turned to the eyes. All evidence said Harry's eyes were blue, so I started with an Azure circle for the irises. The lines of light and dark blue, and finally a black pupil completed the eyes.  I also washed the mouth in Citadel's Reikland Fleshshade, and then highlighted in Ivory. In all the pics, Harry has quite the bright smile.

Check back for when Harry goes gray, and we finish this bust up. Thanks for looking.

Perseus and Medusa

In an effort to collect Medusa kits whenever possible, I came across this kit at a not so recent JerseyFest (or was it the old Resintopia?). The kit came fro the Morland Studios. The kit comes in 6 parts plus a 60mm round base and the figure is scaled to 32mm.

 Following the card, I tried to copy the image. The small size of kit was a real trial to my abilities.

The sculpted base comes in 2 parts, and they are made to attach together, but sitting on the round base, there was extra room. I decided to fill the black base. In the pic you can see gray Aves to fill the basesplitting the difference between rocks and sea.   I also used V's Plastic putty to fill the seam between the monster/sea and the rocks. 

I made the tip of the snout of the monster shades of gray as if it was turning to rock, again a la the Clash of the Titans remake. Don't know how well that comes across being so little of the monster is seen. 

From there, I concentrated on the TINY details for the figure.

There was no decal for the shield, so I tried my best, Think of the Clash of the Titans remake, and painted on a scorpion. Finally adding some gloss to the scene, and gluing Perseus in place, I was finished. Thanks for looking. 

Size comparison to a Quarter

 

Little Joe II Finale

As a recap the decaling went fair.  The good point about them was they were thin and went on easily. The bad point about them is that they were thin, and if I slid too much off the backing paper, it wanted to curl on itself.  If you look at the marks in rows, all the rows were one decal. I learned to late in the game to cut them up to prevent the loss of the decal.
Anyway Having messed up a few, it was time to get out the masking tape and paint them on - 

Again things came out fair. Despite being careful, some of them could have been done better -

After  a few satin clear coats I was calling this one done. It's been years since I built a launch vehicle and in some places it shows. All in all I'm happy with it, and my next one will be a little better. Thanks for looking. 

Lily, Dino Huntress

This kit was part of a Kickstarter I saw on FB by Sunshine Figures. The themes seemed to come in 2s and 3s. The were Fantasy (think GoT), Prehistoric, Steampunk and Witches.  Being a big dinosaur fan, I chose two of the Dinosaur Huntresses, Lily and Izzy (Izzy we'll see down the road). 
The kit came in 2 parts the head/body and the arm. The base was 6 parts. The rock base, 2 spears, and 3 prehistoric skulls. The kit was apparently sculpting on the computer and 3D printed. I must congratulate the producers as no grow lines can be see on the figure, and only the faintest evidence of it can be seen when drybrushing the rock.

  
One thing noticed here between the knife and arm is that there must have been a little flash. I understand that the person charged with cleaning it up may have had 100s to do at a time, but in getting through it it seems the they get in there and quickly take it off. In my case it left little holes in the resin where this flas was removed. IMHO I wish they would just leave it, the modeler would take more care in removing it than someone who was doing numerous ones at one sitting. 
Another negative in mine was that there seemed to be a casting problem with the knife. There were bubbles along the edges and it seemed the tip was obliterated by a bubble. Here, the person cleaning it, hastily put some epoxy putty on it. This required some clean up time. With the amount of bubbles, the easiest thing to do would have been to cut the resin one off and add one made of sheet styrene. I decided to "mess" it up more with my dremel and make it look like a stone knife with the jagged edge. Extra work averted.

Starting with my new favorite tan primer, the skin got a coat of V. Barbarian Brown, The hair with German Camo Brown Black - the eyes also got that color. I used Calvary Brown (which is a dark red) but instantly new that was too red for a cave girl.

Getting involved and painting away without pics, I used two of the "Chameleon" colors for the headress, and added a leopard type design for the bra. The irises were done in a dark green, and Iraqi Sand for the sclera. Down the road I will highlight this with Ivory. 
The base was also painted black and then drybrushed with two consecutively lighter grays.

Moving along I painted the spears my usual method for wood on the handles and black and then gray for the stone blades. The skulls were base coated in Army Painted skeleton white, and then washed with V. Brown wash. 
With that I called it done. Thanks for looking.

Hellboy Finale

Hellboy is now complete. I fixed up the coloring on his head and now I'm happy with it. Thanks for looking.

Little Joe II part 2

In an undocumented session I applied the Vallejo Metallics Aluminum, and then added stripes of "Steel" according to the directions. I coated it with V's Metallics Varnish and left it for a day to cure. 
The next day, it was time for the decals. There are lots of them and nearly all are black squares, and rectangles.  The good points of the decals is that they are thin and go on with any problems. The bad point is they are thin and want to curl up on itself and if you have to move it more than a mm, it will rip.  I lost the very first decal I applied because of that. I'll mask and paint that one on later - I continued - 

  
The other problem I had is keeping straight where I was on the rocket. I lost another decal by applying it to the wrong quadrant, and then trying to move it. Not having built a rocket in a long time, it was the most stressful time I had at the hobby bench in seemingly forever. About half was through I learned that it's better to cut and apply all the black marking separately, rather than risking headaches of more ruined decals.

You'll notice the Aluminum color on the ship.

I ruined a 3rd decal applying the "United States" wording down the side of the rocket. It ripped in half and then folded over on itself.  There was a second set of the words. But these were a smaller text size. No matter, I didn't have any other choice. 
After the appeared to dry I applied the Micro Sol, to have them sink into the panel lines and radiator covers. Taking a look one of the decals ripped while conforming to the radiators - Dang it, I'll have to paint that.  I saw they all weren't nestled in and applied another coat where needed.  This is when I decided to call it a day. 
Check back to see the finale (hopefully). Thanks for looking.