So what happens if you only watch part of it?

If I had that austronaut kit I would end up leaving the eyes the way they are and doing something a little stranger to it.  The eyes reming me of that old British move "The Earth DIes Screaming".

The VCR tape has  "Sadako" wtitten on it.  Oh wait, if you watch it, you die in a week.  

Okay here's the figure. From her head to the back of the TV it's about six inches/ 15cm...

Only seven parts...

And I got this cool videotape, but I don't have a VCR any longer. Hmmm, maybe I could make a copy to send to you Real G to translate for me????  I'd need it by the end of the week though... 

Dodgy

All good Gam, fit as a Mallee bull and twice as dangerous!! 

Dodgy

 

Good to hear she's better Dodgy!

I was going to get photos of the kit parts up and then got busy yesterday. I'll try to get them up before the build starts in two months!

All good Gam, fit as a Mallee bull and twice as dangerous!! 

Dodgy

Heya Dodgy, hope you're feeling better now. I hope your wife is better too. 

And thanks, if you and G want to see Sadako-san I've give her a shot. She came in over the weekend, I'll see about posting some photos. 

PFJN2: I like the camo, nice work! When I think space soldiers I think of the guys in Moonraker! Not the best Bond film but it was... interesting... 

All those entries look very cool guys- going to fun to follow along with this! 

Welcome back.  You can start it anytime you like.  I have been slow this year for building but now that Modelpalooza is happening this weekend, I can get back into doing something.  I'll have to remember to take my camera this time.

G'day all. Please accept my apologies for not checking in over the last couple of weeks, but domestic duties have kept me way to busy to get to the bench and computer. Then I picked up a bad gut bug. Knocked me flat for a couple of weeks and now I'm playing 'catch up'. Not that I'm needed,  Real G and Gam your fascination for Japanese horror and oddities was very entertaining! I know nothing of this subject, but Gam, you have to do that girl coming out of the TV! Awesome figure.

Great to have you on board Pawel! I will add you to the roster.

PFJN2, great to have you join us too, but you were a bit quick off the mark old son, the GB isn't supposed to start until the 1st of December. However, if no one has any objections, we can get underway now.

Glamdring, I will update the roster with the details of your choice. Looking forward to your build, the Young Miniatures range are superb.

Dodgy

After much debating and staring at the busts in my collection (no, not that kind of bust...the resin and plastic kind...wait...moving on) I flipped a coin and opted for War Daddy:

Young Miniatures 1/10 2nd Armor Division "Hell on Wheels"

I assume for to avoid licensing fees, they couldn't actually call him War Daddy...but I certainly will.  Now I will need to watch Fury a couple more times.

Hi,

I found a 3D model of an M4 Carbine on the internet and 3D printed it.  It turns out that the model that I used may not have been meant specifically for 3D printing and was kind of complex (with a hollow stock).  Overall it printed well, and looks quite detailed, though the stock did crack when I was removing the print supports.  I was able to glue it though so I hope it will be OK. 

I'm thinking of maybe trying to somehow affix the gun across the astronauts chest when not in use, like shown in the 1st figure.  One main issue will probably be too make sure if doesn't intefere with any of the life support hoses though.

In the 1st picture you can see a small ring on the gun stock that the printer was able to depict and in the 2nd figure you can actually see how my printer was actually able to show the barrel opening.   Overall I have been very happy with the capabilities of the printer.

Pat

PS. Please ignaore the paint job on the astronaut's face for now.  I've been experimenting and haven't gotten things quite right yet.  He kind off looks like he has space cooties or some form of "acute progressive zombie-tosis" right now 

I did this stinger gunner years ago following The Verlinden Way on figure painting.  I highly reccomend it to anyone painting figures 

Here's the camo

Hi,

I'm thinking something kind of similar to this, but I haven't figured out how to paint it yet.

Right now I am also trying to 3D print an M4 Rifle/Carbine to see how it would fit with the model. 

In zero gravity the recoil of a rifle could really ruin your day...

Your "chocolate chip" patch made me think of last year's figure fun:

Good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Hi,

Here's my 1st cut at a base coat.  

I am currently planning on using this shade of gray as one of the two main colors for the space suit.  I'm trying to go for something a little like this image from Wikipedia, but in shades of gray.  I'm also thinking about making the two main color areas in relatively large in area, and not adding as many of the small "chocolate chip" markings, but I i'll have to see how everything works. 

Pat

PS.  While I've found a number of images online from the show "For All Mankind" showing astronauts holding rifles, I haven't really seen much in way of how those weapons might be carried when not in use.  Because of the large space suit backpack and limited mobility that the astronaut likely has while wearing a space suit it doesn't seem like it would be easy to try and "sling a weapon over your shoulder", but a rifle seems to big to try and attach anywhere else 

Thanks, he turned out way better than I'd expected. Looking forward to seeing what sort of camo you come up with. For the moon I'd think maybe different greys and some black for a shadow look?

Gamera

PFJN2: Very cool! I built the same figure a couple years ago, I built it straight from the box though. Other than the seams on the sides I really enjoyed the build:...

Wow, your build looks great Gamera.  

I'm slowly working the seems on my build and trying to come up with a camoflage pattern 

PFJN2: Very cool! I built the same figure a couple years ago, I built it straight from the box though. Other than the seams on the sides I really enjoyed the build:

Ikar: Cool, those are great reference photos!!! 

Here's your color reference shots.  The uniforms were Air Force, but the colors woiuld be the same.

Someone I know has one of these rifles and let me get some shots. They were sold by colt to civilians and are semiautomatic sporting guns made from actual M-16s. thisone is from 1973. I hope this helps.

Hello Bob!

Good to hear from you. I'd be very glad to see your photos! Thing is, it will take a few more weeks befor I actually start building this. I will also make a separate build thread for it, like I did for that Marine captain last year - I'd love to have those photos there.

Now this won't be the first Verlinden kit I'm building, and I know they are usually riddled with problems, but with friends I have here on the forums ironing those problems out are pure fun.

Have a nice day!

Paweł

Hi,

For the most part the astronaut figure is molded as two parts, front and back, for the torso, each arm, each leg, and his backback.  They all went together very easily, but will need some additional sanding and puttying along their seems.  I've taped the arms and legs to the torso (and head) for now to see how he looks.  Even though the box says the kit is 1/8 scale, I'm still a little surprised what that builds up to.  I think he ends up being about 10" (250mm) tall overall. 

Hi,

I think I might like to join this group build.  I just bought an 1/8 scale Astronaut model figure and think that I'd like to try and build him as some sort of Space Force Moon soldier (or I guess "Guardian" is the actual term they use 

Pawel, Haven't heard from you for a while.

When it comes to Verlinden products I usually get a bit skeptic with some of his products.  In the case of that figure I can see the colors are off in respect to the uniform and equipment.  If you want I'll take some shots of what I still have laying around here.  The uniform I have is still fairly new and the markings naturally won't match but the belt, helmet, boots, and some other things will give you an idea for color.  You will have to decide how much wear, tear, and dirt to add.  I'll try to get the shots done tomorrow and post them.  As far as the M-79 goes, take a look at some good color shots.  If I remember right the stock wasn't black or wood, but the barrel was a sort of metallic grey similar to it bring parkerized, and not very thick. I'm not sure about the weapon because it was a long time ago and the only ones who used the things were the guys in the sector morter pits.

Real G, yeah it's awful but I loved it! 

Then again I'm the guy that paid real money for a Blu-Ray of 'Battlefield Earth' - one of the worse abominations of cinematic trash in history. And Lord knows if they made a garage kit of John Travolta's Terl I'd buy it..... 

Pawel and Justin: Thanks for keeping it sane here... 

Once again "cross-contaminaton" goes both ways!  Gamera, I HAD to Google "Dead Sushi" - and I instantly regretted it.  What a train wreck of an illogical, incomprehensible story and bad effects! 

If only the writers had wiggled in a little more plausibility.  Like some shadowy lab working on a military contract to develop a drug to keep mortally wounded soldiers from dying.  An unscupulous mega-food corporation, seeking to dominate the sushi market, steals the drug to make their sushi keep fresh for weeks.  "The stupid customers won't know that they are eating OLD sushi!  We'll crush the competition!  We'll make millions!  Mwu-ha-ha-ha-ha!"  But the company realizes too late that the drug actually zombifies organic matter and...well, cue the animated, flying sushi.  But WTH, how does egg sushi reanimate?!

Nope, not gonna watch it.

Hello!

I'd like to join, too, although I would start to work on the actual figure in about a month or a little more... My entry would be this one:

M79 Grenade Gunner

Verlinden Productions | No. 630 | 1:16

I might also show some WIP on a fantasy figure I would work on with my daughter - this one is not quite clear yet.

Anyhow - I'm looking forward to it. Good luck with your builds and have a nice day

Paweł

I don't do much with this site as of late, I find posting photos a bit clunky, especially when social medias are so much simpler.  I will probably play alone with this one, though!

I've got all sorts of figures in the works.  Not sure what I will do, though.  I'll keep ya posted.  Whatever it is, it definitely won't be pirated work, though...

Ikar01, the Retrokit website does not have Judge Bananaaa listed. OOP perhaps?  Sorry. 

Gamera, OMG Robot Geisha!!!  "Geisha is...beautiful.  Geisha is...robot.  Hip katana.  Fried shrimp."  

I did some checking, I can't find the Judge Dredd minion figure anywhere.  Any idea where they are?  Not only that, a price in dollars would be good. 

Yeah, I agree completly on movies. Except the Japanese horror/black comedy films 'The Machine Girl', 'Robo-Geisha', and 'Dead Sushi'. They felt like having my throat ripped out by a chihuahua... in a clown suit... 

The 'Ringu' figure was from the Chinese site Ali Express:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804421140900.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef1802Y72Eag

They have another figure of Sadako climbing out of the well. I picked that one up too:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804421167611.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef1802Y72Eag

Enter 'resin figure 1/8' or 'resin figure 1/35' or whatever scale and you'll get a boatload of figures. My female cyborg came off their site. Looks like they're making 3D CAD models of lots of subjects and then 3D printing them off. Pretty slick, no inventory, just print off the figure in whatever scale when you get the order.

They're a little questionable about copyrights - they are basically swiping other people's intellectial property. But it's not like you're going to see a Sadako figure anywhere else though.  I'm not crazy about giving more money to a communist country but hey everything else we have is made there so what's giving them a little more money? 

Gamera

 

 

Real G

Gamera,

I think Japanese horror is like ice water slowly dripping in a dark cave.  American horror is basically a really loud roller coaster ride.

 

 

 

 

Yeah that's basically it. Plus Hollywood's obssesion with the endless remakes and now making live-action versions of animated films has bummed me out on them. 

Even with American and British horror I find the whole creepy atmosphere sense of dread to be much scarier than jump-scares and gore. I watched 'Night of the Demon' last night- good solid British film from '57 that just keeps ratcheting up the sense of fear. 

 

Overt vs covert.  Differences in culture.  Americans are known to be loud and clueless.  The Japanese will stab you in the back while smiling and exchanging pleasantries, and you would not even know it.  AND, they will stay right behind you, whispering over your shoulder, asking how much it hurts while slowly twisting the knife.  My Japanese aunt told me that.  

My favorite scary scene from a US horror movie was the crawling steak in Poltergeist.  Oh, and when the little psychic lady reveals that the thing that has the family's daughter is none other than the devil.  My hair stood on end when she said that.

Please do the Ring "Look ma, I'm on TV!" kit.  So where did you get it?  I have friends that LOVE that kind of stuff.  So now, in addition to my aunt, my friends are scary too.