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One of the other kits that I had on the work table was "Barking Mad" by the seemingly defunct Mad Dog Resin. I looked and there is no longer a web site for them. If anyone knows of a new site please let me know and I'll update this post. Anyway, I've had this kit for quite a while when I was...

From the HBO series Game of Thrones, this is another kit from Gillman Productions. He came in two parts - the bust and the base. Once again, it's a very clean kit with one tiny bubble, and seam lines that are extremely thin. I was wondering if I made the the burn mark was too red. Looking over...

This time around I took Greenwell Studios Gorgon Sister out of the stash to work on. I tried looking for info about Greenwell, but apparently they have disappeared. Too bad, they had good kits. If I remember correctly, there was 3 or 4 different Gorgon busts. Anyway, after it's cleaning, I...

Sorta like a mini version of WonderFest. This is just a taste of what was there. Enjoy - http://s637.photobucket.com/user/kevtk135/slideshow/JerseyFest%202016

This time around I moved back to the Star Wars genre to build JPG's Juggernaut. The model comes in quite a few parts - many of them being the wheels - Each wheel has a few mm of extra resin from the pour, and this needs to come off. I do have a sanding wheel, but the kit wheels small, and...

Another in Fantastic Plastic's line of "classic" space ships, the model was based on Robert Heinlein's book. The model, which was retired a while ago, comes in 9 pieces of blue resin. There are no bubbles or odor and very little flash. Putting it together is pretty straight forward and the...

The next kit I tackled was another from John Dennett's MoonDevil Studio - http://www.moondevilstudio.com/ . It's called Cosmic Corruption. As usual John has a backstory to go with the sculpt -- "The effect of the radiation on the crew of the Space Station was unprecedented. The breach in...

I was eager to build this model as it was the first one I ever built as a kid, prolly around 1967-68. Thiks time it is put out by Round 2 but kept the retro Lindberg box - https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JAsrpNo9wmA/Vvlg1kLG7aI/AAAAAAAABhM/U792fduUg-sNcPuLpaujW7JQTMQdiCtPA/s320/001.JPG I hope it...

This is one of the mini busts sculpted by John Dennett and MoonDevil Studios. All of John's original busts has a story that he has created behind it (He also plans to release these stories sometime in the future). But this is a story of Bartholomew, a ventriloquist dummy that seems to have a...

This was a kit I got at one of the IPMS Nats while Muroc Models was still in business. An AD-1 was an experimental plane where NASA were looking into the feasibility of oblique wing flight during the late 70s - early 80s. Being a resin kit it came in a minimum of parts with no PE and 1 vac...

I just recently had the opportunity to paint the green translucent glass on a plane. I got the Vallejo Trans green and put it into an airbrush. The dusting coat seemed to be more opaque and as I put more on I could see the light come thru as green, but it still didn't look like actual see thru...

I was looking thru my stack of kits the other nite. Part of a stack started to fall and when I straightened things up I discovered I had two stacks, one in front of another. I looked thru the kits that I haven't seen in a while and rediscovered Fantastic Plastic's Rocketship XM. This looks to...

I had a sculpted bust of Popeye. My guess is that the sculptor was going for a 'What would he look like if he was a real person?' He was pretty cheap when I got him at one of the NJ cons a year or two ago. Really looking it over I know why. It's pretty crude. As usual I forgot to take a before...

After a not so recent build article in SAMI, I had to find and build this oddball plane. As the author mentioned it's hard to get any info from the instructions as it's all written in Russian. There is also very little on this on the net. One thought it might be a trainer. Another went a...

I was commissioned to build a New Horizons probe for a local Science Center. The only thing I was told was that it should be "about 24 inches." That works out to about 1:5th scale. There was a few places where I had to compromise accuracy for durability. As I didn't know if this would be in a...

Sculpted by Mark Van Tine and casted by Gillman Productions this is a 1:4 scale kit of Twisty the clown from American Horror Story: Freak Show. Twisty was an insane Clown that wanders Florida and kidnaps and/or kills people he meets. Here's a few shots of John C. Lynch as Twisty - I also found...

This guy has been sitting around for a few months. It was a very nice kit with just a few bubbles that needed to be filled. It came in 4 parts - the bust itself, two arms and the headstone base. I added an artificial eye to the model to increase the "creepy" factor. It came casted in a...

This project all started out after seeing a friend's pictures of this jet outside the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum in OH. The image was a white jet with orange highlights. Interesting, I thought and set out searching the the delta wing F5-D in 1:72 (yeah I'm one of those guys). There was...

Twisty from American Horror Story: Freakshow 1/4 scale Thanks for looking.

This time I just finished up Sam the Snowman from 1964's stop motion animation Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Sam was voiced and closely resembled by the Folk singer, Burl Ives. Sam was in my "To Do" pile for so long I no longer remember where I picked him up. An inscription of "Raven" is...