Customized Moebius Frankenstein

The Moebius Frankenstein display is complete...I've also included a link to a very short video so you can see the lights work...this is truly a "Frankenstein" model...with the inclusion of the original Moebius kit, a replacement head from Cult Of Personality Productions, elements from the Kustom Kit Krafters base extension, my own scratch-built base extension and a brown bag style paper mache steamer trunk that I customized for the display. I also chose and installed the lighting...I'm pretty tickled with how everything has turned out, and I really had a lot of fun with this! 1/8 scale..


See the "shocking" film here

Peter Cushing

The MPC Barnabas Collins model kit converted into Peter Cushing as Van Helsing figure is complete! I realize I didn't dot the eyes with a pupil...I eventually will as my confidence grows. It's tough for me to get the pupils right on figures of this size (BTW-they can advertise this kit as 1:8 scale until they are blue in the face...I own a RULER and I KNOW better...lol...it's actually somewhere between 1:9 scale and 1:10 scale). Also, the missing pupils are barely perceptible while viewing the kit in person, as the eyes are a much darker blue under normal lighting instead of the flash...the base is just a simple nothing I blobbed out of Sculpey and quickly stained so he would have somewhere to stand until he can take his rightful place on the base of my completed vampire diorama...and in his favorite situation, too...surrounded by vampires! Thanks to COPP for making the conversion parts readily available!

Bench Update 08/23/16

I've really been neglecting this blog for months...but I've been working pretty hard on some kits and scratch builds....first up...I've been working on a base extension for the Moebius Frankenstein kit...sort of a hallway that the monster is walking out of as he comes through the door...basically I made it from styrofoam....here's a few shots...

 

 

and here are a few painted shots and a few pics showing how it looks with the original base...well, partly the original base combined with another aftermarket base...

 

 Also on the bench is an Aurora-style Hunchback Of Notre Dame with a replacement Lon Chaney head from COPP

I'm scratch building a custom pillory and base for him...I've also added body hair to better suggest the character as Lon Chaney played him...

 More updates coming soon!

Vampire Base

These are some progressive shots of the stairs I'm scratch-building for my vampire diorama

Stay tuned....more to come!

Well, the Monarch Nosferatu figure is done (I think)...now to get on with the scratch-built base...have a few ideas in my head...but nothing solid yet...stay tuned.....