This is the Nosferatu kit by Monarch, in 1/8 scale.
Construction was pretty easy, it's mostly straight out of the box. It's a styrene kit, so of course there were a lot of seams to fill, every last one of them in very visible places. The seam that ran up the sides and over the top of his head was particularly problematic, because of the hair and the ears. Sand, putty, re-sand, re-putty, etc.
I wanted to put the skull on the floor near the stairs, so as to hide the open space that was visible under them. Unfortunately, the spider interfered w/ that placement - a large tab sticking out of its underside fitted into a slot in the wall at that location. Undaunted, I sanded off the tab and filled the slot w/ Aves Apoxie Sculpt. I then mounted the spider on a thin brass rod and moved him up the wall a bit.
When painting the spider, I did a Google search for images to give me some inspiration. Let me just say that there are some scary looking spiders out there, and the pictures of spider bites were pretty gruesome too. Yoinks!
I painted the model almost completely w/ Model Master enamels. I kinda wanted to paint it like the image on the box cover, which has Nossy dressed in a bright red jacket in front of a dark blue background, but I didn't want the finished model to look quite that bright, so I toned the colors down a little bit.
I used cool colors for the base - Anthacite Grey for the stones in the rear wall and column, Light Sea Grey for the plaster like surface, and Aggressor Grey for the flagstones and stairs.
I then used warmer earth tones for the figure's clothing - Raw Umber for the pants, Burnt Sienna for the jacket, Burnt Umber mixed w/ Black for the shoes and Burnt Umber + Burnt Sienna for the collar and cuffs.
The base color for his skin is Camouflage Grey mixed w/ Light Sea Grey. I mixed in some Burnt Umber for the shadow color. The whites of the eyes are Camo Grey mixed w/ Tan - I applied a glaze of acrylic Canary Yellow, and a wash of Burnt Sienna mixed w/ Red.
This model took a Gold Award in the Horror category at Wonderfest in 2010, my first ever. Naturally, I'm quite happy w/ the way he turned out.