When I was a kid, I did lotsa model kits. I did all the Aurora monsters (except for the Bride of Frankenstein, because she dame out in the 60's, and wasn't continued into 1970, when I started buying them.)
I also had some WW2 bomber planes (American and German), and a Rat Phink model.
And a Barnabus Collins model, and a Vampirella model that came with a Frankenstein!
I'm going back into modeling- I just bought a Dracula's Dragster!
Good for you mate. I used to do model dinosaurs as a kid (Triceratops was my favourite). These days a lot of the tanks I use for wargaming are plastic kits.
I liked space ship model kits.
The first one I ever got was the Hulk. I was about 5 or 6 years old and I remember going to the store with my mother and grandmother to buy it.
Then I got all the Aurora monster models (except the Bride of Frankenstein, like RC). I used the optional glow-in-the-dark parts.
I also had a Dick Tracy model (like the one below, but mine wasn't painted).
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fpgAYgYyOx4/VyL2EYZBIuI/AAAAAAAABCI/uGpH3UolU8AvtZ3xLeV9iwjWHLjFBEUCwCLcB/s1600/IMG_3715.JPG)
I had this pirate model (it was part of a series of models that moved):
(http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/31470/27325870_1.jpg?v=8D4BC2323A362B0)
I also had a Klingon ship and a few others (tanks, planes, whatever).
I forgot all about the Pirates of the Caribbean kits! I had one as well, with the skeleton guy waving a sword!
I had many of them as a kid. Including the snap together Prehistoric model kits. My mother bought the Aurora CAVE display from a store that sold kits after I'd admired it (painted at the factory, complete with Neanderthal and Allosaurus) with cardboard display background of an exploding volcano. Man, I wish I had that now! I had most of the snap together Monster Scenes (like the Pain Parlor and Gruesome Goodies). The Vampirella kit was one of the Monster Scenes as well as The Victim.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on November 09, 2018, 05:20:03 PM
I had many of them as a kid. Including the snap together Prehistoric model kits. My mother bought the Aurora CAVE display from a store that sold kits after I'd admired it (painted at the factory, complete with Neanderthal and Allosaurus) with cardboard display background of an exploding volcano. Man, I wish I had that now! I had most of the snap together Monster Scenes (like the Pain Parlor and Gruesome Goodies). The Vampirella kit was one of the Monster Scenes as well as The Victim.
I had the Vampy and Frankie from the Monster Scenes. Also a mad lab table that you could put Frankie on. I didn't have any of the others.
I also had the triceratops and T-Rex (with the drool hanging of his tounge!) snap together kits.
Boy, I would be all day in the winter gluing kits. That, and the oil paints and thinner to clean brushes..I would get pretty high.
(https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.QdwKdTfrLiEgJbmqbef_mQHaHa&pid=Api)
Oddly, the first kit I got was Dracula. My brother Mike got Frankenstein. On Christmas, 1970.
RC they still mkake vampi model kits, but jeezuzz Kee-riiist the cost... :buggedout:
(http://s.ecrater.com/stores/313088/5615b8264a15e_313088b.jpg)
I did some fighter jets and cars when I was kid, never any figures. Uncle used to always paint or apply decals. I am heavy handed and poor with certain fine movements.
Nice choice, RC would love to see when completed.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 09, 2018, 06:07:54 PM
RC they still mkake vampi model kits, but jeezuzz Keeriiist the cost...
(https://www.ecrater.com/p/23482287/vampirella-premium-format-figure-statue)
Oh yeah. I ain't gonna be buying no $100 or more kits. Hell-I'll go $30.
Back in the day, and Aurora 'Glow' monster kit was $1.50. We used old Paint -By-Number paint from my sisters kittens sets.
The glue we used teenagers would huff on purpose. We just got high because we made kits in the winter after we got some at Christmas.
Quote from: Couchtr26 on November 09, 2018, 06:08:43 PM
I did some fighter jets and cars when I was kid, never any figures. Uncle used to always paint or apply decals. I am heavy handed and poor with certain fine movements.
Nice choice, RC would love to see when completed.
I sure will! I'm going to paint the parts first-
then glue them together!
Yeah- this is the one I bought! It's a Polar Lights replica of the Aurora 60's kit.
It onley cost $17.50 on Ebay! Free shipping too!
(https://i.imgur.com/PGxao49.jpg)[/URle (https://lunapic.com)
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 09, 2018, 06:13:47 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 09, 2018, 06:07:54 PM
RC they still mkake vampi model kits, but jeezuzz Keeriiist the cost...
(https://www.ecrater.com/p/23482287/vampirella-premium-format-figure-statue)
Oh yeah. I ain't gonna be buying no $100 or more kits. Hell-I'll go $30.
Back in the day, and Aurora 'Glow' monster kit was $1.50. We used old Paint -By-Number paint from my sisters kittens sets.
The glue we used teenagers would huff on purpose. We just got high because we made kits in the winter after we got some at Christmas.
100$ kit?! HA! Good thing I didn't link to the price, you might be meeting bela lugosi in person now if I had...
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 09, 2018, 07:43:26 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 09, 2018, 06:13:47 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 09, 2018, 06:07:54 PM
RC they still mkake vampi model kits, but jeezuzz Keeriiist the cost...
(https://www.ecrater.com/p/23482287/vampirella-premium-format-figure-statue)
Oh yeah. I ain't gonna be buying no $100 or more kits. Hell-I'll go $30.
Back in the day, and Aurora 'Glow' monster kit was $1.50. We used old Paint -By-Number paint from my sisters kittens sets.
The glue we used teenagers would huff on purpose. We just got high because we made kits in the winter after we got some at Christmas.
100$ kit?! HA! Good thing I didn't link to the price, you might be meeting bela lugosi in person now if I had...
Yeah- they ask stupid prices. People with more money than sense buy stuff like that. I'm on SSI !
What's that Clint Eastwood saying?
"A man's got to know his limitation's"!
The next one I do, I think is gonna be the Aurora Creature from the Black Lagoon. I always loved that one.
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 09, 2018, 06:34:09 PM
Yeah- this is the one I bought! It's a Polar Lights replica of the Aurora 60's kit.
It onley cost $17.50 on Ebay! Free shipping too!
(https://i.imgur.com/PGxao49.jpg)[/URle
(https://lunapic.com)
I had all four of the easier to find monsters in mobiles kits - AURORA - except that one... I only had an original box for that one! All four of those old model kits are now sold along with most of my monster toys. I did not have
KING KONG'S THRONESTER or
GODZILLA'S GO CART!
I'm retired. I get a pay check. I pay my bills. I buy food.
I buy a book or a model once a month. WTF. It's gonna be a long winter in Michigan. We got our first snowfall today! :buggedout:
OK! I got the kit in the mail! I got a lot of Testors paint in the mail! I bought brushes and glue!
I have the Dracula figure painted. I did the small detail with colored marker.
I tinted Bela's lines in the face light blue. I didn't paint the face because the kit is already a sickly white.
It's coming out good!
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 20, 2018, 11:06:25 AM
OK! I got the kit in the mail! I got a lot of Testors paint in the mail! I bought brushes and glue!
I have the Dracula figure painted. I did the small detail with colored marker.
I tinted Bela's lines in the face light blue. I didn't paint the face because the kit is already a sickly white.
It's coming out good!
Good luck to you RC! May you find joy thru success!
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 20, 2018, 11:06:25 AM
OK! I got the kit in the mail! I got a lot of Testors paint in the mail! I bought brushes and glue!
I have the Dracula figure painted. I did the small detail with colored marker.
I tinted Bela's lines in the face light blue. I didn't paint the face because the kit is already a sickly white.
It's coming out good!
Which kit?
(http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/ModelJPTRex.jpg)
I had a just about every Jurassic Park when they came out. The sculptures were pretty good, but I was a total novice when it came to painting them. Don't have them anymore. Just been lost to time.
Now a days I think I'd like to learn some 3D printing. I could give it another chance as well as making my own creations.
Dracula's Dragster is done!
(https://i.imgur.com/I28zfck.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/pGcndql.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I got the Aurora King Kong kit in the mail Tuesday!
I think after Kong I'm gonna buy the Polar Lights repo of the BRide of Frankenstein. Tiana likes that movie. She asked me if they have a Bride kit- I said-"Yes!"
She bought me some brown, green and peach colored paint. Kong is gonna be black. With red lips and nostrils. And, just for the hell of it, red pupils! Like he's p**sed!
I finished the Kong figure! Looks good. I'll finish this bad boy when I sober up! :thumbup:
the Kong model is finished! I'll ask sweetie to take a picture of it.
Godzilla is next!
Here's Kong!
(https://i.imgur.com/cJdTDF7.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I'm working on Godzilla.
BELA, You did a good job on those!
(https://i.imgur.com/kVGNNnt.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Another shot of Kong.
GODZILLA is done!
I reckon I could touch up the paint job... :lookingup:
(https://i.imgur.com/lmFnmVp.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/p6ZbD9x.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I think GODZILLA looks great!!! I built so many of the models you are building... back over 40 years ago... and back then, I never painted them!
p.s. KING KONG is cool, too.
I just finished Frankenstein!
(https://i.imgur.com/TLdjK1x.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/Nc786WL.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I use an old TV tray top as my paint table.
Next is the Mummy!
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/50110098_2540476362635398_7609721199903375360_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=0e40082bf3d82bc808089223edd48fc4&oe=5CCAD8F5)
I don't collect action figures.
I just started doing model kits a couple of months ago because I can't get out of the house . I had heart surgery, it's winter, and I live in the boonies.
It keeps me from drinking myself into the grave.
I collect books, that's about it.
So I started doing model kits. It's FUN. Remember that word-maybe from your childhood? :question:
And I own my own house. I have a all my bills paid. I have a wife,kids and grandkids. I am not "poor."
What do YOU do? In your spare time? Beyond finding a way to blame the world for bad s**t you brought on yourself.
Quit screaming out of a fishbowl.
(https://i.imgur.com/OWCqOpt.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
This wasn't an attack on you RCM, it was a joke meme.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on January 16, 2019, 11:08:13 PM
This wasn't an attack on you RCM, it was a joke meme.
Well, dam. That's good!
I thought that maybe you posted it because that's how you felt....silly me.... :lookingup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 16, 2019, 11:27:16 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on January 16, 2019, 11:08:13 PM
This wasn't an attack on you RCM, it was a joke meme.
Well, dam. That's good!
I thought that maybe you posted it because that's how you felt....silly me.... :lookingup:
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
I didnct make that meme, I saw it. It's kind of a joke.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on January 17, 2019, 06:29:07 AM
I didnct make that meme, I saw it. It's kind of a joke.
I apoligize. I get a little touchy feely sometimes.. :bluesad:
Ah-who am I fooling. I'm a drunk little prick who lashes out at folks for stupid reasons .
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 17, 2019, 12:44:02 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on January 17, 2019, 06:29:07 AM
I didnct make that meme, I saw it. It's kind of a joke.
I apoligize. I get a little touchy feely sometimes.. :bluesad:
Ah-who am I fooling. I'm a drunk little prick who lashes out at folks for stupid reasons .
Yeah, but you are our drunk little prick who lashes out at folks for stupid reasons and I don't think we'd want you any other way.
Btw RC do you paint with enamles or acrylics? Do you know about ain't washing and dry rushing? Those techniques work on miniatures and should work on models.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on January 17, 2019, 01:08:54 PM
Btw RC do you paint with enamles or acrylics? Do you know about ain't washing and dry rushing? Those techniques work on miniatures and should work on models.
Just Testors model paint. I used black paint on the face and wiped t off quickly-so it just remained in the details.I did it over with forest green, then wiped that off. I went over it all with a mix of dayglo green mixed with yellow. The rest I just used flat basic colors-like a comic book.
You might want to go to Walmart and look at the apple barrell color acrylic range. A neat trick is to paint the base a light color, take a darker shade, water it down a bit and bah it into the model recesses. It's called a wash.
I like to give it the look of an old 1960's comic book, just basic colors.
Ok, still Walmart apple barrel colors are pretty cheap, as little as a dollar or less for a large bottle and clean up with water. Get a clear seal spray can to protect the pint job and yiu stollsafe money over testor's enamal.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-Barrel-Colors-Paint-8-oz/17300143 (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-Barrel-Colors-Paint-8-oz/17300143)
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on January 18, 2019, 01:58:49 AM
Ok, still Walmart apple barrel colors are pretty cheap, as little as a dollar or less for a large bottle and clean up with water. Get a clear seal spray can to protect the pint job and yiu stollsafe money over testor's enamal.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-Barrel-Colors-Paint-8-oz/17300143 (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-Barrel-Colors-Paint-8-oz/17300143)
Oh- I have some Wal-mart Apple Barrel colors. I have Forest green, brown and peach.
I bought 25 jars of Testors on ebay for 18 dollars when I first started doing kits again but yes-Apple Barrel is cheap and good quality too.
In fact Godzilla was done with Apple Barrel Forest Green!
I like Testors oily paint sometimes, because it's oily, and I don't want a bold color.Both good paints- but I use them for differant effects.
Well, the Mummy is done.
I made him the color of p**s in dirty snow!
I used black unstirred arylic and wiped it off with a paper towel. So the paint went into the creases of the model. It was a grey model to begin with, so that made things easier. Then I took an oily yellow and just brushed it over lighty. His one eye is green. I try to give them the look of an old comic book.
It was lotsa fun. :smile:
(https://i.imgur.com/EB4wCsY.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I'm doing Rat Fink next. :drink:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 01, 2019, 12:21:14 AM
I'm doing Rat Fink next. :drink:
I collected built-up models for years - one of my favorites was a Rat Fink!
It all looks great except the cobra. Itcs a very unrealistic color and the color is so glaring it draws the eye away from an excellent paintjob on the mummy. Would recommend a more realistic, subdued job on the cobra. Look up some pics of Egyptian cobras.
Some good movies there in the background. Those on VHS?
Quote from: Dark Alex on February 02, 2019, 04:51:16 AM
Some good movies there in the background. Those on VHS?
Yeah.
Here are some necron warriors I'm converting. I used their legs for another conversion, and am making them literally phasing up from the ground as necrons sometimes do.
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51251558_2563416787008022_5882996166244696064_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_eui2=AeG7V9Oel7Yqi9wDBRzVLK3FZio8zAh0q7CjEbtzdGQRbD2-JHltKDmM7iuuJQGxPeDG2WnaYPQRbibiur6EaRSWN1eswtD8s_E_KWkC0lqGWg&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=c9cb7e013af20d2d8cb4f95c7d87f80a&oe=5CF783F4)
"They're inside the wall! They're coming up outta the ground! THEY'RE-AAA!"-*Krrrrk
I gotta touch it up- but Rat Fink is done
I only used 4 colors!
The base-I dropped the f**king thing taking it out of my room so Tiana could take a picture-so ah-wtf.
EDIT: Oh yeah- here's a picture of it! I gotta make blood shot lines in the eyeballs, though.
As you can see, by the close up of my sweater buttons, from a distance- you don't see how s**tty it really is.
It looks cool from a distance. And nobody ever sees it anyway. Except for Tiana and me . And My kids and grandkids.
(https://i.imgur.com/6bCXEMq.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Walmart has models again and they have a lot of sci-fi ones. There are a lot of models from star trek and a couple from space 1999 including the very rare haWk model.
I'm painting now a 4" plastic vampire girl from Mexico.
I'm painting the tiny eyebrows with a toothpick.
Real pain in the ass. :hatred:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 28, 2019, 09:57:43 PM
I'm painting now a 4" plastic vampire girl from Mexico.
I'm painting the tiny eyebrows with a toothpick.
Real pain in the ass. :hatred:
Cool. I remember painting with a toothpick... and markers!
My Desert Rats.
This is an anti-tank gun team and a mortar team.
(http://i.imgur.com/EWCAZqS.jpg)
My Red Devils.
Equipping these guys for assault, with sub-machine guns with a LMG team added in case they need some fire support.
(http://i.imgur.com/KF1WsK0.jpg)
I like that you added real grass, Nice touch! :thumbup:
Just ordered some stuff to decorate the desert bases too.
Just got this for my birthday.
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/56182386_2656899717659728_4670501399363059712_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=5bc941b573a4f55612e5a30fab430c94&oe=5D0BA26E)
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/56396057_2656899244326442_2053579092925612032_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=0ca6d775394a562158d99c78b18e07dc&oe=5D115A9D)
Cool! :cheers:
I just finished an Alfred E. Nueman kit- came out good!
Have fun building it Sven. Used to love those spaceships when I was a kid. Was my favourite thing about the show.
Alfred is done!
(https://i.imgur.com/ZBblV8Q.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/oyqXycc.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/ul4VBjF.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Rodan and Dracula!
I get the Creature from the Black Lagoon in the mail Monday!
I'm so excited! I just can't hide it!
http://youtu.be/1Tpu_XoNABA (http://youtu.be/1Tpu_XoNABA)
Enjoy building and painting it my friend.
Here's the newest models I've done!
(https://i.imgur.com/h418lLU.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/nJ1a2Gn.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
I finally got the Wolf Man glued together!
(https://i.imgur.com/zpQu0NP.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
WOLFMAN looks great!
I'm trying to find a Phantom of the Opera kit that isn't so expensive... and when I do-that will be next!
how about some shots of the attack of the 50 foot woman diorama model.
:smile:
They have some cool '50s monster kits, but they're so expensive!
Finished Ghidorah! (Yes, I know I spelt the name wrong on the kit- I'll paint over it.)
(https://i.imgur.com/Rh5JXpE.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/8ljQ2u7.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
(https://i.imgur.com/cwpP9TH.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
Not my work, but figured you might like it.
(https://i.imgur.com/WIaa2Xa.jpg)
White metal rather than plastic, but I am going to have to order a few models from this site.
https://studiominiatures.com/shop/horror-characters.html (https://studiominiatures.com/shop/horror-characters.html)
^ Wow! Cool!