Spock with Snakes

[Prince of Styrene II]

Okay, this is me trying to clean off the Shelf Queens. Got quite a few of them & could probably keep me busy for a couple years, truthfully. But I'm gonna start finishing on a newer addition to the land of the forgotten- my Spock with Snakes kit.

So here's where I left off- had the base basically totally rebuilt. Used beach sand, cut off the rocks, used real ones from searching the side yard for (thankfully the construction crew for the street & sidewalk gave me lots to choose from), made the funky bushes with static grass & real moss & also just decked it out real nice, I think.


I also modded the phaser to look more like the actual prop, including an aluminum tube & a clear tip, also sanding it a bit more to shape.


My bigest deal was getting Spock to stand on the rocks. With some advice, I decided to use magnets. I cut a hole int he rock, covered what would be seen with Aves & put some metal in Spock's foot, also bending in his toes a bit to make the new angles more like he was flat footed on the rocks.


Last thing I did this week is to finish the mods to the communicator. I made the new antenna from a tight gold mesh & the three lights by mushrooming out some fiber optic. Came out pretty well, I think!


His pants & boots are painted, all the skin as well. Still need to detail the face, though. Next tackle will be painting the shirt which I've mixed up a nice color for.

 

[Igard]

Incredible! Man, I can't wait to see more. Please keep it up! 8)

 

[Grendels]

I love what you did to the base. If the rest of it looks like this it will be a cool piece!

 

[Quaralane]

Great ideas for small sized work

 

[PANZERMAN]

Great "Old" kit. Boy, does this bring back memories. Terrific work on the detailing...cool communicator.
More, more, more! Bill

 

[Prince of Styrene II]

I've discovered the worst part about building, aside of sanding, is waiting. Waiting for everything to dry!!! I wanna work, but I have to wait. Well, for the last two days I've been working & waiting, so here's what has come of it- the torso is done!!! In addition to the legs, everything but his head is done. As for the head, skin is done & I've painted the hair black, drybrushing it with a very deep grey for highlights. Looks better than it sounds. Anyway, onto the pics!!

I mixed some blues together & after a few tries, got a good tunic color. Gold for the science symbol & braids with black outlining hand brushed on. Actually, everything is brushed on. I also drybrushed the tunic with white, dullcoated & then glossed over the symbol & braids. You can also see the pants (actually rattle can'd) that were then dull coated & drybrushed, the boots were glossed.


The phaser was painted with a medium grey & charcoal acrylics, then drybrushed. You can't tell in this shot, but the fingernails are also painted a slightly lighter color.


Comments welcome! ;D

 

[Quaralane]

Paint work is looking good

 

[Grendels]

sharp!

 

[joeym]

I love it. Can't wait to see more.

 

[Prince of Styrene II]

To tell your guys the truth, I don't do figure kits. Why?? The faces. Always been somewhat hesitant because I thought I could not quite do them justice. Well, I spent the better part of a day on Spock. Using brushed on acrylics & some pastel chalks for shading..... I actually think I did pretty good! I'm more than amazed at the outcome & very happy with all of the subtle shading that's going on under the eyes & around the mouth lines. It's hard to see it well in this shot, but you can see most of it. Overall, I'm just really suprised & happy with it.

The skin tone is custom, with just a touch af green. The lips are the skin tone with about 20% crimson. The pastels were brushed on with reds, green & browns.

 

[Quaralane]

That head and face look very good.
Especially since I know the pic is several times larger than the actual head.

 

[Prince of Styrene II]

Thanks. It's amazing just how good it can look to the eye, then when you take a pic you see all the flaws like paint bumps. Still, I'm painting for the eye & to the eye, it looks smooth enough.

 

[Igard]

That looks great!! I can just about make out the green tint on the skin. Funny, there was a post about this in the chit-chat forum only a few days ago.

 

[fumblethumbs]

Thanks. It's amazing just how good it can look to the eye, then when you take a pic you see all the flaws...

Ain't that the truth!!

Really looking great PS II !!

 

[Prince of Styrene II]

Really looking great PS II !!

Thanks!!

That looks great!! I can just about make out the green tint on the skin. Funny, there was a post about this in the chit-chat forum only a few days ago.

Really? About my build??

 

[Igard]

That looks great!! I can just about make out the green tint on the skin. Funny, there was a post about this in the chit-chat forum only a few days ago.

Really? About my build??

Not specifically about your thread, no. It was about Spock's green skin.

 

[Prince of Styrene II]

Spock is finally a head of the game!! HA!!!
I had to add a bit of thickness to the colar as there was a bit of an edge on the shoulders showing. I also tried to sculpt a bit of the v-neck on it as well.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Looks great ;D

 

[Quaralane]

Definitely looking good here.

 

[Igard]

This is awesome work! I'm sure Spock himself would find it 'fascinating'.