Any kitbuilders out there?

[william newell]

My latest creation...







For anyone wondering, this is Billiken's '64 vinyl kit and as always with their kits, the sculpt is great! I hope I did it justice...
Enjoy!

[Tohologe]

[william newell]

Thanks! Since I know the first pics were a little dark, here are a couple of shots of the kit in my display case...





Gotta' love those Billikens!

[william newell]

Presenting my first resin kit, Alternative Image's Rhedosaurus...
This was actually a pretty good choice for a first resin as the parts all fit well and there was a minimum of flash to remove, really a very nicely casted kit. Painting it, on the other hand was a real job. Not because of the kit, more because I didn't have a clear picture in my head of what I wanted the completed kit to look like. And with this being from a black and white movie, reference material was definately lacking. I am pretty pleased with the result though, I hope the rest of you enjoy it as well.

[Destroysall]

[william newell]

[Destroysall]

[canofhumdingers]

[william newell]

[canofhumdingers]

the orange box. It's a fantastic sculpt, but i noticed an odd quirk with the fins. On the center row of fins, going down his neck they get progressively bigger like they should, except for ONE fin that gets smaller, then they get bigger again. I can't for the life of me figure out why this is. I have several books & whatnot on the making of this movie & i've scoured the images to see if maybe this happened on occasion (maybe between shooting repairs or something?) But EVERY picture i can find shows the center fins getting progressively bigger from the start at his head all the way down to the biggest fin. So while building i took a little artistic license & rearranged a couple of fins to more accuratley represent the film version. I almost wonder if a couple of pieces got mixed up during the original production of this model causing the instructions to be written incorrectly. Sakai's sculpts are so amazingly accurate that i find it hard to believe he would make this error that is so obvious when you look at a picture of the original suit next to the model.

The fin is easiest to see in copy of the instruction page. In the bottom left box that has all the peices shown, look at the block of fins in the upper right corner. This is the block that has the largest fin on this godzilla. The left end of the block is the "top" & the fins shown start on his neck & go down to about his waistline when assembled. You can easily see that the thirf fin from the left gets progressively smaller in line, when all the pictures i've foundof the suit indicate it should get larger.

[william newell]

[canofhumdingers]

I finished this kit a few weeks ago, but having taken a vacation to Japan, I just now am getting around to posting it. It's only my second Godzilla kit and i'd still like to improve some things, but I think it came out pretty good. I'm really excited though, because while in Japan, my wife spotted a hobby store and i wound up buying a several japanese style buidlings (both modern, and traditional), cars, and people! They're all N scale train supplies but i plan on using them to make dioramas... I plan on putting this particular kit in a city setting. While the N scale stuff is technically too big for this version/scale of Godzilla, I pulled out some of the pieces & think it'll be close enough to look good.

Soo... without further ado, here's the Kaiyodo 8 inch version of Godzilla 1984.

[william newell]

[william newell]

For the video game fans out there....









I just completed this kit for an aquaintance, which, according to him, was a re-cast of a Wonderfest exclusive. I should have listened closer when he mentioned re-cast as this kit was a real bear to build. Lots of double casting which needed cleaning up, and all holes had to be drilled for the ball joint connectors. Another problem was that paint really had a tough time adhering to this kit, even after washing the parts several times. As to the character herself, I have never played Metroid and was unfamiliar with Samus so I hope the reference material I did find helped to make a convincing kit. Enjoy!

[william newell]

Next project...



One free cookie(partially used)to whoever can guess who it is. [/img]

[zibbazabba]

Cool Gwangi. Is that the new one Joe Laudati did, or one of his earlier ones that ALt Images put out?

[william newell]

You are correct ,sir! Your free cookie will be sent"Slow Boat To China"air delivery ....Seriously though, this is the older Alternative Images kit. Not as clean as their Rhedosaurus kit, but I've definately seen worse. Also, I'm seriously considering going with a color scheme very similiar to that used by Rudolph Zallinger in his paintings of the Allosaur. I'll be posting a pic shortly and would be VERY interested in what you all would think of this idea...

[william newell]

Here's the pic I spoke of....





This picture(and book)hold a very special place for me as they were responsible for my interest in dinosaurs/kaiju and drawing from way back in '66 when our first grade teacher took us on our first trip to the school library.
So, what do you guys think?

[gojira_fan]

Heh, I had that book when I was a kid.

One of my favorites. I like it.



Not to get sidetracked but there was another book I used to love as a little kid, it was a book on dinosaurs but it looked like they were done with models instead of drawings. Of course this was 1974.

[howze01]

I really like that color scheme but isn't it just an Allosaur at that point? I would think that in order to be Gwangi it would have to be the same colors no?

[william newell]

[howze01]

[william newell]

[emeGoji]

[howze01]