Marilyn Finale

 Continuing on with Marilyn, the example shows here wearing a black dress. There's a lot of black with no real breakups in color. What I chose to do was take some Blue Gunmetal, which is a dark blue color with metal flakes in it. To make it a little bit darker I did add a little black.

Then For the hair originally I chose V's Wood, but that looked too yellow. Marilyn's hair changed - A LOT - over time and I guess depending on what movie she was acting in. So I over-painted it with Cork, and then two highlights ending with Ivory. 

For the stole I just used a light gray, and under some of the larger tufts a darker gray. The dry brushed with an Off White, finally ending with  a light coat of Pearlizing Medium.

 

1951 The Thing From Another World

 Another 1/5 scale from John Dennett. A very clean kit (as usual) with only the slightest hint of the seam line across the head.
I gave it a "nice and easy" painting (maybe too easy) that there was no real spot for WIP pics.  Thanks for looking.

Meng Sherman

 This time I did something a little different with the Meng Models World War Toons Sherman tank. It's one of those "deformed" type models, like the egg planes. There was no scale listed.

 The biggest bonus to me was that they had the "rubber band" type treads. I couldn't imagine myself sitting there assembling the treads on section at a time. I assembled the major sub-assemblies and then painted it the US Olive Drab green.

 After that I added the decals which went on very nicely. I then added a little weathering ala Night Shift. 

The base was done with a piece of cut up foam, and the hedgerow  is a plastic aquarium filter material covered in Ground foam. With that I was finished. Thanks for looking. 

 

Marilyn

 Catching up with my posts we have Marilyn Monroe from the Suite Life Productions. The card that came with the kit indicates she's part of a potential series Girls on Film Part 1. 

She looks like she's about 1/5 scale and was a very nice 2 part casting with only minor cleanup of the seam-line that runs around the kit. 

If you read my entry on the Pebbles bust, you already know about whats happening here. If not, very briefly I saw the You Tube channel creator that has been looking for an effective yet simple was to create a realistic look for skin tone coat in a purple pink color on top and then from the bottom add a red.
    

Then when you add the skin color in light passes while leaving some of the red and purple you end up with a lifelike skin IMHO.

Check back for more. Thanks for looking.

AWIL Nurse Price.

 Once again from the talented Gillman Productions comes Nurse Price from American Werewolf in London. Play by Jenny Agutter, the likeness is very good! The kit comes in 2 parts - the bust and the base. The figure is in 1/4 scale. This figure will also complete the trio with David and Jack.  First thing I looked for a good portrait that shows eye color etc... 

 After a wash and super easy clean up,  I gave the kit a priming. I forgot to take a "before" shot, show here she is primed and with the first layer of face paint.

 To me, her eyes are a hazel green, so that's the way I went.

I wanted to try something new with the base so I painted it black and then dry brushed it with a white. Next I too some thinned inks, and gave it a few shots of blue and purple. I kept the center with a yellow as I was planning on giving the pentagram a splatter of blood.  I think I over did it with the inks, and anyway the highlights lightened with the white was too close together to make it stand out. Lesson learned. 

The portrait was also helpful in seeing what the buttons were on her uniform - well, at least what color they were.  After that I was done. Thanks for looking.
 

Filmy's Pebbles Part 2

 Who boy I've been lazy about updating this blog... Before we pick up with Pebbles, I have to mention this figure painted, whose YouTube channel is called Groundeffected. He has been toying with a number of different ways to replicate skin - from the dots of various colors under the skin tone, to washes on and on.  What he's going recently and what I tried was to paint the skin areas a purple-pink, and then a strong red from below. Having done it, I thought to myself "No way!" this is going to work even tho I see the YT guy do it.  So on go the purple pink and the red. 

Letting that dry, it's time for the magic to happen when I simply apply light coats of a  flesh color over the previous colors. You know what? It worked!  "Your Dad" as the YT guy calls himself says to leave a bit of the purple pink and red to act as shadow colors.  Gotta say - I like the result. 

While that was drying I toned down the red hair and also painted the cord of the necklace. Next session I'll come back and give the skin some highlights and then on to the clothes. In Filmy's sample he has her in a realistic tiger stripe. But in the cartoon. Pebbles is wearing-what I thought was pink and purple stripe, but a closer look is pink and red - still cool I guess. Check back for that.

FRankenstein"s Creation Finale

 Thanks for stopping back for the finale. Continuing on, the first thing was to cover over all the veins etc. with some yellow ochre. My "new" usual is to then lightly mist the recessed areas with dome Reikland Fleshshade thru the airbrush. While that was drying I added some blues and whites to the iceberg. 

Next was some dark Black Brown for the hair, and then roughly dry-brushed some cork brown on the dark blue gray jacket to simulate grave dirt. ;) I went back and added some Woodland Senics snow to the iceberg and glued that in place

With the skin dried, I added color to all the little cuts and gouges he had including the scalpel cuts. Going back to the hair I went with the next lighter color brown for a few highlights. He was supposed to have really dark hair so I did my best to show the strands while keeping it dark. The eyeballs were already black, so I added the same yellow ochre for the iris, and then added beige to the sclera. Once dried both colors were lightened and then a black pupil was added with a cut toothpick.  The sutures were colored with V's Duraluminum and with that I was finished. 

It was a very cool kit and a fun one to paint. Plus as someone else said not the same ol' Frankenstein.  Thanks for looking.