Month: April 2021

Yay, Friday! Two weeks to T-Fest! See some of you in Dallas. This is pretty great. However, the question is, do you make the monsters look like the filmmakers wanted them to look (as they do here), or really reflect the dogs in obvious masks look the film actually provides. I'd probably go with…

Of course, aside from the quality of the base kits, the model builder can bring a lot to the table. An old friend of mine built this same kit (and assembled and painted the neato Kolchak model currently sitting in my kitchen), and did a nice job of it. This guy, though. He really…

Again, when one looks at a toy artifact from the 1960s, such as this one, we must consider how rare something like this was. Like the Aurora model kits and those records that voice acted issues of Marvel Comics, including lots of monster titles like Man-Thing, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night, etc. (Although…

I always think it's interesting to think of the way that of all the millions of media artifacts we're exposed to over our lives--characters, scenes, even lines of dialog--certain things just lodge in the cultural memory. Yesterday we featured a fun garage kit of one of the many monsters featured on the Voyage to…

Happy (Ugh) Monday. Still, only several weeks away from the spring T-Fest, so that's cool. Speaking of cool, look at this model! I'm assuming this one is home made, using a Seaview toy? Sadly, in the real world the Seaview never bumped into the Green Gossimer from the Toho/Warner Bros. co-production of War of…

Monsters! Bikinis! Rock 'n Roll! This film has it all. I like that the model features the old school hot dog mouth too, rather than the retconned fumetti fangs. Check out also the (probably out of stock) Amok Time figure, which has a cheeky gap at the ankles between the monster suit and the…

  I actually have a built up and painted figure of a Saucer Man in my living room, and it's very nice. However, this kit is great. Hats off--and heads off--to any tribute to the great Paul Blaisdell.   REVISION: Answering the note below about the color of the Saucer Men, here is a…

One year I went to WonderFest, a convention down in Kentucky for model builders. I went with a model building friend from the library I used to work at. It wasn't entirely my bag, but I did like the anniversary showing of Return of the Living Dead--shown on a stand-up screen in a hotel…

Sweet! These are expensive kits (and limited editions, so they sell out all the time), and I would have to hire someone to paint the things, but man, that's cool. By, admittedly, an extremely narrow definition of 'cool'.  

  Jamie B sent me this. The Monsters in Motion site is a wonder, an amazing collection of garage kits for obscure '50s sci fi monster flicks. This one really captures the, uh, appeal of Creeping Terror, that's for sure. It should come with a sound chip that has a single scream that you…