Here's a few selections:

A Fire Giant, a spartan warrior, and a C.A.V. pilot.

..and a few more to inspire.

I don't know where you find these things but I especially like the Judge Minion and Hikaru.

Dodgy

They. Look great Mongoose. I've never run across 'rubber composite' figures before.

 

Dodgy

 

this will be my first time working with them. They come with some special instructions on priming and prepping them but it doesn't look like anything out of the ordinary actually. The level of detail on that is unbelievable. They're actually done with those pads and 3-D imaging work like they use in the movies. So they outfit these guys and capture their whole body and then print it. It looks pretty crazy and so exact!

Great stuff there guys!!! Love those conversions Real G and I have that Dana Murphy figure around here somewhere Ikar. 

I picked this up tonight- the Japanese horror movie 'Ringu' will scare the living @#@# outta ya- or at least it did me. Seems it started a whole line of creepy Japanese ghost girls with their hair in their face. Yes this is a bit of a spoiler- she climbs out of a guy's TV near the end of the film... 

This figure was so weird I had to have it it when I saw it. Maybe I'll build it for the GB, haven't made up my mind yet- it should be here from the slow boat from China by then. 

Samara says 'seven days'.  Scary movie.  And yes, asian children and water seem to be a scary thing culturally.  The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water... I love these movies because western horrors typically resolve in the end where these don't necesarily.   Fun  stuff.

Oh Gamera, you have GOT to do that figure!  And light the TV screen with eerie static.

I went to the Ring attraction in Japan when the movie was screening.  It was like a haunted house walk-thru.  The funny thing was that none of us saw the movie, so we were as clueless as a topless girl in an American slasher flick, standing in an open doorway going "Hello?  Is anyone out there?"

One of the first rooms had a phone, which started to ring.  While we were arguing over who should answer it, the girl quietly emerged from the closet behind us.  I was going to pick up the phone, answer it by cheerfully saying "Hai, moshi-moshi, Izumi desu", and then hand it to her and say "Odenwa desu yo" (telephone call).  But we just started laughing and started arguing over what to do next.  The girl didn't know what to do either, so we all just stood around.  So awkward!  Gaijin are so crue-ress!

But the walk thru was really creepy.  The morgue was especially good, because we could not tell which of the cadavers was a live actor.

ikar01

I don't know where you find these things but I especially like the Judge Minion and Hikaru.

 

Yeah, when I saw the Judge Minion on Retrokit's website, I mashed the "buy this" button immediately!  As Sophia Vergara said "Yes!  Meenions!  Oh I love those leetle yellow guys - you cannot understand anything they say."

I wanted to try the cel-shaded painting method on the Hikaru figure.  If I can pull it off, I also have Misa and Minmay to do.  I hope Plamax does Roy Fokker and at least a Zentradei soldier.

Can you imagine having a Zentradei in the same scale?  He couild be seen standing next to his pod.  That would be impressive.

ikar01

Can you imagine having a Zentradei in the same scale?  He couild be seen standing next to his pod.  That would be impressive.

 

Oh, I was thinking of micronized Zentradei, so same size as the other figures.  

Minion Zentradei?  It would be fitting.

John: Yeah, I love Japanese and Korean horror movies since it seems Hollywood just wants to do the same thing over and over. 

G: Whoa! That sounds awesome, I wish I could have went though that attraction! I may yet do the figure. I'll have to look it over when it gets here. I'll have to see if I can get the right look- at least I won't have to do the face! 

ikar01

Minion Zentradei?  It would be fitting.

 

Zentran te Meltran... tal ke da kan!  Yakk, Bananaaaaaaaaa!

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.

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. 

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.  

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? 

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. 

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 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...

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

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.

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... 

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.

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 

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. 

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

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.

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!!! 

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